Easy New Year’s Resolution — Eat More Berries!
After we eat, our bodies create free radicals in the process of breaking down our food. That’s why we need to eat antioxidant-rich foods with every meal to counteract this … Continue reading
Dr. Michael Greger: How to Get Enough Antioxidants Each Day
We need to get a daily minimum of 8-11,000 antioxidant units a day in our food. To reach that minimum, all we have to do is eat lots of fruits … Continue reading
Survival of the firmest: Erectile dysfunction and death
Since erectile dysfunction is often caused by circulatory blockage, physicians are recommending a diet with more fruits and vegetables as a treatment. This may not only cure the patient’s inability … Continue reading
Video: Food industry “funding effect”
The “funding effect” refers to the uncanny resemblance between the scientific researchers conclusions and the desired outcome of the underwriters of the research. The story behind the first U.S. dietary … Continue reading
Dr. Michael Greger: How to Prevent Heart Disease
Many of today’s lifestyle medicine doctors, myself included, were greatly influenced by Nathan Pritikin, the nutrition pioneer who started reversing heart disease with a plant-based diet and exercise back in … Continue reading
Video: Lifestyle Medicine
Using pre-diabetic treatment as an example, Dr. Michael Greger talks about the huge gap between what the research shows on the efficacy of using diet, exercise, and stress reduction in … Continue reading
Video: Treating Alzheimer’s with Turmeric
Rural India has the lowest validated Alzheimer’s rates in the world. Is it due to the turmeric in their curry or their largely plant-based diets? Turmeric
Video: Collaboration with the new vectors of disease
Appeasement of the junk food industry through partnerships with children’s organizations to steer the focus to inactivity rather than our diet recalls tobacco industry-style tactics and may require tobacco industry-style … Continue reading
Video: Facing a Post-Antibiotic Age
The emergence of pathogens resistant to even our antibiotics of last resort has raised the specter of a “post-antibiotic age” in which drugs to fight infections may be useless. This … Continue reading
Video: Arsenic, dioxin, illegal hormones fed to chickens
Dr. Michael Greger reports that new lab results show that many chickens raised in factory farms have been fed illegal substances including arsenic, dioxin, and hormones that cause vaginal cancer. … Continue reading
Video: Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death in America
As it turns out, the leading causes of death in America are … ourselves. Dr. Michael Greger explains how we are killing ourselves and what we can do about it.
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Has Conflicts of Interest
There is an epidemic of obesity in America, and diet plays an important role in our leading causes of death — heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. The public health institutions … Continue reading
Video: Antibiotics — Agribusiness’s Pound of Flesh
The FDA’s suggestion that the meat industry voluntarily stop feeding antibiotics by the ton to farm animals to fatten them faster falls short of the changes needed to forestall the … Continue reading →