FAM Diets and Foods: Research Guide

News Articles

Ketogenic Diet

• Does the Keto Diet Affect Sex Drive?: Medical News Today. April 27, 2022
• The Ketogenic Diet: A Detailed Beginner’s Guide to Keto: Healthline. October 22, 2020
• Ketogenic Diet: Is the Ultimate Low-carb Diet Good for You?: Harvard Health Blog. April 14, 2020
• As the Keto Diet Gains Popularity, Scientists Explain What We Do and Don’t Know: University of California San Francisco. August 30, 2018

Mediterranean Diet

• A Guide to Starting the Mediterranean Diet: Cooking Light. April 20, 2022

Plant-Based Diets

• Vegetarian and Meat-Eating Children Have Similar Growth and Nutrition but Not Weight, Study Finds: CNN. May 2, 2022
• Plant-Based Diets Decrease Risk of Severe COVID-19: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. May 2, 2022
• Hundreds Of US Colleges And Universities Set To Embrace Plant-Based Cafeteria Menus: Green Queen. April 22, 2022
• The Benefits of Eating a Plant-Based Diet: Discover Magazine. April 21, 2022
• How Are Plant-Based Proteins Stacking Up?: Progressive Grocer. April 14, 2022
• 12 Best New Plant-Based Restaurants in NYC: GrubStreet. September 27, 2021
• Trading Meat for Plant-based Foods Promotes Longevity: Today. August 31, 2021
• Berkeley’s Vegan Food Edict: It’s Time They Lay Off their Grass Habit: Turlock Journal. July 31, 2021
• Are You a Junk Food Vegan?: Minimalist Vegan. March 16, 2021
• Why vegan junk food may be even worse for your health: BBC Future. January 29, 2020
• The Vegan Race Wars: How the Mainstream Ignores Vegans of Color: Thrillist. January 26, 2018
• What’s the Best Dairy-Free Ice Cream? New York Magazine. July 20, 2021
• Why Eat Just Is On A Mission To Change How We Eat Food: Forbes. August 3, 2021
• Plant Based Food Sales Experience 8.1 Percent Growth Over Past Year:Cision. September 13, 2017

Anti-Inflammatory Diet

• Sophia Bush Doesn’t Buy Into Diets. Instead, She Fuels Up On Anti-Inflammatory Foods That Help Her Body Heal: Women’s Health. April 21, 2022

Peer Reviewed Articles

Ketogenic Diet

• Consumer Reports of “Keto Flu” Associated With the Ketogenic Diet: Frontiers in Nutrition. March 13, 2020

Mediterranean Diet

• Mediterranean‐Style Diet and Risk of Preeclampsia by Race in the Boston Birth Cohort: Journal of the American Heart Association. April 20, 2022
• Effect of a Nutritional and Behavioral Intervention on Energy-Reducing Mediterranean Diet Adherence Among Patients with Metabolic Syndrome: Interim Analysis of PREDIMED-Plus Randomized Clinical Trial: JAMA, October 2019
• Definition of the Mediterranean Diet; A Literature Review: Nutrients. November 5, 2015
• Dietary Patterns and Nutritional Adequacy in Mediterranean Country: British Journal of Nutrition. July 2009

