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Integumentary System

Burns

Overview and Risk Factors Burn injuries are among the leading causes of accidental death. Every year, more than 1 million people in the United States suffer burn injuries, and approximately 50,000 require hospitalization. Hospital stays may be long-term and may involve multiple surgical...
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Psychiatric Conditions

Insomnia

Overview and Risk Factors Insomnia is characterized by difficulties in initiating sleep, maintaining sleep, or feeling restored after sleep. It is the most common sleep disorder in the United States, affecting about one-third of adults at some point in their lives. Approximately 10% of those with...
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Bone, Joint, Connective Tissue, and Rheumatic Disease, Bone, Joint, Connective Tissue, and Rheumatic Disease

China Report: Osteoporosis

Do we need more calcium in order to avoid osteoporosis, the progres sive thinning of bones in the elderly? In the West we are certainly told so. The dairy industry vigorously promotes the suggestion that without its products we face an unpleasant and probably shrunken future.

Yet the...
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Gastrointestinal Disorders

Cirrhosis

Overview and Risk Factors Cirrhosis is a chronic, irreversible liver disease that results from prolonged hepatocellular injury. Ultimately, the liver architecture is destroyed with regenerating hepatocytes and increased fibrosis, and the organ's synthetic and metabolic functions are progressively...
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Endocrinology and Metabolism

Diabetes Mellitus

Overview and Risk Factors Diabetes mellitus (DM) includes a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia, which is attributable to insulin deficiency and/or insulin resistance. It leads to a wide range of complications and, when poorly controlled, can contribute to...
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Gastrointestinal Disorders

Viral Hepatitis

Overview Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver that results in diffuse hepatic cell death and may lead to areas of liver necrosis. It can be acute or chronic (lasting > 6 months) and may progress to fulminant liver failure, cirrhosis, and/or hepatocellular carcinoma. The most common...
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Cardiovascular, Cardiovascular

Reversing Heart Disease with Diet

I would like to introduce you to my friend Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., a man you will be hearing a lot more about in coming years. Having won a gold medal (Yale Crew team) in the 1956 Olympics, Dr. Esselstyn quickly advanced to a distinguished career in surgery at the renowned Cleveland Clinic...
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Oncology, Oncology

China Report - Dietary Fiber: Preventing Cancer in China

The cancer-prevention properties of dietary fiber are hardly a secret. Indeed, in modern times the late Dr. Denis Burkitt (of Burkitt's Lymphoma fame) made the so-called "fiber story" famous in his work among native Africans. This British researcher, with his colleagues Alan Walker and...
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Professional Accreditation, Credentials and Licensure

by T. Colin Campbell, PhD

For almost 50 years, I have designed and directed large research projects in the areas of nutrition and health.  As a result of this experience, I have come to realize that most nutrition and health information is very misleading. It is no coincidence that we now have a health care crisis which is very expensive and which compromises the quality of life for millions of Americans and others living on a Western-style diet. . . READ FULL STATEMENT >>

Dietary intervention for disease reversal, weight loss and general health. Connect with others to get inspired or find out more about reversing disease with diet. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER OR LOG IN.

 

Sometimes the most elegant solution is the most simple. Why plant-based nutrition? Why not? Why develop heart disease? Cancer? Diabetes? The epidemic of chronic, degenerative disease that is sweeping the western world can not only be stopped, it can be reversed. The power lies in the hands of the consumer, in the choices we make about what to put on our plates.