by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 14, 2020 | Nutrition
Probiotics are foods or supplements containing healthful bacteria that pass to your colon when you eat them. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health reports that close to four million adults in the United States use probiotics for weight loss,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 8, 2020 | Nutrition
Two highly-respected Harvard professors, Dr. Walter C. Willett and Dr. David S. Ludwig, think that North Americans don’t need to drink milk (N Engl J Med, Feb 13, 2020; 382:644-654). An earlier comprehensive review of the world’s literature came to the...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 2, 2020 | Nutrition
If you are trying to control your weight, you should not skip breakfast because the food that you eat in the morning causes you to burn more than two and a half times as many calories as the food you eat at night (J End and Metab, March 2020;105(3):dgz311). The...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 9, 2020 | Nutrition
A study in mice showed that increasing dietary protein from 15 percent to 46 percent of calories caused the mice to develop 30 percent more arterial plaques than mice on their normal-protein diet, even though they did not gain more weight (Nature Metabolism, Jan 23,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 7, 2020 | Nutrition
A study of 5571 adults found that people who have higher blood levels of vitamin B12 are more likely to die prematurely (JAMA Netw Open, 2020;3(1):e1919274). Compared to those with lower B12 blood levels, people with higher B12 levels (>455.41 pg/mL) were likely...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 18, 2020 | Nutrition
Two new studies add to the huge body of research showing that perhaps the most important dietary recommendation is to eat lots of fiber, which is found in plants. The first study is a review of 185 prospective studies and 58 clinical trials of 4,635 people followed...
