How Plant-Based Diets May Extend Our Lives
A recent review suggested that plant-based diets may prove to be a useful nutritional strategy...
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How the Fight to Ban Trans Fat Was Won
Given the role that oxidant free radicals are thought to play in aging and disease, one reason fruits and vegetables may be so good for us is that they contain antioxidant compounds. As you can see at 0:20 in my...
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A Low-Methionine Diet May Help Starve Cancer Cells
When designing an antibiotic, we can’t create a drug that destroys DNA because that’s something...
How Animal Proteins May Trigger Autoimmune Disease
Although slaughterhouse workers with the most poultry exposure appear to suffer the greatest excess mortality...
Handling Poultry Tied to Liver/Pancreatic Cancers
Thousands of Americans continue to die from asbestos exposure decades after many uses were banned...
Food Dyes and ADHD
There are currently thousands of additives in our food supply. Some are good—like supplementing foods...
Which Seaweed to Help Prevent Breast Cancer?
Sushi lovers, rejoice. Nori seaweed may favorably alter estrogen metabolism by modulating women’s gut flora,...
Toxin Contamination of Spirulina Supplements
On his first day of life, an infant was hospitalized with seizures. Researchers concluded that...
Foods with Natural Melatonin
We know that inadequate sleeping is associated with changes in diet—people tend to eat worse—but...
Starving Tumors of Their Blood Supply
About a third of common cancers may be prevented by eating a healthy, plant-based diet;...
Breast Cancer and Wine
After diagnosis, women with breast cancer may cut their risk of dying nearly in half...
Why Do Vegan Women Have Fewer Female Cancers?
Cervical cancer is now considered a sexually transmitted disease. It was originally suspected as such,...
Dealing with Air Travel Radiation Exposure
Doctors appear to be causing tens of thousands of cancers with CT scans and dentists...
Are Dental X-Rays Safe?
Every year, doctors cause an estimated 29,000 cancers a year dosing patients with X-rays during...
How Risky Are CT Scans?
The greatest radiation exposure risk comes not from the Fukushima fallout or the polonium naturally...
Probiotics During Cold Season?
Babies delivered via caesarean section appear to be at increased risk for various allergic diseases....
Mushrooms and Immunity
There’re lots of products that promise to boost your immune system—who wouldn’t want that? Well,...
Raspberries Reverse Precancerous Lesions
More berried treasure! A story similar to the strawberries and esophageal cancer revelation I documented...
Strawberries Can Reverse Precancerous Progression
In my last two posts, Which Fruit is Best at Fighting Cancer? and Anti-Cancer Nutrient...
Anticancer Nutrient Synergy in Cranberries
In research I profiled in my video Which Fruit Fights Cancer Better?, cranberries were found...
Which Common Fruit Fights Cancer Better?
Recently, researchers compared the ability of eleven common fruits to suppress cancer cell growth in...
Breast Cancer and Alcohol: How Much Is Safe?
Nearly 5,000 breast cancer deaths a year may be attributable to just light drinking (up...
Industry Influence on Our Dietary Guidelines
The story behind the first U.S. dietary guidelines explains why, to this day, the decades...
Flax and Breast Cancer Survival
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of flaxseeds in breast cancer patients found that flaxseeds...
Flax and Breast Cancer Prevention
Just a teaspoon of ground flaxseeds a day may help protect against breast cancer. In...
