98% of American Diets Potassium-Deficient
Less than 2% of Americans achieve even the recommended minimum adequate intake of potassium, due...
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Why I Don’t Recommend Moringa Leaf Powder
Shaving before applying underarm antiperspirants can increase aluminum absorption. Could this explain the greater number of tumors and the disproportionate incidence of breast cancer in the upper outer quadrant of the breast near the armpit? A famous case report called...
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Plant-Based Diets for Multiple Sclerosis
The distinguished neurologist Roy Swank‘s low saturated fat diet remains the “most effective treatment of multiple...
Plant-Based Diets for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Plant-based diets may help rheumatoid arthritis by decreasing exposure to an inflammatory “Trojan horse” compound...
How Tumors Use Meat to Grow
Certain cancers—like breast cancer—can be thought of in part as an autoimmune disease. When people...
How to Gain Weight on Diet Soda
There are three ways that all low-caloric sweeteners could theoretically be harmful independent of their...
Are Microgreens Healthier?
USDA researchers recently published a study assessing the nutrition content of 25 commercially available microgreens, seedlings of...
Aspartame: Fibromyalgia and Preterm Birth
When we learned how bad butter was, the food industry responded by giving us margarine,...
Bugs and Drugs in Pork: Yersinia and Ractopamine
Consumer Reports recently released a study in which they analyzed U.S. retail pork and found trace levels...
Increasing Muscle Strength with Fenugreek
The spice fenugreek appears to significantly improve muscle strength and weight lifting power output while...
The Anti-Wrinkle Diet
The skin is the largest organ in the body—about 20 square feet—and the most vulnerable...
Treadmill Desks: Stand Up for Health
A few months ago the New York Times ran a piece reiterating the hazards of prolonged sitting, which is...
New DVD to Help Spring Clean Your Diet
I’m excited to announce that last month the NutritionFacts.org podcast reached #1 on the iTunes...
Gerson Therapy for Cancer?
Gerson Therapy is a largely diet-based alternative treatment for cancer that was invented by the...
Are Bioidentical Hormones Safe?
Hormone replacement therapy for menopause grew to prominence in the 1990s, when millions of women...
How To Reduce Dietary Antibiotic Intake
Recently the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention commemorated “Get Smart About Antibiotics Week,” which...
Countering Dietary Pollutants and Pesticides
We have so polluted our planet that eight different pesticides were recently found contaminating the...
Protecting Our Babies from Pollutants
For those of us starting new families, one of the myriad concerns that come up...
Pollutants in Californian Breast Tissue
Americans are walking chemical cocktails according to the latest report from the Centers for Disease Control...
How Chemically Contaminated Are We?
Every few years the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention measures the levels of...
Saffron vs. Prozac for Depression
Millions of Americans suffer from depression every year, a disabling disease that can end up...
Treating PMS with Saffron
Premenstrual Syndrome is among the most common health problems reported by women, affecting approximately 1...
Eating Green to Prevent Cancer
Why do people who eat more plants get less cancer? The largest prospective study of...
What Is the Healthiest Meat?
Thanks to the Chinese space program, scientists in Beijing recently published a formal nutritional analysis...
Lead Poisoning Risk from Venison
The reason animal products trigger inflammation in the body within hours of consumption is thought...
