"The Benefits of Caloric Restriction Without the Actual Restricting" Why can’t we live forever? Some animals do. And I’m not talking about some 200 year old whale or even a thousand...
"Is Vitamin D the New Vitamin E?" It’s understandable that the Institute of Medicine chose to act conservatively when bumping up their vitamin D recommendation. An editorial in the...
"New Mineral Absorption Enhancers Found" According to the swine information center, pork is an excellent source of a number of nutrients, including iron and zinc. When you see on a...
"Optimal Phytosterol Source" Though nuts and seeds are packed with phytosterols, phytosterols are typically prescribed in butter form. I kid you not. Or in margarine—even worse. For...
"Good Grub: The Healthiest Meat" Thanks to the Chinese space program, scientists in Beijing recently published a formal nutritional analysis of what may be the healthiest animal to...
"Don't Use Antiseptic Mouthwash" How do they know that it's the nitrate that's responsible for the beet-related boost in athletic performance? Beets have all...
"Soy Worth a Hill of Beans?" For over a decade, soy foods have enjoyed the rare privilege of an FDA-approved food label health claim about soy's ability to protect against...
"Cavities and Coronaries: Our Choice" Many of today's lifestyle medicine doctors, myself included, were greatly influenced by Nathan Pritikin, the nutrition pioneer who...
Hi, I'm Dr. Steve. Are you on one of the many diets that are low in carbohydrates? If you are, or you know somebody who is, then I'm going to tell you how to do it in a much healthier...
"One in a Thousand: Ending the Heart Disease Epidemic" This is a list of diseases, commonly found here, (and in populations that eat and live like the US) but were rare or even...