Heme and Impossible Burgers
Is heme just an innocent bystander in the link between meat intake and breast cancer,...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Is heme just an innocent bystander in the link between meat intake and breast cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure? In an editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the chair of nutrition at Harvard...
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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...
An Ideal Waist Size
The book Dieting Makes You Fat was published originally in the 1980s and then repeatedly...
Junk Food in Hospitals
Why is hospital food so unhealthy? “Put in stark terms, CVD [cardiovascular disease] claims 1...
How Much Added Sugar Is Okay?
Public health authorities continue to lower the upper tolerable limit of daily added sugar intake....
Can We Stop Tooth Decay?
If sugar consumption is considered to be the one and only cause of cavities, can...
Is the Cyanide in Flaxseed Harmful?
In a worst-case scenario, how much flaxseed is too much? Flaxseed packs “a nutritional punch,”...
The Effect of Wi-Fi Radiation on Brain Function
What have more than a hundred studies on Wi-Fi and human brain wave modulation found? ...
Microplastics in Seafood and Cancer Risk
Plastic particles may exacerbate the pollutant contamination of fish. “Plastic debris in the marine environment...
Sunflower Seeds May Aggravate Acne
Should we be concerned about the pimples, cadmium, and “colonic crunch” associated with the consumption...
Do Cell Phones Affect Cognitive Function?
The World Health Organization concluded that cell phone radiation may cause brain tumors, but what...
Does Cell Phone Radiation Affect Fertility?
What is the effect of cell phone radiation on sperm motility and DNA damage? “Are...
Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors?
What does the world’s leading authority on carcinogens have to say about mobile phones? Do...
Can Cell Phone Radiation Damage Your DNA?
Do mobile phones cause brain tumors? Whenever a trillion-dollar industry is involved—whether it’s Big Food,...
Arsenic in Infant Rice Cereal
When it comes to rice and rice-based products, pediatric nutrition authorities have recommended that arsenic...
The Crowding Out Strategy to Eating Healthier
It may be more expedient politically to promote an increase in consumption of healthy items...
Takeaways from My Webinar on COVID-19
On December 30, 2019, Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital in the...
The Best Source of Vitamin D
If one is going to make an evolutionary argument for what a “natural” vitamin D...
Concerns About Bone Broth
There are toxicological issues associated with production and processing of meat, such as the presence...
Do Flaxseeds Offer Sufficient Omega-3’s for Our Heart?
According to two of perhaps the most credible nutrition authorities, the World Health Organization and...
Don’t Let Their Divide and Conquer Strategy Work
Dietary changes appear to be shifting universally toward a diet dominated by higher intakes of...
What About the French Paradox?
The so-called French Paradox is a term coined back in the 1980s by three Frenchmen...
Who’s Right in the Salt Debate?
For decades, a sometimes furious battle has raged among scientists over the extent to which...
Big Sugar Flexes Its Muscles
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends we reduce our consumption of salt, trans fats, saturated...
