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  1. Eating Healthy on the Cheap Eating Healthy on the Cheap May 1, 2012

    Plant-based diets may offer the best investment for dietary health.

  2. Raw Broccoli and Bladder Cancer Survival Raw Broccoli and Bladder Cancer Survival March 26, 2012

    The effect of raw and cooked broccoli consumption on survival rates of bladder cancer patients.

  3. Smoking Versus Kale Juice Smoking Versus Kale Juice March 8, 2012

    The effect of kale juice on LDL and HDL cholesterol and the antioxidant capacity of the blood.

  4. So Should We Drink Beet Juice or Not? So Should We Drink Beet Juice or Not? March 5, 2012

    In the context of a healthy plant-based diet, the nitrates in vegetables can safely be converted into nitric oxide, which can boost athletic performance and may help prevent heart disease.

  5. Carcinogens in the Smell of Frying Bacon Carcinogens in the Smell of Frying Bacon March 1, 2012

    Frying bacon outdoors decreases the concentration of airborne nitrosamine carcinogens.

  1. Are Nitrates Pollutants or Nutrients? Are Nitrates Pollutants or Nutrients? February 28, 2012

    Phytonutrients such as vitamin C prevent the formation of nitrosamines from nitrites, which explains why adding nitrite preservatives to processed meat can be harmful, but adding more vegetables and their nitrite-forming nitrates to our diet can be helpful.

  2. Vegetables rate by nitrate Vegetables rate by nitrate February 22, 2012

    If nitrates can boost athletic performance and protect against heart disease, which vegetables have the most: beans, bulb vegetables (like garlic and onions), fruiting vegetables (like eggplant and squash), greens (such as arugula), mushrooms, root vegetables (such as carrots and beets), or stem vegetables (such as celery and rhubarb)?

  3. Hearts shouldn’t skip a beet Hearts shouldn’t skip a beet February 21, 2012

    The nitrate in vegetables, which the body can turn into the vasodilator nitric oxide, may help explain the role dark green leafy vegetables play in the prevention and treatment of hypertension (high blood pressure) and heart disease.

  4. Asparagus pee Asparagus pee February 17, 2012

    Young infants and perhaps those with recurrent oxalate kidney stones should avoid beets, but most commonly the chief side effect is beeturia, the harmless passage of pink urine, though not all are affected, akin to the malodorous urine (“stinky pee”) that sometimes results from asparagus consumption.

  5. Out of the lab onto the track Out of the lab onto the track February 16, 2012

    Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover studies convinced the scientific establishment that nitrate-rich vegetables such as beets could noticeably improve athletic performance.

  1. Don’t use antiseptic mouthwash Don’t use antiseptic mouthwash February 15, 2012

    The natural flora on our tongue (lingual bacteria) is essential for the athletic performance-enhancing effect of the nitrates in vegetables such as beetroot.

  2. Priming the proton pump Priming the proton pump February 14, 2012

    To understand how beets could reduce the oxygen cost of exercise while improving athletic performance, one must review the biochemistry of energy production (ATP synthase) and the body’s conversion of nitrates to nitrites into nitric oxide.

  3. Doping with beet juice Doping with beet juice February 13, 2012

    Beets found to significantly improve athletic performance while reducing oxygen needs, upsetting a fundamental tenet of sports physiology.

  4. Doctors know less than they think about nutrition Doctors know less than they think about nutrition November 10, 2011

    Doctors found to be overconfident in their knowledge and ability to counsel patients about lifestyle modification for chronic disease prevention.

  5. Dietary guidelines: corporate guidance Dietary guidelines: corporate guidance October 20, 2011

    Nearly 2,000 comments were submitted to the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Watch what the Sugar Association, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, and the chewing gum company Wrigley’s had to say.