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Dr. Walter Kempner was a pioneer in the use of diet to treat life-threatening chronic disease, utilizing a diet of mostly rice and fruit to cure malignant hypertension and reverse heart and kidney failure.
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For those unfamiliar with Dr. Esselstyn’s work, check out:
• Cavities and Coronaries: Our Choice (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cavities-and-coronaries-our-choice/)
• Fully Consensual Heart Disease Treatment (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fully-consensual-heart-disease-treatment/)
• Evidence-Based Medicine or Evidence-Biased? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/evidence-based-medicine-or-evidence-biased/)
• One in a Thousand: Ending the Heart Disease Epidemic (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/one-in-a-thousand-ending-the-heart-disease-epidemic/)
Kempner was a lifestyle medicine pioneer. What’s lifestyle medicine? See, for example:
• Lifestyle Medicine: Treating the Causes of Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/lifestyle-medicine-treating-the-causes-of-disease/)
• Convincing Doctors to Embrace Lifestyle Medicine (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/convincing-doctors-to-embrace-lifestyle-medicine/)
• What Diet Should Physician’s Recommend? (http://www.nutritionfacts.org/video/what-diet-should-physicians-recommend/)
Lots more videos on Kempner’s accomplishments coming up—stay tuned! If you haven’t subscribed to daily, weekly, or monthly videos you can subscribe for free at http://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe.
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DESCRIPTION: How often do retail deli workers wash their hands at both independent and chain stores? This is important given the potential for life-threatening blood-borne viruses such as hepatitis C. The video to which I refer about handwashing in fast food chains is Restaurant Worker Hand Washing (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/restaurant-worker-hand-washing/). For more on the hepatitis virus people can get from pork, see Hepatitis E Virus in Pork (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/hepatitis-e-virus-in-pork/). One can also contract pork tapeworms that burrow into the brain from those who handle our food—see Avoiding Epilepsy Through Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/avoiding-epilepsy-through-diet/) (if you dare! :). And if that gets you squeamish you're going to want to skip the video I have queued up in two days: [Tongue Worm in Human Eye]. There's hundreds of wormless videos, though, on more than a thousand topics (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/).
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DESCRIPTION: The mission of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is to promote agribusiness. At the same time, USDA is the agency primarily tasked with developing the nutrition guidelines. Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/dietary-guidelines-usda-conflicts-of-interest/ 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. Be sure to check out all the videos on industry influence (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/industry-influence/) and dietary guidelines (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/dietary-guidelines/). And be sure not to miss yesterday's blog post Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board accused of illegally deceptive claims (http://nutritionfacts.org/blog/2011/10/24/wisconsin-milk-marketing-board-accused-of-making-illegally-deceptive-claims/). And as always, there are 1,449 subjects (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/) covered in my other videos--please feel free to explore them!
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DESCRIPTION: White tea may be the healthiest beverage to drink. Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/coffee-vs-tea/ and I'll try to answer it! And check out the other videos on beverages (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/beverages/). Also, there are 1,449 other subjects (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/) covered in the rest of my videos--please feel free to explore them as well!
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It may be politically more expedient 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.
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More on appealing to vanity to improve fruit and vegetable consumption in my video Eating Better to Look Better (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eating-better-to-look-better/).
But aren’t there some folks who are down on smoothies? Here’s what the science says:
• Are Green Smoothies Good for You? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-green-smoothies-good-for-you)
• Green Smoothies: What Does the Science Say? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/green-smoothies-what-does-the-science-say)
• The Downside of Green Smoothies (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-downside-of-green-smoothies)
The flipside of free fruit programs is to tax instead of subsidize. See my video Would Taxing Unhealthy Foods Improve Public Health? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/would-taxing-unhealthy-foods-improve-public-health/).
More on that kind of paternalistic attitude that you don’t care enough about your health to be told the truth in Everything in Moderation? Even Heart Disease? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/everything-in-moderation-even-heart-disease/) and Optimal Diet: Just Give it To Me Straight, Doc (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/optimal-diet-just-give-it-to-me-straight-doc/).
I’ll explore this same patronizing attitude when it comes to physical activity in my next video, How Much Should You Exercise? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-much-should-you-exercise).
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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM
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Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like nonemergency stents offer no benefit—only risk—to millions of patients.
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At this point, you may be thinking what a shameful, dark period of medical history. Millions of risky procedures were performed, killing people and causing strokes before it was actually put to the test. When it finally was, it was proven to offer to no benefit. Certainly, a cautionary tale for the future. In fact, they’re still being done. It's still one of the most common invasive procedures performed in the United States. Why Are Stents Still Used if They Don’t Work? That’s the subject of the next video.
