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How to Eat a Balanced WFPB Diet
What is a balanced diet? A diet that supplies the proper proportions of all the nutrients necessary for health is considered a balanced diet. But despite our best efforts to eat healthfully, many of us worry that maybe we're not getting enough of...
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Healthy Diets Start in the Womb
This is a very interesting article written by Kristin Wartman from The New York Times. She explores several reasons why it's important for parents to feed their children healthy food right from the start....even while in the womb. Children quickly...
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ALS Challenge Using Fruit-Veggies
Many of you have seen and participated in the recent " ALS Ice Bucket Challenge ." ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is a disease of the "nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement. ALS is also known as Lou...
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Milk Increases Bone Fracture and Osteoporosis Risk
The dairy industry and government agencies have led us to believe that regular consumption of milk and milk products is essential for building strong bones in children and the prevention of osteoporosis in older adults. Of course, everyone wants...
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High Fiber Diets Ward off Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Inflammatory Bowel Disease is the term used to describe both Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis are disorders of the gastrointestinal tract that cause prolonged inflammation of the gut. The gut is comprised of...
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Part IV: Do Plant-Based Diets Need Supplementing?
It's amazing how much the media and popular culture affect our health concerns . Oil in our diet is one example. For decades no one gave a thought to their fat intake. That changed in the sixties when the American Heart Association came out with...
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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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Stopping a Cold Before it Starts
An optimal diet is excellent for treating and preventing many conditions like type 2 diabetes , cardiovascular disease , hypertension , arthritis , diverticulitis , and obesity . But will diet alone keep us from getting sick during cold and flu season?...
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Fiber's Role in Preventing Breast Cancer
What is Fiber and What is its Purpose Besides "Keeping us Regular?" The word "fiber" may bring many thoughts to our minds. Helping us "stay regular" would be the most prominent thought for most of us. This is certainly true; however, fiber plays a much...
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Flush Away Constipation with Fiber!
Once the diaper stage is over, no one really talks to us about our bowel habits. And if we have questions, who is there to ask? That's where I can help out. In my medical practice, I see patients all the time who are constipated . Quite a few of them...
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What are the advantages for children eating a Starch-Smart® diet?
foods can provide long-term future health benefits for our children, as well as possibly increasing their IQ's. Fruits, vegetables, grains, beans,... Similar Products
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Effect of a 21-day Daniel Fast on metabolic and cardiovascular disease risk factors in men and women.
factors in men and women. The Daniel Fast is a bible inspired partial fast in which an individual can consume only water, vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, and whole grains during the fasting period. 43 subjects (30 women and 13 men) participated in a...
https://www.drcarney.com/science/lifestyle-choices/fasting/daniel-fast/effect-of-a-21-day-daniel-fast-on-metabolic-and-cardiovascular-disease-risk-factors-in-men-and-women -
Prostate Cancer Linked to Western Diet
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in US men. 1 out of every 7 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in their lifetime, and 1 in 39 American men will die from prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the third...
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HEALING LEAKY GUT
I read about healing leaky gut, I see advice to cut out starch vegetables like potatoes and sweet potatoes. So much goes against being a vegan or a starch-based one. Can you point me to some articles that can help me understand this? Thank you.
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Do our Food Choices Influence Hot Flashes?
Hot flashes are a classic symptom of menopause here in the United States. Understandably, many women have concerns regarding hormone replacement therapy (HRT) due to the increased risk of blood clots, strokes, heart disease, dementia, high blood...
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Medically supervised water-only fasting in the treatment of hypertension.
in a clinic for 18-21 days. This treatment program comprised three stages: 2-3 day pre-fasting period (only fruits and vegetables were consumed by patients during this stage), 10-11 day water-only fasting period, and 6-7 day re-feeding period (the...
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Plant-based diet associated with less heart failure risk
was associated with individuals with high intake of plant-based foods, such as beans, whole grains, and dark green leafy vegetables. According to this study, regular consumers of plant foods had a 42% reduction in the risk of developing heart failure...
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Avoid Heart Failure With Whole Plant Foods
An estimated 5.7 million adults in the United States are currently battling with heart failure. For a person to be technically diagnosed with heart failure , it means his heart cannot pump enough blood to support other organs in the body, resulting in...
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Medically supervised water-only fasting in the treatment of borderline hypertension.
21-22 days. This therapy included 1-2 day pre-fasting phase during which patients were allowed to consume only fruits and vegetables, a13.6 day water-only fasting phase, and a 6-day re-feeding phase during which subjects were placed on plant-based,...
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Nutrient dietary patterns and gastric cancer risk in Italy.
the odds of developing gastric cancers. No significant relationship between the consumption of unsaturated fats from vegetables and gastric cancer risk was found in this study. The findings of this study show that increased intake of diets high in...
https://www.drcarney.com/science/disease-conditions/cancer/stomach-cancer/nutrient-dietary-patterns-and-gastric-cancer-risk-in-italy
