Cholesterol and Alzheimer’s Disease
High-tech advances, such as PET scanning, offer new insight into the role cholesterol plays in...
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How Ultra-Processed Foods Could Cause Disease: Calorie Density
The biological mechanisms our bodies use to regulate our weight likely evolved in the context of eating at least four or five pounds of food a day.
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Sprinkling Doubt: Taking Sodium Skeptics with a Pinch of Salt
Is the sodium debate a legitimate scientific disagreement or a “controversy” manufactured by industry?
Treating Ulcerative Colitis with Diet
If the avoidance of sulfur-rich proteins and food additives can help prevent inflammatory bowel disease,...
The Okinawa Diet: Living to 100
What would happen if you centered your diet around vegetables, the most nutrient-dense food group?
Oxygenating Blood with Nitrate-Rich Vegetables
Vegetables such as beets and arugula can improve athletic performance by improving oxygen delivery and...
Whole Beets vs. Juice for Improving Athletic Performance
What is the latest science on the performance-enhancing qualities of nitrate-rich vegetables?
Alzheimer’s and Atherosclerosis of the Brain
Lack of adequate blood flow to the brain due to clogging of cerebral arteries may...
Alzheimer’s May Start Decades Before Diagnosis
Neurodegenerative brain changes begin by middle age, underscoring the need for lifelong preventive brain maintenance.
Caution: Anti-Inflammatory Foods in the Third Trimester
For the same reason that anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin and ibuprofen are advised against during...
Plant-Based Diets for Improved Mood and Productivity
The most comprehensive controlled trial of diet and mood finds that a plant-based nutrition program...
Music for Anxiety: Mozart vs. Metal
What physiologic effects does classical music have compared to new age music, grunge rock, techno,...
Diet and Climate Change: Cooking Up a Storm
While epidemics of chronic disease are currently by far our leading causes of death, global...
