NutritionFacts
Dr. Michael Greger has a website called NutritionFacts which I frequently reference when I send out information about diet and nutrition. Usually his excerpts are a few minutes long but today's was over an hour and was a summary of many things he's come across in the past year.
Gargling with tap water greatly reduces the incidence of colds and flus. (Antiseptic mouthwashes are not recommended since they kill important mouth bacteria which help digest important nutrients. Another corollary is that vigorous rinsing water in the mouth after eating is a very effective way of removing debris which leads to gum disease and caries.)
As simple an intervention as a glass of water before school improves student performance significantly. Presumably many children go to school dehydrated.
A few minutes of vigorous exercise have dramatic effects on the symptoms of ADHD and also cause a dramatic rise in measurable immune function.
Regular eating of nutritional yeast and/or mushrooms results in a more than 50% rise in antibody activity, a strong, accurate marker of immune function.
Greger reminds us that drugs for multiple sclerosis are very expensive, are largely ineffective, and have many serious complications. In contrast, treatment of early-stage multiple sclerosis with a low-fat vegan or near vegan diet allowed no progression of disease in 95% of thousands of patients over a 34-year follow-up. No drug results are remotely comparable but there's no money in recommending diet and the big drug companies make a fortune with MS drugs that have little or no value.
Essential tremor is a Parkinson's like disease which starts to affect many people in their 40s with 20% or more of all Americans past the age of 80 showing signs of this condition. While it is not a disease associated with premature death and severe disability like Parkinson's, essential tremor does lead to discomfort and mild to moderate disability. This condition has been shown due to a substance which is found almost exclusively in meat and fish. Correlation of this condition with heavy meat and/or fish eaters is stronger than the correlation found between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
Greger quotes the head of Harvard Medical School epidemiology that a vegan diet is "extreme" but it is what science shows is the best for health.
The USDA was founded and is still run to support the American business of agriculture. Somehow, they have also gotten the role of telling the American public what correct diet is. A recent USDA letter to the egg industry board told them that they could no longer indicate that eggs were safe, healthy, or nutritious in their advertising since all of these have been scientifically proven to be incorrect. This from the department in charge of supporting US agriculture business!
Recent studies with fibromyalgia have shown by far the best results are from a whole food plant based diet.
HPV is the source of most cervical and many oral cancers. Vegetarians, and especially vegans, have much lower rates of significant HPV infection. Diet somehow overcomes the persistent organisms and helps them to be eradicated. Also vegan women have been shown to have much lower rates of all female cancers including breast and ovary.
29% of American women have bacterial vaginitis which is typically identified by doctors through the sniff test (a fishy odor from the vagina.) A vegan or near vegan diet eliminates this condition.
The United States is again number one in the world. This time it's in erectile dysfunction which has the same cause as coronary artery disease and now is generally recognized as an excellent marker for significant heart disease. 40% of American men over the age of 40 have erectile dysfunction. Again a diet of whole food vegetable products greatly reduces the incidence of this problem.
A study was done looking at weight loss in various diets. It turns out that all calories are not created equal. People who ate a vegan diet but consumed the same number of calories as those eating an omnivorous diet lost significantly more weight.
A high percentage of Americans are constipated. A recent study showed that prunes were a significantly better treatment for this than Metamucil. Needless to say vegans have virtually no constipation.
Cancer tumor growth requires the formation of new blood vessels which are supported by a hormone secreted by the cancers. Plants, vegetables and fruits, suppress the formation of this hormone.
Almost all cancers need methionine to grow. High methionine foods are chicken and fish. Moderate amounts are found in red meat and dairy. Methionine levels are low in fruits and vegetables.
Consumption of poultry and eggs is the worst for cancer development and progression. The so-called "healthy choice" is not so healthy!
Consumption of legumes were shown to be a strong predictor of longevity.
Consumption of one serving a day of cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, kale, collards, bok choy, arugula etc. leads to one half the chance of recurrence in breast and several other cancers.
A group of patients with estrogen negative breast cancer was evaluated. Estrogen negative breast cancer is in general worse because it does not respond to any sort of hormonal intervention. The group of these patients who had five helpings of fruits and veggies a day and a 30 minute or longer walk six days a week reduced their chance of death in the next five years from 16% to 4%. There is no anticancer intervention or drug that comes close to these results.
Berries have been shown to reverse the progression of precancerous changes in the mouth and the esophagus. In the esophagus 52% were totally cleared and 80% were significantly improved.
Dairy, eggs and meat are almost uniformly contaminated with bacteria, often pathogenic bacteria. A federal district court ruled that this was acceptable since virtually all meat and dairy products were contaminated and everybody was used to eating them.
Many bladder infections come from contaminants from animal products, the worst of which is chicken. It turns out you don't have to even eat the chicken, just bring it into the house and prepare it. So if you are eating food from a kitchen which uses chicken you have a significant chance of exposure to many of the organisms which cause bladder infections.
