Plant-Based Workplace Intervention
A billion people in the world are now overweight. That’s great news for the $13...
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Is Surgery Necessary to Reverse Diabetes?
“Even if a nutritional manipulation is proven effective in reducing blood lead levels, reliance on such an intervention places most of the burden for prevention on those most affected and least responsible for the underlying environmental causes of lead toxicity....
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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...
The True Shelf Life of Cooking Oils
Cooking oil manufacturer “best-by” dates were recently put to the test by comparing the development...
Ractopamine and Yersinia in U.S. Pork
Earlier this year, China rejected 200,000 pounds of pork from the United States after discovering...
How To Boost Serotonin Naturally
A strange letter was recently published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience suggesting fruit...
Magnesium-Rich Foods to Prevent Sudden Death
Most men and women who succumb to heart disease die suddenly without any known history...
How to Enhance Mineral Absorption
Iron is a double-edged sword. If we don’t absorb enough we risk anemia, but if...
Eating To Extend Our Lifespan
Why can’t we live forever? Some animals do, and I don’t mean some 200 year...
Kiwifruit for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
An estimated 10-20% of the general population suffers from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which accounts...
Preventing and Treating Kidney Failure with Diet
Our kidneys are highly vascular organs. That’s why when you see kidneys in the meat...
Is Caffeinated Tea Really Dehydrating?
Phytonutrients exclusive to the tea plant appear so powerful that they can reverse disease even when just...
How Much Arsenic In Rice Came From Chickens?
It may be no coincidence that the rice found most contaminated with arsenic originated from...
How Does Meat Cause Inflammation?
The anti-inflammatory effect of plant-based diets is about more than just the power of plants....
Treating Crohn’s Disease with Diet
Inflammation has recently emerged as an important player in the development of age-related disability and...
