Alzheimer’s Disease: Up to half of cases potentially preventable
November was proclaimed National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, in recognition of the five million Americans stricken with the..
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Talking Turkey: 9 out of 10 retail turkey samples contaminated with fecal bacteria
Ben Franklin’s tree-perching “Bird of Courage” has been transformed into a flightless butterball so top-heavy they are physically..
Nutrition Education in Medicine: a Doctor a Day Keeps the Apples Away
This month in the journal Academic Medicine yet another editorial was published decrying the sorry state of nutrition knowledge in medical..
Dietary Guideline Graphics: From the Food Pyramid to My Plate, Harvard’s Healthy Eating Plate, and PCRM’s Power Plate
In last week’s New England Journal of Medicine, Walter Willett, chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard, and David Ludwig,..
The Best Foods: test your nutrition knowledge
Today I’m highlighting twenty questions from twenty NutritionFacts.org “best of” videos ranking different classes of foods...
Supreme Court case: meat industry sues to keep downed animals in food supply
This week I participated in a press briefing to discuss National Meat Association v. Harris, a case appearing before the Supreme Court next..
Foie gras ban in California: human health implications
Originally featured on One Green Planet. The New York Times recently ran a story on the upcoming foie gras ban in California. July 1, 2012,..
