Should We Increase Our Protein Intake After Age 65?
A study that purported to show that diets high in meat, eggs, and dairy could...
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Can Allulose Replace Sugar?
Pregnant and breastfeeding women should probably be advised to either decrease or, when possible, cease cannabis use entirely, and couples trying to conceive may also want to consider cutting down. Approximately one in six couples “are unable to conceive after...
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Dialing Down the Grim Reaper Gene
Only about 1 in 10,000 people live to be a 100 years old. What’s their...
A Highly Effective, Cheap, Easy-to-Use, Safer Treatment for Heavy Periods
Ginger is most famous for its role in preventing and alleviating nausea and vomiting. There...
Pomegranates Put to the Test for Prostate Cancer
The pomegranate “has been revered through the ages for its medicinal properties”––so much so that...
Why Some Dairy Products Are More Closely Linked to Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s. Each year in the United...
Why There Is So Much Commercial Corruption in Nutrition
The prevalence of chronic diseases such as diabetes has skyrocketed, as has the number of...
Meat Can Cause Stress Hormone Levels to Rise and Testosterone Levels to Drop
A critique of the scientific validity of the dietary advice in Men’s Health magazine discovered...
Sign Up for My Webinar on Intermittent Fasting
Some of the most common questions I receive are about ketogenic diets and intermittent fasting,...
How to Avoid BPA
The purported link between obesity and hormone-disrupting plastics chemicals like bisphenol A (BPA) was initially...
The Diet We Were Designed to Eat
There are three broad theories about evolution and food. One is that humans have become...
What’s the Secret to Latino Longevity?
Latinos living in the United States tend to have “less education, a higher poverty rate, and...
The Effects of the Hops Phytoestrogen in Beer on Breast Cancer Risk
Hops have been used for centuries as a flavoring agent in beer, but “[o]ver the...
Beer Phytoestrogens
Why do alcoholic men develop so-called man boobs and other feminine traits? We know estrogens...
Estrogenic Growth Promoters in Meat
In 1979, an epidemic of breast enlargement was noted in Italian children. Poultry or veal...
Why We Should Cut Down on Salt Independently of Blood Pressure
If you put people on a low-salt diet, meaning only getting twice as much sodium...
The Best Dried Fruit for Osteoporosis
“We are in an epidemic of osteoporosis. There can be no doubt about that.” Ten...
How to Lower Phthalate Exposure Through Diet
Phthalates are hormone-disrupting plastics chemicals linked to a number of adverse health effects, such as...
Preview the Cover of How Not to Diet
My next book is nearing completion! I am thrilled to announce that my next book...
Reversing Massive Obesity with Diet
Dr. Walter Kempner introduced the first comprehensive dietary program to treat chronic kidney disease and,...
The Role of Pesticides in Parkinson’s Disease
In the original description of Parkinson’s disease by none other than Dr. James Parkinson himself,...
Is the Risk of Skin Cancer from Sun Exposure Overblown?
By the turn of the 20th century, rickets, the vitamin D deficiency disease, was rampant,...
The Best Source of Vitamin D
If one is going to make an evolutionary argument for what a “natural” vitamin D...
What Is the Optimal Vitamin D Level?
How Much Vitamin D Should We Take? If everyone took 2,000 units of vitamin D...
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