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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Does eating every other day prevent the metabolic slowing that accompanies weight loss, or does it improve compliance over constant, day-to-day caloric restriction? Rather than cutting calories day in and day out, what if you instead ate as much as...
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The Role of Meat and Dairy Viruses in Cancer
“Nearly 20% of cancer cases arising worldwide can be linked to infectious agents, including viruses.”...
Vitamin C for Male Infertility and Lead Poisoning?
What is the clinical relevance of vitamin C among lead-exposed infertile men? Compared to controls,...
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I’m thrilled to announce that The How Not to Diet Cookbook is now available for preorder for everyone...
Can Vitamin C Supplements Help with Lead Poisoning?
“Even if a nutritional manipulation is proven effective in reducing blood lead levels, reliance on...
Garlic Powder to Lower Lead Levels
There are so-called chelation drugs that can be taken for acute, life-threatening lead poisoning—for instance...
Eating to Block Lead Absorption
Intake of certain nutrients has been associated with lower lead levels in the body. For...
Adult Exposure to Lead
“Children in approximately 4 million households in the United States are being exposed to high...
Why You Don’t Want “Normal” Blood Lead Levels
“By the 1950s, lead—a dangerous neurotoxin that was once buried deep in the ground, far...
How to Survive a Pandemic Is Now Out in Paperback!
My newest book, How to Survive a Pandemic, is now out in paperback! This book cuts...
The Flint Lead Crisis May Be the Tip of the Iceberg
Back in the 1960s, a Pulitzer prize-winning scientist described the problem of childhood lead poisoning...
How the Lead Paint and Gas Industries Got Away with It
We have known for thousands of years that lead can be toxic and for more...
Food Combining for Prostate Cancer
What would happen if you secretly gave cancer patients four of the healthiest foods? In...
What Explains the Egg-Cancer Connection
The reason egg consumption is associated with elevated cancer risk may be the TMAO, considered...
How to Lower Your Sodium-to-Potassium Ratio
The potassium content in greens is one of two ways they can improve artery function...
How to Treat Bacterial Vaginosis
Vitamin C is pitted head-to-head against antibiotics for bacterial vaginal infections. A study published in...
Armpit Shaving and Breast Cancer
Shaving before applying underarm antiperspirants can increase aluminum absorption. Could this explain the greater number...
What Exercise Authorities Don’t Tell You About Optimal Duration
Physical fitness authorities seem to have fallen into the same trap as the nutrition authorities,...
The Crowding Out Strategy to Eating Healthier
It may be more expedient politically to promote an increase in consumption of healthy items...
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Combating Air Pollution Effects with Food
There is a food that offers the best of both worlds—significantly improving our ability to...
What Happens If You Have Red Wine or Avocados with a Meal?
Whole plant sources of sugar and fat can ameliorate some of the postprandial (after meal)...
Decreasing Inflammation and Oxidation After Meals
Within hours of eating an unhealthy meal, we can get a spike in inflammation, crippling...
What Does Drinking Soy Milk Do to Hormone Levels?
The vast majority of breast cancers start out hormone-dependent, where estradiol, the primary human estrogen,...
