
Avoid These Foods to Prevent a Leaky Gut
Avoid these foods for leaky gut prevention: common drugs, foods, and beverages can disrupt the integrity of our intestinal barrier.
Avoid these foods for leaky gut prevention: common drugs, foods, and beverages can disrupt the integrity of our intestinal barrier.
How can you get a perfect diet score?
Weight regain after bariatric surgery can have devastating psychological effects.
Losing weight without rearranging your gastrointestinal anatomy carries advantages beyond just the lack of surgical risk.
The extent of risk from bariatric weight-loss surgery may depend on the skill of the surgeon.
Today, death rates after weight-loss surgery are considered to be “very low,” occurring in perhaps 1 in 300 to 1 in 500 patients on average.
The American Medical Association has passed a resolution encouraging healthy plant-based food options be available in hospitals.
How can we use sensory-specific satiety to our advantage?
Big Food uses our hard-wired drive for dietary diversity against us.
I debunk the myth of protein as the most satiating macronutrient.
I dive into one of the most fascinating series of studies I’ve ever come across.
If the nitrites in foods like ham and bacon cause lung damage, what about “uncured” meat with “no nitrites added”?
Clinical trials on Quorn show that it can improve satiety and help people control cholesterol, blood sugar, and insulin levels.
What are the effects of plant-based meats on premature puberty, childhood obesity, and hip fracture risk?
Learn why sorghum is one of my favorite new grains.
Increased risk of metabolic complications starts at an abdominal circumference of 31.5 inches in women and 37 inches in most men, though it’s closer to 35.5 inches for South Asian, Chinese, and Japanese men.
Is there a unisex chart to see what your optimal weight might be based on your height?
How do we explain studies that suggest overweight individuals live longer?
What are the effects of weight loss on natural killer cell function, our first line of immune defense against cancer, as well as kidney function and fatty liver disease?
Sufficient, sustained weight loss may cut the risk of fatal heart attacks and strokes in half.
Weight loss can decrease dementia risk and improve mental performance and infertility.
Losing weight can reduce sciatica, hypertension, and cancer risk, and reverse type 2 diabetes.
Is there a nonsurgical alternative to knee replacement surgery that instead treats the cause and offers only beneficial side effects?
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.
Does walking with poles, also known as Nordic walking (“exerstriding”), beat our regular walking for depression, sleep quality, and weight loss?
Drink two cups of water and you can get a surge of the adrenal hormone noradrenaline in your bloodstream, as if you just smoked a few cigarettes or downed a few cups of coffee.
Amazingly, a baby born to an obese surrogate mother with a skinny biological mom may harbor a greater risk of becoming obese than a baby from a big biological mom born to a slim surrogate.
Buchinger modified fasting is put to the test.
Where did the idea of therapeutic fasting come from?
The most effective diet for weight loss may also be the healthiest.
Many doctors mistakenly rely on serum B12 levels in the blood to test for vitamin B12 deficiency.
The first study in history on the incidence of stroke of vegetarians and vegans suggests they may be at higher risk.
We need to reform the food system before it’s too late.
Implausible explanations for the obesity epidemic, such as sedentary lifestyles or lack of self-discipline, serve the needs of the manufacturers and marketers more than the public’s health and the interest in truth.
Like the tobacco industry adding extra nicotine, the food industry employs taste engineers to accomplish a similar goal: maximize the irresistibility of their products.
How the power of the “eat more” food environment can overcome our conscious controls.
We all like to think we make important life decisions like what to eat consciously and rationally, but if that were the case we wouldn’t be in the midst of an obesity epidemic.
The unprecedented rise in the power, scope, and sophistication of food marketing starting around 1980 aligns well with the blastoff slope of the obesity epidemic.
Why are U.S. taxpayers giving billions to support the likes of the sugar and livestock industries?
The rise in the U.S. calorie supply responsible for the obesity epidemic wasn’t just about more food but a different kind of food.