Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ DESCRIPTION: Survey reveals the vast majority of Americans are not eating healthy even by U.S. dietary guideline standards. Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/nations-diet-in-crisis/ and I'll try to answer it! Please feel free to post any ask-the-doctor type questions here in the comments section and I'd be happy to try to answer them. Be sure to check out all the videos on dietary guidelines (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/dietary-guidelines/), children (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/children/) and those sneaky empty calories (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/empty-calories/). And don't forget, there are 1,449 subjects (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/) covered in my other videos--please feel free to explore them! https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ Donate at DESCRIPTION: Much of our fish supply is so polluted that algae-derived sources of long chain omega-3 fatty acids may be safest option. Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/the-problem-with-organic-salmon/ and I'll try to answer it! And check out the other videos on fish (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/fish/) and industrial toxins (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/industrial-toxins/). Also, there are 1,449 other subjects (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/) covered in the rest of my videos--please feel free to explore them as well! And check out my associated blog post EPA dioxin limit has National Chicken Council worried products could be declared "unfit for consumption". (http://nutritionfacts.org/2012/01/05/epa-dioxin-limit-has-national-chicken-council-worried-products-could-be-declared-%e2%80%9cunfit-for-consumption%e2%80%9d/) https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Why should we wait ten minutes after chopping or crushing garlic before we cook it unless we’re going in for elective surgery within the next week? Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ For background on what platelets are, what they do, and why we should care, see Inhibiting Platelet Aggregation with Berries (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/inhibiting-platelet-aggregation-with-berries) and Inhibiting Platelet Activation with Tomato Seeds (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/inhibiting-platelet-activation-with-tomato-seeds). What else can garlic do? Check out: • Cancer, Interrupted: Garlic and Flavonoids (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/cancer-interrupted-garlic-flavonoids) • Garlic and Raisins to Prevent Premature Birth (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/garlic-and-raisins-to-prevent-premature-birth) • #1 Anticancer Vegetable (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/1-anticancer-vegetable) • Food Synergy (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-synergy) • Benefits of Garlic Powder for Heart Disease (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-garlic-powder-for-heart-disease) • Benefits of Garlic for Fighting Cancer and the Common Cold (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-garlic-for-fighting-cancer-and-the-common-cold) What was that about mustard powder boosting the benefits of broccoli? See my Second Strategy to Cooking Broccoli (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/second-strategy-to-cooking-broccoli) video. Broccoli is also a potent activator of our liver’s detoxifying enzymes. Learn more in my Best Food to Counter the Effects of Air Pollution video (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/best-food-to-counter-the-effects-of-air-pollution/). Wondering whether it’s better to cook vegetables or eat them raw? See Best Cooking Method (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/best-cooking-method/) and, for a surprise update, The Best Way to Cook Sweet Potatoes (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-best-way-to-cook-sweet-potatoes/). And since this video originally came out, I’ve also added: Best Way to Cook Vegetables (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/best-way-to-cook-vegetables/), How to Cook Greens (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-cook-greens/), and Does Pressure Cooking Preserve Nutrients? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-pressure-cooking-preserve-nutrients/) Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flashback-friday-inhibiting-platelet-activation-with-garlic-onions and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at https://nutritionfacts.org/video/flashback-friday-inhibiting-platelet-activation-with-garlic-onions. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgements for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Images thanks to HolgersFotografie via Pixabay. Captions for this video are available in several languages. To find yours, click on the settings wheel on the lower-right of the video and then "Subtitles/CC." Do you have feedback about the translations in this video? Please share it here along with the title of the video and language: https://nutritionfacts.zendesk.com/hc/requests/new https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org

Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org's free e-newsletter and receive a recipe from Dr. Greger's brand-new cookbook, The How Not to Diet Cookbook: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ DESCRIPTION: Plant-based diets may be effective for the treatment of fibromyalgia, a painful condition suffered by millions. One thing all sufferers should consider is an aspartame-free trial period (see http://nutritionfacts.org/video/aspartame-induced-fibromyalgia/). Why do plant-based diets help with chronic pain conditions? There may be a number of reasons why vegetarians only have about half the odds of being on painkiller drugs (see http://nutritionfacts.org/video/say-no-to-drugs-by-saying-yes-to-more-plants/). Potentially inflammatory compounds in animal products include Neu5Gc (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-inflammatory-meat-molecule-neu5gc/), endotoxins (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-exogenous-endotoxin-theory/ ), and animal proteins (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/diet-rheumatoid-arthritis/). On the other hand maybe the potassium in plant foods modulates adrenal function? See my video Potassium and Autoimmune Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/potassium-and-autoimmune-disease/). If it is the Anti-Inflammatory Antioxidants (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-inflammatory-antioxidants/), then that could certainly help explain it. See Antioxidant Power of Plant Foods Versus Animal Foods (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/antioxidant-power-of-plant-foods-versus-animal-foods/). Vegetarian and raw vegan diets appear effective, but what about just mostly vegetarian diets or mostly raw vegan diets? That's the subject of my next NutritionFacts.org video Fibromyalgia vs. Mostly Raw & Mostly Vegetarian Diets (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fibromyalgia-vs-mostly-raw-mostly-vegetarian-diets/). Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fibromyalgia-vs-vegetarian-raw-vegan-diets/ and he'll try to answer it! Image Credit: Daderot via Wikimedia; and twicepix, ericarhiannon, and talksrealfast via Flickr. https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books (including the NEW How Not to Diet Cookbook): https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org