98% of American Diets Potassium Deficient
Less than 2% of Americans achieve even the recommended minimum adequate intake of potassium, due primarily to inadequate plant food intake...
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Plant-Based Diets for Multiple Sclerosis
The distinguished neurologist Roy Swank‘s low saturated fat diet remains the “most effective treatment of multiple sclerosis ever..
Plant-Based Diets for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Plant-based diets may help rheumatoid arthritis by decreasing exposure to an inflammatory “Trojan horse” compound found in..
How Tumors Use Meat to Grow
Certain cancers—like breast cancer—can be thought of in part as an autoimmune disease. When people get heart or kidney transplants,..
How to Gain Weight on Diet Soda
Erythritol, the too-good-to-be-true nontoxic, low-calorie, tooth friendly sweetener that I profiled in my last blog post “Is There a..
Is There a Safe, Low-Calorie Sweetener?
The natural sweetener erythritol does not appear to carry the adverse effects associated with other low and non-caloric natural and..
Are Microgreens Healthier?
USDA researchers recently published a study assessing the nutrition content of 25 commercially available microgreens, seedlings of..
Aspartame: Fibromyalgia & Preterm Birth
When we learned how bad butter was, the food industry responded by giving us margarine, which turned out to be even worse. When dietary..
