Is Heme Iron the Reason Meat Is Carcinogenic?
Rectal biopsies taken before and after eating meat determine the potentially DNA-damaging dose of heme.
Rectal biopsies taken before and after eating meat determine the potentially DNA-damaging dose of heme.
What do clinical studies show about the role of heme in the formation of a class of carcinogenic compounds?
Laboratory models suggest that extreme doses of heme iron may be detrimental, but what about the effects of nutritional doses in humans? A look at heme’s carcinogenic effects.
Clinical trials on Quorn show that it can improve satiety and help people control cholesterol, blood sugar, and insulin levels.
What happens when you compare the trans fats, saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol levels in plant-based versus animal-based burgers?
Environmental assessment of 50 different plant-based meats show them to be vastly more sustainable.
Various fasting regimens have been attempted for inflammatory autoimmune diseases such as lupus, ankylosing spondylitis, chronic urticaria, mixed connective-tissue disease, glomerulonephritis, and multiple sclerosis, as well as osteoarthritis and fibromyalgia.
Fasting, followed by a plant-based diet, is put to the test for autoimmune inflammatory joint disease.
What do randomized controlled trials of high-dose daily vitamin B12 supplementation show about the effects on cancer risk, death, and longevity?
An entire issue of a cardiology journal dedicated to plant-based nutrition explores the role an evidence-based diet can play in the reversal of congestive heart failure.
How much greenhouse gas does the production of different foods cause measured in miles driven or lightbulb hour equivalents?
The EAT-Lancet Commission lays out the best diet for human and planetary health.
B12 deficiency is known as “The Great Masquerader.”
Green smoothies are put to the test for the autoimmune disease SLE (lupus).
Buchinger modified fasting is put to the test.
The most effective diet for weight loss may also be the healthiest.
What are the consequences of having to make your own creatine rather than relying on dietary sources?
How can we explain the drop in stroke risk as the Japanese diet became Westernized by eating more meat and dairy?
Just because you’re eating vegetarian or vegan doesn’t mean you’re eating healthy.
The first study in history on the incidence of stroke of vegetarians and vegans suggests they may be at higher risk.
What is the relationship between stroke risk and dairy, eggs, meat, and soda?
We need to reform the food system before it’s too late.
Are there immune-boosting foods we should be eating?
What’s the best type of pots and pans to use?
What to eat and what to avoid to lower the cardiovascular disease risk factor lipoprotein(a).
Why are U.S. taxpayers giving billions to support the likes of the sugar and livestock industries?
We have an uncanny ability to pick out the subtle distinctions in calorie density of foods, but only within the natural range.
The big fat “fat gene” accounts for less than 1% of the differences in size between people.
A review of reviews on the health effects of animal foods versus plant foods.
Plant-based diets are put to the test for treating migraine headaches.
The effect of fasting to lower blood pressure compared to medications, cutting down on alcohol, meat and salt, eating more fruits and vegetables, or eating completely plant-based.
Healthier plant-based diets compared to unhealthy plant foods and animal foods on diabetes risk.
Public health authorities continue to drop the upper tolerable limit of daily added sugar intake.
Endotoxins can build up on pre-chopped vegetables and undermine some of their benefits.
17 ingredients to an ideal weight-loss diet and the 21 tweaks to accelerate the further loss of excess body fat.
In this live presentation, Dr. Greger offers a sneak peek into his book How Not to Diet.
I was honored to testify before the US government’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Check out the video to see my speech and a few of my favorite excerpts.
What are the effects of the female sex hormones in milk on men, women, and children?
The effects of ketogenic diets on nutrient sufficiency, gut flora, and heart disease risk.
Might the appetite-suppressing effects of ketosis improve dietary compliance?