Plant-Based Diets for Multiple Sclerosis
The distinguished neurologist Roy Swank‘s low saturated fat diet remains the “most effective treatment of multiple sclerosis ever..
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Plant-Based Diets for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Plant-based diets may help rheumatoid arthritis by decreasing exposure to an inflammatory “Trojan horse” compound found in..
How Tumors Use Meat to Grow
Certain cancers—like breast cancer—can be thought of in part as an autoimmune disease. When people get heart or kidney transplants,..
The Ice Diet
Other than fiber, what else do plants make that animals don’t that could help account for how dramatically slimmer those who eat..
Eating To Extend Our Lifespan
Why can’t we live forever? Some animals do, and I don’t mean some 200 year old whale–I’m talking immortal. There are actually..
Poultry and Penis Cancer
One of the reasons it’s so difficult to study the relationship between diet and cancer is because many dietary behaviors are associated..
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,..
Bowel movements: the scoop on poop
Years ago we learned that those eating plant-based diets are just “regular” people. In a study comparing omnivores,..