Plant-Based Diets

• The Motivations, Struggles and Behaviors of Vegan Consumers: A Digital Consumer Insights Study of a Vegan Online Community: Universidad Catolica Portuguesa. January 2020
• Using a Temporal-Causal Network Model for Computational Analysis of the Effect of Social Media Influencers on the Worldwide Interest in Veganism: Fourth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. 2020
• Vegetarian-Based Dietary Patterns and their Relation with Inflammatory and Immune Biomarkers: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Advances in Nutrition. April 4, 2019
• #Vegan: A Critical Analysis of the Discourses Around Food, Identity and Responsibility from Vegan Instagram Influencers: Wageningen University. April 2019
• Veganism and Plant-based Eating: Analysis and Interplay Between Discursive Strategies and Lifestyle Consumerism: The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism. 2019
• Portraits of Veganism: A Comparative Discourse Analysis of a Second-Order Subculture: Societies. 2018
• Looking Backward/Moving Forward. Articulating a “Yes BUT…!” Response to Lifestyle Veganism, and Outlining Post-capitalist Futures in Critical Veganic Agriculture: Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive. 2018
• Understanding Veganism in Palgrave Studies in Animals and Social Problems. July 17, 2017
• Healthy Plant-Based Diet: What Does it Really Mean?: Health Promotion & Preventive Cardiology. July 2017
• A Plant-Based Diet for the Prevention and Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes: Journal of Geriatric Cardiology. May 2017
• Trending Cardiovascular Nutrition Controversies: Journal of the American College of Cardiology: March 7, 2017
• Vegan Men and Hybrid Masculinity: Journal of Gender Studies. February 2017
• From a Moral Consumption Ethos to an Apolitical Consumption Trend: The Role of Media and Celebrities in Structuring the Rise of Veganism: OSUVA. 2017
• Attached to Meat? (Un)Willingness and Intentions to Adopt a More Plant-based Diet: Appetite. December 2015
• Southern Dietary Pattern is Associated With Hazard of Acute Coronary Heart Disease in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study: Circulation. September 2015
• Meat, Beyond the Plate. Data-driven Hypotheses for Understanding Consumer Willingness to Adopt a More Plant-based Diet: Appetite. July 2015
• Meat and Masculinity Among Young Chinese, Turkish and Dutch Adults in the Netherlands: Appetite. June 1, 2015
• Veganism, Identity and the Quest for Authenticity: Food, Culture & Society. April 29, 2015
• Flexitarianism: Decarbonising through Flexible Vegetarianism: Renewable Energy. July 2014
• Nutritional Updates for Physicians: Plant-Based Diets: The Permanente Journal. Spring 2013
• Vegetarian Diets, Low-meat Diets and Health: A Review: Public Health and Nutrition. April 3, 2012
• Diversifying Meat Consumption Patterns: Consumers’ Self-reported Past Behaviour and Intentions for Change. Meat Science. September 2012
• The Water Footprint of Soy Milk and Soy Burger and Equivalent Animal Products: Ecological Indicators: July 2012
• Anti-consumption as Tactical Resistance: Anarchism, Subculture, and Activist Strategy: Journal of Consumer Culture. April 23, 2012
• A Global Assessment of the Water Footprint of Farm Animal Products: Ecosystems. January 24, 2012
• Taking Food Public: Routledge. 2012
• Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism: University of California Press. November 2011
• Protein Efficiency per Unit Energy and per Unit Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Potential Contribution of Diet Choices to Climate Change Mitigation: Food Policy: October 2011
• On the Merits of Plant-based Proteins for Global Food Security: Marrying Macro and Micro Perspectives: Ecological Economics. May 2011
• Forecasting Potential Global Environmental Costs of Livestock Production 2000-2050: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. October 26, 2010
• Branding, Celebritization and the Lifestyle Expert: Cultural Studies. July 22, 2010
• Vegetarian Diets: What Do We Know of their Effects on Common Chronic diseases?: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. May 2009
• Climate Benefits of Changing Diet: Climatic Change. February 4, 2009
• Rising Consumption of Meat and Milk in Developing Countries Has Created a New Food Revolution: The Journal of Nutrition: November 1, 2003
• Sustainability of Meat-based and Plant-based Diets and the Environment: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. September 2003
• The Contribution of Vegetarian Diets to Health and Disease: A Paradigm Shift?: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. September 2003
• Position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada: Vegetarian diets: Journal of the American Dietetic Association. June 2003
• Optimal Diets for Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease: Journal of the American Medical Association: November 27, 2002
• A Global Response to a Global Problem: The Epidemic of Overnutrition: Bulletin of the World Health Organization: 2002
• Livestock to 2020: The Next Food Revolution: Outlook on Agriculture. March 1, 2001
• The Nutrition Transition and Its Relationship to Demographic Change: Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries. 2001
• Changes in Myocardial Perfusion Abnormalities by Positron Emission Tomography After Long-term, Intense Risk Factor Modification: Journal of the American Medical Association: September 20, 1995
• Can Lifestyle Changes Reverse Coronary Heart Disease? The Lifestyle Heart Trial: Lancet. July 1990

Red Meat

• Red Meat Intake and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Among Us Men: Prospective Cohort Study: BMJ. December 2, 2020

Medicinal Properties of Specific Foods

Alliums (Garlic, Onion, Shallot, etc.)

• Beneficial Effects of Organosulfur Compounds from Allium cepa on Gut Health: A Systematic Review: Foods. July 21, 2021
• Effects of Inulin on Calcium Metabolism and Bone Health: International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research. February 22, 2021
• Garlic: Much More Than a Common Spice: Foods. October 26, 2020
• Antiviral Potential of Garlic (Allium sativum) and its Organosulfur Compounds: A Systematic Update of Pre-clinical and Clinical Data: Trends in Food Science & Technology. October 2020
• Antimicrobial Properties of Hydrophobic Compounds in Garlic: Allicin, Vinyldithiin, Ajoene and Diallyl Polysulfides: Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine. December 27, 2019
• Phytochemical Characteristics and Antimicrobial Activity of Australian Grown Garlic (Allium Sativum L.) Cultivars: Foods. August 23, 2019
• Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Properties of Various Greek Garlic Genotypes: Food Chemistry. April 15, 2018
• Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activities of Fresh Garlic and Aged Garlic By-Products Extracted with Different Solvents: Food Science and Biotechnology. December 12, 2017
• The Analysis of Onion and Garlic: Journal of Chromatography A. April 2006
• Health Effects of Garlic: American Family Physician. July 1, 2005
• Antioxidant Activities of Garlic (Allum sativum L.) with Growing Districts: Food Science and Biotechnology. February 28, 2005
• A Historical Perspective on Garlic and Cancer: The Journal of Nutrition. March 1, 2001

Bananas

• Dietary Fiber, Starch, and Sugars in Bananas at Different Stages of Ripeness in the Retail Market: PLoS ONE. July 8, 2021
• Health Benefits of Green Banana Consumption: A Systematic Review: Nutrients. May 29, 2019

