MICHAEL GREGER

Physical activity is considered a promising preventive measure against breast cancer - not only because it helps with weight control but because exercise tends to lower circulating estrogen levels.

Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.

You can be in excellent physical shape, with low cholesterol, a healthy body weight and good overall physical fitness - but that doesn't necessarily mean you're healthy.

A massive stroke may kill you instantly, while a series of mini-strokes may disable and kill you over several years.

A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.

A small minority of strokes are hemorrhagic strokes, which are caused by bleeding into the brain when a blood vessel bursts.

About a quarter of lung cancer cases occur in people who have never smoked. One cause may be another potential carcinogen: fumes from frying.

As a physician specializing in nutrition, my priority is to the health of the public.

As you age, your blood pressure tends to get higher.

Berries have a lot of soluble fiber. That's why they gel up when you're making your Thanksgiving cranberry sauce, with the pectin.

Breast cancer is thought to use cholesterol to help the cancer migrate and invade more tissue.

Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.

Five hours a week of vigorous aerobic exercise can lower estrogen and progesterone exposure by about 20 per cent.

For women, eating just two handfuls of nuts a week may extend their lives as much as by jogging four hours a week.

Good news for orange lovers: citrus fruit intake has been associated with reduced stroke risk.

In nature, disease-causing strains of avian influenza rarely spread far because the birds sicken and die before they can fly to spread it to others.

Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.

Milk contains growth hormones designed by Mother Nature to put a few hundred pounds on a baby calf within a few months.

Most Alzheimer's sufferers aren't diagnosed until their 70s. However, we now know that their brains began deteriorating long before that.

Most of us know that the hormone melatonin helps regulate our sleep. But it also seems to play another role - suppressing cancer growth.

Nutrition is an exciting, dynamic field - there are more than 10,000 articles published on human nutrition in medical journals every year.

Oregano is such an antioxidant-rich herb that researchers decided to see if it could reduce the DNA-damaging effects of radiation.

Remove all the junk from one's house. Then one doesn't have to deal with the temptation. If you get hungry enough, you will eat that apple.

Sadly, commercially-produced, frozen broccoli lacks the ability to form sulforaphane because the vegetables are flash-cooked before they are frozen.

Sick animals can lead to sick people.