The Anti-Wrinkle Diet
The skin is the largest organ in the body—about 20 square feet—and the most vulnerable...
NutritionFacts.org Blog
The Many Conflicts of Interest Behind the Meat Studies
What happened when turmeric curcumin was put to the test to see if it could reverse DNA damage caused by arsenic exposure? Arsenic is a carcinogenic heavy metal, and the major mechanism of arsenic-related damage appears to be oxidative stress....
View Latest Blog
Treadmill Desks: Stand Up for Health
A few months ago the New York Times ran a piece reiterating the hazards of prolonged sitting, which is...
New DVD to Help Spring Clean Your Diet
I’m excited to announce that last month the NutritionFacts.org podcast reached #1 on the iTunes...
Gerson Therapy for Cancer?
Gerson Therapy is a largely diet-based alternative treatment for cancer that was invented by the...
Are Bioidentical Hormones Safe?
Hormone replacement therapy for menopause grew to prominence in the 1990s, when millions of women...
How To Reduce Dietary Antibiotic Intake
Recently the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention commemorated “Get Smart About Antibiotics Week,” which...
Countering Dietary Pollutants and Pesticides
We have so polluted our planet that eight different pesticides were recently found contaminating the...
Protecting Our Babies from Pollutants
For those of us starting new families, one of the myriad concerns that come up...
Pollutants in Californian Breast Tissue
Americans are walking chemical cocktails according to the latest report from the Centers for Disease Control...
How Chemically Contaminated Are We?
Every few years the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention measures the levels of...
Saffron vs. Prozac for Depression
Millions of Americans suffer from depression every year, a disabling disease that can end up...
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...
