More people are switching to plant-based meals. Steakhouses have vegan options. Airports feature kale salads. Grocers dedicate more shelf space to new meatless items. I have seen dramatic improvements in…
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It would hardly be worth studying nutrition if the data suggested it was not a powerful path to prevent heart disease and other conditions. Fortunately, it is quite the opposite….
“You can’t stop getting older, but you don’t have to get old,” actor George Burns said. Considering he lived to 100 and was active until just before his 1996 death,…
The ‘cult’ of butter in coffee and coconut oil in smoothies has been a strong movement led by some physicians and many online nutritionists. Contrary to their advice, research in…
Elon Musk recently announced that if he is successful at establishing a colony on Mars it will be a plant based community. Why? If you believe that “you are what…
March is Nutrition Month, an apt time to note that optimizing brain health with nutrition, supplements and lifestyle is critical to our success. Our brain weighs roughly three pounds, but…
When the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the field of aging expected remarkable findings from “cracking” the genetic code, the “genetic” era of health. In the last…
This is Nutrition Month, an ideal time to focus on eating more fruits and vegetables and avoiding meats – as many people do for Lent. (Photo: Louis Hansel/Unsplash) Avocado slices…
Hundreds of years ago, English physician Thomas Sydenham taught that “a man is as old as his arteries.” We usually don’t think about the health of our arteries until a problem…
Want to live longer and better, often termed lifespan and healthspan, is all the rage and a serious focus of cutting edge science. While work progresses on stem cells, organ…
