by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 5, 2023 | Nutrition
A healthful diet can help to prevent diseases and prolong life, but snacking on unhealthful foods can negate your diet efforts even if your regular meals are healthful. Highly-processed, sugar-added snacks can make you hungrier so you eat more food and have higher...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 23, 2023 | Nutrition
I recently reported on a UK-based study which found that eating ultra-processed foods was associated with a higher risk of developing cancer, particularly ovarian cancer, breast cancer and brain cancers (EClinicalMedicine, Jan 31, 2023 31;56:101840). Now the French...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 14, 2023 | Nutrition
There are healthful and harmful fats and healthful and harmful carbohydrates. It makes no sense to try to restrict either most fats or most carbohydrates. You need soluble fiber and resistant starch carbohydrates to help prevent heart attacks and prolong your life,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 1, 2023 | Nutrition
A UK-based study followed the amounts of ultra-processed foods consumed by 200,000 middle-aged adults for 10 years (EClinicalMedicine, Jan 31, 2023 31;56:101840). The authors found that eating ultra-processed foods was associated with a higher risk of developing...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 25, 2023 | Nutrition
About 65 percent of North American adults drink sugar-sweetened beverages every day (NCHS Data Brief, No 270, 2017). Two recent studies show how sugared drinks are associated with liver damage and kidney stones: • A study of nearly 100,000 postmenopausal women...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 19, 2023 | Nutrition
Eating fermented foods is healthful because they contain many short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) that can reduce inflammation and lower high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high insulin and high blood sugar levels (Gut Microbiome, May 27, 2023;4 (e11):1–16). A...
