Plants Release an Appetite-Suppressing Hormone

Plants Release an Appetite-Suppressing Hormone

When you are trying to lose excess weight, eat lots of leafy green vegetables. Researchers at Imperial College in London found that high-fiber foods from plants help people lose weight by causing the intestines to release an appetite-suppressing gut hormone called PYY...
Plants Release an Appetite-Suppressing Hormone

Grass-Fed Beef for Vitamin K2?

Recent interest in vitamin K2 has led advocates of grass-fed beef to focus on its vitamin K2 content (J of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, 2006;25;54(2):463-7) . Sellers of cow’s meat either let their cows eat grass, or they can make the cows fatter and...
Plants Release an Appetite-Suppressing Hormone

Nitrates: One Reason to Eat Lots of Vegetables

Nitrates from the foods you eat can be converted in your body to nitric oxide, which widens blood vessels to increase blood flow throughout your body, to improve exercise tolerance and to help prevent heart disease (Med Sci Sports Exerc, Feb 1, 2021;53(2):280-294;...