What can shift workers do to moderate the adverse effects of circadian rhythm disruption? Shift workers may have higher rates of death from heart disease,

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10.05.2024

How Healthy Are Ancient Grains?

Ancient types of wheat, like kamut, are put to the test for inflammation, blood sugar, and cholesterol control. The number one killer in the United

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Syncing Your Brain and Body Clocks

Exposure to bright light synchronizes the central circadian clock in our brain, whereas proper meal timing helps sync the timing of different clock genes

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03.05.2024

Explore NutritionFacts.org Resources

NutritionFacts.org has so many free resources to help you on your journey to a healthier life. The Evidence-Based Eating Guide The Evidence-Based

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Circadian Rhythms and Our Blood Sugar Levels

The same meal eaten at the wrong time of day can double blood sugar. We’ve known for more than half a century that our glucose tolerance—the ability of

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26.04.2024

Brain-Boosting Grapes

Grape juice and whole grapes are put to the test for brain function, including cognitive decline in early Alzheimer’s. In 2010, the first controlled trial

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24.04.2024

Morning Calories vs. Evening Calories

Why are calories eaten in the morning less fattening than calories eaten in the evening? One reason calories consumed in the morning are less fattening

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19.04.2024

A King’s Breakfast, a Prince’s Lunch, and a Pauper’s Dinner

Harness the power of your circadian rhythms for weight loss by making breakfast or lunch your main meal of the day. In my last chronobiology video, we

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17.04.2024

Fighting Cancer and the Common Cold with Garlic

Raw garlic is compared to roasted, stir-fried, simmered, and jarred garlic. Garlic lowers blood pressure, regulates cholesterol, and stimulates immunity.

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12.04.2024

Lose Weight by Eating More in the Morning

A calorie is not a calorie. It isn’t only what you eat, but when you eat. Mice are nocturnal creatures. They eat during the night and sleep during the

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10.04.2024

Circadian Rhythms and Our Health and Weight

Given the power of chronotherapy—how the same dose of the same drugs taken at a different time of day can have such different effects—it’s no surprise

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05.04.2024

Milk Hormones and Female Infertility

Dairy consumption is associated with years of advanced ovarian aging, thought to be due to the steroid hormones or endocrine-disrupting chemicals in cow’s

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03.04.2024

Skip Breakfast to Lose Weight?

Breakthroughs in the field of chronobiology—the study of our circadian rhythms—help solve the mystery of the missing morning calories in breakfast

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29.03.2024

Daily Dozen–Inspired Recipes

Dr. Greger developed the Daily Dozen using the best available balance of evidence from scientific nutrition research. Rather than being a meal plan or

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27.03.2024

Are Branched-Chain Amino Acids Good for Us?

I discuss why we may not want to exceed the recommended intake of protein. Diabetes isn’t just about the amount of body fat, but also the distribution of

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22.03.2024

The Efficacy of Weight-Loss Supplements

Are there any safe and effective dietary supplements for weight loss? In a previous discussion, I noted that an investigation found that four out of five

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20.03.2024

The Safety of Weight-Loss Supplements

Only 2 out of 12 supplement companies were found to have weight-loss products that were even accurately labeled. According to a national survey, one-third

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15.03.2024

The Pros of Garlic Powder for Heart Disease

See what a penny a day’s worth of garlic powder can do. In ancient Greece, “the Art of Medicine was divided into three parts”: cures through diet, cures

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13.03.2024

Pre-Cut Vegetables and Endotoxins

Endotoxins can build up on pre-cut vegetables and undermine some of their benefits. You may remember when I introduced the endotoxin theory literature in

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08.03.2024

Are Fortified Children’s Breakfast Cereals Just Candy?

The industry responds to the charge that breakfast cereals are too sugary. In 1941, the American Medical Association’s Council on Foods and Nutrition was

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Fighting Inflammation with Flaxseeds

Elevated levels of pro-inflammatory, aging-associated oxylipins can be normalized by eating ground flaxseed. I previously explored the “Potent

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Celebrating Food, Activism, and Black History Month with Dr. Paule Joseph

We had the pleasure of talking with Dr. Paule Joseph about her work, food, activism, public health, and Black History Month. We hope you enjoy this

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The Pros of Early Time-Restricted Eating

Calories eaten in the morning count less than calories eaten in the evening, and they’re healthier, too. Time-restricted feeding, where you limit the

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23.02.2024

What the Science Says About Time-Restricted Eating

Are there benefits to giving yourself a bigger daily break from eating? The reason many blood tests are taken after an overnight fast is that meals can

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21.02.2024

The Neurotoxin in Star Fruit

Starfruit contains a neurotoxin known as caramboxin that can cause irreversible brain damage at high enough doses. If someone walks into the emergency

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16.02.2024

A Look at the 5:2 Diet and the Fasting-Mimicking Diet

What are the effects of eating only five days a week or following a fasting-mimicking diet five days a month? Instead of eating every other day, what

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14.02.2024

Is Our Life Expectancy Extended by Intermittent Fasting?

