Why don’t we give a big, warm welcome to Dr. Michael Greger? [Applause] Surely, if there was some safe, simple, side-effect-free solution to the obesity epidemic, we would know about it by now, right? I’m not so sure. It may take up to 17 years before research findings make it into day-to-day clinical practice. To…
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Why don’t we give a big, warm welcome to Dr. Michael Greger? [Applause] Surely, if there was some safe, simple, side-effect-free solution to the obesity epidemic, we would know about it by now, right? I’m not so sure. It may take up to 17 years before research findings make it into day-to-day clinical practice. To…
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“How to Treat Reflux in Children with Diet” Excessive spitting up and vomiting in infants may be treated by putting them on their left-side down after meals, but of course never when sleeping— it’s always face-up to wake up to reduce the risk of crib death. Also, you can try smaller more frequent feedings, thickening…
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“The Best Time to Workout for Weight Loss” What is the optimal exercise timing for weight loss? Is it better to exercise in the morning or in the evening? Before breakfast or after breakfast? There was a Nobel Prize- winning exercise physiologist who said he always ran a mile every morning before breakfast. Was he…
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“Does Chewing Gum Help with Weight Loss?” Chewing gum may only burn about three calories an hour, but the calorie expenditure is not just your little jaw muscles at work. For some reason, gum chewing revs up your heart rate, as much as an extra 12 beats per minute after chewing two sticks of gum.…
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Is Miso Healthy Salt is considered a probable cause of stomach cancer, one of the world’s leading cancer killers. If their estimate of an 8 increase in the risk of every extra gram of salt a day is correct, then in a country like the UK, nearly 1 700 cases of stomach cancer happen every…
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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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“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” 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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“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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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? 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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