Category: Diseases and Prevention

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Flaxseed vs. Prostate Cancer

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: What happens when men with prostate cancer and prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) are placed on a relatively low-fat diet supplemented with ground flaxseeds? Slowing...

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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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Flesh and Fructose

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Meat and sugar increase uric acid levels, which are associated with increased risk of gout, hypertension (high blood pressure), obesity, prediabetes, diabetes, kidney disease...

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Metabolic Syndrome and Plant-Based Diets

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Plant-based diets appear to protect against metabolic syndrome, also known as syndrome X, which is characterized by the so-called “deadly quartet,” abdominal obesity, high...

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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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Prostate vs. a Plant-Based Diet

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Eating a plant-based diet may protect against BPH (benign prostatic hypertrophy, an enlarged prostate). Thursday’s video-of-the-day, Some Prostates Are Larger than Others (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/some-prostates-are-larger-than-others/), introduced...

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Prostate vs. Plants

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION:All men should consider eating a prostate-healthy diet, which includes legumes (beans, peas, lentils, soy); certain vegetables (like garlic and onions); certain seeds (flax seeds);...

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Some Prostates Are Larger than Others

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Benign prostatic hyperplasia, or BPH—an enlarged prostate gland—affects 80% of older men, but like many other Western chronic diseases it appears to be a...

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To Snack or Not to Snack?

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: A review of the best available science examining the impact of eating frequency on both weight and health. That was a quickie! This is...

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Diet Pills Do a Fat Lot of Good

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Common slimming supplements are found to be ineffective, whereas a diet centered on whole plant foods is described as perhaps the safest approach to...