Saffron vs. Prozac for Depression
Millions of Americans suffer from depression every year, a disabling disease that can end up...
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Prostate Cancer and Mushrooms
Intake of certain nutrients has been associated with lower lead levels in the body. For example, women with higher intake of thiamine, also called vitamin B1, tended to have lower blood lead levels, and the same was found for lead-exposed...
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Treating PMS with Saffron
Premenstrual Syndrome is among the most common health problems reported by women, affecting approximately 1...
Eating Green to Prevent Cancer
Why do people who eat more plants get less cancer? The largest prospective study of...
What Is the Healthiest Meat?
Thanks to the Chinese space program, scientists in Beijing recently published a formal nutritional analysis...
Lead Poisoning Risk from Venison
The reason animal products trigger inflammation in the body within hours of consumption is thought...
The Real Paleo Diet
We evolved eating huge amounts of plants. It’s estimated that 200,000 years ago we got...
How Much Soy Is Too Much?
If animal proteins promote cancer because they boost our blood levels of the growth hormone...
Animal Protein and the Cancer Promoter IGF-1
For years we didn’t know why eating a plant-based diet appeared to so dramatically improve...
Vegan Men: More Testosterone But Less Cancer
Just a few days of walking and eating healthy plant foods can lower the level...
How Do Plant-Based Diets Fight Cancer?
Why do centenarians—those who live to be over a hundred years old—escape cancer? As you...
Treating an Enlarged Prostate with Diet
The majority of American men will develop a pathologically enlarged prostate gland (also known as benign prostatic...
Cancer-Proofing Your Body
Lifestyle medicine pioneer Nathan Pritikin was an unlikely candidate to spark a nutrition revolution....
Plant-Based Workplace Intervention
A billion people in the world are now overweight. That’s great news for the $13...
Biblical Daniel Fast Tested
Researchers recently set out to replicate the “Daniel Fast,” the biblical nutrition trial outlined in...
Poultry Paunch: Meat and Weight Gain
Meat is considered fattening due to its caloric density and fat content, but nuts are...
Diet vs. Exercise: What’s More Important?
When trying to lose weight, which is most important: diet or exercise? The vast majority of those...
The Ice Diet
Other than fiber, what else do plants make that animals don’t that could help account...
Boosting Gut Flora Without Probiotics
Obesity is so rare among those eating plant-based diets, nutrition researchers have been desperate to...
New DVD to Help Resolute Your Resolutions
The current batch of videos from volume 11 on are set to run out soon...
Burning Fat with Flavonoids
Nuts appear to boost one’s metabolism, such that when we eat nuts we burn more...
Top 10 Most Popular Videos of the Year: 2012
2012 was NutritionFacts.org’s first full year in existence. This year we added about 10,000 twitter...
Nuts Don’t Cause Expected Weight Gain
Nuts are packed with nutrition, but they are also packed with calories. Why, then, don’t...
Optimal Phytosterol Dose and Source
Fiber bulks, speeds, and dilutes the intestinal waste stream to facilitate the removal of excess...
Cholesterol Lowering in a Nut Shell
Though official recommendations are to first treat high cholesterol with dietary change, many physicians jump right to...
