Flaxseeds for Breast Pain
A tablespoon a day of ground flax seeds appears to improve ovarian function, and is considered a first-line therapy for breast pain associated with one’s period (cyclical mastalgia).
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Carnitine, Choline, Cancer, & Cholesterol: The TMAO Connection
Expanding on the subject of my upcoming appearance on The Dr. Oz Show, a landmark new article in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that choline in eggs, poultry, dairy, and fish produces the same toxic TMAO as carnitine in red meat—which may help explain plant-based protection from heart disease and prostate cancer.
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Plant-Based Diets for Breast Pain
Plant-based diets appear to offer relief from a variety of menstrual symptoms, including cramping, bloating, and breast pain (cyclical mastalgia).
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Flaxseeds & Breast Cancer Survival: Epidemiological Evidence
Lignan intake is associated with improved breast cancer survival in three recent population studies following a total of thousands of women after diagnosis.
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Was It the Flaxseeds, Fat Restriction, or Both?
Researchers set out to find out what it was about a flax seed-supplemented, lower-fat diet that so effectively appeared to decrease prostate cancer growth.
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Flaxseeds vs. Prostate Cancer
What happens when men with prostate cancer and prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) are placed on a relatively low-fat diet, supplemented with ground flax seeds?
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Prunes vs. Metamucil vs. Vegan Diet
The average number of bowel movements a week is compared between those eating prunes, those taking a fiber supplement, and those eating a strictly plant-based diet.
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Some Prostates Are Larger Than Others
Benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH—an enlarged prostate gland—affects 80% of older men, but like many other Western chronic diseases, it appears to be a consequence of our diet.
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Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death
Death in America is largely a foodborne illness. Focusing on studies published just over the last year in peer-reviewed scientific medical journals, Dr. Greger offers practical advice on how best to feed ourselves and our families to prevent, treat, and even reverse many of the top 15 killers in the United States.
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Preventing Cataracts with Diet
Risk of developing cataracts was compared in meat-eaters, fish-eaters, vegetarians, and vegans.
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The Dangers of Broccoli?
A case report of a woman after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery trying to eat right.
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Say No to Drugs by Saying Yes to More Plants
A study of 15,000 American vegetarians suggests their lower chronic disease rates translate into fewer surgeries (including hysterectomies) and medications (including aspirin, sleeping pills, tranquilizers, antacids, pain-killers, blood pressure medications, laxatives, and insulin).
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Our #1 Killer Can Be Stopped
Dr. Dean Ornish proved decades ago that heart disease could be reversed solely with diet and lifestyle changes.
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Resuscitating Medicare
Medicare is now accepting for reimbursement the Dean Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease and the Pritikin Program, which, on a personal note, is what inspired me to go into medicine.
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Cancer Reversal Through Diet?
Dr. Dean Ornish turns from reversing heart disease to trying to reverse prostate cancer.
