Optimum Nutrition Recommendations
Updated 2019 I go into specifics of the Daily Dozen foods I recommend in my...
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How the Fight to Ban Trans Fat Was Won
“By the 1950s, lead—a dangerous neurotoxin that was once buried deep in the ground, far away from humans—had polluted the entire planet.” We have leaded gasoline to thank for this. It’s hard to imagine “a better strategy for maximizing population...
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How Much Pus Is There in Milk?
Infections in the Milk Production Process In the new NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day, I note that the antiseptics...
Natural Alzheimer’s Treatment
September is World Alzheimer’s Month, in recognition of those stricken with the devastating disease, now...
Contagion: Bad Timing for CDC Report of New Swine Flu Strain
A week before the premiere of Contagion, a star-studded thriller about (spoiler alert!) a pork-borne...
Bad Egg
In 2008, the Harvard Physician’s Health Study, which followed about about 20,000 physicians for 20...
Vitamin B12: How Much and How Often?
Vitamin B12 is not made by plants or animals, but by microbes that blanket the...
Vegan B12 Deficiency: Putting It Into Perspective
When CNN’s documentary The Last Heart Attack premiered—documenting Bill Clinton’s attempt to reverse his heart...
How to Live Longer in Four Easy Steps
The CDC published a paper this week in the American Journal of Public Health suggesting...
Can Antioxidant-Rich Spices Counteract the Effects of a High-Fat Meal?
In this month’s Journal of Nutrition, researchers at Penn State report on their experiment in...
The Last Heart Attack: Perfect Timing for the Launch of NutritionFacts.org
Though bumped last night due to developments in Libya, the new CNN documentary The Last...
Welcome to NutritionFacts.org!
Twenty years ago I changed my diet. It was the year Dr. Dean Ornish published...
