What Are the Best Foods?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2020-03-30

A review of reviews on the health effects of animal foods versus plant foods.

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This reminds me of my What Are the Healthiest Foods? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-are-the-healthiest-foods/) video, helpful for some broad takeaways.

If you missed the previous video, check out What Are the Best Beverages? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-are-the-best-beverages).

PS: The omega-3s video I mentioned is: Should Vegans Take DHA to Preserve Brain Function? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/should-vegans-take-dha-to-preserve-brain-function/).

For more on eggs, see, for example:
• Who Says Eggs Aren’t Healthy or Safe? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/who-says-eggs-arent-healthy-or-safe)
• How the Egg Board Designs Misleading Studies (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-the-egg-board-designs-misleading-studies/)
• When Low Risk Means High Risk (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/when-low-risk-means-high-risk)
• Eggs and Arterial Function (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/eggs-and-arterial-function)
• Debunking Egg Industry Myths (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/debunking-egg-industry-myths)
• Eggs and Diabetes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/eggs-and-diabetes)
• Egg Industry Response to Choline and TMAO (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/egg-industry-response-to-choline-and-tmao)
• How Our Gut Bacteria Can Use Eggs to Accelerate Cancer (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/How-Our-Gut-Bacteria-Can-Use-Eggs-to-Accelerate-Cancer)
• Eggs and Breast Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eggs-and-breast-cancer)

For more on fish, see, for example:
• Fish Consumption and Suicide (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/fish-consumption-and-suicide)
• Fish and Diabetes (https://www.nutritionfacts.org/video/fish-and-diabetes)
• California Children Are Contaminated (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/california-children-are-contaminated)
• How Long to Detox from Fish Before Pregnancy (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-long-to-detox-from-fish-before-pregnancy)
• Omega 3’s and the Eskimo Fish Tale (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/omega-3s-and-the-eskimo-fish-tale)
• Is Fish “Brain Food” for Older Adults? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/fish-brain-food-older-adults)

For more on poultry, see, for example:
• Chicken Dioxins, Viruses, or Antibiotics? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/chicken-dioxins-viruses-or-antibiotics/)
• Past the Age of Miracles: Facing a Post-Antibiotic Age (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/past-the-age-of-miracles-facing-a-post-antibiotic-age/)
• Superbugs in Conventional vs. Organic Chicken (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/superbugs-in-conventional-vs-organic-chicken/)
• Urinary Tract Infections from Eating Chicken (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/urinary-tract-infections-from-eating-chicken)
• What About Kosher and Organic Chicken? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-about-kosher-and-organic-chicken)
• Chicken Big: Poultry and Obesity (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Chicken-Big-Poultry-and-Obesity)
• The Role of Poultry Viruses in Human Cancers (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-poultry-viruses-in-human-cancers)

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-Michael Greger, MD FACLM

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