How Big Is the Cancer Risk from Processed Meat?
I quantify the risks of colon and rectal cancers from eating bacon, ham, hot dogs,...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
I quantify the risks of colon and rectal cancers from eating bacon, ham, hot dogs, sausage, and lunch meat. In 2018, arguably the most prestigious cancer research institution in the world, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part...
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How Much Added Sugar Is Okay?
Public health authorities continue to lower the upper tolerable limit of daily added sugar intake....
What About the Trans Fat in Animal Fat?
The years of healthy life lost due to our consumption of trans fats are comparable...
What Exercise Authorities Don’t Tell You About Optimal Duration
Physical fitness authorities seem to have fallen into the same trap as the nutrition authorities,...
The Crowding Out Strategy to Eating Healthier
It may be more expedient politically to promote an increase in consumption of healthy items...
Consider the Evidence When You Make Life-or-Death Decisions
In the 1940s and ’50s, the American Medical Association was not only saying that “smoking...
How to Lower Your Sodium Intake
Reduction of salt consumption by just 15 percent could save the lives of millions. If...
What About Canned Fruit?
Food cans used to be soldered with lead compounds—so much so that people living off...
Changing Protein Requirements
There has been a history of enthusiasm for protein in the nutrition world. A century...
Healthier Salt Substitutes
As I discuss in my video Shaking the Salt Habit, the two most prominent dietary...
Meat Industry Response to Meat Being Labeled Carcinogenic
The most extensive report on diet and cancer in history is constantly being updated with...
What Are the Best and Worst Foods?
I’ve always pictured my role primarily as providing the latest science, but you can’t understand...
Big Sugar Flexes Its Muscles
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends we reduce our consumption of salt, trans fats, saturated...
What’s the Optimal Cholesterol Level?
No matter where we live, how old we are or what we look like, health...
How to Design Saturated Fat Studies to Hide the Truth
Where do the international consensus guidelines to dramatically lower saturated fat consumption come from? (I...
Butter Is Back?
Time magazine’s cover exhorting people to eat butter could be viewed as a desperate attempt...
Starch-Blocking Foods for Diabetics?
How did doctors treat diabetes before insulin? Almost a thousand medicinal plants are known antidiabetic...
How Learning to Cook Can Save Your Life
The eating habits of modern Americans have been described as, “eating breakfast in their cars,...
Why Some Dietary Cholesterol Studies Fail to Show Harm
How else can we make decisions for ourselves and our families but by the best...
Where Do You Get Your Fiber?
Vegetarians and vegans are all too familiar with the question: Where do you get your...
Eliminate Most of Your Chronic Disease Risk in Four Steps
In 1903, Thomas Edison predicted that the doctor of the future will give no medicine,...
Don’t Forget Fiber
The famous surgeon Denis Burkitt is better known for his discovery of a childhood cancer...
Add Beans, Berries, and Greens to More Meals
After we eat, our bodies create free radicals in the process of breaking down our...
How to Get Enough Antioxidants Each Day
We need to get a daily minimum of 8-11,000 antioxidant units a day in our...
