Why Are Cancer Rates So Low in India?
It is estimated that many tumors start around the age of 20. However, detection of...
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Why Healthy Fast-Food Menu Options Can Backfire
Brown rice contains more arsenic than white rice, but the arsenic in brown rice is less absorbable, so how does it wash out when you compare the urine arsenic levels of white-rice eaters to brown-rice eaters? Arsenic in rice is...
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Red Dye No. 3 and Thyroid Cancer
Fifteen million pounds of food dyes are sold every year in the U.S. Why? Foods...
How to Reduce Exposure to Alkylphenols Through Your Diet
Alkylphenols are industrial chemicals that are found in hair products, spermicides, cleaning products and detergents. They...
Alkylphenol Endocrine Disruptors and Allergies
In my video Preventing Childhood Allergies, I noted a study in Japan that found higher...
Is Liquid Smoke Safe?
We know smoke inhalation isn’t good for us, but what about smoke ingestion? Decades ago,...
Does Antioxidant Intake Matter for Cancer?
The USDA removed their online antioxidant database of foods, “concerned that ORAC values were routinely misused...
Orange Aromatherapy for Anxiety
Aromatherapy — the use of concentrated essential oils extracted from plants to treat disease —...
What’s Driving America’s Obesity Problem?
Currently, nearly two-thirds of Americans are overweight. By 2030 it is estimated more than half...
Are Multivitamins Just a Waste of Money?
About one in three Americans take a multivitamin. Is that helpful, harmful, or just a...
Understanding Lifestyle Medicine From the Heart
I talk a lot about numbers and statistics, but as the Director of Yale’s Prevention...
Don’t Forget Fiber
The famous surgeon Denis Burkitt is better known for his discovery of a childhood cancer...
Organic Milk and Prostate Cancer
Researchers have expressed concern that since cow’s milk contains estrogens, dairy could stimulate the growth...
Who Should be Careful About Curcumin?
Following flax and wheatgrass, turmeric is the third best-selling botanical dietary supplement, racking up $12...
The Top Four Anti-Inflammatory Spices
Once in a while I come across a study that’s so juicy I have to...
Boosting Anticancer Immunity with Berries
For disease prevention and health maintenance, berries of all colors have “emerged as champions.” Research...
Does Caramel Color Cause Cancer?
Used as a coloring agent in products ranging from colas and beer to gravies and...
We Can End the Heart Disease Epidemic
Many of the diseases that are common in United States are rare or even nonexistent...
What to Eat to Reduce Our Toxic Exposure
It is not very common that a single molecule attracts enough interest to merit international...
Four Things to Help Prevent Most Disease
Though I was trained as a general practitioner, my chosen specialty is lifestyle medicine. Most...
Can Eating Soy Prevent Breast Cancer?
In my video, Increased Lifespan From Beans, I discuss how beans may be the single...
Why the Egg-Cancer Link?
Two million men in the U.S. are living with prostate cancer — but that’s better...
How Grapefruit Affects Prescription Drugs
Does grapefruit in particular help people lose weight? If someone eats half of a grapefruit...
Quadrupling Breast Cancer Survival
Half a million Americans are expected to die this year from cancer, equal to five...
How Plant-Based Diets May Extend Our Lives
A recent review suggested that plant-based diets may prove to be a useful nutritional strategy...
