Peppers and Parkinson’s: The Benefits of Smoking Without the Risks?

Описание: Might the nicotine content in nightshade vegetables—tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, and bell peppers—protect against Parkinson’s disease?

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Benefits of smoking? See the tobacco industry gloat in my previous video: Is Something in Tobacco Protective Against Parkinson’s Disease? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Is-so...)

Bell peppers may actually be healthiest raw. See Best Cooking Method (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/best-....

And if you eat tomato products, choose whole, crushed, or diced tomatoes instead of tomato sauce, purée, or paste. Why? See Inhibiting Platelet Activation with Tomato Seeds (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Inhib....

My in-depth video series on the Mediterranean Diet can be found here for those interested:
• Why Was Heart Disease Rare in the Mediterranean? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Why-W...)
• The Mediterranean Diet or a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/The-M...)
• PREDIMED: Does Eating Nuts Prevent Strokes? (http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/pred...)
• Which Parts of the Mediterranean Diet Extended Life? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/which...)
• Do Flexitarians Live Longer? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-fl...)
• Improving on the Mediterranean Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/impro...)
• Mediterranean Diet and Atherosclerosis (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/medit...)

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/peppe... and he'll try to answer it!

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