How Fruits and Vegetables Can Prevent Asthma
Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children and the prevalence is increasing around...
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How Low Can LDL Cholesterol Go on PCSK9 Inhibitors?
Before speculating about the reason for the “explosive” increase in autism, one has to make sure the explosion is real. In 1943, a famous paper was published in which Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, described a series of children with “fascinating peculiarities.” He thought that “these characteristics form...
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Our Tax Dollars Subsidize Unhealthy Foods
Why do food companies sell junk? Because unhealthy commodities are highly profitable. This is in...
Reducing Arsenic in Chicken and Rice
In 2013, Maryland became the first state to ban the feeding of an arsenic-containing drug...
How Contaminated Are Our Children?
In a study highlighted in my video, California Childen Are Contaminated, researchers analyzed the diets...
Living Longer by Reducing Leucine Intake
Many studies have shown that calorie restriction, without malnutrition, can increase lifespan and lower the...
Exploiting Autophagy to Live Longer
Thanks to advances in modern medicine, we are living longer lives, but we’re doing it...
New DVD Reviews Best Bowel Movement Science
Of all human bodily functions, defecation has been described as perhaps the least studied and...
Blood Type Diet Perceived as “Crass Fraud”
It was Adolf Hitler who coined a propaganda technique he called, “The Big Lie,” arguing...
Why Do Heart Doctors Favor Surgery and Drugs Over Diet?
When he was a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. published a...
Phytates in Beans: Anti-Nutrient or Anti-Cancer?
In my videos, Phytates in the Prevention of Cancer and Phytates for Rehabilitating Cancer Cells,...
How Phytates Fight Cancer Cells
Phytate is a compound found in beans, grains, nuts and seeds. The average daily intake...
Colon Cancer Prevention: Is It the Fiber or the Phytates?
Dietary factors are considered the most important environmental risk factors for cancer. Within recent years,...
Low Carb Diets Found to Feed Heart Disease
People going on low carb diets may not see a rise in their cholesterol levels....
Nuts May Extend Your Lifespan by About 2 Years
We’ve known that increased nut consumption has been associated with a reduced risk of major...
How Curry Can Kill Cancer Cells
It is estimated that the human body consists of ten or so trillion cells. Almost...
Testing Turmeric on Smokers
Researchers are becoming increasingly aware of “plant-derived substances that act as chemopreventive agents.” Chemopreventatives are...
Why Are Cancer Rates So Low in India?
It is estimated that many tumors start around the age of 20. However, detection of...
Red Dye No. 3 and Thyroid Cancer
Fifteen million pounds of food dyes are sold every year in the U.S. Why? Foods...
How to Reduce Exposure to Alkylphenols Through Your Diet
Alkylphenols are industrial chemicals that are found in hair products, spermicides, cleaning products and detergents. They...
Alkylphenol Endocrine Disruptors and Allergies
In my video Preventing Childhood Allergies, I noted a study in Japan that found higher...
Slowing Cognitive Decline with Berries
A plant-based diet is thought to have played a significant role in human evolution and...
What is ‘Meat Glue’?
The so-called “meat glue enzyme” transglutaminase is used by the meat industry to add value...
Is Liquid Smoke Safe?
We know smoke inhalation isn’t good for us, but what about smoke ingestion? Decades ago,...
Does Antioxidant Intake Matter for Stroke and Heart Disease?
In my video Food Antioxidants and Cancer, I talked about how antioxidants from whole plants...
