Author Archives: Dina

Flashback Friday: Do Vitamin D Supplements Help with Diabetes, Weight Loss, and Blood Pressure?

Do Vitamin D Supplements Help with Diabetes, Weight Loss, and Blood Pressure? My last in-depth, video series on vitamin D was done more than 4 years ago, as in 15 950 papers ago, I had a lot of catching up to do. Review articles like this continue to be published touting vitamin D as a…

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Flashback Friday: Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death

“Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death” In past years, I’ve addressed the most pressing dietary issues of our time, like what’s the healthiest variety of apple, or what’s the most nutritious nut or dried fruit, or what’s the best bean, what’s the best berry? What’s the best bowel movement? We had fun. People got to…

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Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 1

“Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 1” Dr. Dean Ornish showed that a plant- based diet and lifestyle program could reverse the progression of prostate cancer by making men’s bloodstream nearly 8 times better at suppressing cancer cell growth, but this was for early-stage, localized, watch-and-wait prostate cancer. What about more advanced-stage life-threatening diseases? There…

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How Not to Die: An Animated Summary

“How Not to Die: An Animated Summary” It all started with my grandma. I was just a kid when the doctors sent my grandma home in a wheelchair to die. Diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, she had already had so many bypass operations that the surgeons essentially ran out of plumbing. Confined to a wheelchair.…

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How Plant-Based to Lower IGF-1?

“How Plant-Based to Lower IGF-1?” Just a few days of walking and eating whole healthy plant foods, our IGF-1 levels drop low enough to reverse cancer cell growth. What if we stick with it? Going to some Pritikin spa and getting healthy for two weeks is one thing, but what about the long-term? Does your…

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Benefits of a Macrobiotic Diet for Diabetes

“Benefits of a Macrobiotic Diet for Diabetes” Why are macrobiotic diets so effective at reducing blood sugar levels in diabetes, within just a few weeks? Because the diet is centered around whole grains—brown rice, barley, and millet— maybe the high fiber intake is improving the gut microbiome, the friendly flora in the colons of diabetics…

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This Will Solve 50% of Your Health Problems #Shorts #food

Sadhguru, Your body, and your brain work at their best only when your stomach is empty, So we always make sure we eat in such a way how much ever we eat. Our stomach must be always empty within two to two and a half hours time maximum. So we go to bed hungry always So.…

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Canned Beans or Cooked Beans?

Canned Beans or Cooked Beans, Canned beans are convenient, but are they as nutritious as a home cooked And if you do use canned, should you drain them or not? This recent study spilled the beans. The federal government recommends about half a cup a day, counting them as both a protein and a vegetable,…

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Is Ginger Beneficial in a Diabetic Diet?

Is Ginger Beneficial in a Diabetic Diet? In a case report of the successful management of type 2 diabetes with a lifestyle intervention? A 45-year-old fellow took responsibility for health into his own hands and sought to defeat his disease and get off the drugs by eating foods purported to be anti-diabetic. But how strong…

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What Is the Optimal Diet?

What is the Optimal Diet? England has been keeping mortality statistics since 1665, when, yes, one person fell down some stairs and died, but in that week nearly 4 000 people died of the plague. Today, the modern plague is heart disease, the 1 killer of men and women, but it was t always this…

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Eat More Calories in the Morning than the Evening

“Eat More Calories in the Morning Than the Evening” Why are calories eaten in the morning less fattening than calories eaten in the evening? One reason is that more calories are burned off in the morning due to diet-induced thermogenesis. That’s the amount of energy the body takes to digest and process a meal, given…

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The Best Diet for Weight Loss and Disease Prevention

“The Best Diet for Weight Loss and Disease Prevention” Why are vegetarian diets so effective in preventing and treating diabetes? Maybe it’s because of the weight loss. Those eating more plant based tend to be significantly slimmer, and not just based on like looking at a cross-section of the population, but you can do interventional…

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