What About Saturated Fat and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk?
How can we explain the drop in stroke risk as the Japanese diet became westernized...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
What can reishi mushrooms, shiitake mushroom extracts, and whole, powdered white mushrooms do for cancer patients? “A regular intake of mushrooms can make us healthier, fitter, and happier, and help us live longer,” but what is the evidence for all...
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Obesity and a Toxic Food Environment
Implausible explanations for the obesity epidemic serve the needs of food manufacturers and marketers more...
What Should We Drink?
Here is a review of reviews on the health effects of tea, coffee, milk, wine,...
Irregular Meals, Night Shifts, and Metabolic Harms
What can shift workers do to moderate the adverse effects of circadian rhythm disruption? Shift...
A King’s Breakfast, a Prince’s Lunch, and a Pauper’s Dinner
Harness the power of your circadian rhythms for weight loss by making breakfast or lunch...
Lose Weight by Eating More in the Morning
A calorie is not a calorie. It isn’t only what you eat, but when you...
The Pros of Early Time-Restricted Eating
Calories eaten in the morning count less than calories eaten in the evening, and they’re...
A Look at the 5:2 Diet and the Fasting-Mimicking Diet
What are the effects of eating only five days a week or following a fasting-mimicking...
Dairy Milk Hormones’ Effects on Cancer
What are the effects of the female sex hormones in cow’s milk on men, women,...
Keto Diet to Effectively Fight Cancer?
What does the science say about the clinical use of ketogenic diets for epilepsy and...
Can You Lose Weight with Pills?
Studies show that many doctors either tend to overestimate the amount of weight that can...
Tap, Filtered, or Bottled Water?
There are disinfection byproducts in tap water. What happened when Brita, PUR, ZeroWater, and refrigerator...
Diabetes Associations Recognize Plant-Based Diets
Plant-based diets are the single most important—yet underutilized—opportunity to reverse the pending obesity and diabetes-induced...
What Is the Best Diet for Preventing Colon Cancer?
What would happen within just two weeks after swapping the diets of Americans with those...
What Are the Best Foods for Preventing Colon Cancer?
A low-fiber diet is a key driver of microbiome depletion, the disappearance of diversity in...
Toxoplasmosis Prevention
What are the risks of contracting the brain parasite toxoplasma from cat litter or meat? ...
Microplastics in Fish Fillets
How many plastic particles have been found in a serving of fish? Microplastic pollution of...
Microplastics in Seafood and Cancer Risk
Plastic particles may exacerbate the pollutant contamination of fish. “Plastic debris in the marine environment...
Is Seafood Safe from Microplastic Contamination?
Can ingested plastic particles from fish get into our bloodstream? In 1869, a patent was...
What Is the Best Diet for Diabetes?
The case for plant-based eating to reduce the burden of diabetes has never been stronger....
Does Everyone Get Health Benefits from Coffee?
Genetic differences in caffeine metabolism may explain the Jekyll and Hyde effects of coffee. Three-quarters...
Dairy Consumption and Cancers of the Prostate and Colon
How do we explain dairy consumption’s association with increased risk of prostate cancer but decreased...
Are Dates Good for Colon Health?
Seven dates a day for three weeks are put to the test in a randomized...
Is Laetrile (Amygdalin or Vitamin B17) an Effective Alternative Cure for Cancer?
The Mayo Clinic puts laetrile to the test to see if it is an effective...
