Category: Heart Disease

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Dried Apples, Dates, Figs or Prunes for Cholesterol?

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: A comparison of the cholesterol-lowering potential of four dried fruit—apples, dates, figs, and plums. This supports the extraordinary findings detailed in Dried Apples Versus...

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Eggs vs. Cigarettes in Atherosclerosis

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: A similar exponential increase in carotid artery plaque buildup was found for smokers and egg eaters. This is the same prestigious research team that...

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Does Coconut Oil Clog Arteries?

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Sellers of coconut oil use a beef industry tactic to downplay the risks associated with the saturated fat in their products. Here are the...

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Protein and Heart Disease

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Why is the intake of animal protein associated with heart disease–even independent of saturated fat—and the intake of plant protein protective? This is another...

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How Phytosterols Lower Cholesterol

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: This is the third video of a five-part series on the cholesterol-lowering effects of nuts and seeds. In Friday’s video-of-the-day, Nuts and Bolts of...

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How Fiber Lowers Cholesterol

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: This mechanism is similar to how “normal” levels of fiber consumption (huge by modern standards) Relieve the Body of Excess Estrogen (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/relieving-yourself-of-excess-estrogen/), which may...

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Nuts and Bolts of Cholesterol Lowering

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: One sees the manipulation of study design and skewing of results in studies on beverages too, from pomegranate juice to milk and soda. For...

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Diet Versus Drugs for High Cholesterol

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: I debated whether or not to include this video since it’s not anything I haven’t covered before. See for example, What Women Should Eat...

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Making Our Arteries Less Sticky

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates Donate at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsdonation DESCRIPTION: Mushrooms appear to have an anti-inflammatory effect on human arterial lining cells in vitro, which may help stop the inflammatory cascade...

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Blocking the First Step of Heart Disease

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates Donate at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsdonation DESCRIPTION: By preventing the buildup of cholesterol in our blood stream, we can prevent atherosclerosis in our coronary arteries, the leading cause...

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Arterial Acne

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates Donate at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsdonation DESCRIPTION: Atherosclerotic plaques in coronary arteries may be more aptly described as pimples, initiated by the infiltration of cholesterol into the lining...