Chia Seeds

• The Chemical Composition and Nutritional Value of Chia Seeds—Current State of Knowledge: Nutrients. May 31, 2019

Cocoa

• Cocoa Polyphenols and Gut Microbiota Interplay: Bioavailability, Prebiotic Effect, and Impact on Human Health: Nutrients. June 27, 2020

Flaxseed

• Dietary Flaxseed as a Strategy for Improving Human Health: Nutrients. May 25, 2019

Mushrooms

• Health-Promoting Properties of Medicinal Mushrooms and Their Bioactive Compounds for the COVID-19 Era—An Appraisal: Do the Pro-Health Claims Measure Up?: Molecules. April 1, 2022
• What’s for Dinner this Time?: DNA Authentication of “Wild Mushrooms” in Food Products Sold in the USA: PeerJ. August 2, 2021
• Psilocybin: From Ancient Magic to Modern Medicine: The Journal of Antibiotics. May 12, 2020
• Medicinal Mushroom: Boon for Therapeutic Applications: 3 Biotech. July 23, 2018
• Efficient CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Disruption System in Edible-Medicinal Mushroom Cordyceps militaris: Frontiers in Microbiology. June 12, 2018
• Antioxidant Activity of Ethanol Extract of Daedaleopsis nitida Medicinal Mushroom from Turkey: Mycopath. 2018
• Medicinal Mushrooms: Ancient Remedies Meet Modern Science: Integrative Medicine. February 2014

Probiotics

• Prebiotic Galacto-Oligosaccharides Impact Stool Frequency and Fecal Microbiota in Self-Reported Constipated Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial: Nutrients. January 12, 2022
• Plant Prebiotics and Their Role in the Amelioration of Diseases: Biomolecules. March 16, 2021
• Effects of Probiotics on the Lipid Profile: Systematic Review: Journal Vascular Brasileiro. June 13, 2019.

Spices

• Curcumin: A Review of Its Effects on Human Health: Foods. October 22, 2017
• Curcumin has Bright Prospects for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Current Pharmaceutical Design. February 2009
• Curcumin Therapy in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Pilot Study: Digestive Diseases and Sciences. November 2005

Functional Beverages

• The Impacts of Young Consumers’ Health Values on Functional Beverages Purchase Intentions: International Journal of Environmental Research and Publish Health. April 24, 2020
• Ready to Use Therapeutical Beverages: Focus on Functional Beverages Containing Probiotics, Prebiotics and Synbiotics: Beverages. February 11, 2020
• Kombucha: A Systematic Review of the Empirical Evidence of Human Health Benefit: Annals of Epidemiology. February 2019
• Role of Functional Beverages on Sport Performance and Recovery: Nutrients. August 14, 2018
• Adolescent Consumption of Sports Drinks: Pediatrics. June 2018

Books

• The Mediterranean Diets in Health and Disease: Gene A. Spiller. (1991)

Cookbooks

• Plant Food is Medicine: A Collection of Over 100 Plant-Based & Gluten-Free Recipes: Natasha McKeon (2021)
• Food As Medicine: 150 Plant-Based Recipes for Optimal Health, Disease Prevention, and Management of Chronic Illness: Sue Radd. (2020)
• Eat to Beat Illness: 80 Simple, Delicious Recipes Inspired by the Science of Food as Medicine: Dr. Rupy Aujla. (2019)
• Meals That Heal: 100+ Everyday Anti-Inflammatory Recipes in 30 Minutes or Less: Carolyn Williams Ph.D. RD. (2019)
• Joy’s Simple Food Remedies: Tasty Cures for Whatever’s Ailing You: Joy Bauer MS RDN CDN. (2018)
• Rheumatoid Arthritis – The Simple Anti Inflammatory Recipe Book for a Healthy Immune System: 28 Day Meal Plans: Ross Lennox. (2018)
• Delicious Medicine: The Healing Power of Food: Tina “The Medicine Chef” Martini. (2018) 
• The Complete Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Beginners: A No-Stress Meal Plan with Easy Recipes to Heal the Immune System: Dorothy Calimeris.(2017)
• Let Food be Your Medicine Cookbook: Recipes Proven to Prevent or Reverse Disease: Don Colbert MD. (2017)
• Food as Medicine Everyday: Reclaim Your Health with Whole Foods: ND Julie Briley, ND Courtney Jackson. (2016)
• The Healing Foods Cookbook: Vegan Recipes to Heal and Prevent Diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Cancer, and More: Gary Null Ph.D. (2016)
• The Essential Ayurvedic Cookbook: 200 Recipes for Health, Wellness and Balance: Lois Leonhardi. (2015)
• Naturally Nourished: Ali Miller RD LD CDE. (2015)
• Joy Bauer’s Food Cures: Eat Right to Get Healthier, Look Younger, and Add Years to Your Life:  Joy Bauer. (2011)
• ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover’s Road Map to Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Getting Really Healthy: John La Puma and Rebecca Powell Marx (2008)