Tag: Nutrition

The War on Wheat

The Fifth Estate, the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s investigative news series, looks at the recent anti-wheat and gluten-free trend that they call the…

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Why Whole Grains Should Be Part of Your Diet

Whole grains have an image problem. Media headlines and fitness magazines warn that eating grains can make you fat and sick. When…

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Is Coconut Oil Healthy or Hazardous?

We are not quite sure why people think there is something magically healthy about coconut oil. We think it is because it…

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How to Prevent High Blood Pressure With Diet, Not Drugs

In this NutritionFacts.org video, Dr. Michael Greger looks at the current research on the world’s deadliest risk factor and how it relates to the food…

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12 Tips for Healthy Weight Loss … with Benefits Beyond the Scale

As an internal medicine physician and director of an obesity program, I am all too familiar with the struggle that many people…

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The Only Three Food Groups You Need to Remember

The following is an excerpt from The Campbell Plan: The Simple Way to Lose Weight and Reverse Illness, which was released by Rodale Books….

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Why Starch Should Be at the Center of Your Plate

People are so afraid of starch and carbs these days, but we want you to unlearn everything you think you know about them. Despite…

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Getting Clarity About Calcium

The subject of calcium is a hotly debated one. One of the biggest controversies is whether or not we can really get…

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Vitamin D Supplements are Harmful—Sunshine and Food Determine Health

Worries over vitamin D, once known as “the sunshine vitamin,” have turned hundreds of millions of people into patients with worse, not…

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Is It Possible to Eat Too Much Fruit?

We’ve talked before about how the sugar in whole foods (like fruits and vegetables) is necessary and healthy. The clarification that is…

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Study: Taking Too Many Vitamins Increases Cancer Risk

Millions of Americans take vitamins and supplements because they think it will make them healthier. But according to a large-scale study that…

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How Does Fat Affect Insulin Resistance and Diabetes?

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 29 million people in America have diabetes and 86 million have prediabetes. Insulin resistance is…

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