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Benefits of Beans for Peripheral Vascular Disease

Do legumes—beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils—work only to prevent disease, or can they help treat and reverse it as well?

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Is Fiber an Effective Anti-Inflammatory?

Most Americans get less than half the recommended minimum fiber intake a day and the benefits of fiber go way beyond bowel regularity.

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How to Treat Periodontitis with Diet

Plant-based diets are put to the test in the treatment of periodontal disease.

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Dairy and Cancer

How do we explain the increased risk of prostate cancer but the decreased risk of colon cancer associated with dairy consumption?

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The Best Diet for Diabetes

The case for using a plant-based diet to reduce the burden of diabetes has never been stronger.

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Is Keto an Effective Cancer-Fighting Diet?

The clinical use of ketogenic diets for epilepsy and cancer: what does the science say?

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Evidence-Based Weight Loss – Live Presentation

In this live presentation, Dr. Greger offers a sneak peek into his book How Not to Diet.

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Fasting to Naturally Reverse High Blood Pressure

A whole food plant-based diet can be used to help lock in the benefits of fasting to kickstart the reversal of high blood pressure.

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The Immune System and COVID-19 Treatment

Are there immune-boosting foods we should be eating?

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Type 1 Diabetes Treatment: A Plant-Based Diet

Is it possible to reverse type 1 diabetes if caught early enough?

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Win-Win Dietary Solutions to the Climate Crisis

The EAT-Lancet Commission lays out the best diet for human and planetary health.

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Which Foods Have the Lowest Carbon Footprint?

How much greenhouse gas does the production of different foods cause measured in miles driven or lightbulb hour equivalents?

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Plant-Based Meat Substitutes Put to the Test

What are the effects of plant-based meats on premature puberty, childhood obesity, and hip fracture risk?

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The Benefits of Millet for Diabetes

What were the remarkable results of a crossover study randomizing hundreds of people with diabetes to one and a third cup of millet every day?

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The Best Diet for Fatty Liver Disease Treatment

What are the three sources of the liver fat in fatty liver disease and how do you get rid of it?

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The Best Diet for Crohn’s Disease Treatment

Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those reported on conventional treatments in both active and quiescent stages in both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative...

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Plant-Based Eating Score Put to the Test

How can you get a perfect diet score?

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Glycemic Index of Potatoes: Why You Should Chill and Reheat Them

If you eat potatoes when they’re cold, as in potato salad, or chilled and reheated, you can get a nearly 40 percent lower glycemic impact.

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How to Boost FGF21 with Diet for Longevity

Fasting and exercise can boost the longevity hormone FGF21, but what can we eat—or avoid eating—to get similar effects?

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IARC: Processed Meat Like Bacon Causes Cancer

How did the meat industry, government, and cancer organizations respond to the confirmation that processed meat, like bacon, ham, hot dogs, and lunch meat, causes cancer?

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Blocking the Cancer Metastasis Enzyme MMP-9 with Beans and Chickpeas

Which legumes are best at inhibiting the matrix metalloproteinase enzymes that allow cancer to become invasive?

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Are the Health Benefits of Nuts Limited to Those Eating Bad Diets?

Do nut eaters live longer simply because they swap in protein from plants in place of animal protein?

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How Much Does Meat Affect Longevity?

If you care about your health so much that it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette before and after lunch, maybe you should order a bean burrito instead of a meaty one.

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Low-Protein Diets for Parkinson’s Disease

How might we maximize the therapeutic efficiency of levodopa?

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Vitamin D May Explain Higher Bone Fracture Risk in Vegans

A combination of low calcium intake and low vitamin D exposure may explain higher bone fracture rates in British vegans.

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Diet and Lifestyle for Cancer Prevention and Survival

What kind of diet should cancer patients eat?

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The Harms Associated with Eating More Southern-Style Food

Diet appears to mediate the majority of the racial health gap.

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The Best Diet for Fibromyalgia and Other Chronic Pain Relief

Anti-inflammatory diets can be effective in alleviating chronic pain syndromes.

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Is Oatmeal Good for People with Diabetes?

Before there was insulin, there was the “oatmeal cure.”

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Plant-Based Pregnancy Outcomes and Breast Milk

The composition of breast milk is compared between vegetarian and nonvegetarian women.

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