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Michael Greger MD

Ask the Doctor: Q&A with Michael Greger, M.D. (#18)

Michael Greger MD | February 9, 2012 | Health

Read More: algae, astaxanthin, BPA, canned vegetables, celery, chlorella, colon cancer, fish, fluoride, pesticides, phytonutrients, spirulina, supplements, vaccination, vitamin D, water

This is another sampling of the more than 800 comments and questions I’ve responded to on the site NutritionFacts.org (so far!). Please feel free to leave any follow-up questions here or on any of the hundreds of videos on the more than a thousand...

Walter Jacobson, M.D.

Secret To Happiness: Stop Thinking You're Thinking

Walter Jacobson, M.D. | February 8, 2012

Read More: how to be happy, positive psychology, secret, thoughts create reality

When we identify with our ego, the thoughts we are "thinking" aren't our real thoughts. They are born of the ego, born of fear. They are not really thoughts, they are delusions, they are distortions of reality. Our real thoughts...

John Davis

Gustav Schlickeysen - 1875 German vegan, raw-foodist, fruitarian

John Davis | February 8, 2012 | International

In 1875 Gustav Schlickeysen published a book called Obst und Brod - Eine Wissenschaftliche Diätetik – which was translated and re-published in New York, 1877, by M.L. Holbrook M.D. as: Fruit and Bread – a scientific diet. The front cover...

Chef AJ

Disappearing Lasagna

Chef AJ | February 6, 2012 | Food

Read More: Chef AJ, Unprocessed

We made this for our Super Bowl party and it really did disappear.  Even the carnivores loved it!!!...

J Morris Hicks

A tiny few eating a perfect diet? -- or truly changing the world?

J Morris Hicks | February 6, 2012 | International

Read More: changing the world with diet

  Dr. T. Colin Campbell -- author of The China Study and the world's leading authority on health promoting, plant-based nutrition. Keeping the "big picture" in mind Back in November, while meeting with Dr. Campbell in his home, he reiterated...

Janice Stanger, PhD

The Healthy Longevity Secret

Janice Stanger, PhD | February 5, 2012 | Health

Read More: aging, longevity, plant-based diet, whole foods

Six Ways Whole Foods Fuel Long and Active Years An enjoyable retirement is a great American dream. People save up financially for decades, often planning to spend retirement traveling, with family, and fulfilling long-postponed goals. The sad fact is...

Gail Davis

Book Review: Vegan Holiday Kitchen by Nava Atlas

Gail Davis | February 5, 2012 | Food, Green, Lifestyle

Read More: book review, cookbook, Gail Davis, Nava Atlas, Susan Voisin, Vegan Holiday Kitchen, vegan recipes

I have an addiction—an insatiable appetite and one true weakness. I admit it. I am obsessed with vegan recipe books. Maybe it's because when I first became vegan there were so few really great vegan cookbooks available. I was...

Sarah Taylor

Almost Vegan

Sarah Taylor | February 2, 2012 | Health

Read More: vegan

It feels like I’ve become a vegan therapist lately.  There have been a rash of people who have come to me with concerns that they are not 100% vegan … people who used to be 100% vegan but now slip...

Michael Greger MD

Atkins Diet and Erectile Dysfunction

Michael Greger MD | February 2, 2012 | Health

Read More: atherosclerosis, Atkins, carbs, cholesterol, eco-Atkins, erectile dysfunction, Harvard, heart attack, heart disease, low carb, stroke

Yesterday's NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day, Atkins Diet: Trouble Keeping It Up, discusses a case report of a man who went on a low carb diet, lost his ability to have an erection, and nearly lost his life. That was just one person, though....

John Davis

Medieval Mindsets - 'vegans' in the middle ages

John Davis | February 1, 2012 | International

There were people who didn’t eat meat in Medieval Europe, and in Asia, but mostly for very different reasons to what we associate with veganism today. In the western world the time after the fall of the Roman Empire -...

J Morris Hicks

Seeking "common ground" with Dr. David Agus

J Morris Hicks | January 31, 2012 | Health

Read More: david agus, statin drugs, the end of disease

  A more difficult task than I envisioned His new book, The End of Illness (Free Press, 1-17-12) is off to a good start, currently selling in Amazon's top fifty. I haven't read the book yet, but I did watch a 17-minute...

