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Processed and Unprocessed Red Meat Consumption and Risk for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: An Updated Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies
Habitual intake of processed and unprocessed red meat may induce the development of type 2 diabetes. This meta-analysis evaluated data from previously published studies that examined the connection between meat consumption and type 2 diabetes mellitus...
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Whole-Grain Intake and Pancreatic Cancer Risk-The Danish, Diet, Cancer and Health Cohort
The odds of evading a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer may favor middle-aged men on high whole grain diet. This study assessed the risk of pancreatic cancer associated with the consumption of whole grains. Researchers surveyed more than 50,000 Danish...
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Association between Fruit and Vegetable Intakes and Mental Health in the Australian Diabetes Obesity and Lifestyle Cohort
High dietary ingestion of fruits and vegetables may have a positive effect on the mental health of men and women. This study explored the impact of regular intake of fruits and vegetables on mental health. With the aid of validated food frequency...
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Association of habitual intake of fruits and vegetables with depressive symptoms: the AusDiab study
Following a diet rich in fruits and vegetables may brighten our chances of avoiding depression. This study assessed the impact of eating different types of fruits and vegetables on the risk of depression. Researchers matched dietary patterns with the...
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Dietary Flavonoids Lower Alzheimer’s Risk
Alzheimer's dementia is a major threat to the health of aging Americans. About 1 in 10 people, age 65 years and above, will develop Alzheimer's disease. Currently, an estimated 5.8 million Americans have Alzheimer's type memory loss, and this number is...
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Soy Foods Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk
In 2017, a study that evaluated the relationship between soy food consumption and cardiovascular disease risk revealed that individuals can fend off cardiovascular disease by consuming generous portions of soy foods regularly. The study analyzed...
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The Real Truth About Weight Loss Online Summit
I am happy to announce my participation in The Real Truth About Weight Loss online summit which will be available for free online viewing from March 16th to March 24th, 2019. Registration begins on March 1, 2019. Please join me and 32 other of the...
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Planning for Retirement?
How we spend the last years of our lives depends largely on what choices we make before we reach middle age, especially during the first 10 years of our childhood while our cells are multiplying rapidly. Recent studies show that dietary and lifestyle...
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How a Plant-Based Diet Improves Fertility
We have heard many success stories about infertile couples who have been able to conceive a child after switching to a whole-food, nutrient-dense, plant-based diet. According to this article by Dr. Joel Fuhrman, "Approximately 7.3 million women in the...
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How Stomach Receptors Help us Lose Weight
The food industry has become very successful at developing irresistible, highly-palatable foods that seduce our taste buds. Because today's food has had its components taken apart, scientifically re-formulated, and put back together (with the addition...
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Losing Weight With Chef AJ is Fun and Delicious!
Have you tried counting calories and carbs to lose weight...but have failed...only to gain back the weight you lost...plus more? Because calorie-restricted diets still allow high-fat, calorie-dense and highly-palatable meals containing animal products,...
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Using Diet to Prevent and Treat Breast Cancer
In 1982, Dr. John McDougall published the very first study accepted in a scientific journal regarding diet and the treatment of breast cancer. He believes that the rich Western diet causes breast cancer, and a change in diet makes a huge difference in...
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From Health Scare to Health Care
My journey to health began in the wee hours of the morning in early 2014 when I awoke to an unsettling, fluttering sensation in my chest. Lying in bed, I put my fingers to the side of my neck to check a pulse. I glanced at the bedside clock and timed...
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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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Sugared Beverages Increase Metabolic Syndrome Risk
More than 75 billion dollars worth of soda is purchased yearly. Sugar-sweetened drinks not only drain the pockets of millions of Americans, but these beverages are a drain on the health of the nation as well. Heavy consumption of sugary beverages, such...
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3 Health Benefits of Plant-Based Diets
Many health benefits are associated with eating whole food, plant-based, oil free diets. According to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics , " appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may...
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Vegetarian Diets Clean-Up Cholesterol Numbers
Higher levels of cholesterol in the blood correlate strongly with higher chances of suffering from a heart attack, stroke, or other complications from coronary heart disease . Physicians often prescribe statins, a class of drugs used to lower blood...
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High-Fiber Diets Reduce Type 2 Diabetes
Diabetes is a growing global public health epidemic. The number of people suffering from diabetes has risen from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014 worldwide. Sadly, this figure is expected to rise to about 642 million by 2040 . Type 2 diabetes...
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From Survive to Thrive: Patty's Cancer Journey
I followed Dr. Carney's blogs online for a long time before making my first appointment. Three years earlier I had become plant based due to a breast cancer diagnosis. That was an adjustment. I finally started to get into a groove with support groups...
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Alternative Medicine: Part 3
This blog post is Part 3. For a better understanding, please pre-read parts 1 and 2. Webster's definition of Alternative Medicine: any of various systems of healing or treating disease that is not included in the traditional medical curricula of the...
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