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How to Lower Blood Pressure Naturally with Lifestyle Changes

The effect of fasting to lower blood pressure compared to medications, cutting down on alcohol, meat and salt, eating more fruits and vegetables, or eating completely plant-based.



What the New Blood Pressure Range Guidelines Mean

Natural approaches to lowering high blood pressure can work better than drugs because you’re treating the underlying cause, and can end up having only good side effects.



Is Vegan Food Always Healthy?

Healthier plant-based diets compared to unhealthy plant foods and animal foods on diabetes risk.



Long-Term Effects of Toxoplasmosis Brain Infection

The effect of toxoplasma brain parasites can cause personality alterations.



Dairy and Cancer

How do we explain the increased risk of prostate cancer but the decreased risk of colon cancer associated with dairy consumption?



The Best Advice on Diet and Cancer

What does the best available balance of evidence say right now about what to eat and what to avoid to reduce your risk of cancer?



How to Treat Jet Lag with Melatonin-Rich Food

There may be a way to get the benefits of over-the-counter melatonin supplements without the risk.



How to Lower Heavy Metal Levels with Diet

What dietary change can simultaneously help detoxify mercury, lead, and cadmium from the body?



Marijuana Legalization and the Opioid Epidemic

What happened in states after medical marijuana laws were passed? Did opioid overdoses go up, stay the same, or go down?



Will Cannabis Turn Into Big Tobacco?

There are some serious public health concerns about the legalization of marijuana, but they’re probably not what you might expect.



Should Women with Fibroids Avoid Soy?

When it comes to uterine fibroids, is soy harmful, harmless, or helpful?



Do Any Benefits of Alcohol Outweigh the Risks?

What would happen if you effectively randomized people at birth to drink more or less alcohol their whole lives? Would they get more or less heart disease?



Is It Better to Drink a Little Alcohol Than None at All?

Even if alcohol causes cancer and there is no “French paradox,” what about the famous J-shaped curve, where excessive drinking is bad, but light drinkers appear to have lower mortality than abstainers?



The Best Source of Resveratrol

Is there any benefit to resveratrol? If so, should we get it from wine, grapes, peanuts, or supplements?



Can Alcohol Cause Cancer?

If even light drinking can cause cancer, why don’t doctors warn their patients about it?



Does Laptop Wi-Fi Lower Sperm Counts?

Should laptops not be on laps? What is the effect of WiFi exposure on sperm motility and DNA damage?



Does Marijuana Cause Health Problems?

Every year, cannabis is estimated to result in two million years of healthy life lost due to disability. How much is that compared to alcohol and tobacco?



Dietary Cure for Hidradenitis Suppurativa

What is the role of dairy- and yeast-exclusion diets on arresting and reversing an inflammatory autoimmune disease?



Where Does the Arsenic in Rice, Mushrooms, & Wine Come From?

What happens when our crops are grown in soil contaminated with arsenic-based pesticides and arsenic drug-laced chicken manure?



What Is the Ideal White Blood Cell Count?

Since white blood cell count is such a strong predictor of lifespan, what should we aim for and how do we get it there?



The Food Industry Wants the Public Confused About Nutrition

The Fairness Doctrine example shows the extent to which purveyors of unhealthy products will go to keep the truth from the American public.



Is It Better to Advise More Plants or Less Junk?

It may be more expedient politically to promote an increase in consumption of healthy items rather than a decrease in consumption of unhealthy items, but it may be far less effective.



The Effects of Avocados and Red Wine on Meal-Induced Inflammation

Whole plant sources of sugar and fat can ameliorate some of the postprandial (after-meal) inflammation caused by the consumption of refined carbohydrates and meat.



Best Foods to Improve Sexual Function

Selecting foods to improve pelvic blood flow and decrease inflammation both immediately after a meal and for the long term may improve sexual functioning in men and women.



Does Aspartame Cause Cancer?

How should we parse the conflicting human data on intake of aspartame (Nutrasweet) and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, multiple myeloma, leukemia, and pancreatic cancer?



Is Miso Healthy?

Miso is packed with sodium, which is linked to both stomach cancer and high blood pressure, so is it safe to consume?



What Are the Effects of the Hops Phytoestrogen in Beer?

When it comes to breast cancer risk, does the phytoestrogen in beer act more like the animal estrogens in Premarin or the protective phytoestrogens in soy?



The Most Potent Phytoestrogen Is in Beer

The reason women who handle hops start menstruating is because of a phytoestrogen that ends up in beer, called 8-prenylnaringenin (8-PN).



The Risks and Benefits of Sensible Sun Exposure

We don’t have to choose between the lesser of two evils: skin cancer versus internal cancers from vitamin D deficiency.



Is It Worth Switching from White Rice to Brown?

What happens when brown rice is put to the test in a randomized controlled crossover trial?



Slowing Our Metabolism with Nitrate-Rich Vegetables

The reason greens are associated with a significantly longer lifespan may be because, like caloric restriction, they improve our energy efficiency.



Can Vinegar Help with Blood Sugar Control?

Before drugs came along, the consumption of vinegar with meals was used as a folk remedy for diabetes, but it wasn’t put to the test until recently.



Vinegar and Artery Function

Sprinkling vinegar on greens may augment their ability to improve endothelial function.



Do Raisins Cause Cavities?

Dried fruit has long been thought to contribute to tooth decay, but what does the science say?



The Palatability of Cancer Prevention

Dietary guidelines often patronizingly recommend what is considered acceptable or achievable, rather than what the best available balance of evidence suggests is best.



Preventing Gout Attacks with Diet

If the uric acid crystals that trigger gout come from the breakdown of purines, should gout patients avoid even healthy, purine-rich foods, such as beans, mushrooms, and cauliflower?



Preventing Skin Cancer from the Inside Out

Eating antioxidant-rich foods can bolster skin protection and reduce sunburn redness by 40%, whereas alcohol can dramatically drop the level of antioxidants in the skin within 8 minutes of consumption.



The Healthy Food Movement: Strength in Unity

The tobacco industry has focused more recently on divide-and-conquer strategies to create schisms within the tobacco control movement. We in the healthy food community can learn from this by staying united and not allowing minor disagreements to distract us from the bigger picture.



Resveratrol Impairs Exercise Benefits

Research on resveratrol, a component of red wine, looked promising in rodent studies, but what happened when it was put to the test in people?



What Explains the French Paradox?

Why do heart attack rates appear lower than expected in France, given their saturated fat and cholesterol intake? Is it their red wine consumption, their vegetable consumption, or something else?