This is part of a seven-video series. If you need to catch up, here are the first four:
• Do Angioplasty Heart Stent Procedures Work? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-angioplasty-heart-stent-procedures-work)
• Why Angioplasty Heart Stents Don’t Work Better (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-angioplasty-heart-stents-dont-work-better)
• The Risks of Heart Stents (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-risks-of-heart-stents)
• Angioplasty Heart Stent Risks vs. Benefits (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/angioplasty-heart-stent-risks-vs-benefits)
As I say over and over in this video series, during a heart attack, in an acute setting, angioplasty can be life-saving. As I reiterate, when I’m talking about stable CAD, I’m talking nonemergency situations. In an upcoming series I talk about pros and cons of statin drug therapy. Spoiler: If you have a history of heart disease or stroke, taking a statin is recommended. All of these videos, including the upcoming statin series, are available on a digital download of a webinar I did last year. You can find it here: https://drgreger.org/collections/videos/products/how-effective-are-statins-and-stents-digital
UPDATE: A new meta-analysis was just published last month and alas, there is still zero survival benefit to stent placement for stable coronary artery disease, but at least there were fewer heart attacks. Since this still didn’t translate into actually living any longer, the foundation of treatment remains medical and lifestyle management. Hat tip to Dr. Bitterman! (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33742721/)
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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM
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DESCRIPTION: Mushrooms appear to have an anti-inflammatory effect on human arterial lining cells in vitro, which may help stop the inflammatory cascade thought integral to the progression of atherosclerotic (artery-clogging) heart disease. The effects of shitake, crimini, oyster, maitake and plain white button mushrooms are compared. For more magic from plain white mushrooms, see Vegetables Versus Breast Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/vegetables-versus-breast-cancer/) and Breast Cancer Prevention: Which Mushroom Is Best? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/breast-cancer-prevention-which-mushroom-is-best/). Just make sure to cook them- Toxins in Raw Mushrooms? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/toxins-in-raw-mushrooms/). In terms of anti-inflammatory foods in general, check out Anti-Inflammatory Antioxidants (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-inflammatory-antioxidants/), Garden Variety Anti-Inflammation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/garden-variety-anti-inflammation/), Aspirin Levels in Plant Foods (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/aspirin-levels-in-plant-foods/), and Dried Apples Versus Cholesterol (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dried-apples-versus-cholesterol/). In terms of pro-inflammatory foods, see the 4-part series Improving Mood Through Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/improving-mood-through-diet/), Inflammatory Remarks About Arachidonic Acid (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/inflammatory-remarks-about-arachidonic-acid/), Chicken, Eggs, and Inflammation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/chicken-eggs-and-inflammation/), and Chicken's Fate Is Sealed (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/chickens-fate-is-sealed/). If you missed it, please check out yesterday's video- of-the-day (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/blocking-the-first-step-of-heart-disease) and any of the other 500 or so videos covering more than a thousand topics at http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/.
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DESCRIPTION: We may have a billion different types of antibody-releasing cells in our immune system, such that each recognizes a different molecular signature. Isn't our immune system spectacular?! In Wednesday's video of the day Clonal Deletion Theory of Immunity (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/clonal-deletion-theory-of-immunity/) we'll explore the flipside—how our immune system avoids attacking us. See yesterday's NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day Cancer as an Autoimmune Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cancer-as-an-autoimmune-disease/) for an explanation of the autoimmune theory of cancer.
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The sex steroids found naturally in animal products likely exceed the hormonal impacts of endocrine-disrupting chemical pollutants.
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What kind of human health effects? Check out the sequel, my next video: Why Do Vegan Women Have 5x Fewer Twins? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-do-vegan-women-have-5x-fewer-twins/)
What effects might these female hormones have on men? See Dairy Estrogen and Male Fertility (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dairy-estrogen-and-male-infertility).
The implications of this relatively new practice of milking cows even when they’re pregnant is further explored in:
• National Dairy Council on Acne and Milk (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/national-dairy-council-on-acne-and-milk/)
• The Acne-Promoting Effects of Milk (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-acne-promoting-effects-of-milk/)
• Saving Lives By Treating Acne With Diet (http://www.nutritionfacts.org/video/saving-lives-by-treating-acne-with-diet/)
More on xenoestrogens in:
• Male Fertility and Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/male-fertility-and-diet/)
• Alkylphenol Endocrine Disruptors and Allergies (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/alkylphenol-endocrine-disruptors-and-allergies/)
• Dietary Sources of Alkylphenol Endocrine Disruptors (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dietary-sources-of-alkylphenol-endocrine-disruptors/)
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