Dietary Guideline Graphics: From the Food Pyramid to My Plate, Harvard’s Healthy Eating Plate, and PCRM’s Power Plate
In last week’s New England Journal of Medicine, Walter Willett, chair of the Department of...
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Are Raw Mushrooms Safe to Eat?
In 1989, ophthalmologists in India found that eyedrops made from the spice turmeric (known as haridra in India) seemed to work just as well as antibiotic eyedrops in the treatment of conjunctivitis, or pink eye. So, researchers decided to give...
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Supreme Court Case: Meat Industry Sues to Keep Downed Animals in Food Supply
This week I participated in a press briefing to discuss National Meat Association v. Harris,...
Foie Gras Ban in California: Human Health Implications
Originally featured on One Green Planet. The New York Times recently ran a story on...
Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board Accused of Making Illegally Deceptive Claims
A two-part investigation (1 & 2) released last week by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative...
Latest in Nutrition Vol. 6 DVD Now Available (all proceeds to charity)
The genesis of NutritionFacts.org dates back to more than a decade ago. Like most doctors,...
Heart Disease: There Is a Cure
It was proven decades ago that heart disease could be reversed with a plant-based diet....
Inflammation, Diet, and “Vitamin S”
Last month an update was published on the intriguing suggestion that low levels of salicylic...
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...
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...
