Four Brazil Nuts Once a Month…
One of the craziest studies I read all year involved feeding people a single serving...
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NDMA: A Cancer-Causing Contaminant in Meds and Meat
Coconut water is tested head-to-head against plain water and sports drinks in athletes. As you may know, I’ve previously reviewed the evidence on coconut oil and coconut milk that suggests neither is good for you, but what about coconut water?...
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The Effects of Dietary Cholesterol on Blood Cholesterol
Blood cholesterol levels are clearly increased by eating dietary cholesterol. In other words, putting cholesterol...
Why Don’t More Doctors Practice Prevention?
Why don’t more doctors practice preventive cardiology? Time availability is a reason frequently cited by...
Using Cherries to Treat Gout
Over the last 40 years, the burden of gout, a painful inflammatory arthritis, has risen...
Antibiotic-Resistant “Superbugs” in Meat
As a rule, “high-ranking public-health officials try to avoid apocalyptic descriptors. So, it’s worrying to...
Drugs vs. Lifestyle for Preventing Diabetes
In just one decade, the number of people with diabetes has more than doubled. According...
How to Prevent Childhood Obesity and Diabetes
Thirty years ago, virtually all diabetes in young individuals was thought to be autoimmune Type...
Hummus for a Healthy Heart
I’ve talked previously about the anti-diabetic and anti-obesity effects of various phytonutrients in beans, but...
What to Do If You Suspect Gluten Problems
Symptoms of gluten sensitivity include irritable bowel type symptoms such as bloating, abdominal pain, and...
How a Gluten-Free Diet Can Be Harmful
Until only a few years ago, almost the whole of the scientific world maintained that...
Gluten Sensitivity Put to the Test
In 1980, researchers in England reported a series of women with no evidence of celiac...
Should We Take Chlorella to Boost Natural Killer Cell Activity?
Multiple studies published over the last few decades suggest that exercise can mitigate the decline...
A Simple Yet Neglected Cure for Childhood Constipation
Back in the 1950s, it was suggested that some cases of constipation among children might...
How to Cook Broccoli
When I used to teach medical students at Tufts, I gave a lecture about this...
The #1 Dietary Risk Factor Is Not Eating Enough Fruit
The Global Burden of Disease Study published in 2012, is the most comprehensive and systematic...
New DVD Covers Splenda, Lupus, CoQ10, & Reversing Diabetes
On April Fool’s Day, 1998, the FDA approved the artificial sweetener sucralose, sold as Splenda....
Why Are Chickens Fed Prozac?
Between 1940 and 1971, the synthetic estrogen DES was prescribed to several million pregnant women...
Making Your Own Mouthwash
The effects of a vegetarian diet on systemic diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart diseases...
Bile Binding Beets
In my video Breast Cancer and Constipation, I discussed how fruits and veggies bind carcinogenic...
Bile Acids and Breast Cancer
Why do constipated women appear to be at higher risk for breast cancer? The results...
Evidence-Based Nutrition
Dr. Esselstyn’s landmark study, demonstrating that even advanced triple vessel coronary artery disease could be...
The Dietary Link Between Acne and Cancer
Acne is an epidemic skin disease of industrialized countries, reaching prevalence rates of over 85 percent of...
How to Suppress the Aging Enzyme TOR
Over the last decade, more than 5,000 papers have been published about TOR, an engine-of-aging...
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