Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ DESCRIPTION: Should the vitamin D levels found in lifeguards be considered the norm for our species given the fact that we evolved running around naked all day in equatorial Africa? Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/evolutionary-argument-for-optimal-vitamin-d-level/ and I'll try to answer it! Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I'd be happy to try to answer them. This is the second video in a nine day series on vitamin D (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/vitamin-d/). Be sure to check out yesterday's video-of-the-day Vitamin D recommendations changed (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/vitamin-d-recommendations-changed/). Image Credit: US National Library of Medicine and daryl_mitchell / Flickr. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

What a nice welcome at the Lifestyle Medicine conference! Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Captions for this video are available in several languages. To find yours, click on the settings wheel on the lower-right of the video and then "Subtitles/CC." Do you have feedback about the translations in this video? Please share it here along with the title of the video and language: https://nutritionfacts.zendesk.com/hc/requests/new To view the subtitles in transcript format, click on the ellipsis button below the video, choose "Open transcript", and select the language you'd like to view them in. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

A cup a day of beans, chickpeas, or lentils for three months may slow resting heart rate as much as exercising for 250 hours on a treadmill. Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ What is that about a shortened lifespan? See my video Finger on the Pulse of Longevity (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/finger-pulse-longevity/). Having “normal” risk factor values in a society where it’s normal to drop dead of preventable diseases like heart disease is not necessarily a good thing. Learn more with When Low Risk Means High Risk (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/when-low-risk-means-high-risk/), Everything in Moderation? Even Heart Disease? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/everything-in-moderation-even-heart-disease/), and How Not to Die from Heart Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-not-to-die-from-heart-disease/). For more on the musical fruit, see: • Beans and the Second Meal Effect (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/beans-and-the-second-meal-effect/) • Canned Beans or Cooked Beans? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/canned-beans-or-cooked-beans/) • Increased Lifespan from Beans (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/increased-lifespan-from-beans/) • Beans, Beans, They’re Good for Your Heart (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/beans-beans-theyre-good-for-your-heart) • Phytates for Rehabilitating Cancer Cells (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/phytates-for-rehabilitating-cancer-cells/) • Diabetics Should Take Their Pulses (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/diabetics-should-take-their-pulses/) Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flashback-friday-slow-your-beating-heart-beans-vs-exercise and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flashback-friday-slow-your-beating-heart-beans-vs-exercise. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgments for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Image credit: blackzheep via Adobe Stock. Image has been modified. Captions for this video are available in several languages. To find yours, click on the settings wheel on the lower-right of the video and then "Subtitles/CC." Do you have feedback about the translations in this video? Please share it here along with the title of the video and language: https://nutritionfacts.zendesk.com/hc/requests/new https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

How extreme was Dr. Kempner’s rice diet compared to traditional medical surgical approaches, and is there a safer alternative? Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ For more Kempner and his rice diet, see: • Kempner Rice Diet: Whipping Us Into Shape (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/kempner-rice-diet-whipping-us-into-shape/) • Drugs and the Demise of the Rice Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/drugs-and-the-demise-of-the-rice-diet/) • Can Diabetic Retinopathy Be Reversed? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/can-diabetic-retinopathy-be-reversed/) More on the surgical approach in Reversing Diabetes with Surgery (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/reversing-diabetes-surgery/) and Stomach Stapling Kids (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/stomach-stapling-kids/) Other weight control videos include: • Waist Circumference Less Than Half Your Height (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/keep-your-waist-circumference-to-less-than-half-your-height/) • Nuts and Obesity: The Weight of Evidence (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/nuts-and-obesity-the-weight-of-evidence/) • How Much Exercise to Sustain Weight Loss? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-much-exercise-to-sustain-weight-loss/) • Nutrient-Dense Approach to Weight Management (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/nutrient-dense-approach-to-weight-management/) • What Diet Should Physicians Recommend? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-diet-should-physicians-recommend/) • How to Prevent Prediabetes in Children (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-prevent-prediabetes-in-children/) • Are There Foods With Negative Calories? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-there-foods-with-negative-calories/) • Eating More to Weigh Less (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eating-more-to-weigh-less/) Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/can-morbid-obesity-be-reversed-through-diet and he'll try to answer it! https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org