How to Enhance Mineral Absorption
Iron is a double-edged sword. If we don’t absorb enough we risk anemia, but if...
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Could Your Pills and Food Be Causing a Leaky Gut?
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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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...
Antioxidants in a Pinch: Dried Herbs and Spices
In the Washington, DC area we are blessed with more than a dozen farmers’ markets....
The Most Anti-Inflammatory Mushroom
Atherosclerotic plaques may be more aptly described as pimples. These inflamed pockets of pus building...
Why Is It Legal to Sell Unsafe Meat?
Most of the U.S. population suffers an acute diarrheal illness every year. According to a...
Health Food Store Advice: Often Worthless or Worst
How many times has this happened to you? You’re in a natural food store walking...
Adding FDA-Approved Viruses to Meat
Bacteria-eating viruses (bacteriophages) have been approved as meat additives to reduce the food safety risks...
Vol. 10 Nutrition DVD Now Available (Proceeds to Charity)
The current batch of videos from volume 9 are about to run out, so starting...
Mercury Testing Recommended Before Pregnancy
Recent testing of mercury concentrations in three national brands of canned tuna found that “55%...
Preserving Vision Through Diet
More than a million Americans are blind. The good news is that all four of...
Skim Milk and Acne
The National Dairy Council denies that milk intake causes acne, but a study they supported—the...
“Uprooting” DVD Now Available (all proceeds to charity)
Every year I scour the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition pulling together what I...
Do Eden Beans Have Too Much Iodine?
I love canned beans. Legumes in general—beans, peas, and lentils—are among the healthiest foods on...
Fighting Inflammation with Food Synergy
One of the reasons some studies haven’t shown more impressive results tying disease reduction to...
Cow’s Milk Casomorphin, Crib Death, and Autism
Evolution devised an ingenious way to bond infant to mother: proteins in milk that break...
E. coli O145 Ban Opposed by Meat Industry
One child is dead and 13 others sickened across six states in an ongoing outbreak...
Treating COPD with Diet
The three top killers in the United States are no longer heart disease, cancer, and...
Watermelon for Erectile Dysfunction
A disturbing analysis of mortality and morbidity was recently published in the Journal of Gerontology....
