Whole foods plant based diet

"Repairing DNA Damage" Concord grapes, we just learned, may block breast cell DNA damage by blocking the binding of carcinogens to our DNA in the first place. Almonds and brussell...
"Antioxidant Rich Foods With Every Meal" The postprandial state is a pro-oxidant state, meaning that after each meal free radicals are produced as our body assimilates the food, and...
"How to Reach the Antioxidant RDA" To get up to our daily minimum of 8-11,000 antioxidant units a day, all we have to do is eat lots of fruits and vegetables, right? Well,...
"Human Neurotransmitters in Plants" A strange letter was recently published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatric and Clinical Neuroscience, suggesting fruit as a treatment for...
"Boosting Good Bacteria in the Colon Without Probiotics" Our friendly flora's digestion of fiber also yields another short chain fatty acid called butyrate, which may fight...
"Plant-Based Diets: Oral Health" Two studies were recently published on plant-based diets and oral health. What do you think they found? Well for periodontal disease, affecting the...
"Prevention Is Better Than Cured Meat" Nitrosamines are considered the most carcinogenic, the most cancer-causing agents in cigarette smoke. In 2011, scientists measured the amount...
"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...
"Achieving Remission of Crohn's Disease" We know plant-based diets decrease markers of inflammation, but to see if plant-based diets decrease inflammation in a clinically...
"Cavities and Coronaries: Our Choice" Many of today's lifestyle medicine doctors, myself included, were greatly influenced by Nathan Pritikin, the nutrition pioneer who...