If you’re going to have something unhealthy, is there anything you can eat with it to help mitigate the damage it may cause? If you compare the artery…
Read more Protect Your Arteries from Saturated Fat with These Foods | NutritionFacts.orgThere is a window of time in which sufficient physical activity can help mediate some of the damage caused by eating an unhealthy meal. I’ve previously discussed studies…
Read more Can Exercise Counteract a High-Fat Meal? | NutritionFacts.orgWhat happens within hours of eating a high-fat meal? We are only as old as our arteries. What can we do to preserve arterial function as we age?…
Read more How a Single Meal Can Cripple Your Arteries and Lungs | NutritionFacts.orgCommon drugs, foods, and beverages can disrupt the integrity of our intestinal barrier, causing a leaky gut. Intestinal permeability, the leakiness of our gut, may be a new…
Read more Could Your Pills and Food Be Causing a Leaky Gut? | NutritionFacts.orgWhy might healthy lifestyle choices wipe out 90% of our risk for having a heart attack, while drugs may only reduce risk by 20% to 30%? On the…
Read more How to Beat Heart Disease Before It Starts | NutritionFacts.orgThere is another reason to avoid palm oil and question the authenticity of extra-virgin olive oil. The most commonly used vegetable oil in the world today is palm…
Read more 3-MCPD in Refined Cooking Oils | NutritionFacts.orgWe can raise BDNF levels in our brain by fasting and exercising, as well as by eating and avoiding certain foods. There is accumulating evidence that brain-derived neurotrophic…
Read more Boosting BDNF Levels in Our Brain to Treat Depression | NutritionFacts.orgWomen with breast cancer should include the “liberal culinary use of cruciferous vegetables.” Both the Women’s Intervention Nutrition Study and the Women’s Health Initiative study showed that women…
Read more Eating to Downregulate a Gene for Metastatic Cancer | NutritionFacts.orgRandomized controlled trials show that lowering saturated fat intake can lead to improved breast cancer survival. The leading cause of cancer-related death is metastasis. Cancer kills because cancer…
Read more Eating to Help Control Cancer Metastasis | NutritionFacts.orgPalmitic acid, a saturated fat concentrated in meat and dairy, can boost the metastatic potential of cancer cells through the fat receptor CD36. The leading cause of death…
Read more Dietary Components That May Cause Cancer to Metastasize | NutritionFacts.orgHow can we explain the drop in stroke risk as the Japanese diet became westernized with more meat and dairy? As Japan westernized, the country’s stroke rate plummeted,…
Read more What About Saturated Fat 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.orgLike the tobacco industry adding extra nicotine to cigarettes, the food industry employs taste engineers to accomplish a similar goal of maximizing the irresistibility of its products. The…
Read more Corporate Influence and Our Epidemic of Obesity | NutritionFacts.orgThe “fat gene” accounts for less than 1 percent of the differences in size between people. To date, about a hundred genetic markers have been linked to obesity,…
Read more What Is the Role of Our Genes in the Obesity Epidemic? | NutritionFacts.orgPlant-based diets are put to the test for treating migraine headaches. Headaches are one of the top five reasons people end up in emergency rooms and one of…
Read more Headache and Migraine Relief from Foods | NutritionFacts.orgPublic health authorities continue to lower the upper tolerable limit of daily added sugar intake. Dating back to the original “Dietary Goals for the United States” in 1977,…
Read more How Much Added Sugar Is Okay? | NutritionFacts.orgEating every other day can raise your cholesterol. Are there any downsides to fasting every other day? For example, might go all day without eating impair your ability to…
Read more How Safe Is Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting? | NutritionFacts.orgKetogenic diets are put to the test for diabetes reversal. As you can see at the start of my video Does a Ketogenic Diet Help Diabetes or Make It…
Read more Keto Diets and Diabetes | NutritionFacts.orgWhat are the effects of ketogenic diets on nutrient sufficiency, gut flora, and heart disease risk? Given the decades of experience using ketogenic diets to treat certain cases…
Read more The Safety of Keto Diets | NutritionFacts.orgWhat does the science say about the clinical use of ketogenic diets for epilepsy and cancer? Blood sugar, also known as blood glucose, is the universal go-to fuel…
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