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Along with climate change, perhaps the most pressing concern we have regarding sustaining our lives, and future life on earth, is our supply of fresh water. From 1941 to 2011 the world's population has tripled, …
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20 May 2013 at 4:00am
I have no intention of criticizing the famous actress, Angelina Jolie, for her decision to have both breasts removed in an effort to improve her chances for a longer life. (National headlines on May 15, …
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16 May 2013 at 9:24am
For most of my adult life, I battled health and weight issues. Since about 18 years old, I fluctuated in weight and clothing sizes, and it was ever so frustrating. I tried so many things, …
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15 May 2013 at 5:19am
These quesadillas from My Beef with Meat are a regular with the Engine 2 plant-strong Hall family. They are simple to make and very satisfying. Black Bean and Sweet Potato Quesadillas Makes 4 large quesadillas …
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13 May 2013 at 4:51pm
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Plant-based diets may help rheumatoid arthritis by decreasing exposure to an inflammatory “Trojan horse” compound found in animal products called Neu5Gc. In How Tumors Use Meat to Grow I talked about the inflammatory role Neu5Gc may play in stimulating breast cancer growth, but what about inflammation in our joints? For those of you who have…
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16 May 2013 at 5:00am
Certain cancers—like breast cancer—can be thought of in part as an autoimmune disease. When people get heart or kidney transplants, they must be given immunosuppressive drugs to prevent rejection of the new organ. What do you suppose happens to cancer rates in those individuals who have their immune systems suppressed? Well, for some types of…
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14 May 2013 at 5:00am
Erythritol, the too-good-to-be-true nontoxic, low-calorie, tooth friendly sweetener that I profiled in my last blog post “Is There a Safe, Low-Calorie Sweetener?” may even act as an antioxidant. So what's the catch? Well, there are three ways that all low-caloric sweeteners could theoretically be harmful independent of their specific chemistry.
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9 May 2013 at 5:00am
The natural sweetener erythritol does not appear to carry the adverse effects associated with other low and non-caloric natural and artificial sweeteners and may actually have antioxidant potential. For a while it was only available in Japan but now it's becoming more accessible. It's found naturally in pears and grapes, but industrially we
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7 May 2013 at 5:00am
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98 percent of DNA is unnecessary ‘junk’ “So-called junk DNA, the vast majority of the genome that doesn’t code for proteins, really isn’t needed for a healthy organism, according to new research.” As… antioxidants boot vitamins to the curb; yogurt slams the fridge on anything less bacterial; BPA finds a new
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14 May 2013 at 5:42pm
When the clock strikes five post meridiem today, my days without drinking water will enumerate themselves to a bunny-in-the-hat 365—my first 365, but surely not my last; as this number will certainly topple the twenty-three plus years that came before it in due time. It’s no longer a ‘somehow’, an ‘impossible’, or an ‘unexpected’
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8 May 2013 at 9:00pm
There are a few rules when it comes to slobbering over a few handfuls of those oddly speckle-seeded red gems we call strawberries: First and foremost—buy organic strawberries. Why? Because they taste like strawberries. They are adorably sweet and don’t rub raw on your taste buds with that tangy and godawful bitter firework show that leaves you
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7 May 2013 at 2:04pm
Two women petition Kraft to take yellow dye out of its popular mac & cheese Oh… Lisa and Vani. How profound of you. How cradle the kittens. The conspiracy theorist in me reckons that Kraft rolled some change into each of your bank accounts—all in an effort to twirl up their cheesy heavenliness as some sort of damsel. To be rescued by the corporation
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14 Mar 2013 at 7:16am
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Howard Jacobson, administrator of The China Study Facebook Page, saw my article on the NHANES meat and mortality study and asked to do an interview with me. The interview is about 30 minutes. Click here for the FB page or click here for the direct mp3 download. Support JackNorrisRd.com Please share and/or like my posts! [...]
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16 May 2013 at 6:52pm
Another case of vitamin B12 deficiency in a vegan has been reported in the scientific literature. In this case, it was a 44-year old woman from Turkey (1). She had been vegan for only 9 months (the report didn’t describe her diet prior to that). She developed gradually worsening paresthesia and tingling of both hands [...]
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14 May 2013 at 8:37am
________________________ First, a bit of good news from a reader: “You might be interested to know that since I started following the recommendations in Vegan for Life my depression has all but cleared up (I think mainly as a result of taking 1,000 IU of vitamin D each day as well as a small DHA/EPA [...]
