Category: Diseases and Prevention

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Waist Circumference Less Than Half Your Height

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Waist-to-height ratio may be a better predictor of disease than body mass index. The relationship between meat consumption and weight gain was covered in...

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Meat and Weight Gain in the PANACEA Study

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: In one of the largest nutrition studies ever, total meat consumption was significantly associated with weight gain in men and women, and the link...

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Diet vs. Exercise for Weight Loss

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: When asked whether food and beverage consumption or physical activity was more important, the majority of people get the answer wrong. This will look...

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The Ice Diet

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: The water content of plant foods may help explain why those eating plant-based diets are, on average, so slim. Can ice be thought of...

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Fawning Over Flora

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: The good bacteria in our gut can digest the fiber we eat and turn it into an anti-obesity compound called propionate that we absorb...

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Solving the Mystery of the Missing Calories

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: A few theories have been proposed as to why nuts don’t appear to contribute to weight gain, including the “pistachio principle” and the fecal...

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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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Achieving Remission of Crohn’s Disease

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates Donate at http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsdonation DESCRIPTION: Meat (including fish), cheese, and animal protein intake in general have been associated with an increased risk of inflammatory bowel disease...

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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...