Why Drinking Diet Soda Makes You Crave Sugar
Recommendations on limiting sugar consumption vary around the world, with guidelines ranging from “[l]imit sweet...
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Dark Chocolate Put to the Test for Peripheral Artery Disease
One of the problems with publishing research on chocolate is that the press jumps on...
Top 10 NutritionFacts.org Videos in 2019
NutritionFacts.org arises from my annual review of the medical literature. With the help of a...
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Thanks to your generosity we hit our 2019 fundraising goal! Without your support, I wouldn’t...
How the Egg Industry Tried to Bury the TMAO Risk
“Metabolomics is a term used to describe the measurement of multiple small-molecule metabolites in biological...
The Foods with the Highest Aspirin Content
The results of a recent aspirin meta-analyses suggesting a reduction of cancer mortality by about...
How to Get the Benefits of Aspirin Without the Risks
For people without a personal history of cardiovascular disease, aspirin’s risks may outweigh its benefits,...
The Risks and Benefits of Taking Low-Dose Aspirin
Salicylic acid, the active ingredient in aspirin, has been used for thousands of years as...
The Benefits of Ginger for Osteoarthritis
If ginger is so effective against migraines and also helps with the pain of menstrual...
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How Much Vitamin C Should You Get Every Day?
“For many years, the RDA [recommended daily allowance] for all vitamins were based on preventing...
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Is Type 1 Diabetes Triggered by the Bovine Insulin in Milk?
The tight correlation among countries between the incidence of type 1 diabetes in children and...
Milk Consumption Is Linked to Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes, which typically strikes children and young adults, is an autoimmune disease in...
How Phytoestrogens Can have Anti-Estrogenic Effects
When the Women’s Health Initiative study found that menopausal women taking hormone replacement therapy suffered...
How to Lower Your Sodium Intake
Reduction of salt consumption by just 15 percent could save the lives of millions. If...
The Benefits of Wakame Seaweed Salad on Blood Pressure
I used to think of seaweed as just a beneficial whole-food source of minerals like...
Is Milk Lowering Uric Acid a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?
Parkinson’s disease, the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer’s, is characterized by a slowness...
How to Achieve Food Synergy
There are thousands of phytochemicals that will never make it onto the side of a...
Why Hasn’t Bisphenol A (BPA) Been Banned Completely?
“The number of new chemicals is increasing exponentially, with approximately 12,000 new substances added daily…”—yet...
Morning Sickness Can Be Beneficial
“Since the beginning of time, pregnant women have been reported to suffer from a syndrome...
How to Increase Gut Bacterial Richness
We live in an “obesogenic environment,” with cheap junk food everywhere, thanks in part to...
The Benefits of Sesame Seeds for Knee Osteoarthritis
Doctors have been injecting arthritis patients with gold since the 1920s. In fact, “[g]old-based medicines...
