For many decades, people seeking to lose weight have used calorie restricted diets that require tedious calorie counting and/or incessant portion control. This approach is successful close to 100% of the time for as long as someone can follow such a regimen. We’ve ... READ MORE...
Another Study Damning Vegetarian Diets
April 11, 2014 By Leave a Comment
A recent Study entitled “Nutrition and Health – The Association Between Eating Behavior and Various Health Parameters: A Matched Sample Study” is the latest evidence that shows that mainstream media outlets do not examine the studies they report. The study ... READ MORE...
Phytate in Whole Grains and Legumes
April 9, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Promoters of “Paleo” diets and other “low carb” diets, often use small slivers of truth from reductionist research to make global claims against the consumption of whole grains and legumes (beans, peas and lentils). One example of this practice is claiming that ... READ MORE...
The Primary Goal of Medical Research Must Change
March 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment
The Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) is a bold new venture between the NIH, ten biopharmaceutical companies and several non-profit organizations to transform the current model for developing new diagnostics and treatments by jointly identifying and validating ... READ MORE...
Reductionist Nutrition Research That Will Break Hearts
March 19, 2014 By Leave a Comment
The study published in The Annals of Internal Medicine entitled: Association of Dietary, Circulating and Supplement Fatty Acids With Coronary Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta Analysis’ suggests that the type and quantity of dietary fat may not be important factors in ... READ MORE...
Do Some WFPB Athletes Need To Supplement With Protein?
March 19, 2014 By Leave a Comment
When National Football League (NFL) future Hall of Fame tight end Tony Gonzalez first went plant based after reading T. Colin Campbell’s “The China Study”, he began eating lots of fruits, veggies and whole grains during his offseason. He lost weight, but liked that he ... READ MORE...
What About Supplements?
March 10, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Eating a sensible, balanced Whole Food Plant Based diet (WFPB) allows you to eat until you’re full and provides comfort in knowing that you’re consuming large amounts of health promoting nutrients. By getting your nourishment from whole and minimally processed plant ... READ MORE...
The Real Heart Healthy Diet
March 2, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. have clearly demonstrated that low-fat Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB) diets can prevent and treat coronary artery disease (CAD). Their diets are truly low in fat as approximately 10% of total calories are derived from fat. ... READ MORE...
Low HDL (“Good” Cholesterol) Levels Can Be Perfectly Fine.
February 26, 2014 By 1 Comment
I’ve had my blood lipid levels tested twice in the last two years – in June 2012 and June 2013. My total serum cholesterol levels were 99 mg/dl in 2012 and 119 mg/dl in 2013. My HDL (“good cholesterol”) levels were 29 mg/dl and 31 mg/dl respectively. Each time, the ... READ MORE...
The WFPB Revolution!
February 23, 2014 By Leave a Comment
WellPoint, Inc., one of the nation’s largest health benefits companies, and global well-being improvement leader Healthways, Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement whereby WellPoint’s affiliated health plan members will have access to the Dr. Dean Ornish Program ... READ MORE...
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