Cantaloupe and Listeria: An Estimated 85% of Cases Are from Deli Meats, Not Melons
More than a dozen deaths have been reported in the national outbreak of listeriosis linked...
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Junk Food in Hospitals
The most likely reason most of our loved ones will die is heart disease. It's up to each of us to make our own decisions about what to eat and how to live, but we should make these choices consciously...
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Bowel Movements: The Scoop on Poop
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Painter and Burkitt’s landmark paper...
Dr. Oz, Apple Juice, and Arsenic: Chicken May Have 10 Times More
Dr. Oz is right to be concerned about arsenic contamination in our food supply. According...
Eating Chicken May Lead to a Smaller Penis
According to the best available science, three quarters of women find both penis length and...
Optimum Nutrition Recommendations
Updated 2019 I go into specifics of the Daily Dozen foods I recommend in my...
How Much Pus Is There in Milk?
Infections in the Milk Production Process In the new NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day, I note that the antiseptics...
Natural Alzheimer’s Treatment
September is World Alzheimer’s Month, in recognition of those stricken with the devastating disease, now...
Contagion: Bad Timing for CDC Report of New Swine Flu Strain
A week before the premiere of Contagion, a star-studded thriller about (spoiler alert!) a pork-borne...
Bad Egg
In 2008, the Harvard Physician’s Health Study, which followed about about 20,000 physicians for 20...
Vitamin B12: How Much and How Often?
Vitamin B12 is not made by plants or animals, but by microbes that blanket the...
Vegan B12 Deficiency: Putting It Into Perspective
When CNN’s documentary The Last Heart Attack premiered—documenting Bill Clinton’s attempt to reverse his heart...
How to Live Longer in Four Easy Steps
The CDC published a paper this week in the American Journal of Public Health suggesting...
Can Antioxidant-Rich Spices Counteract the Effects of a High-Fat Meal?
In this month’s Journal of Nutrition, researchers at Penn State report on their experiment in...
The Last Heart Attack: Perfect Timing for the Launch of NutritionFacts.org
Though bumped last night due to developments in Libya, the new CNN documentary The Last...
Welcome to NutritionFacts.org!
Twenty years ago I changed my diet. It was the year Dr. Dean Ornish published...
