How Good Are Avocados for You?
The nutritional benefits of guacamole extend beyond the nutrients in avocados. Avocados have been described...
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What Does Personalized Nutrition Actually Deliver?
The common explanations for the cause of the obesity epidemic put forward by the food industry and policymakers, such as inactivity or a lack of willpower, are not only wrong, but actively harmful fallacies. Obesity isn’t new, but the obesity...
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Are Provoked Urine Challenge Tests for Heavy Metals a Scam?
Is testing for body burden of heavy metals like mercury with “urine mobilization tests,” “challenge...
Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet
What evidence is there that our meat-sweet diets play a cause-and-effect role in dementia? What...
Do Any Benefits of Alcohol Outweigh the Risks?
What would happen if you effectively randomized people at birth to drink more or less...
Is It Better to Drink a Little Alcohol Than None at All?
Even if alcohol causes cancer and there is no “French paradox,” what about the famous...
Join the Free Plant-Based Living Series
Our Plant-Based Living Series is a free ten-week email program full of simplified takeaways and...
The Best Source of Resveratrol
Is there any benefit to resveratrol? If so, should we get it from wine, grapes,...
Can Alcohol Cause Cancer?
If even light drinking can cause cancer, why don’t doctors warn their patients about it?...
Apple Peels Put to the Test for Chronic Joint Pain
Are the health benefits associated with apple consumption simply due to other healthy behaviors among...
Is Aloe Effective for Blood Pressure, Inflammatory Bowel, Wound Healing, and Burns?
I discuss the risks and benefits of aloe vera. “Aloe vera is one of the...
Top 10 NutritionFacts.org Videos of 2021
NutritionFacts.org arises from my annual review of the medical literature. With the help of a team...
Is It the Sugar, the Milk, or the Cocoa in Chocolate Causing Acne?
Is the link between chocolate and acne due to the sugar, the milk, or the...
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Does Chocolate Cause Acne?
What are the effects of dairy products, sugar, and chocolate on the formation of pimples?...
Dining by Traffic Light: Green Is for Go, Red Is for Stop
In this article, I explain my traffic light system for ranking the relative healthfulness of...
Support NutritionFacts.org — Fill the Carrot
Today is the start of our annual end-of-year fundraising drive. More than half of our...
How to Balance the Risks and Benefits of Mammograms
Fact boxes can quantify benefits and harms in a clear and accessible format. When it...
Doctors Tested for Basic Understanding of Mammogram Math
If doctors don’t understand health statistics, how can they possibly properly counsel patients? “In these...
Breast Cancer Can Grow and Spread for Decades Before “Early” Detection
“Early” detection is actually really late. Without mammograms, breast cancer may not be caught for...
Learn More Than 97% of Doctors About Lead-Time Bias
After reading this, you’ll know more than an estimated 97 percent of doctors about a...
Does Laptop Wi-Fi Affect Fertility?
Should laptops not be on laps? What is the effect of WiFi exposure on sperm...
Free Recipe for a Great Fall Meal and New Volume of Videos
My new volume of videos—the 56th, if you can believe it!—is out now. In it,...
Does Cell Phone Radiation Affect Fertility?
What is the effect of cell phone radiation on sperm motility and DNA damage? “Are...
Fewer Than One in Ten Informed About Most Serious Downside of Mammograms
What do nine in ten women say they were never told about mammograms, even though...
