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The variety of fruit and vegetable consumption may decrease disease risk, independent of quantity.

In addition to quantity and quality, the variety of fruits and vegetables consumed matters, as many phytonutrients are not evenly distributed among the various families and parts of plants.

Dairy is considered a major cause of the acne epidemic and other more serious chronic diseases in the Western world due to the "abuse" of the mammalian postnatal signaling system by widespread cow...

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...

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

Bovine casomorphin from cow's milk is suspected to increase the risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome, or crib death) based on the elevated blood levels in babies suffering acute...

The opiate-like effects of the casomorphin in cow's milk may have a depressive effect on the respiratory center of infants and lead to "milk apnea," in which babies temporarily stop breathing and are...

Cheese manufacturers use spider-like insects and fly larvae to impart particular flavors and aromas to certain cheeses.

Vegetarians appear to get more of a cognitive boost than meat-eaters from creatine supplementation.

There are rare birth defects in which the inability to produce certain compounds requires an exogenous source. Presented here is a case report of a boy with a mutation in his carnitine transport...