How To Reduce Dietary Antibiotic Intake
Recently the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention commemorated “Get Smart About Antibiotics Week,” which aimed to raise awareness..
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Protecting Our Babies From Pollutants
For those of us starting new families, one of the myriad concerns that come up is how we are ever going to get our children to eat their..
Pollutants in Californian Breast Tissue
Americans are walking chemical cocktails according to the latest report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
How Much Soy Is Too Much?
If animal proteins promote cancer because they boost our blood levels of the growth hormone IGF-1, what about the few plant proteins that..
How Does Meat Cause Inflammation?
The anti-inflammatory effect of plant-based diets is about more than just the power of plants. It’s also the avoidance of animal foods...
Skim Milk and Acne
The National Dairy Council denies that milk intake causes acne, but a study they supported—the Harvard Nurse’s Health Study—found..
Beans and Gas: Clearing the air
More than a decade ago, the Quarterly Journal of Medicine published a review entitled: “Vegetarian Diet: Panacea for modern lifestyle..
Dietary Guideline Graphics: From the Food Pyramid to My Plate, Harvard’s Healthy Eating Plate, and PCRM’s Power Plate
In last week’s New England Journal of Medicine, Walter Willett, chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard, and David Ludwig,..
