Category: Diseases and Prevention

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Plant-Based Diets and Diabetes

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: We’ve known for a half century that plant-based diets are associated with lower diabetes risk, but how low does one have to optimally go...

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How Many Meet the Simple Seven?

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: The American Heart Association came up with seven simple lifestyle goals to combat the leading killer of men and women, heart disease. So What...

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The Saturated Fat Studies: Set Up to Fail

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: How might Big Butter design a study (like the Siri-Tarino and Chowdhury meta-analyses) to undermine global consensus guidelines to reduce saturated fat intake? Dairy...

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The Saturated Fat Studies: Buttering Up the Public

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Dairy industry campaign to “neutralize the negative image of milkfat among regulators and health professionals as related to heart disease” seeks to undermine latest...

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Preventing Crohn’s Disease With Diet

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Diets centered around whole plant foods may help prevent Crohn’s disease through the benefits of fiber on the maintenance of intestinal barrier function and...

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Paleo Diets May Negate Benefits of Exercise

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: The deleterious effects of a Paleolithic diet appear to undermine the positive effects of a Crossfit-based high-intensity circuit training exercise program. I touched on...

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Chicken Big: Poultry and Obesity

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Chicken consumption is associated with more weight gain than other meat. The prior video that compared different types of meat and found meat consumption...

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Coffee and Artery Function

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: The new dietary guidelines for beverages recommend tea and coffee second only to water in healthfulness, but what about concerns they might impair the...

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Kempner Rice Diet: Whipping Us Into Shape

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Dr. Walter Kempner was a pioneer in the use of diet to treat life-threatening chronic disease, utilizing a diet of mostly rice and fruit...

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Back in Circulation: Sciatica and Cholesterol

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Atherosclerotic plaque clogging the arteries feeding our spine may lead to low back pain, disc degeneration, and sciatic nerve irritation. There’s a condensed version...

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If Fructose is Bad, What About Fruit?

Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger’s videos at: http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Does the fructose naturally found in fruit and fruit juice have the same adverse effects as excess “industrial fructose” (table sugar and high fructose...