Are Nuts and Peanut Butter Linked to a Longer Life?
Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter? According to the largest...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter? According to the largest study of risk factors for death in human history, a poor diet causes more deaths than anything. Cigarettes only kill about 8 million people a...
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How Prebiotic Foods Keep Your Microbiome Healthy
We co-evolved a symbiosis with our good gut bacteria, but we aren’t holding up our...
Which Potato Is the Most Nutritious?
Are yellow-fleshed potatoes healthier than white? And what about the glycoalkaloid toxins? The high glycemic...
Building an Anti-Inflammatory Diet
What does an anti-inflammatory diet look like? “Intervention studies to enhance healthy ageing need appropriate...
What Foods Trigger Inflammation?
Inflammatory markers can double within six hours of eating a pro-inflammatory meal. Which foods are...
Do Pomegranates Live Up to Health Claims?
Pomegranates are put to the test for weight loss, diabetes, COPD, prostate cancer, osteoarthritis, and...
Fighting Cancer with Whole Plant Foods
The foundation of cancer prevention is plants, not pills. “The vast majority of cancer research...
Can Onions Help with Weight Loss, Cholesterol, and PCOS?
Let’s talk about treating weight loss, cholesterol, and PCOS with diet. What can an eighth...
Which Foods Help a Leaky Gut?
What is the recommended diet for treating leaky gut? Which foods and food components can...
Could Your Pills and Food Be Causing a Leaky Gut?
Common drugs, foods, and beverages can disrupt the integrity of our intestinal barrier, causing a...
Can Olive Oil Compete with Arthritis Drugs?
What happened when topical olive oil was pitted against an ibuprofen-type drug for osteoarthritis and...
How Healthy Are Baruka Nuts?
How do barukas, also known as baru almonds, compare with other nuts? There is a...
Cancer Survival and Medicinal Mushrooms
Did the five randomized controlled trials of reishi mushrooms in cancer patients show benefits in...
Should We Fast for IBS?
More than half of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) sufferers appear to have a form of...
Should You Take Statins?
How can you calculate your own personal heart disease risk to help you determine if...
Are Carboxymethylcellulose, Polysorbate 80, and Other Emulsifiers Safe?
Emulsifiers are the most widely used food additives. What are they doing to our gut...
IBD and Cannabis
Smoking cannabis may help with symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in the short term,...
Eating with Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism
Is the apparent protection of plant-based diets for thyroid health due to the exclusion of...
Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease
Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those...
Eating to Keep Ulcerative Colitis in Remission
Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, far...
Foods That Disrupt Our Microbiome
Eating a diet filled with animal products can disrupt our microbiome faster than taking an...
Why Aren’t Angioplasty Heart Stents More Effective?
Most heart attacks are caused by nonobstructive plaques that infiltrate the entire coronary artery tree....
Does Processed Meat Affect Our Lung Function?
If the nitrites in foods like ham and bacon cause lung damage, what about “uncured”...
Obesity’s Impacts on Our Immune System and Kidney and Liver Diseases
What are the effects of weight loss on natural killer cell function, our first line...
