Do Antidepressant Drugs Really Work?
A recent meta-analysis caused huge waves when it concluded that the effectiveness of antidepressants could be explained by the placebo effect. In…
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Do Different Bodies Really Need Radically Different Types of Diets?
The concepts of personalized medicine and personalized nutrition have really taken off. People are eating according to their blood type, their metabolic…
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Why Switching from Beef to Chicken or Fish May Not Lower Your Cholesterol
It’s common for people to give up red meat in an attempt to get healthier and lower their cholesterol levels. But does…
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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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How One Piglet Changed My Life
Growing up on a farm in a small Ohio town, I shared my childhood with animals of all kinds. I was enchanted…
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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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How to Prevent a Stroke
The belief that a high-fiber diet is inversely associated with some diseases has been around since the 1970s, and is supported by…
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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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Can We Eat to Starve Cancer? Antiangiogenesis Foods 101
In this TED talk, Dr. William Li, President of the Angiogenesis Foundation, discusses a new way to think about treating cancer and…
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