Vegetables and Nutrition: The Latest Research

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Soul Food That’s Good for the Soul

The best of soul food’s origins are tied to the plant-centric West African diet.

Oatmeal Diet Put to the Test for Diabetes Treatment

What are the extraordinary, lasting benefits we may get from a few days of an oatmeal diet?

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How Does Oatmeal Help with Blood Sugars?

The prebiotic fiber in oats helps to explain why oatmeal can improve diabetic control.

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The Impacts of Plant-Based Diets on Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer

Why do people who eat more plants get less breast and prostate cancer?

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The Best Diet for Fibromyalgia and Other Chronic Pain Relief

Anti-inflammatory diets can be effective in alleviating chronic pain syndromes.

Treating Parkinson’s Disease with Velvet Beans (Mucuna pruriens)

Since Parkinson’s is caused by a dopamine deficiency in the brain, what if you ate foods rich in the dopamine precursor levodopa?

How Tongue Scraping Can Affect Heart Health

Tongue scraping can boost the ability of the good bacteria in our mouth to take advantage of the nitrates in greens to improve our cardiovascular health.

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The Best Diet for Cancer Patients

What diet should oncologists recommend?

Potential Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency Risks on a Vegan Diet

What is the best way to get the nutrients of concern on a plant-based diet?

Diet and Lifestyle for Cancer Prevention and Survival

What kind of diet should cancer patients eat?

The Purported Benefits of Vitamin K2: Should You Take Supplements?

Our body can make vitamin K2 from the K1 in green leafy vegetables.

Do Alkaline Diets Help Athletic Performance?

Can reducing acid-forming foods and boosting alkaline-forming foods replicate the performance-enhancing effects of sodium bicarbonate without the adverse effects?

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Lower Protein Diet Proven to Help Kidney Disease

How might we cut the risk of dialysis and death in half?

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Using the Cigarette Tax Playbook Against Big Food

How might we replicate one of our great public health victories—the reduction of smoking rates—in the field of nutrition?

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How to Naturally Reduce Wrinkles with Food

Almonds are put to the test in a randomized controlled trial for facial wrinkles.

The Potential Harm in Unnecessary Gluten-Free Diets

How might we prevent the inflammation from gluten-free diets?

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Dietary Approach to Naturally Treating Menopause Symptoms

Specific foods have been shown in randomized controlled trials to improve symptoms like hot flashes.

Antibiotic Resistance Genes in the Guts of Vegetarians vs. Meat-Eaters

Those eating plant-based have a reduced load of antibiotic resistance genes in their gut.

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The Best Diet for Healthy Aging

Swapping just 1 percent of plant protein in place of animal protein was associated with signiﬁcantly less age-related deﬁcit accumulation.

The Best Diet for Treating Atrial Fibrillation

What foods should we eat and avoid to reduce our risk of Afib?

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How to Treat H. Pylori Naturally with Diet

What food can eradicate H. pylori in the majority of patients?

How to Cultivate a Healthy Gut Microbiome with Food

Our gut flora is determined by what we eat, for good or for ill.

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How Much Does Meat Affect Longevity?

If you care about your health so much that it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette before and after lunch, maybe you should order a bean burrito instead of a meaty one.

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Food for Hair Growth

Hot peppers, soy foods, and pumpkin seeds may help with hair loss.

Potassium Chloride Salt Substitute Side Effects

Healthy kidneys are required for potassium excretion. If you aren’t sure if you’re at risk, ask your doctor about getting your kidney function tested.

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Are Potassium Chloride Salt Substitutes Effective?

Is potassium chloride win-win by decreasing sodium intake and increasing potassium intake?

Fewer Than 1 in 5,000 Meet Sodium and Potassium Recommended Intakes

A staggering 99.99 percent of Americans fail to get the minimum recommended potassium intake (despite it being perhaps only half of our natural intake) and stay below the recommended sodium intake (even though it may be twice our natural intake).

Natural Dietary Treatments for Enlarged Prostate BPH

Cranberries and pumpkin seeds are put to the test for benign prostatic hypertrophy.

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Foods to Help Protect Your Arteries from Saturated Fat

If you’re going to have something unhealthy, is there anything you can eat with it to help mediate the damage it may cause?

Blocking the Cancer Metastasis Enzyme MMP-9 with Beans and Chickpeas

Which legumes are best at inhibiting the matrix metalloproteinase enzymes that allow cancer to become invasive?

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IARC: Processed Meat Like Bacon Causes Cancer

How did the meat industry, government, and cancer organizations respond to the confirmation that processed meat, like bacon, ham, hot dogs, and lunch meat, causes cancer?

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Do the Health Benefits of Peanut Butter Include Longevity?

Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter?

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How to Increase Your Life Expectancy 12 to 14 Years

What can physicians do to promote healthy, life-extending, lifestyle changes?

Do Vitamin C Supplements Help with Anxiety?

What are the risks and benefits of using vitamin C for depression and anxiety?

Glycemic Index of Potatoes: Why You Should Chill and Reheat Them

If you eat potatoes when they’re cold, as in potato salad, or chilled and reheated, you can get a nearly 40 percent lower glycemic impact.

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Do Potatoes Increase the Risk of High Blood Pressure and Death?

Do potato eaters live longer or shorter lives than non-potato eaters?

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Do Potatoes Increase the Risk of Diabetes?

Does the link between white potatoes and diabetes extend to non-fried potatoes without butter or sour cream?

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Fighting the Ten Hallmarks of Cancer with Food

The foundation of cancer prevention is plants, not pills.

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Pesticides and Cancer Risk

Does choosing organic over conventional foods protect against cancer? The effects of pesticides on cancer risk.

Mixed Nuts Put to the Test for Erectile Dysfunction

Walnuts, almonds, and hazelnuts are put to the test for erectile and sexual function, sperm count, and semen quality.