Dr. Michael Greger has a website called NutritionFacts which I frequently reference when I send out information about diet and nutrition. Usually his excerpts are a few minutes long but today's was over an hour and was a summary of many things he's come across in the past year.
Gargling with tap water greatly reduces the incidence of colds and flus. (Antiseptic mouthwashes are not recommended since they kill important mouth bacteria which help digest important nutrients. Another corollary is that vigorous rinsing water in the mouth after eating is a very effective way of removing debris which leads to gum disease and caries.)
As simple an intervention as a glass of water before school improves student performance significantly. Presumably many children go to school dehydrated.
A few minutes of vigorous exercise have dramatic effects on the symptoms of ADHD and also cause a dramatic rise in measurable immune function.
Regular eating of nutritional yeast and/or mushrooms results in a more than 50% rise in antibody activity, a strong, accurate marker of immune function.
Greger reminds us that drugs for multiple sclerosis are very expensive, are largely ineffective, and have many serious complications. In contrast, treatment of early-stage multiple sclerosis with a low-fat vegan or near vegan diet allowed no progression of disease in 95% of thousands of patients over a 34-year follow-up. No drug results are remotely comparable but there's no money in recommending diet and the big drug companies make a fortune with MS drugs that have little or no value.
Essential tremor is a Parkinson's like disease which starts to affect many people in their 40s with 20% or more of all Americans past the age of 80 showing signs of this condition. While it is not a disease associated with premature death and severe disability like Parkinson's, essential tremor does lead to discomfort and mild to moderate disability. This condition has been shown due to a substance which is found almost exclusively in meat and fish. Correlation of this condition with heavy meat and/or fish eaters is stronger than the correlation found between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
Greger quotes the head of Harvard Medical School epidemiology that a vegan diet is "extreme" but it is what science shows is the best for health.
The USDA was founded and is still run to support the American business of agriculture. Somehow, they have also gotten the role of telling the American public what correct diet is. A recent USDA letter to the egg industry board told them that they could no longer indicate that eggs were safe, healthy, or nutritious in their advertising since all of these have been scientifically proven to be incorrect. This from the department in charge of supporting US agriculture business!
Recent studies with fibromyalgia have shown by far the best results are from a whole food plant based diet.
HPV is the source of most cervical and many oral cancers. Vegetarians, and especially vegans, have much lower rates of significant HPV infection. Diet somehow overcomes the persistent organisms and helps them to be eradicated. Also vegan women have been shown to have much lower rates of all female cancers including breast and ovary.
29% of American women have bacterial vaginitis which is typically identified by doctors through the sniff test (a fishy odor from the vagina.) A vegan or near vegan diet eliminates this condition.
The United States is again number one in the world. This time it's in erectile dysfunction which has the same cause as coronary artery disease and now is generally recognized as an excellent marker for significant heart disease. 40% of American men over the age of 40 have erectile dysfunction. Again a diet of whole food vegetable products greatly reduces the incidence of this problem.
A study was done looking at weight loss in various diets. It turns out that all calories are not created equal. People who ate a vegan diet but consumed the same number of calories as those eating an omnivorous diet lost significantly more weight.
A high percentage of Americans are constipated. A recent study showed that prunes were a significantly better treatment for this than Metamucil. Needless to say vegans have virtually no constipation.
Cancer tumor growth requires the formation of new blood vessels which are supported by a hormone secreted by the cancers. Plants, vegetables and fruits, suppress the formation of this hormone.
Almost all cancers need methionine to grow. High methionine foods are chicken and fish. Moderate amounts are found in red meat and dairy. Methionine levels are low in fruits and vegetables.
Consumption of poultry and eggs is the worst for cancer development and progression. The so-called "healthy choice" is not so healthy!
Consumption of legumes were shown to be a strong predictor of longevity.
Consumption of one serving a day of cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, kale, collards, bok choy, arugula etc. leads to one half the chance of recurrence in breast and several other cancers.
A group of patients with estrogen negative breast cancer was evaluated. Estrogen negative breast cancer is in general worse because it does not respond to any sort of hormonal intervention. The group of these patients who had five helpings of fruits and veggies a day and a 30 minute or longer walk six days a week reduced their chance of death in the next five years from 16% to 4%. There is no anticancer intervention or drug that comes close to these results.
Berries have been shown to reverse the progression of precancerous changes in the mouth and the esophagus. In the esophagus 52% were totally cleared and 80% were significantly improved.
Dairy, eggs and meat are almost uniformly contaminated with bacteria, often pathogenic bacteria. A federal district court ruled that this was acceptable since virtually all meat and dairy products were contaminated and everybody was used to eating them.
Many bladder infections come from contaminants from animal products, the worst of which is chicken. It turns out you don't have to even eat the chicken, just bring it into the house and prepare it. So if you are eating food from a kitchen which uses chicken you have a significant chance of exposure to many of the organisms which cause bladder infections.
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