Latest in Nutrition Vol. 8 DVD Now Available
The current batch of videos from volume 7 are set to run out soon, and...
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How the Fight to Ban Trans Fat Was Won
Which plant should we use for which skin disease? That’s the topic of my video Natural Treatment for Acne and Fungal Infections. Thousands of studies have been published to date about the health effects of green tea, but it wasn’t...
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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...
Latest in Nutrition Vol. 7 DVD Now Available
The current batch of videos from volume 6 are set to run out before Christmas,...
Vitamin D: Shedding Some Light on the New Recommendations
Earlier this year, the U.S. Institute of Medicine upped their official vitamin D recommendation for...
Beans and Gas: Clearing the Air
More than a decade ago, the Quarterly Journal of Medicine published a review entitled: “Vegetarian...
Alzheimer’s Disease: Up to Half of Cases Potentially Preventable
November was proclaimed National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, in recognition of the five million Americans...
Nutrition Education in Medicine: A Doctor a Day Keeps the Apples Away
This month in the journal Academic Medicine yet another editorial was published decrying the sorry...
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...
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...
