Sick animals can lead to sick people.

As you age, your blood pressure tends to get higher.

You know you're grown up when summer is just a season.

A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.

Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.

As a physician specializing in nutrition, my priority is to the health of the public.

Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.

We should all be eating fruits and vegetables as if our lives depend on it - because they do.

Good news for orange lovers: citrus fruit intake has been associated with reduced stroke risk.

Breast cancer is thought to use cholesterol to help the cancer migrate and invade more tissue.

Walking at a moderate pace for an hour a day is considered a moderately intense level of exercise.

We need to boost our intake of healthy plant foods and reduce our dependence on animal-based foods.

Be a shining role model of the best qualities humane eating embodies: caring, compassion, and empathy.

Without enough nitric oxide, your arteries can stiffen, raising blood pressure and your risk of heart attack.

I ask the internist why there aren't more Ornish-like studies. 'There aren't any financial interests involved.'

Five hours a week of vigorous aerobic exercise can lower estrogen and progesterone exposure by about 20 per cent.

For women, eating just two handfuls of nuts a week may extend their lives as much as by jogging four hours a week.

A massive stroke may kill you instantly, while a series of mini-strokes may disable and kill you over several years.

Milk contains growth hormones designed by Mother Nature to put a few hundred pounds on a baby calf within a few months.

The most ethical diet just so happens to be the most environmentally sound diet and just so happens to be the healthiest.

A small minority of strokes are hemorrhagic strokes, which are caused by bleeding into the brain when a blood vessel bursts.

Up to a thousand milligrams of caffeine is considered safe for most people, which translates into about 10 cups of coffee a day.

Berries have a lot of soluble fiber. That's why they gel up when you're making your Thanksgiving cranberry sauce, with the pectin.

Oregano is such an antioxidant-rich herb that researchers decided to see if it could reduce the DNA-damaging effects of radiation.

When any fat is heated to frying temperatures, toxic volatile chemicals that can cause genetic mutations are released into the air.

You can actually take people with these precancerous lesions, and basically paint black raspberries on them, and they nearly vanish.

Unhealthy meals don't just cause internal damage decades down the road, but right here and now, within hours of going into your mouth.

Most of us know that the hormone melatonin helps regulate our sleep. But it also seems to play another role - suppressing cancer growth.

Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.

Most Alzheimer's sufferers aren't diagnosed until their 70s. However, we now know that their brains began deteriorating long before that.

Nutrition is an exciting, dynamic field - there are more than 10,000 articles published on human nutrition in medical journals every year.

Remove all the junk from one's house. Then one doesn't have to deal with the temptation. If you get hungry enough, you will eat that apple.

About a quarter of lung cancer cases occur in people who have never smoked. One cause may be another potential carcinogen: fumes from frying.

Sadly, commercially-produced, frozen broccoli lacks the ability to form sulforaphane because the vegetables are flash-cooked before they are frozen.

In nature, disease-causing strains of avian influenza rarely spread far because the birds sicken and die before they can fly to spread it to others.

For many children, it's seeing a beloved relative ill and in pain that leads them to want to become doctors. But, for me, it was watching my grandma get better.

Eating a varied plant-based diet - and avoiding all meat, fish, chicken and dairy products - may have much to recommend it, but it's certainly not for everyone.

Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie.

Tobacco smoke contains chemicals that weaken the body's immune system, making it more susceptible to disease and handicapping its ability to destroy cancer cells.

Women with a higher intake of berries appeared to have delayed cognitive aging by 2.5 years. So it's like your brain is 2.5 years younger if you're eating berries.

One of the reasons it's so difficult to study the relationship between diet and disease is because many dietary behaviors are associated with non-dietary behaviors.

Certain foods, such as meat, appear to harbour toxic bacteria - known as endotoxins - that can trigger inflammation in your arteries, even when food is fully cooked.

Tart cherries lower the levels of inflammation in the body, which may be particularly useful for those who suffer from gout. They have also been used to improve sleep.

Even if you were to start drinking milk during adolescence in an attempt to bolster peak bone mass, it probably wouldn't reduce your chances of fracture later in life.

While positive mental states may be associated with less stress and more resilience to infection, positive well-being might also be accompanied by a healthy lifestyle.

Studies on cherries, raspberries and strawberries suggest that most of their nutrition is retained when they're frozen, so it's a good idea to keep some in the freezer.

You can be in excellent physical shape, with low cholesterol, a healthy body weight and good overall physical fitness - but that doesn't necessarily mean you're healthy.

Although even light exercise is associated with a lowered risk of some other types of cancer, for breast cancer, it appears that leisurely strolls don't appear to cut it.

Berries are the healthiest fruit, offering potential protection against cancer and heart disease, boosting the immune system and acting as a guard for the liver and brain.

The benefits of a healthier diet are far-reaching because they also equate to fewer animals being bred into inhumane factory farm conditions and fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

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