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  1. Skim Milk and Acne Skim Milk and Acne May 11, 2012

    Three Harvard studies linking acne with dairy consumption in adolescent girls and boys blamed the sex steroid hormone content naturally found in cow’s milk (even without added hormones), particularly skim.

  2. National Dairy Council on Acne and Milk National Dairy Council on Acne and Milk May 10, 2012

    The Harvard Nurses’ Study found an association between high school dairy intake and severe physician-diagnosed acne.

  3. Harvard’s Meat and Mortality Studies Harvard’s Meat and Mortality Studies March 14, 2012

    Monday, March 12, 2012, the Harvard Health Professionals Follow-up Study and the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study concluded that red meat consumption was associated with living a significantly shorter life—increased cancer mortality, increased heart disease mortality, and increased overall mortality.

  4. Constructing a Cognitive Portfolio Constructing a Cognitive Portfolio November 29, 2011

    Different fruits and vegetables appear to support different cognitive domains of the brain, so both variety and quantity are important.

  5. Plant Protein Preferable Plant Protein Preferable November 1, 2011

    Since foods are a package deal, Dr. Walter Willet, the Chair of Harvard’s nutrition department, recommends we emphasize plant sources of protein rather than animal sources.

  1. Multivitamin Supplements and Breast Cancer Multivitamin Supplements and Breast Cancer September 22, 2011

    New research suggests that multivitamin use may significantly increase the risk of breast cancer and prostate cancer.

  2. Meat Hormones & Female Infertility Meat Hormones & Female Infertility January 12, 2011

    What is behind the purported link between poultry consumption and anovulatory infertility?