23 archives found for "food as medicine"

Among the most nutritious of berries, Black Currants (Ribes nigra) were once a forbidden fruit in the United States. The berries were susceptible to hosting a fungus that killed white pine trees and were banned for that reason. Fortunately, pines have made a comeback—and as the ban on black [...]

Finally, it’s everyone’s favorite holiday of the year: National Spinach Day! Spinach has gotten a bad rap for a long time, although it’s made a comeback recently as more and more people espouse this superfood’s many health benefits. So what’s the real story on [...]

Who can resist the juicy, vibrant flavor of a sweet and tangy pineapple? Apparently, not many of us—this prickly plant often ranks as one of America’s most in-demand tropical fruits. But beneath its rough exterior, the pineapple is hiding more than just flavor. There are many health [...]

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My essay on prescribing wine in palliative care on Medscape has attracted lots of comments, and that’s good: we need to put this issue on the table and make it part of our discussion about well-being as a goal of medicine, and as part of care near the end [...]

Though I’ve written about this in the WSJ and the NY Times before, I thought I’d lay out a more succinct approach to something that millions now struggle with.  The fact that the FDA has approved a second new injectable drug to lower very high cholesterol, Amgen’s Repatha, means [...]

Happy to announce my new CulinaryRx Series I’m hosting with MedPage Today. We answer “What eating plan would you recommend for this patient, and why? Which foods and beverages should she avoid, and choose?” Check out the text Q+A, video, transcription, youtube link, reader [...]

Good diet foods for high blood pressure include blueberries, flax meal, hibiscus or jamaica tea, and beet juice. But high blood pressure management starts with measuring it accurately: I recommend the Omron Series 7 for home. These foods all have very good peer-reviewed medical research that shows [...]

My Medscape essay on Prescribing Red Wine in Palliative Care, which I’ve reproduced for you below, has attracted good stories and comments, and it is something I have thought a lot about, while also trying to decide whether to get labs on my 18 month old barrels of pinot [...]

Clinical research in culinary medicine: by my count there are thousands of peer-reviewed articles, though a search of PubMed doesn’t yet find the keyword phrase. Up until late 2007 I catalogued them for 40 different conditions and 50 foods in ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine; [...]