Peeks Behind the Egg Industry Curtain
The American Egg Board is a promotional marketing board appointed by the U.S. government whose...
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How Much Do New Chemotherapy Drugs Extend Life?
Are the health benefits associated with apple consumption simply due to other healthy behaviors among apple-eaters? Regular apple intake is associated with all sorts of benefits, such as living longer and, more specifically, a lower risk of dying from cancer....
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What’s Driving America’s Obesity Problem?
Currently, nearly two-thirds of Americans are overweight. By 2030 it is estimated more than half...
Food Manufacturers Get to Decide If Their Own Additives Are Safe
In 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced their plans to all but eliminate...
Meat Industry Wins Right to Sell Tainted Meat
In my last post, I talked about a particularly virulent strand of Salmonella traced to...
Chicken Salmonella Outbreaks Show Food Safety Systems Failure
Salmonella causes more hospitalizations and more deaths than any other foodborne illness, and it’s been...
Viral Food Poisoning from Pesticides?
Although the most serious causes of food poisoning like Salmonella come largely from animal products...
The Reversal on Fish Oil
Are the purported benefits of fish oil supplementation for the prevention and treatment of heart...
Are Multivitamins Just a Waste of Money?
About one in three Americans take a multivitamin. Is that helpful, harmful, or just a...
Understanding Lifestyle Medicine From the Heart
I talk a lot about numbers and statistics, but as the Director of Yale’s Prevention...
Don’t Forget Fiber
The famous surgeon Denis Burkitt is better known for his discovery of a childhood cancer...
Organic Milk and Prostate Cancer
Researchers have expressed concern that since cow’s milk contains estrogens, dairy could stimulate the growth...
Who Should be Careful About Curcumin?
Following flax and wheatgrass, turmeric is the third best-selling botanical dietary supplement, racking up $12...
Foods That Fight Osteoarthritis and Inflammation
Osteoarthritis is the most frequent cause of physical disability among older adults in the world,...
Dr. Greger Takes on Mediterranean Diet in New DVD
The Mediterranean Diet is an “in” topic nowadays, in both the medical literature and the...
The Spice That Helps Ease Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain
According to the World Health Organization, “80% of the Earth’s inhabitants rely upon the traditional...
The Top Three DNA Protecting Spices
In my video Which Spices Fight Inflammation? I profile a landmark study that compared the...
The Top Four Anti-Inflammatory Spices
Once in a while I come across a study that’s so juicy I have to...
Superbugs on Retail Chicken
One of the most concerning developments in medicine is the emergence of bacterial super-resistance—resistance not...
Foods for Computer Eye Strain
What happens to our eyesight when we sit in front of a computer all day?...
Currant Treatment for Glaucoma
In my video, Dietary Prevention for Age-Related Macular Degeneration, I discussed how eating goji berries...
Top 10 Most Popular Videos of 2014
2014 was another banner year for NutritionFacts.org. Thanks to the collective enthusiasm for sharing this...
Foods for Macular Degeneration
Anyone who has gotten a bad sunburn knows how damaging the UV rays in sunlight...
Foods for Glaucoma
Glaucoma is the second leading cause of legal blindness in white women, and the number...
How Long to Avoid Fish Before Conception?
Mothers’ increased consumption of fish before and during pregnancy leads to increased exposure to both...
