Healthy kidneys are required for potassium excretion. If you aren’t sure if you’re at risk, ask your doctor about getting your kidney function tested. Based on how we…
Read more Are Potassium Chloride Salt Substitutes Safe and Effective? | NutritionFacts.orgIs potassium chloride a win-win by decreasing sodium intake and increasing potassium intake? Of all the terrible things about our diets, high dietary sodium intake—high salt intake—is the…
Read more Are Potassium Chloride Salt Substitutes Worth Trying? | NutritionFacts.orgA staggering 99.99% of Americans fail to get the minimum recommended potassium intake (despite it being perhaps only half of our natural intake) and stay below the recommended…
Read more The Mineral Intake Recommendations Only 1 in 6,000 U.S. Adults Meet | NutritionFacts.orgWhat can we do to boost the longevity hormone FGF21? In the year 2000, a new human hormone was discovered. It was the 21st documented fibroblast growth factor,…
Read more How to Boost Your Longevity Hormone | NutritionFacts.orgIf you eat potatoes when they’re cold, as in potato salad, or chilled and reheated, you can get a nearly 40% lower glycemic impact. If you systematically pull…
Read more Why Cooling Potatoes Lowers Their Glycemic Load | NutritionFacts.orgHow 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.orgApple has steadily expanded the Apple Watch’s health monitoring features over the years, moving beyond fitness tracking into areas that can offer early insight into potential medical concerns.…
Read more How to turn on hypertension alerts on Apple WatchCongratulations, you’ve reached the final day of the Brain Health Challenge! Today, we’re asking you to do a few things that might feel a bit out of left…
Read more Brain Health Challenge: Doctor Appointments for Your Mind and BodyHARRISBURG, Pa. — Fernando Moreno has been on dialysis for about two years, enduring an “unbearable” wait for a new kidney to save his life. His limited world…
Read more To find living donors for kidney transplants, a pilot program turns to social networksThe 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.orgApple’s Awe Dropping event started with dramatic health testimonials from Apple Watch users, then revealed a key new feature for the new Watch Series 11: hypertension alerts. The…
Read more Apple Watch Series 11 receives FDA approval for hypertension alerts(CNN) — When was the last time you had your blood sugar checked? It might be worth looking into, a new study says. Forty-four percent of people age 15…
Read more Nearly half of people with diabetes don’t know they have it, new study findsIs 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.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…
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