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  • Plant-Based Diets For Breast Pain
    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).
  • Was It the Flaxseed, Fat Restriction, or Both?
    Was It the Flaxseed, Fat Restriction, or Both?
    Researchers set out to find out what it was about a flaxseed-supplemented lower fat diet that so effectively appeared to decrease prostate cancer growth.
  • Flaxseed vs. Prostate Cancer
    Flaxseed vs. Prostate Cancer
    What happens when men with prostate cancer and prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) are placed on a relatively low-fat diet supplemented with ground flaxseeds?
  • How Plant-Based to Lower IGF-1?
    How Plant-Based to Lower IGF-1?
    Those eating vegan had significantly lower IGF-1 levels and higher IGF binding proteins than those just eating vegetarian, suggesting that the more plant-based one's diet becomes, the lower one's..
  • Prostate vs. Plants
    Prostate vs. Plants
    All men should consider eating a prostate-healthy diet, which includes legumes (beans, peas, lentils, soy); certain vegetables (like garlic and onions); certain seeds (flax seeds); and the avoidance..
  • Slimming the Gecko
    Slimming the Gecko
    A workplace dietary intervention study at GEICO corporate headquarters demonstrates the power of plant-based eating.
  • Atkins Diet: Trouble Keeping It Up
    Atkins Diet: Trouble Keeping It Up
    A case report in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly Journal of the American Dietetic Association) of a man who went on the Atkins diet, lost his ability to have an..
  • Forgo Fat-Free Dressings?
    Forgo Fat-Free Dressings?
    Fat is needed to maximize the absorption of certain important phytonutrients.