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Diet and lifestyle play huge roles in colorectal cancer prevention
If you’ve gotten the message that you should incorporate 30 minutes a day of moderate physical activity into your workday to reduce the health risks associated with inactivity, good job. Keep taking the stairs and walking as much as possible.
But don’t stop there. Other [...]
“For the last 40 years I’ve directed a series of studies showing how powerful changes in diet and lifestyle can not only prevent disease, but help reverse it,” says Dr. Dean Ornish, creator of the UCLA Health Ornish Lifestyle Medicine program. Pictured [...]
One-third of patients, more commonly women, complain of bloating. Bloating is an uncomfortable pressure in the abdomen caused by excess gas.
What causes gas and bloating?
In certain foods, small sugars can quickly move through the gut. The good bacteria that live there ferment [...]
Dear Doctors: Can the food we eat affect chronic inflammation in the body?
In our previous column, we addressed the first half of a two-part question about inflammation – what is it, and can it be [...]
Dear Doctors: It seems as though we’re hearing more and more about inflammation and how it causes disease. What is inflammation and how does it work? And is it really possible that what you eat makes a difference?
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Plant-based diets are associated with numerous health benefits, but it's not so easy for meat eaters to suddenly drop foods they're used to eating daily.
Certain foods can help ease that transition, says UCLA senior dietitian Dana Hunnes, [...]