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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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In the Best Shape of My Life After Losing 67 Pounds on a Plant-Based Diet
I was never a fat kid, but I was big, bordering on chubby. I was active. I played sports, I rode my…
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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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For 26 Years, I’ve Managed Type 1 Diabetes With a Plant-Based Diet
Until age 35, my health was very typical for an American. Then in November of 1988, all that changed: my immune system…
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Carbs Are Not the Enemy: 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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Students at First Vegetarian School Find Better Health and Academic Success
PS244Q, a public school in Flushing, Queens (New York), was the first public non-charter school in America to offer students an all-vegetarian…
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New Study: Typical American Diet and Dairy Products Raise Prostate Cancer Death Risk
A new study found that prostate cancer patients who ate a Western diet were 2.5 times more likely to die from the…
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How I Lost 140 Pounds, Cured My Type 2 Diabetes, and Saved Thousands in Medications
In 2010, my doctor suggested that I purchase a funeral plot, because I would most likely need one within five years unless…