Food Safety and Cultivated Meat
What are the direct health implications of making clean meat—that is, meat without animals? In...
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Statins and Muscle Pain Side Effects
Why is the incidence of side effects from statins so low in clinical trials while...
Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease
Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those...
Eating to Keep Ulcerative Colitis in Remission
Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, far...
Foods That Disrupt Our Microbiome
Eating a diet filled with animal products can disrupt our microbiome faster than taking an...
Skincare as You Age Infographic
When I dove into the scientific research for my book How Not to Age, I...
Treating Fatty Liver Disease with Diet
What are the three sources of liver fat in fatty liver disease, and how can...
Bird Flu: Emergence, Dangers, and Preventive Measures
In the United States in January 2025 alone, approximately 20 million commercially-raised birds, mostly egg-laying...
Inhospitable Hospital Food
What do hospitals have to say for themselves about serving meals that appear to be...
Gaming the System: Cardiologists, Heart Stents, and Upcoding
Cardiologists can criminally game the system by telling patients they have much more serious, unstable...
Why Use Stents When They Don’t Work?
Again and again, studies have shown that doctors tend to make clinical decisions for patients...
Do Heart Stents Benefit Angina Chest Pain?
Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like non-emergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only...
The Risks vs. Benefits of Angioplasty and Heart Stents
What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they promote...
Heart Stents and Their Risks
Why are doctors killing or stroking out thousands of people a year for nothing? How...
2024 Year in Review
Celebrating 2024. Celebrating Your Support. What a year NutritionFacts.org had! Our successes, output, and outreach...
Why Aren’t Angioplasty Heart Stents More Effective?
Most heart attacks are caused by nonobstructive plaques that infiltrate the entire coronary artery tree....
The Effectiveness of Angioplasty and Heart Stent Procedures
There are demonstrably no benefits to the hundreds of thousands of angioplasty and stent procedures...
What About Millet and Diabetes?
What were the remarkable results of a crossover study randomizing hundreds of people with diabetes...
Is Millet a Nutritious Grain?
Millet isn’t the name of a specific grain, but a generic term that applies to...
Does Processed Meat Affect Our Lung Function?
If the nitrites in foods like ham and bacon cause lung damage, what about “uncured”...
Is There a Limit to How Many Lychee Fruit We Should Eat?
There is a toxin in lychee fruit that can be harmful, but is it harmful...
Heme Iron and Cancer
Laboratory models suggest that extreme doses of heme iron may be detrimental, but what about...
Heme and Impossible Burgers
Is heme just an innocent bystander in the link between meat intake and breast cancer,...
Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching
The influenza virus has existed for millions of years as an innocuous intestinal virus of...
