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The Actual Benefit of Diet vs. Drugs
The medical profession oversells the benefits of drugs for chronic disease since so few patients would apparently take them if doctors divulged the truth.
Flax Seeds for Hypertension
Extraordinary results reported in a rare example of a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized trial of a dietary intervention (flaxseeds) to combat one of our leading killers, high blood pressure.
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?
Turmeric Curcumin vs. Exercise for Artery Function
For those who sit most of the day and are unable to use a standing or treadmill desk or take frequent breaks from sitting should consider the regular ingestion of the spice turmeric to protect endothelial function.
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.
Are Raisins Good Snacks for Kids?
The California Raisin Marketing Board need not have funded such misleading studies given the healthfulness of their product.
Plant-Based Diets and Diabetes
We’ve known for a half century that plant-based diets are associated with lower diabetes risk, but how low does one have to optimally go on animal product and junk food consumption?
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.
The Saturated Fat Studies: Set Up to Fail
How might Big Butter design a study (like the Siri-Tarino and Chowdhury meta-analyses) to undermine global consensus guidelines to reduce saturated fat intake?