How can you get a perfect diet score? How do you rate the quality of people’s diets? Well, “what could be more nutrient-dense than a vegetarian diet?” Indeed,…
Read more Keeping Better Score of Your Diet | NutritionFacts.orgShoveling snow? Over-exertion and cold temps can raise your heart risks ON SATURDAY. TIP OFF FOR THAT GAME IS EIGHT. MIGHT HAVE TO DIG OUT IF YOU’RE HEADED…
Read more Shoveling snow? Over-exertion and cold temps can raise your heart risksThe American Medical Association passed a resolution encouraging hospitals to offer healthy plant-based food options. “Globally, 11 million deaths annually are attributable to dietary factors, placing poor diet…
Read more Plant-Based Hospital Menus | NutritionFacts.org(CNN) — Global rates of hypertension, or high blood pressure, in childhood and adolescence have nearly doubled since 2000, putting more kids at risk for poor health later in life. “In…
Read more Rates of high blood pressure in children have nearly doubled in 20 yearsHaving a “normal” cholesterol level in a society where it’s normal to die from a heart attack isn’t necessarily a good thing. “Consistent evidence” from a variety of…
Read more Ideal vs. Normal Cholesterol Levels | NutritionFacts.orgWhat is the dirty little secret of drugs for lifestyle diseases? Drug companies go out of their way—in direct-to-consumer ads, for example—to “present pharmaceutical drugs as a preferred…
Read more Are We Being Misled About the Benefits and Risks of Statins? | NutritionFacts.orgHow can you calculate your own personal heart disease risk to help you determine if you should start on a cholesterol-lowering statin drug? The muscle-related side effects from…
Read more Should You Take Statins? | NutritionFacts.orgNEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 1.3 billion adults live with hypertension worldwide. Many don’t even know they have…
Read more Apple Watch Series 11 gets FDA-cleared alert for ‘silent killer’ conditionDoctors may soon have a new way to treat high blood pressure, even among people for whom medicines haven’t worked well in the past.Baxdrostat, an experimental medicine made…
Read more There may soon be a new approach to treat hard-to-control high blood pressureWorldwide, physical inactivity accounts for more than 10 million years of healthy life lost, but what we eat accounts for nearly 20 times that. As I discuss in…
Read more Skip the Salt and Shake on Potassium Chloride? | NutritionFacts.orgIs it possible to reverse type 1 diabetes if caught early enough? The International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention has already had its share of miraculous disease…
Read more Treat Type 1 Diabetes with a Plant-Based Diet? | NutritionFacts.orgThe Buchinger-modified fasting program is put to the test. A century ago, fasting—“starvation, as a therapeutic measure”—was described as “the ideal measure for the human hog…” (Fat shaming…
Read more The Largest Study on Fasting in the World | NutritionFacts.orgThe most effective diet for weight loss may also be the most healthful. Why are vegetarian diets so effective in preventing and treating diabetes? Maybe it is because…
Read more What’s the Best Weight-Loss and Disease-Prevention Diet? | NutritionFacts.orgWhat is the best type of pots and pans to use? In my last video, I expressed concerns about the use of aluminum cookware. So, what’s the best…
Read more Is Stainless Steel or Cast Iron Cookware Best? Is Teflon Safe? | NutritionFacts.orgMany doctors mistakenly rely on serum B12 levels in the blood to test for vitamin B12 deficiency. There were two cases of young, strictly vegetarian individuals with no…
Read more Testing for Vitamin B12 Deficiency | NutritionFacts.orgNot taking vitamin B12 supplements or regularly eating B12-fortified foods may explain the higher stroke risk found among vegetarians. Leonardo da Vinci had a stroke. Might his vegetarian…
Read more What About Homocysteine, Vitamin B12, and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk? | NutritionFacts.orgThe first study in history on the incidence of stroke in vegetarians and vegans suggests they may be at higher risk. “When ranked in order of importance, among…
Read more The Stroke Risk of Vegetarians | NutritionFacts.orgHarness the power of your circadian rhythms for weight loss by making breakfast or lunch your main meal of the day. In my last chronobiology video, we learned…
Read more A King’s Breakfast, a Prince’s Lunch, and a Pauper’s Dinner | NutritionFacts.orgA calorie is not a calorie. It isn’t only what you eat, but when you eat. Mice are nocturnal creatures. They eat during the night and sleep during…
Read more Lose Weight by Eating More in the Morning | NutritionFacts.orgSee what a penny a day’s worth of garlic powder can do. In ancient Greece, “the Art of Medicine was divided into three parts”: cures through diet, cures…
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