by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 14, 2018 | Nutrition
Many research papers have associated artificial sweeteners with increased risk for cancer, weight gain and diabetes, but nobody yet has proven that artificial sweeteners cause these conditions. Researchers in Israel, Singapore and Italy used genetically modified...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 12, 2018 | Nutrition
Researchers followed 38,981 adults for 16 years (1999-2014) and found that those who ate the most vegetables and the widest variety of vegetables, particularly dark green vegetables, had the lowest rate of heart attacks and heart disease (Nutrition Journal, July 10,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 16, 2017 | Fitness
Good bacteria that live in your gut can help to keep you healthy, while the bad colon bacteria increase your risk for heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, certain cancers and autoimmune diseases. Researchers have focused mainly on how diet affects the growth of good and...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 26, 2017 | Other Diseases & Conditions
A diet that is high in either red meat or sugar, or both, increases the growth in the colon of bacteria called Fusobacterium nucleatum that appears to suppress a person’s immunity to increase the growth of cancer cells in the colon. A prospective study of...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 13, 2017 | Other Diseases & Conditions
The death rate from all cancers in the United States has dropped steadily since 1991 (CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, published online Jan 4, 2017). The total drop of 25 percent, or 2.1 million fewer cancer deaths over the past 25 years, is explained largely...
