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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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
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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Why Cooling Potatoes Lowers Their Glycemic Load
If you eat potatoes when they’re cold, as in potato salad, or chilled and reheated,...
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...
What Does Personalized Nutrition Actually Deliver?
There’s a lot of focus on personalized nutrition, but maybe we should focus on taking...
Nuts, Sperm, and Sex: The Surprising Connection
Walnuts, almonds, and hazelnuts are put to the test for erectile and sexual function, sperm...
Which Foods Help a Leaky Gut?
What is the recommended diet for treating leaky gut? Which foods and food components can...
Keeping Better Score of Your Diet
How can you get a perfect diet score? How do you rate the quality of...
How Healthy Are Baruka Nuts?
How do barukas, also known as baru almonds, compare with other nuts? There is a...
Is Aflatoxin a Concern?
Is “toxic mold syndrome” a real thing? What do we do about toxic mold contamination...
A Longer Life on Statins?
What are the pros and cons of relative risk, absolute risk, number needed to treat,...
What Is “Pine Mouth Syndrome”?
Why do some pine nuts cause a bad taste in your mouth that can last...
Boosting BDNF Levels in Our Brain to Treat Depression
We can raise BDNF levels in our brain by fasting and exercising, as well as...
Treating Fatty Liver Disease with Diet
What are the three sources of liver fat in fatty liver disease, and how can...
How Healthy Are the Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat vs. Beef?
What happens when you compare the trans fats, saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol levels in...
Eating to Reverse Heart Failure
An entire issue of a cardiology journal dedicated to plant-based nutrition explores the role an...
Eating to Fight the Climate Crisis
The EAT-Lancet Commission lays out the best diet for human and planetary health. “Scientists have...
Junk Food in Hospitals
Why is hospital food so unhealthy? “Put in stark terms, CVD [cardiovascular disease] claims 1...
Treat Type 1 Diabetes with a Plant-Based Diet?
Is it possible to reverse type 1 diabetes if caught early enough? The International Journal...
Eating to Lower Lp(a)
What should we eat—and not eat—to lower the cardiovascular disease risk factor lipoprotein(a)? Lipoprotein A,...
Cutting the Calorie-Rich-And-Processed Foods
We have an uncanny ability to pick out the subtle distinctions in calorie density of...
What Should We Eat?
Here is a review of reviews on the health effects of animal foods versus plant...
Headache and Migraine Relief from Foods
Plant-based diets are put to the test for treating migraine headaches. Headaches are one of...
Children’s Cereals: Candy for Breakfast?
Plastering front-of-package nutrient claims on cereal boxes is an attempt to distract us from the...
