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• April 24, 2013
  Plant-Based Diets For Breast Pain

  Plant-based diets appear to offer relief from a variety of menstrual symptoms, including cramping, bloating, and breast pain (cyclical mastalgia).
• December 12, 2012
  Clonal Deletion Theory of Immunity

  Plant-based diets may be protective against multiple sclerosis because IGF-1 can prevent our immune system from eliminating autoimmune cells.
• September 17, 2012
  Engineering a Cure

  Lifestyle medicine pioneer Nathan Pritikin, who reversed his own heart disease through diet and went on to help millions of others, wasn't a doctor or dietician but an engineer.
• June 12, 2012
  Don’t Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

  A profile of the study “Dirty Money: An Investigation into the Hygiene Status of Some of the World’s Currencies as Obtained from Food Outlets.” The level of fecal bacteria contamination on..
• December 6, 2011
  Evolutionary Argument for Optimal Vitamin D Level

  Should the vitamin D levels found in lifeguards be considered the norm for our species given the fact that we evolved running around naked all day in equatorial Africa?
• April 11, 2011
  Dietary Theory of Alzheimer’s

  A provocative theory published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition attempts to explain the dramatic rise in Alzheimer's disease