Dustin Rudolph PharmD

How To Feel Vitamin "D"errific!

Dustin Rudolph PharmD | January 31, 2012 | Health

Read More: supplements, vitamin D2, vitamin D3

Vitamin D, also known as the sunshine vitamin, has become nothing short of a celebrity over the past few years. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find any doctor, pharmacist, or other healthcare practitioner who hasn't heard of...

Jamie Nelson

My health, my future

Jamie Nelson | January 29, 2012 | Health, Lifestyle

Read More: cancer prevention, lifestyle medicine, marathon, rip esselsyn

I am a 59-year old single man. I work as a digital marketer in Northern California. I am changing my future. Two years ago, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had surgery. Since then, i've been not very active...

Michael Greger MD

Ask the Doctor: Q&A with Michael Greger, M.D. (#17)

Michael Greger MD | January 28, 2012 | Health

Read More: amla, antioxidants, apples, apricots, asthma, blood pressure, cancer, cavities, cholesterol, cinnamon, diabetes, food synergy, gum disease, hibiscus tea, indian gooseberries, iron, oxalates, pepper, plaque, polyphenols, prunes, raisins, salt, sodium, spice, sulphur dioxide, turmeric, vitamin C

This is another sampling of the more than 800 comments and questions I’ve responded to on NutritionFacts.org (so far!). Please feel free to leave any follow-up questions here or on any of the hundreds of videos on the more than a thousand topics covered on NutritionFacts.org....

Walter Jacobson, M.D.

Anger Management: Channeling Anger Into Effective Communication

Walter Jacobson, M.D. | January 25, 2012 | Lifestyle, Video

Read More: anger management, effective communication, repairing relationships

Anger is a signal device to inform that there is a perceived threat. In relationships, anger is used to emotionally beat up the other person. Best that anger be channeled into calm, effective communication of one's concerns so that problems...

Michael Greger MD

Acai to Zucchini: antioxidant food rankings

Michael Greger MD | January 25, 2012 | Health

Read More: aging, animal foods, animal products, antioxidants, apples, argon laser, berries, boiling, breakfast, cholesterol, cooking, Dragon's blood, fruits, goji berries, green tea, lutein, lycopene, microwaving, mitochondria, oxidation, pills, plant foods, produce, raw, selenium, steaming, stress, supplements, vegetables, vitamin D, vitamin E

Today's NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day Dragon's Blood wraps up a ten-part series based on a groundbreaking study that measured the total Antioxidant Content of 3,139 foods, beverages, herbs, and spices. Antioxidant Power of Plant Foods Versus Animal Foods presents the best bird’s eye view. Researchers...

John Davis

John Frank Newton - and the 'vegan' commune of 1813

John Davis | January 25, 2012 | International

John Frank Newton was a pivotal character in an extraordinary group of people who challenged almost every social convention of the rigid-minded early 19th century England. He was born about 1770 and was educated at Harrow, one of two leading...

J Morris Hicks

Where is Warren Buffett? In the 5% or the 95%?

J Morris Hicks | January 24, 2012 | Celebrities, Health

Read More: Warren Buffett diet, Warren Buffett TIME article

  Everyone knows that Warren Buffett is in the highest levels of the 1%; in fact, he is our wealthiest American---and the third wealthiest in the world. But what about the 5% and the 95%? I am talking about the...

Sarah Taylor

Some of the Best Advice I Can Give

Sarah Taylor | January 23, 2012 | Lifestyle

Read More: support, Vegan

Buying a home in Haiku has been one of the best things to ever happen to me.  Not for the home itself, nor the beautiful weather of Maui … but for the genuine, authentic, loving people that I now consider...

Michael Greger MD

Paula Deen: Diabetes drug spokesperson

Michael Greger MD | January 18, 2012 | Health

Read More: blindness, burgers, butter balls, diabetes, doughnuts, Dr. Neal Barnard, drugs, Graham Kerr, kidney failure, pancreatitis, Paula Deen, pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia cream cheese, plant-based diet, Smithfield ham, The Galloping Gourmet, thyroid cancer, United States, Yul Brynner

The year before he died of lung cancer, actor Yul Brynner taped a commercial for the American Cancer Society. "Now that I'm gone," he pleaded into the camera, "I tell you: Don't smoke, whatever you do, just don't smoke." He...

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