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9 May 2013 at 8:18am
A study came out earlier this year (thanks, Tom!) shedding some light on the issue of the short-chain omega-3 fatty acid, alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), and eye damage. Previous research from the Nurse’s Health Study had linked ALA intake to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and cataracts. My suspicion is that this was due to confounding, but
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1 May 2013 at 4:49pm
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In recent years, you have most likely heard about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a mysterious and devastating loss of bee colonies in the U.S., Canada and Europe. The first reports of these unexplained and catastrophic bee deaths began in 2006. In the 2006-2007 season, CCD affected about 23% of commercial U.S. beekeepers, and some beekeepers
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14 May 2013 at 6:57am
Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful Moms out there! Whether you are called Great Grandma, Grandma, Mom, or Mommy we honor all of you this special day!
I thought it would be inspirational to feature a new mom, Katie, that I met a couple of years ago on Dr. Fuhrman’s Member Center. We eventually became Facebook
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12 May 2013 at 3:43am
Felicia was recently interviewed on Disease Proof. [click here to read her interview] She’s lost over 160 lbs in less than a year, and she’s still losing! I asked her if she’d be willing to share what her life is like now that she's free from food addiction, and she wrote the following. May it inspire you with
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7 May 2013 at 11:24am
Statin drugs inhibit an enzyme that is crucial for the production of cholesterol; they are the most widely taken drugs among adults in the U.S, and their use has expanded dramatically in recent years. About 20% of Americans age 45-64 and 45% of those 65 and older take statin drugs.1 Between 1988 and 2006 the use of statin drugs in U.S. adults
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3 May 2013 at 6:46am
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On a recent trip to Costco, I found seaweed salad (vegan in my Costco, although in some areas it contains fish sauce), big cheap packages of tofu, little travel packs of hummus, and delectable stuffed grape leaves. I was thrilled to come across these and other vegan goodies. But when I reported my finds on [...]
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10 May 2013 at 12:14pm
Mother's Day is not an especially important holiday around my house. I no longer have a mother and I'm not a mother (except to five cats who never get me anything). Ever since my mom died, it's a been a day tinged with a little bit of sadness, but mostly one that slips by unnoticed. [...]
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1 May 2013 at 5:44pm
One of my vegan cooking gurus, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, recently posted directions for producing perfectly browned tofu. She advises making it in a well-seasoned cast iron pan. I don't have a cast iron pan, but am thinking about getting one. I eat tofu every single day, and love when it's perfectly browned, so it deserves [...]
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4 Apr 2013 at 2:56pm
I'm counting the days with lots of excitement (and sometimes a little apprehension) to June 18, 2013—the release date for my new book Vegan for Her. I've been working on it for more than a year with my friend and co-author JL Fields, and it's hard to believe that in a few short months, this [...]
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1 Apr 2013 at 8:14am
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Late one night after a long day of work, just before his 40th birthday, Rich Roll polished off some fast-food cheeseburgers as he watched TV before heading to bed. As he walked up the stairs, Rich had to stop, bend over and catch his breath before he could continue. Sweat was on his brow. The Read more »
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13 May 2013 at 7:58am
Last week after I wrote a post called 10 Foods Worth Eating Every Single Day, something interesting dawned on me: Most of the foods that I eat — and those in a typical healthy vegan diet (as opposed to the junk-food variety) — are Paleo. Sure, the seeds are iffy. And I probably eat beans three Read more »
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10 May 2013 at 10:01am
Nobody needs another “10 Healthiest Foods on Earth” article, or another “25 Can’t Miss Superfoods” slideshow that makes you click “Next” 24 times. They’re fun, sure, and everybody likes saying “Hey, I eat that one already!” But as far as actually helping us to eat better, lists like these are
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30 Apr 2013 at 9:59am
Well, spring race season is in full swing, and that means bombard-the-NMA-Facebook-page-with-your-shirt-photos season is too! It’s been a while since I put up a collection of my favorites, so … here goes! The best ones we’ve gotten since the beginning of the year (as judged by me, based mainly on factors like coolness, absurdity, and
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28 Apr 2013 at 5:55pm
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This lunch, of basic things like lentils and sweet potatoes, does great things. It makes our lives easier by being simple to make in advance, satisfies sweet cravings on a daily basis, makes our one-year-old happy, and wins bodybuilding competitions. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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30 Apr 2013 at 3:07pm
