Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food. ...Hippocrates

Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift

Concern has arisen that this weight focus is not only ineffective at producing thinner, healthier bodies, but may also have unintended consequences, contributing to food and body preoccupation, repeated cycles of weight loss and regain, distraction from other personal health goals and wider health determinants, reduced self-esteem, eating disorders, other health decrement, and weight stigmatization and discrimination.

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Cancer As a Metabolic Disease

Emerging evidence indicates that impaired cellular energy metabolism is the defining characteristic of nearly all cancers regardless of cellular or tissue origin.

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Vitamin B3 Reduces Alzheimer's Symptoms, Lesions

An over-the-counter vitamin in high doses prevented memory loss in mice with Alzheimer's disease.

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Low Potassium Linked to High Blood Pressure

As a risk factor for high blood pressure, low levels of potassium in the diet may be as important as high levels of sodium—especially among African Americans.

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Preventing Cancer: Learn How to Lower Your Risks

Do you know people who’ve smoked their whole lives and thrived well into old age without any sign of lung cancer?  Or someone who never seemed to go near fruits and veggies but lived a long, full life? When you think of them, you might decide that cancer will come when it comes and there’s nothing you can do about it. That’s where you’d be wrong.

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HERBS AND HEALTH

Health Benefits of Garlic: A Review

Garlic has been widely recognized as an agent for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and other metabolic diseases, atherosclerosis, hypertension and diabetes. Read more...

NUTRITION IN DEPTH

Nutrition and Cancer: A Review of The Evidence for An Anti-cancer Diet

It has been estimated that 30–40 percent of all cancers can be prevented by lifestyle and dietary measures alone. Read more...
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