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Avoid the Negative Effects From Dairy by Choosing Plant Foods for Calcium
Calcium is a mineral found in the ground and is absorbed by the roots of plants. Contrary to what the dairy industry wants us to believe, whole plant foods contain sufficient amounts of calcium to support every stage of our life after infancy....
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McDougall Diet for Pregnancy and Children
Dr. John McDougall has very generously made his "Advanced Study Weekend" presentation on Pregnancy and Children available for public viewing on YouTube. The Weekend Study took place March of 2013 in Santa Rosa, California. This one hour presentation...
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Sugary Beverages Increase Hypertension Risk
Americans love sugar-sweetened beverages, and too many of them (Americans) consume far too much of them (sugary beverages). The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that approximately 30% of American adults drank sugar-sweetened...
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Win the War on Coffee Addiction
Coffee, Java, Espresso, Mocha, Frappuccino, Cafe Latte.... These names of coffee no doubt produce a pleasing aroma to many. Coffee's ability to enhance mood, physical activity, and mental performance makes it a widely consumed beverage. Many popular...
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Reduce Cancer Risk With Cruciferous Vegetables
of nutrients found in these vegetables are beneficial in the prevention of various chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disorders, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer. Now a new study has added to the (already larg...
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Human Genes Can Be Turned On and Off by Diet
disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's, cancer; it runs in your family, so you are doomed to get these diseases as well, right? That's what scientists once believed, but intriguing new evidence offers us hope. Dr. John McDougall explains that scientists are now...
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Obesity Associated with Fatty Liver Disease
Obesity is a serious condition and is associated with many illnesses such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes. In fact, obesity increases the risk of dying prematurely from all causes. It's estimated that 80% of Americans are overweight and the...
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Association between diet and cancer, ischemic, heart disease, and all-cause mortality in non-Hispanic white California Seventh-day Adventists.
Researchers found out that subjects on vegetarian diets had lower risk of developing arthritis, cancer, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, fatal and non-fatal IHD than the non-vegetarians. Fatal and non-fat IHD risk was found to increase with high intakes...
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Low consumption of fruit and vegetables and risk of chronic disease: a review of the epidemiological evidence and temporal trends among Spanish graduates.
of fruits and vegetables. However, no clear association was found between fruit and vegetable consumption and cancer and diabetes development and mortality risk in this study. The results of this study show that greater intake of fruits and vegetables...
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Mediterranean Diet - Healthy IN SPITE OF Olive Oil
oil also promotes weight gain, which creates the perfect environment for theonset of obesity related illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. More recent studies done on population groups living in the Mediterranean show that they have not...
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Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease
and fasting programs to relieve headache, hypoglycemia, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, colitis, psoriasis, lupus, and uterine fibroids. You'll also learn: - How to use fasting to lose weight - How to start,...
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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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Physical activity and the risk of heart failure: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies
Cultivating the habit of partaking in physical activity, such as walking and bicycling, regularly may confer an individual with significant protection against heart failure. This study attempted to unravel the physical activity-heart failure connection...
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Is Your Child's Diet Healthy?
(4) A Child Needs a Healthy Diet to Build a Healthy Brain (5) Junk Food Promotes Lower IQ Scores (6) Dairy Promotes Type-1 Diabetes (7) Tricks to Get Kids to Eat Healthier at Home (8) Children's Food Made Fun
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The Empty Medicine Cabinet
We are pleased to introduce to you Dustin Rudolph PharmD , also known as The Plant-Based Pharmacist. Rudolph fulfilled his childhood dream to become a clinical pharmacist believing that conventional medicine (pills and procedures) would help sick...
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Meat = Higher Obesity & Chronic Disease Rates
Everywhere we look, we are confronted with the outcomes of recent studies which tout the benefits of low-carb high-protein diets, saturated animal fats, coconut oil...and the list goes on. Because of this, we thought it would be helpful to start...
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Obesity/insulin resistance is associated with endothelial dysfunction
flow respectively in lean insulin sensitive (control group), obese insulin resistant (OB group), and non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) subjects. Researchers found out that the OB and NIDDM groups had 45 to 55% higher leg blood flow than...
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Sugary Beverages Boost Chronic Kidney Disease Risk
Many studies have been conducted on the role of diet in both the prevention and development of chronic kidney disease. Sugary beverages are one type of drink that has been comprehensively studied. So a question that could be going through your mind...
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The Empty Medicine Cabinet: The Pharmacist's Guide to the Hidden Danger of Drugs and the Healing Powers of Food
this book. First you will explore the modern day sick-care system discussing diseases that are common today such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and the ever increasing obesity epidemic. Then learn how to use the information gained to hopefully be...
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Vegetarian Diets and Chronic Kidney Disease.
kidney disease was attributed to components of plant foods that boost the body's defense against hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome—the main causes of chronic kidney disease in western populations. The authors recommended the addition...
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