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More that 20 million people per year are prescribed statin drugs in the United States. In this clip from “Forks Over Knives–The Extended Interviews”, Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr. discusses the problems with these popular meds. Watch the video: More information: ForksOverKnives.com More information: HeartAttackProof.com

Meat and sugar increase uric acid levels, which are associated with increased risk of gout, hypertension (high blood pressure), obesity, prediabetes, diabetes, kidney disease and cardiovascular disease. More information: http://NutritionFacts.org and http://www.drgreger.org Subscribe to Dr. Greger’s daily video

The foreign meat molecule Neu5Gc builds up in human cancerous tumors and atherosclerotic plaques and may play an inflammatory role in the progression of both these diseases. See The Inflammatory Meat Molecule Neu5Gc for background and Friday’s video-of-the-day How Tumors Use Meat to Grow: Xeno-Autoantibodies for the role it might play in cancer growth. Inflammation (also caused by exogenous endotoxins) is [...]

By Dr. Michael Greger Plant-based diets may help rheumatoid arthritis by decreasing exposure to an  inflammatory “Trojan horse” compound found in animal products called Neu5Gc. In my post How Tumors Use Meat to Grow I talked about the role  Neu5Gc may play in stimulating breast cancer growth, but what about inflammation  in our joints? For those of you who have [...]

CAFOs stink. In addition to being crowded, dirty, inhumane, and brimming with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, CAFOs, or concentrated animal feeding operations, produce thousands of gallons of liquid waste with a stench that wafts through the air in the surrounding communities practically daily. These odors are nasty and hard to live with, but new science suggests they also might put the bodies [...]

Eating too many salty foods can create all sorts of health problems, including high blood pressure. But did you know a lot of common foods are packed with excess sodium? It’s not just the french fries and potato chips you need to be careful with. That’s why on National Eating Healthy Day the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association is increasing [...]

New studies support limiting daily sodium consumption to less than 1,500 milligrams, according to a new American Heart Association presidential advisory. The advisory, published in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation, is based on a thorough review of recent laboratory, animal, observational and clinical studies that reaffirm the association’s 2011 advisory that limiting sodium (salt) to less than 1,500 mg [...]

The American Heart Association says a new study examining the connection between sodium intake and the blood pressure in U.S. children and teens points to the urgent need to limit salt in foods consumed by young people. The study, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published in the journal Pediatrics, found that kids between the ages [...]

Nearly 5 percent of pregnant women are prescribed drugs to treat high blood pressure, including some drugs that aren’t considered safe for mothers or their babies, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Hypertension. Use of high blood pressure drugs during pregnancy is becoming increasingly common, said Brian T. Bateman, M.D., lead author and Assistant Professor of [...]