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Do You Know Which Foods are Healthiest?
When it comes to nutrition, one of the most interesting phenomenon to me is the number of people with lifestyle-based health issues who believe that they eat a "pretty healthy diet." But I totally understand this. I truly believed I ate a "pretty...
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Should a Vegan Diet be Considered Child Neglect?
Occasionally, it happens. Loving parents who've read the research on the advantages of a plant-based diet are accused of neglecting their children by refusing to give them animal products. Currently in Italy, there is proposed legislation that would...
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Diet, vegetarianism, and cataract risk.
Vegetarians are less likely to develop cataracts than frequent consumers of meat and fish. This study evaluated the role of diet in the prevention of cataracts. Researchers analyzed the diets and cataract odds ratio of 27,670 non-diabetic subjects who...
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Salt-preserved foods and risk of gastric cancer.
was also determined. Researchers discovered that generous intake of salt and salt-preserved foods, such as salted mushrooms, fish, and meat, increased gastric cancer development risk. The findings of this study show that consistent consumption of salty...
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Sacrifice?!
Almost always, when describing a low-fat Whole Foods Plant Based Starch-Smart lifestyle with most people, their response is something like, “Oh, I could never give up my [some sort of meat], and cheese, [etc.]”. The unfortunate truth is that they...
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Curb Obesity and Heart Disease Risk With BROAD Measures
Elevated plasma cholesterol levels are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. Likewise, lifestyle and dietary choices, such as adopting a Whole-food plant-based diet (WFPB) diet has been shown to effectively reduce elevated...
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Eat Fruits and Vegetables to Cut Colorectal Cancer Risk
Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death in the world, with 1.4 million new cases diagnosed in 2012. Experts at the Continuous Update Project of the World Cancer Research Fund have predicted that the number of new cases will rise to...
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Preserved foods in relation to risk of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Shanghai, China.
of each participant in this study. The team of investigators discovered that subjects with high dietary ingestion of salted fish (one serving per week) and protein-containing preserved foods had 80% and 78% higher risk of developing nasopharyngeal...
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3 Foods that Fight High Cholesterol
of people. No thanks to the Western diet which encourages the consumption of animal products. Red meat, poultry, eggs, fish, and dairy foods are the main dietary sources of cholesterol. In addition to containing an abundant amount of cholesterol, these...
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Dietary Cholesterol Raises Breast Cancer Risk
Breast cancer is a major public health challenge worldwide; it is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among Caucasian American women, but the leading cause of cancer deaths for Latinas. Some of the well-established risk factors of breast cancer...
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Forks Over Knives Presents The Engine 2 Kitchen Rescue with Rip Esselstyn
based on a diet of whole-foods plant-based nutrition. His program avoids the use of all animal products, including chicken, fish, dairy products, meats and also processed foods. To learn more about the eating philosophy espoused in this video you can...
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Associations between red meat intake and biomarkers of inflammation and glucose metabolism in women.
ferritin— were significantly reduced. In addition, substituting red meat with other protein sources, such as poultry, fish, legumes, and nuts, lowered plasma CRP, Hb A1c, ferritin, and fasting insulin levels. The result of this study supports the view...
https://www.drcarney.com/science/lifestyle-choices/animal-products/flesh/red-meat/associations-between-red-meat-intake-and-biomarkers-of-inflammation-and-glucose-metabolism-in-women -
Fried foods: a risk factor for laryngeal cancer?
regular consumers of fried foods. Data from this study indicate that larger intake of fried foods, including fried meat, fish, eggs, and potatoes, may play a role in stimulating the development of cancerous cells and tumors in the larynx.
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Arsenic in Rice - Should We be Concerned?
Hardly a week goes by without some type of warning or health scare regarding what "is or isn't" in our food. Reports regarding arsenic in rice the past few years have raised concerns in health-conscious individuals and have given low-carb followers yet...
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Male Fertility and Diet
Ten to fifteen percent of couples desiring to start a family discover that they are infertile. In about half of these cases, the husband is found to be the one infertile. Increasing the intake of saturated fat by just 5 percent was observed with a 38...
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Association of fried food consumption with all cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality: prospective cohort study
were recorded among the participants. Researchers found a high death rate among consumers of fried foods, including fried fish, shellfish, and chicken. This study supports the notion that indulgence in fried foods may heighten a woman's chances of...
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Dietary intake of fruits and beta-carotene is negatively associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis risk in Koreans: a case-control study
from dietary sources brightened an individual's chances of evading a diagnosis of ALS. On the other hand, habitual intake of fish, beef, and fast foods was found to increase the risk of developing ALS. This study supports the hypothesis that individuals...
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Food Sources of Perfluorochemicals
Dr. Michael Greger explores how many pollutants can creep up the food chain. A similar array of foods is contaminated with other industrial pollutants. The video is somewhat shocking. Especially when we think about feeding our children. For More...
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Women's Health Concerns
Heart disease , osteoporosis , autoimmune diseases , obesity , and breast cancer are some of the common conditions that affect the lives of women. However, in his Women's Health article, Dr. Joel Fuhrman states that, "These conditions are largely...
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Meat Hormones Linked to Infertility
In the previous video , Dr. Greger warned that under-cooked meat poses a serious risk to the unborn baby. Toxoplasma parasites, which were found in one out of every six packages of raw lamb meat, can affect the brains of humans and unborn babies,...
https://www.drcarney.com/blog/health-issues/meat-hormones-linked-to-infertility
