Coffee Caveats
Last month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, an editorial entitled “Coffee consumption and...
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Feeding Our Gut Microbiome for Better Health
Boiling rice like pasta reduces arsenic levels, but how much nutrition is lost? Cooking rice in a high water-to-rice ratio reduces toxic arsenic content, which I discuss in my video How to Cook Rice to Lower Arsenic Levels. What exactly...
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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...
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...