Alternate-day modified fasting is put to the test for lifespan extension. Is it true that alternate-day calorie restriction prolongs life? Doctors have

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How Safe Is Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting?

Eating every other day can raise your cholesterol. Are there any downsides to fasting every other day? For example, might go all day without eating

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07.02.2024

Plant-Based Meats and Our Health

According to the United Nations, meat and dairy production would need to be doubled to meet the predicted demand for animal-based proteins in 2050, but

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Putting Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting to the Test

Does eating every other day prevent the metabolic slowing that accompanies weight loss, or does it improve compliance over constant, day-to-day caloric

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Marijuana and Schizophrenia?

The evidence linking cannabis use to psychotic disorders is considered strong enough to warrant a public health warning. “Even as proponents of

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The Safety of Fasting to Lose Weight

Why should fasts lasting longer than 24 hours and particularly for three or more days only be done under the supervision of a health professional and

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24.01.2024

Does Fasting Benefit Weight Loss?

Like the keto diet, fasting for one or two weeks can actually slow the loss of body fat rather than accelerate it. Fasting obviously causes consistent,

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19.01.2024

Putting the Benefits of Fasting for Weight Loss to the Test

For more than a century, fasting has been used as a weight-loss treatment. I’ve talked about the benefits of caloric restriction. Well, the greatest

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17.01.2024

Flavonoid Benefits from Apple Peels

Peeled apples are pitted head-to-head against unpeeled apples (and spinach) in a test of artery function. Regularly eating apples may contribute to a

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12.01.2024

Any Pitfalls with Restricting Calories?

How may we preserve bone and mass on a low-calorie diet? One of the most consistent benefits of calorie restriction is that blood pressure improves in

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Restricting Calories for Longevity?

Though a bane for dieters, a slower metabolism may actually be a good thing. We’ve known for more than a century that calorie restriction can increase the

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Top 10 NutritionFacts.org Videos of 2023

We create more than a hundred new videos every year. They are the culmination of thousands of hours of researching, writing, editing, animating, and

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Sugar and Gaining Weight

The sugar industry responds to evidence implicating sweeteners in the obesity epidemic. In terms of excess body fat, the “well-documented obesity

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The New Rule for Calories per Pound of Weight Loss

You may lose a pound of fat by skipping just 10 calories a day or as many as 55, depending on whether you’re improving food quality or restricting food

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Irregular Meals, Night Shifts, and Metabolic Harms

How Healthy Are Ancient Grains?

Syncing Your Brain and Body Clocks

Explore NutritionFacts.org Resources

Circadian Rhythms and Our Blood Sugar Levels

Brain-Boosting Grapes

Morning Calories vs. Evening Calories

A King’s Breakfast, a Prince’s Lunch, and a Pauper’s Dinner

Fighting Cancer and the Common Cold with Garlic

Lose Weight by Eating More in the Morning

Circadian Rhythms and Our Health and Weight

Milk Hormones and Female Infertility

Skip Breakfast to Lose Weight?

Daily Dozen–Inspired Recipes

Are Branched-Chain Amino Acids Good for Us?

The Efficacy of Weight-Loss Supplements

The Safety of Weight-Loss Supplements

The Pros of Garlic Powder for Heart Disease

Pre-Cut Vegetables and Endotoxins

Are Fortified Children’s Breakfast Cereals Just Candy?

Fighting Inflammation with Flaxseeds

Celebrating Food, Activism, and Black History Month with Dr. Paule Joseph

The Pros of Early Time-Restricted Eating

What the Science Says About Time-Restricted Eating

The Neurotoxin in Star Fruit

A Look at the 5:2 Diet and the Fasting-Mimicking Diet

Is Our Life Expectancy Extended by Intermittent Fasting?

How Safe Is Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting?

Plant-Based Meats and Our Health

Putting Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting to the Test

Marijuana and Schizophrenia?

The Safety of Fasting to Lose Weight

Does Fasting Benefit Weight Loss?

Putting the Benefits of Fasting for Weight Loss to the Test

Flavonoid Benefits from Apple Peels

Any Pitfalls with Restricting Calories?

Restricting Calories for Longevity?

Top 10 NutritionFacts.org Videos of 2023

Sugar and Gaining Weight

The New Rule for Calories per Pound of Weight Loss

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