Category: Heart Disease

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Barriers to Heart Disease Prevention

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: According to the Director of the famous Framingham Heart Study, the best way to manage cholesterol and heart disease risk is with a more...

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Beans, Beans, They’re Good For Your Heart

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Legumes such as lentils, chickpeas, beans and split peas may reduce cholesterol so much that consumers may be able to get off their cholesterol-lowering...

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Inhibiting Platelet Aggregation with Berries

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: One of the ways plants help keep platelets in their place may be their aspirin content. See Aspirin Levels in Plant Foods (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/aspirin-levels-in-plant-foods/). Why...

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Which Vegetable Binds Bile Best?

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Which foods are best at removing carcinogenic bile acids from the body: asparagus, beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, collards, eggplant, green beans, kale, mustard...

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Evidence-Based Medicine or Evidence-Biased?

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Evidence-based medicine may ironically bias medical professionals against the power of dietary intervention. This is one of my favorite videos of the year so...

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Dark Chocolate and Artery Function

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: What do studies not funded by the chocolate industry show about the effect of cocoa on arterial health? Here’s a link to the videos...

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When Low Risk Means High Risk

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Dr. Rose’s sick population concept may explain why many nutrition studies underestimate the role of diet in disease. This reminds me of what the...

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Eggs and Arterial Function

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Even studies funded by the American Egg Board show our arteries benefit from not eating eggs. More on the reaction to the Eggs vs....

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Debunking Egg Industry Myths

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: The latest meta-analysis of studies on egg consumption and heart disease risk found that even less than a single egg a day is associated...

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Walnuts and Artery Function

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Not eating walnuts may double our risk of dying from heart disease (compared to at least one serving a week), perhaps because nuts appear...

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Statin Cholesterol Drugs and Invasive Breast Cancer

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Reducing cholesterol levels may inhibit breast cancer development, but the long-term use of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs is associated with more than double the risk...

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Cholesterol Feeds Breast Cancer Cells

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Cholesterol appears to stimulate the growth of human breast cancer cells, which may explain why phytosterol-rich foods such as pumpkin seeds are associated with...