Do Eden Beans Have Too Much Iodine?
I love canned beans. Legumes in general—beans, peas, and lentils—are among the healthiest foods on...
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Does Less Protein Increase FGF21 for Longevity?
In 1993, the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study found that a high intake of trans fat may increase the risk of heart disease by 50 percent. That’s where the trans fat story started in Denmark, ending a decade later with a...
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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...
Latest in Nutrition Vol. 8 DVD Now Available
The current batch of videos from volume 7 are set to run out soon, and...
Atkins Diet and Erectile Dysfunction
Yesterday’s NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day, Atkins Diet: Trouble Keeping It Up, discusses a case report of a...
Açaí to Zucchini: Antioxidant Food Rankings
In honor of Chinese New Year (of the dragon), today’s NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day Dragon’s Blood wraps...
Paula Deen: Diabetes Drug Spokesperson
The year before he died of lung cancer, actor Yul Brynner taped a commercial for...
Amla: Indian Gooseberries vs. Cancer, Diabetes, and Cholesterol
I’m out on the road speaking so much that I’m always on the lookout for...
Plant-Based Benefits Extend Beyond the Top Killers
The Adventist Health Studies offer some of the best science on the impacts of plant-based...
Hibiscus Tea: Flower Power
In Friday’s NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day Better Than Green Tea? I compare the antioxidant content of a...
EPA dioxin limit has National Chicken Council worried products could be declared “unfit for consumption”
Dioxin, industrial pollutant of Agent Orange infamy, has been called “the most toxic compound synthesized...
