We’ve known for decades that bone fractures are more prevalent in populations consuming large amounts of dietary calcium than populations consuming lower amounts of dietary calcium. Populations consuming large amounts of dietary calcium also tend to consume large ... READ MORE...
Your Heartburn Is Trying To Tell You Something
December 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The latest news about acid inhibiting drugs and their adverse effects on vitamin B-12 absorption is just another example of an unintended consequence of treating symptoms with harsh drugs. These particular drugs are very popular because they are quite effective in ... READ MORE...
Barnard and Baur vs. Masterjohn and Salatin
December 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Since its inception in 2006, Intelligencesquaredus.org has provided a forum for intelligent discussion, grounded in facts and informed by reasoned analysis; to transcend the toxically emotional and the reflexively ideological; and to encourage recognition that the ... READ MORE...
Genes Load the Gun, but Lifestyle Pulls the Trigger
November 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Everyone has genetic predispositions for chronic diseases. However, as the title of this blog suggests, a genetic predisposition for a disease does not condemn a person to that disease. Nature decides what specific chronic diseases may afflict you, but nurture ... READ MORE...
Caffeine and Your Arteries
November 19, 2013 By 7 Comments
Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn’s heart disease reversal diet is a strict, low-fat WFPB diet that forbids: meat, fish, poultry, eggs, dairy, oil, nuts, seeds and avocado. During one of his lectures at Plant Stock 2013, Dr Esselstyn revealed that he has added caffeine to his ... READ MORE...
Dietary Acid Load and Type 2 Diabetes
November 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Dietary acid load and risk of type 2 diabetes: the E3N-EPIC cohort study The study was conducted by Guy Fagherazzi et al. and was published in Diabetologia on November 11, 2013. The objective of this study was to evaluate the prospective relationship between ... READ MORE...
You Have The Power To Take Back Your Health!
November 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
After Dr. Dean Ornish proved you could reverse our #1 cause of death, heart disease, open up arteries without drugs, without surgery, just with a plant-based diet and other healthy lifestyle changes, he thought that his studies would have a meaningful effect on the ... READ MORE...
Dr. Noakes knows running, but not Nutrition
November 5, 2013 By 1 Comment
Today I discovered that the well respected Professor of Sports Medicine and marathon runner Dr. Tim Noakes advocates a low carbohydrate diet. Noakes is most famous for his landmark book the Lore of Running. In the “Lore of Running” Noakes recommended a high ... READ MORE...
What is Nutrition?
October 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Many years ago I remember reading this simple, broad and clear definition of Nutrition: Nutrition – The relationship between agriculture and health. It was in some USDA nutrition education manual. I liked this definition for its simplicity, but I thought that ... READ MORE...
You must read the China Study!
October 29, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I assume that most people visiting this site have either read The China Study by T.Colin Campbell PhD and Dr. Tom Campbell or they’ve heard of the book, but haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. This post is meant for you procrastinators. Howard Jacobson PhD, ... READ MORE...
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