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Is It Worth Switching from White Rice to Brown?

What happens when brown rice is put to the test in a randomized controlled crossover trial?



Slowing Our Metabolism with Nitrate-Rich Vegetables

The reason greens are associated with a significantly longer lifespan may be because, like caloric restriction, they improve our energy efficiency.



Peppers and Parkinson’s: The Benefits of Smoking Without the Risks?

Might the nicotine content in nightshade vegetables, such as tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, and bell peppers, protect against Parkinson’s disease?



Is Something in Tobacco Protective Against Parkinson’s Disease?

The tobacco industry points to dozens of studies purporting to show tobacco use is associated with a lower incidence of Parkinson’s disease.



Plant-Based Diets and Artery Function

The improvement of arterial function on a whole food, plant-based diet appears so pronounced that cardiac patients can achieve a 90% reduction in angina attacks.



The Palatability of Cancer Prevention

Dietary guidelines often patronizingly recommend what is considered acceptable or achievable, rather than what the best available balance of evidence suggests is best.



Sodium Skeptics Try to Shake Up the Salt Debate

What about the studies that show a “u-shaped curve,” where too much sodium is bad, but too little may be bad too?



How to Counter the Inflammation of Aging

What can we eat to combat “inflamm-aging,” the chronic low-grade inflammation that accompanies the aging process?



The Evidence That Salt Raises Blood Pressure

Rather than reformulate their products with less sodium and save lives, food manufacturers have lobbied governments, refused to cooperate, encouraged misinformation campaigns, and tried to discredit the evidence.



The Healthy Food Movement: Strength in Unity

The tobacco industry has focused more recently on divide-and-conquer strategies to create schisms within the tobacco control movement. We in the healthy food community can learn from this by staying united and not allowing minor disagreements to distract us from the bigger picture.



What Explains the French Paradox?

Why do heart attack rates appear lower than expected in France, given their saturated fat and cholesterol intake? Is it their red wine consumption, their vegetable consumption, or something else?



Evidence-Based Nutrition

It took more than 7,000 studies and the deaths of countless smokers before the Surgeon General’s report on tobacco was released in the 1960s. How many people are suffering needlessly from preventable dietary diseases today?



How to Reduce the Risk of Sudden Death

Diet and lifestyle improvements started even late in life can offer dramatic benefits.



Industry Response to Plants Not Pills

The whole food is greater than the sum of its parts: how unscrupulous marketers use evidence that ties high blood levels of phytonutrients with superior health to sell dietary supplements that may do more harm than good.



Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook

The processed food industries now use tactics similar to those used by cigarette companies to undermine public health interventions.



The Okinawa Diet: Living to 100

What would happen if you centered your diet around vegetables, the most nutrient-dense food group?



Are Green Smoothies Good for You?

Smoothies (and blended soups and sauces) offer a convenient way to boost both the quantity and quality of fruit and vegetable intake by reducing food particle size to help maximize nutrient absorption.



Food as Medicine: Preventing and Treating the Most Dreaded Diseases with Diet

Dr. Greger has scoured the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this new presentation based on the latest in cutting edge research exploring the role diet may play in preventing, arresting, and even reversing some of our most feared causes of death and disability.



The Best Kept Secret in Medicine

Lifestyle changes are often more effective in reducing the rates of heart disease, hypertension, heart failure, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and premature death than almost any other medical intervention.



What Causes Diabetes?

Saturated fat can be toxic to the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas, explaining why animal fat consumption can impair insulin secretion, not just insulin sensitivity.



Solving a Colon Cancer Mystery

Even though modern African diets may now be as miserably low in fiber as American diets, Africans still appear to have 50 times less colorectal cancer than Americans (our second leading cancer killer).



How Many Glasses of Water Should We Drink a Day?

Based on the potential benefits of proper hydration such as reduced bladder cancer risk, how many cups of water should we strive to drink every day?



Diet and GERD Acid Reflux Heartburn

Which foods should we eat and avoid to prevent and treat acid reflux before it can place us at risk for Barrett’s esophagus and cancer?



Are the Benefits of Organic Food Underrated or Overrated?

If we increased our consumption of conventionally-produced fruits and vegetables, how much cancer would be prevented versus how much cancer might be caused by the additional pesticide exposure?



What Percent of Americans Lead Healthy Lifestyles?

Death row nutrition offers some insight into the standard American diet.



Can Oatmeal Help Fatty Liver Disease?

Is whole grain consumption just a marker for healthier behaviors, or do whole grains have direct health benefits?



PREDIMED: Does Eating Nuts Prevent Strokes?

A randomized controlled trial found that a Mediterranean-type diet can dramatically lower the risk of subsequent heart attacks. How does it compare with plant-based diet data?



The Mediterranean Diet or a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet?

A randomized controlled trial found that a Mediterranean-type diet can dramatically lower the risk of subsequent heart attacks. How does it compare with plant-based diet data?



Optimal Cholesterol Level

Why don’t authorities advocate a sufficient reduction in cholesterol down to safe levels?



Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Plants

If foods like berries and dark green leafy vegetables have been found protective against cognitive decline, why aren’t they recognized as such in many guidelines?



Enhancing Athletic Performance with Peppermint

Study finds remarkable improvements in exercise performance drinking homemade peppermint water, but there may be side effects.



Never Too Late to Start Eating Healthier

Since many tumors take decades to grow it’s remarkable that cancer risk can so dramatically be reduced– even late in life.



How Many Meet the Simple Seven?

The American Heart Association came up with seven simple lifestyle goals to combat the leading killer of men and women: heart disease.



Which Dietary Factors Affect Breast Cancer Most?

American Institute for Cancer Research recommendation compliance associated not only with cancer prevention and survival but less heart and respiratory disease mortality and a longer lifespan.



Can Diet Protect Against Kidney Cancer?

Plant-based diets appear to protect against renal cell carcinoma both directly and indirectly.



Food Industry-Funded Research Bias

Using the tobacco industry playbook, food companies have been caught trying to undermine public health policies by manipulating the scientific process.



Kempner Rice Diet: Whipping Us Into Shape

Dr. Walter Kempner was a pioneer in the use of diet to treat life-threatening chronic disease, utilizing a diet of mostly rice and fruit to cure malignant hypertension and reverse heart and kidney failure.



Eliminating 90% of Heart Disease Risk

Preventing and treating chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and stroke with diet and lifestyle changes is not just safer but may be dramatically more effective



Preventing Alzheimer’s with Lifestyle Changes

Lifestyle changes could potentially prevent hundreds of thousands of cases of Alzheimer’s disease every year in the United States



Caloric Restriction vs. Plant-Based Diets

What is the best strategy to lower the level of the cancer-promoting growth hormone IGF-1?