The Naturally Fit Super Show in Austin, TX is approaching fast, so over the past two weeks Marcella and I have shifted from off season into pre-contest mode! Here’s the down low on what we’re doing to prepare for this […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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19 Apr 2013 at 3:02pm
Our second year on board the MSC Poesia, the Italian cruise ship that hosts the Holistic Holiday at Sea vegan vacation, did not disappoint. Some highlights, both fun and educational, were: Vegan ice cream, pizza, or “milk” and cookies parties every […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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13 Mar 2013 at 4:54pm
Marcella and I have been in heads-down training and working mode recently so we haven’t been posting as much as we should, but I wanted to update everyone on one of the things we’re currently preparing for – the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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24 Feb 2013 at 6:08pm
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Recently a problematic meta-analysis paper was published in the British Medical Journal addressing the findings from prospective (longitudinal) cohort studies of the association between egg intake and the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke.1 The authors concluded:Higher consumption of eggs (up to one egg per day) is not associated with increased
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7 Apr 2013 at 7:50am
Since the breakthrough led by Anichkov a century ago, the feeding of cholesterol, and to an extent, dietary fat have been recognized as the sine qua nons for the dietary modification of experimental atherosclerosis, and have been used in thousands of experiments to successfully induce and accelerate the formation of atherosclerosis in mammalian, avian
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7 Apr 2013 at 7:44am
A recent publication from the EPIC-Oxford cohort with 15,000 vegetarians and 30,000 non-vegetarians found that the vegetarians had a 32% lower risk of hospitalization or death from coronary heart disease.1 These findings are consistent with a previous meta-analysis of 5 cohort studies with 48,000 non-vegetarians and 28,000 vegetarians which found that
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19 Feb 2013 at 7:12am
Several hundred metabolic ward experiments have established beyond plausible doubt that isocaloric substitution of saturated fat for carbohydrate, polyunsaturated fat and monounsaturated fat raises serum (blood) LDL and total cholesterol (Fig. 1).1 Many of these experiments were carried out in locked facilities where the participants mode of life, energy
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31 Jan 2013 at 7:59am
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Look, there's Science!TM to back up my month of cannibalism: Homo habilis used stone tools to de-flesh one another's skulls. So did archaic Homo sapiens. And there's lots more right here. There are some pretty good, if imprecise, recipes available with a quick Google search, too. Though I'd appreciate some reader recipes,
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16 Mar 2013 at 5:12pm
In honor of Alex Jamieson's recent conversion, I have decided to listen to my body, too. Starting tomorrow, I will be cannibal for a month. I mean, I appreciate the compassionate motives of all those wonderful people in the world who just can't bring themselves to eat other people. But I can't live a lie anymore. I've craved this for years.
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9 Mar 2013 at 2:48pm
In an attempt to cut down on the number of Anonymi posting here, I have changed the comments settings to require a registered Google or OpenID avatar. I know it's not foolproof, but I want to hold people to a modicum of accountability for their comments.
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3 Mar 2013 at 3:54pm
It's been nearly a year now, so I'm no longer sure whether it was Plant Positive or me who first brought to light the connection between parasitic infection and low lipid profiles in primitive human populations (I mentioned it briefly in my post about grain blamers). But if there was ever a contest between us, he won it last week by posting an excellent
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1 Jan 2013 at 5:35pm
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A friend contacted me this week to report that Mehmet Oz used his show to promote dangerous claims about cholesterol and heart disease. His guests were two long-time low-carb promoters, Johnny Bowden and Stephen Sinatra.
Both of them make a living by selling questionable supplements and deceptive
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26 Jan 2013 at 7:32am
A new study powerfully validates important points I repeatedly asserted in my cholesterol videos - heart disease risk is strongly mediated by lifetime cholesterol levels (rather than end-of-life levels) and LDL in particular is a key causal factor in heart disease. This elegant research by Dr Brian Ference of Wayne State University also further damages
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11 Apr 2012 at 6:42am
If you have watched my video addressing the relationship between cholesterol and cancer, you know that I have attributed any observations of low cholesterol among cancer patients to reverse causation. In apparent contradiction of this view are the recently announced results of a study lead by Dr Paul Lavigne which calls into doubt the reverse
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1 Apr 2012 at 7:20am
Running a Cholesterol Confusionist Gauntlet, Part 10 – Drug-Fueled Delusions
Cholesterol confusionists comb the literature on the effects of drugs looking for anomalies that they can take out of context and blow out of proportion. Here’s an example of how this works.
On the left, you see an excerpt from Colpo’s
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27 Mar 2012 at 6:54am
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