by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 27, 2015 | Nutrition
Lifestyle changes that affect gut bacteria may help to prevent and treat auto-immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. More than 50 million Americans suffer from autoimmune diseases that look just like a person has an infection because laboratory...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 30, 2015 | Nutrition
A July 23, 2015 Gallup Poll shows that 21 percent of North Americans are trying to avoid gluten, a component of wheat, when fewer than one percent actually need to do so. If following a gluten-free diet causes people to consume fewer foods made with flour — such...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 16, 2015 | Nutrition
A study from McMaster University reported in the British Medical Journal showed that saturated fat is not associated with increased risk for arteriosclerosis (BMJ, August 11, 2015). The U.S. government-commissioned Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 9, 2015 | Nutrition
A study from Rush Medical School in Chicago showed that a special diet can reduce the risk for Alzheimer's disease by 53 percent in those who follow the diet rigorously, and by 35 percent in those who mostly follow it and cheat some of the time (Alzheimer’s...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 2, 2015 | Nutrition
1950s: British physician John Yudkin writes many articles showing that dietary sugar is associated with increased risk for cancers, heart attacks and death. 1960s: The chairman of nutrition at Harvard Medical School tells me directly and writes extensively that Yudkin...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jun 28, 2015 | Nutrition
A new study from the University of Southern California shows that restricting calories just five days a month for three months: • helped people lose weight, • reduced a number of risk factors for cancer, diabetes and heart attacks, and • improved markers for living a...
