Eating Organic: Can It Lower Your Cancer Risk?
Does choosing organic over conventional foods protect against cancer? What are the effects of pesticides...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
Does choosing organic over conventional foods protect against cancer? What are the effects of pesticides on cancer risk? In a review updating the evidence on human exposure and toxicity of pesticides, the body of evidence linking pesticide exposure and cancer...
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Is Aflatoxin a Concern?
Is “toxic mold syndrome” a real thing? What do we do about toxic mold contamination...
What Is “Pine Mouth Syndrome”?
Why do some pine nuts cause a bad taste in your mouth that can last...
Is Millet a Nutritious Grain?
Millet isn’t the name of a specific grain, but a generic term that applies to...
Is There a Limit to How Many Lychee Fruit We Should Eat?
There is a toxin in lychee fruit that can be harmful, but is it harmful...
Ephedra-Like Weight Loss Minus the Risks
The diving reflex shows that it’s possible to have selective adrenal hormone effects. Thermogenic drugs...
Arsenic in Infant Rice Cereal
When it comes to rice and rice-based products, pediatric nutrition authorities have recommended that arsenic...
Which Brands and Sources of Rice Have the Least Arsenic?
Arsenic levels were tested in 5,800 rice samples from 25 countries.The arsenic found in five...
Cancer Risk from Arsenic in Rice and Seaweed
A daily half-cup of cooked rice may carry a hundred times the acceptable cancer risk...
Eating to Block Lead Absorption
Intake of certain nutrients has been associated with lower lead levels in the body. For...
Combating Air Pollution Effects with Food
There is a food that offers the best of both worlds—significantly improving our ability to...
What Does Drinking Soy Milk Do to Hormone Levels?
The vast majority of breast cancers start out hormone-dependent, where estradiol, the primary human estrogen,...
How to Improve Artery Function
Endothelial dysfunction is the initial step in the development of peripheral artery disease, heart disease,...
What Happens If You Add Milk to Tea?
Our endothelium, the inner lining of our blood vessels that controls the function of every...
Splenda Side-Effects
On April Fool’s Day, 1998, the Food and Drug Administration approved the artificial sweetener sucralose,...
How to Activate Appetite-Suppressing Hormones
In the United States, we tend to get less than 20 grams of fiber a...
The Best Food for Acne
We hear a lot about traditional Chinese herbal medicine, but less about the herbs used...
Where to Buy Tea Low in Lead
China burns about half of the world’s coal, spewing heavy metals such as mercury and...
What to Eat to Cure High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure ranks as the number-one risk factor for death and disability in the...
What Not to Add to White Rice, Potatoes, or Pasta
Rice currently feeds almost half the human population, making it the single most important staple...
The Natural Human Diet
Our epidemics of dietary disease have prompted a great deal of research into what humans...
Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet
Up to half of Alzheimer’s cases may be attributable to just seven risk factors shown...
Dioxins in U.S. Farm-Raised Catfish
Dioxins are highly toxic pollutants that accumulate in tissue fat. Almost all dioxins found in...
The Vitamin Everyone on a Plant-Based Diet Needs
A new study from China found that compared to omnivores, those who ate egg-free and...
