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Coffee and Artery Function
The new dietary guidelines for beverages recommend tea and coffee second only to water in healthfulness, but what about concerns they might impair the function of our endothelium?
Food Industry Funded Research Bias
Using the tobacco industry playbook, food companies have been caught trying to undermine public health policies by manipulating the scientific process.
Kempner Rice Diet: Whipping Us Into Shape
Dr. Walter Kempner was a pioneer in the use of diet to treat life-threatening chronic disease, utilizing a diet of mostly rice and fruit to cure malignant hypertension and reverse heart and kidney failure.
Back in Circulation: Sciatica and Cholesterol
Atherosclerotic plaque clogging the arteries feeding our spine may lead to low back pain, disc degeneration, and sciatic nerve irritation.
If Fructose is Bad, What About Fruit?
Does the fructose naturally found in fruit and fruit juice have the same adverse effects as excess “industrial fructose†(table sugar and high fructose corn syrup) and if not, why not?
Eliminating 90% of Heart Disease Risk
Preventing and treating chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and stroke with diet and lifestyle changes is not just safer but may be dramatically more effective
Inhibiting Platelet Activation with Tomato Seeds
The yellow fluid around tomato seeds appears to suppress platelet activation without affecting blood clotting. This anti-inflammatory effect may explain why eating tomato products is associated with lower cardiac mortality.
Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet
The role of the Mediterranean diet in preventing and treating dementia.
Preventing Alzheimer’s with Lifestyle Changes
Lifestyle changes could potentially prevent hundreds of thousands of cases of Alzheimer’s disease every year in the United States
How Much Added Sugar Is Too Much?
Are table sugar and high fructose corn syrup just empty calories or can they be actively harmful?