antibiotics

Watch videos about antibiotics

• November 7, 2012
  Lowering Dietary Antibiotic Intake

  What a few days eating vegetarian can do to the level of antibiotics and phthalates flowing through one's body.
• October 23, 2012
  President’s Cancer Panel Report on Environmental Risk

  The official National Cancer Institute report on the "unacceptable" burden of cancer stemming from industrial chemical pollutants is strongly worded, but lacks sufficient dietary guidance.
• October 9, 2012
  Paleolithic Lessons

  An evolutionary argument for a plant-based diet is presented, in contrast to "paleo" fad diets.
• August 30, 2012
  Tipping Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes

  Certain phytonutrients may tip the balance of healthy gut bacteria in favor of flora associated with improved weight control.
• May 24, 2012
  A Fine Kettle of Fluoxetine

  Excreted pharmaceutical drugs such as Prozac can end up polluting our waterways and may bioaccumulate in fish flesh.
• April 16, 2012
  Food Poisoning Bacteria Cross-Contamination

  The food-poisoning fecal bacteria found in 70% of U.S. retail poultry is destroyed by proper cooking, but contamination of the kitchen environment may place consumers at risk.
• April 9, 2012
  Chicken Dioxins, Viruses, or Antibiotics?

  The association between poultry and cancer may be explained by the presence in chickens' and turkeys' flesh of industrial carcinogens such as dioxins, oncogenic (cancer-causing) viruses, and/or the..
• March 30, 2012
  Flax and Fecal Flora

  The trillions of good bacteria in our gut can be thought of as an additional organ, metabolizing, detoxifying, and activating many crucial components of our diet. The formation of lignans from..