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New exciting food is the new pharma initiatives seem to be fighting with an equally new governmental crack-down on food with pharma claims. Who should you believe? On the one hand, Nestle is about to invest $500m in a new company to create food-based solutions to diabetes, obesity, Alzheimers [...]
Food as medicine has had a long history, but until recently in the U.S., it’s been seen as a sort of fringe element. A little scruffy, not very tasty, and honestly, a bit weird. Foodies often don’t like the idea because food should be about flavor, love, aroma, authenticity, [...]
Anyone who has been in gardening store knows the smell of synthetic artificial pesticides…it wafts into your nose and head as you are walking down the aisle towards the potting soil. That’s herbicide Roundup Ready, and its ilk, and there are now weeds and other plants that are [...]
The NY Times piece today describing “illegal concentrations of chemicals like arsenic or radioactive substances like uranium, as well as dangerous bacteria” in over 20 percent of tap water in the U.S. has people wondering: is my tap water contaminated? Is my health in danger? And could [...]
Filled with flavor, anti-inflammatories and in every yellow curry in the book, turmeric is not just for mustard coloring any more. In fact, culinary medicine–the art of cooking blended with the science of medicine– is one of the great bargains of our time. That’s essential in [...]
Read reviews and features on Amazon.com. In early 2007, Nicholas Genes interviewed me for Medscape about blogging, which not all physicians have taken to eagerly. He writes well and started Grand Rounds: read his blogborygmi. He asked: “Dr. Genes: Do you ever run into trouble when you headline a [...]
Vitamin D is cheap, easy to take, has no side effects except in very high doses, and most of the U.S. is deficient. And its costing us hip fractures, muscle strength, common cancers and autoimmune system function. 1 billion people worldwide are deficient. About 50 percent of patients with [...]
…based on 7000 studies, objectively reviewed and published online. 49 percent of Americans believe it to be impossible or highly unlikely to prevent cancer. But risk isn’t fate. The top conclusion: Excess body fat increases risk for prostate, breast, ovarian, colorectal and many other [...]
It’s no wonder people are confused about how to get what’s healthy on their plates. Sure, most people know *fruits/vegetables/beans/whole grains, good *Snicker Salad/deep-fried pickles/energy drinks and soda, bad But after that, then what? Take dairy, for example. It’s [...]
If you are a postmenopausal woman, foods rich in flavonoids and lignans reduce your risk of developing the most common type of breast cancer by about 35 per cent. A new U.S. study of over 1400 women with breast cancer shows the power of food as medicine–in cancer. The [...]