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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Brain Food: New Study Shows Healthy Diet Can Protect Against Memory Loss
It might seem like common sense to most of us, but a new report confirms that our eating habits affect the health…