Cantaloupe and Listeria: An Estimated 85% of Cases Are from Deli Meats, Not Melons
More than a dozen deaths have been reported in the national outbreak of listeriosis linked...
Month: September 2011
How Big Is the Cancer Risk from Processed Meat?
More than a dozen deaths have been reported in the national outbreak of listeriosis linked to cantaloupes from a farm in Colorado, making it the third deadliest recorded Listeria outbreak in U.S. history, after a 1985 outbreak linked to cheese,...
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Bowel Movements: The Scoop on Poop
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Painter and Burkitt’s landmark paper...
Dr. Oz, Apple Juice, and Arsenic: Chicken May Have 10 Times More
Dr. Oz is right to be concerned about arsenic contamination in our food supply. According...
Eating Chicken May Lead to a Smaller Penis
According to the best available science, three quarters of women find both penis length and...
Optimum Nutrition Recommendations
Updated 2019 I go into specifics of the Daily Dozen foods I recommend in my...
How Much Pus Is There in Milk?
Infections in the Milk Production Process In the new NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day, I note that the antiseptics...
Natural Alzheimer’s Treatment
September is World Alzheimer’s Month, in recognition of those stricken with the devastating disease, now...
Contagion: Bad Timing for CDC Report of New Swine Flu Strain
A week before the premiere of Contagion, a star-studded thriller about (spoiler alert!) a pork-borne...
