Why Is It Legal to Sell Unsafe Meat?
Most of the U.S. population suffers an acute diarrheal illness every year. According to a...
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How the Fight to Ban Trans Fat Was Won
As I discuss in my video The Role of Soy Foods in Prostate Cancer Prevention and Treatment, a compilation of 13 observational studies on soy food consumption and the risk of prostate cancer found that soy foods appear to be...
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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....
Latest Nutrition DVD now available (proceeds to charity)
The current batch of videos from volume 8 are set to run out soon, and...
Poultry and Penis Cancer
One of the reasons it’s so difficult to study the relationship between diet and cancer...
Coffee Caveats
Last month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, an editorial entitled “Coffee consumption and...
Stool Size and Breast Cancer Risk
Women eating plant-based diets may have lower breast cancer rates because they have larger bowel...
Breast Cancer Survival and Soy
In my two recent posts The Best Detox and Breast Cancer Stem Cells vs. Broccoli,...
Mad Cow California: Is the Milk Supply Safe?
In announcing the detection of a new case of mad cow disease in California, the...
Breast Cancer Stem Cells vs. Broccoli
In my post The Best Detox, I detailed how a phytonutrient in broccoli boosts the...
The Best Detox
As detailed in my 3-minute video The Best Detox, there’s lots of talk these days...
Using Greens to Improve Athletic Performance
Earlier this month I completed a 17-part video series on the performance-enhancing effects of certain...
Harvard’s Meat & Mortality Studies
On Monday, the results of two major Harvard studies were published, following more than 100,000...
