How to Cut Breast Cancer Risk in Half
One of my favorite cancer-specific charities, the American Institute for Cancer Research, lauds the China Study and...
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The Benefits and Risks of Hair Loss Drugs
A half-teaspoon a day of brewer’s yeast is put to the test in a randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trial. In 1854, a case report was published in the precursor of the British Medical Journal suggesting two to three tablespoons of...
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fish Food Poisoning
Ciguatera is one of the most common forms of food poisoning, which occurs after the...
Food Additives That May Make Our Gut Leaky
Crohn’s disease is an autoimmune disorder that affects more than a million Americans. It is...
Should Pregnant Women Avoid Cow’s Milk?
Foods of animal origin in general naturally contain hormones, but cow’s milk may be of...
Estrogen in Animal Products
Estrogen hormones can be thousands of times more estrogenic than typical endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Dietary exposure...
What to Eat and What to Avoid to Protect Against Kidney Cancer
58,000 Americans are diagnosed with kidney cancer every year, and 13,000 die. And the numbers...
Paleo Diet May Undermine Benefit of CrossFit Exercise
Much of the low-carb and paleo reasoning revolves around insulin. To quote a paleo blogger,...
Side-Effects of Aspartame on the Brain
The National Institutes of Health AARP study of hundreds of thousands of Americans followed for...
Poultry and Weight Gain
Vegetarians have considerably lower obesity rates compared to those who eat meat, but why? Is...
Birthday Bookplates, Recipe Calendar, Spanish Translation, User Feedback & More!
Get a Personalized Bookplate What better way to celebrate the birthday of someone you...
The Role of Caffeine in Artery Function
There are dietary guidelines for food, but what about for beverages? A Beverage Guidance Panel...
How Big Food Twists the Science
Just like mosquitos are the vectors of spread for malaria, a landmark article published recently...
Introducing the Kempner Rice Diet
Franklin Delano Roosevelt brought us through the Great Depression and World War II. Who knows...
Preventing and Treating Low Back Pain with Diet
Low back pain became one of the biggest problems for public health systems in the...
What About All the Sugar in Fruit?
If the fructose in sugar and high fructose corn syrup has been considered “alcohol without...
New DVD, New Annual Talk, New Live Q&As & HOW NOT TO DIE now out in Spanish
Decades ago, when I was still studying biophysics at Cornell’s Agriculture School, I reached out...
How to Eliminate 90 Percent of Heart Disease Risk
Medical myths and dogmas die hard. Researchers creating a new body of knowledge for prevention...
Inhibiting Platelet Activation with Tomato Seeds
In the prevention of cardiovascular disease, the consumption of fruits and vegetables is crucial. Preventing...
Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet
Up to half of Alzheimer’s cases may be attributable to just seven risk factors shown...
Preventing Alzheimer’s with Lifestyle Changes
It’s safe to say that Alzheimer’s disease research is in a “state of crisis.” For...
How Much Added Sugar Is Too Much?
In 1776, at the time of the American Revolution, Americans consumed about four pounds of...
Caloric Restriction vs. Plant-Based Diets
Hundreds of thousands of deaths in the United States every year are attributed to obesity,...
GMO Soy and Breast Cancer
In response to concerns raised about the toxicity of Monsanto’s roundup pesticide, which ends up...
Is Monsanto’s Roundup Pesticide Glyphosate Safe?
GMO soy has been found to be contaminated with pesticide residues (see Are GMOs Safe?...
