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How Humans Benefit From Stressed Plants

Michael Greger MD | September 1, 2015 | Health

Read More: alternative medicine, antioxidants, aspirin, complementary medicine, DNA damage, evolution, fruit, grapes, hormones, lettuce, medications, nitric oxide, oxidative stress, penicillin, phytonutrients, protein, strawberries, stress, sunlight, vegetables, water, wound healing

Plants live the ultimate sedentary lifestyle--most of us usually think of plants more as objects than as organisms. Because plants can't move, they've had to evolve a whole other way to escape threats to their well-being. Plants can "sense......

Foods for Macular Degeneration

Michael Greger MD | January 1, 2015 | Health

Read More: aging, blindness, cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular health, chicken, cholesterol, eggs, eye disease, eye health, fat, glaucoma, goji berries, heart disease, heart health, LDL cholesterol, lettuce, lutein, macular degeneration, nuts, organic foods, oxidative stress, phytonutrients, poultry, seeds, spinach, vegetables, vision, zeaxanthin

Anyone who has gotten a bad sunburn knows how damaging the UV rays in sunlight can be. Imagine what those same rays are doing to back of our eyeballs (our retinas). The eye is designed to take sunlight and......

Add Beans, Berries, and Greens to More Meals

Michael Greger MD | December 11, 2014 | Health

Read More: antioxidants, apples, bananas, beans, beef, berries, beverages, blueberries, carrots, chicken, cucumbers, dates, dietary guidelines, fish, fruit, green tea, ham, herbal tea, hibiscus tea, kidney beans, lettuce, meat, oregano, oxidative stress, peaches, peas, pork, poultry, seafood, sleep, smoking, spices, standard American diet, tea, tobacco, turkey, vegetables, watermelon

After we eat, our bodies create free radicals in the process of breaking down our food. That's why we need to eat antioxidant-rich foods with every meal to counteract this oxidation caused by metabolism. We can't just have berries......

How to Get Enough Antioxidants Each Day

Michael Greger MD | December 4, 2014 | Health

Read More: antioxidants, apples, bananas, beans, beef, berries, beverages, blueberries, carrots, chicken, cucumbers, dates, dietary guidelines, fish, fruit, green tea, ham, herbal tea, hibiscus tea, kidney beans, lettuce, meat, oregano, oxidative stress, peaches, peas, pork, poultry, seafood, sleep, smoking, spices, standard American diet, tea, tobacco, turkey, vegetables, watermelon

We need to get a daily minimum of 8-11,000 antioxidant units a day in our food just to stay out of oxidative debt (see my video on The Reason We Need More Antioxidants). To reach that minimum, all we......

How Animal Proteins May Trigger Autoimmune Disease

Michael Greger MD | July 3, 2014 | Health

Read More: Alzheimer's disease, animal products, animal protein, arthritis, auto-immune diseases, avian leukosis/sarcoma, beef, blood, brain disease, brain health, brain parasites brain tumors, brains cancer, cancer, cancer survival, cancer viruses, chicken, coma, epilepsy, farm animals, fish, immune function, inflammation, lettuce, leukemia, lymphoma, meat, mortality, mushrooms, organ meats, pain, parasites, plant-based diets, polyradiculoneuropathy, porcine endogenous retroviruses, pork brains, poultry, poultry viruses, poultry workers, protein, reticuloendotheliosis virus, rheumatoid arthritis, seafood, seafood workers, seizures, sheep, veal brains, vegans, vegetables, vegetarians, virus, zoonotic diseases

Although slaughterhouse workers with the most poultry exposure appear to suffer the greatest excess mortality (see Poultry Exposure Tied to Liver and Pancreatic Cancer), increased risk of death from cancer is also found in other slaughterplant workers. This research......

How Citrus Might Help Keep Your Hands Warm

Michael Greger MD | May 1, 2014 | Health

Read More: cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular health, citrus, cold hands, flavonoids, fruit, fruit juice, grapefruit, heart disease, heart health, hesperidin, juice, lemons, lettuce, limes, orange juice, oranges, phytonutrients, plant-based diets, quercitin, stroke, vitamin C

In 1936, Albert Szent-Györgyi, who won the Nobel Prize for discovering vitamin C, described a vitamin “P,” which we now know encompasses a class of thousands of phytonutrients called flavonoids. Some, like......

Can antioxidant-rich spices counteract the effects of a high-fat meal?

Michael Greger MD | August 23, 2011 | Health

Read More: antioxidants, chicken, cinnamon, cloves, Coca Cola, eggs, ginger, greens, lettuce, oregano, Penn State, plant-based diet, spices, triglycerides

In this month's Journal of Nutrition, researchers at Penn State report on their experiment in which overweight men were fed a high-fat (chicken) meal with or without a healthy dose of herbs and spices such as cinnamon, cloves, ginger,......

Shitake Tofu Lettus Wraps

Ellen Sheen | June 3, 2011 | Food

SALAD DAYS (AND A TINY, MYSTERIOUS PURPLE FROG)!

Bryanna Clark Grogan | August 29, 2010 | Food, Lifestyle

Read More: basil, corn, lettuce, mesclun, mushroom, purple frog, recipe, salad, salad dressing, tofu, tomatoes, vegan mayonnaise

Our dinner salad last night-- heavy on the home-grown tomatoes!Friday evening I came home from work (my "day job"-- managing a small branch of our island library system) and checked our little garden for anything that needed picking. Tomato bonanza!......

A GARDEN FOR NON-GARDENERS, IN THE GROUND AND ON THE DECK; AND THE REWARDS

Bryanna Clark Grogan | July 22, 2010 | Food, Green, Lifestyle

Read More: arugula, basil, butter lettuce, chard, deck garden, gardening, gardens, Italian parsley, lettuce, pattypan squash, spinach, tomatoes

The pattypan squash are blooming-- can't wait for the little beauties!DH does most of the gardening-- 99% of it-- around here, but neither of us is really into gardening. But you can't live in the country and not grow something in the......

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