How the Lead Paint and Gas Industries Got Away with It
We have known for thousands of years that lead can be toxic and for more...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
What do we need to know about the safety of marijuana edibles? You may recall from my video Smoking Marijuana vs. Using a Cannabis Vaporizer that smoking cannabis can create respiratory problems, so using a vaporizer is an alternative. What...
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What Explains the Egg-Cancer Connection
The reason egg consumption is associated with elevated cancer risk may be the TMAO, considered...
The Crowding Out Strategy to Eating Healthier
It may be more expedient politically to promote an increase in consumption of healthy items...
Are the BPA-Free Plastics Like Tritan Safe?
Do BPA-free plastics such as Tritan, have human hormone-disrupting effects? And what about BPS and...
One Way to Treat Asthma and Autoimmune Diseases with Diet
Cutting two teaspoons of salt’s worth of sodium from one’s daily diet can significantly improve...
Boosting Antiviral Immune Function with Green Tea
Unlike most antiviral drugs, green tea appears to work by boosting the immune system to...
The Role of Meat and Dairy in Triggering Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes “arises following the autoimmune destruction of the insulin-producing pancreatic β [beta] cells…[and]...
How to Boost the Fat Burning Hormone FIAF
Although recent increases in the availability of junk food and decreases “in institutionally driven physical...
Proof That Lifelong Cholesterol Reduction Prevents Heart Disease
“It is well accepted that coronary atherosclerosis is a chronic progressive disease that begins early...
All Children Should Have Their Cholesterol Checked Between Ages 9 and 11
Coronary artery disease does not magically appear. The disease begins “during early childhood and progress[es]...
A Supplement Shown to Improve Asthma
Asthma, “a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways,” affects approximately 10 percent of children. About...
Is Type 1 Diabetes Triggered by the Bovine Insulin in Milk?
The tight correlation among countries between the incidence of type 1 diabetes in children and...
Milk Consumption Is Linked to Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes, which typically strikes children and young adults, is an autoimmune disease in...
How Not to Die from Heart Disease
The most likely reason most of our loved ones will die is heart disease. It’s...
How Can Animal Protein Intake Increase Childhood Obesity Risk?
If pregnant crickets are exposed to a predatory wolf spider, their babies will hatch, exhibiting...
Meat Can Cause Stress Hormone Levels to Rise and Testosterone Levels to Drop
A critique of the scientific validity of the dietary advice in Men’s Health magazine discovered...
Estrogenic Growth Promoters in Meat
In 1979, an epidemic of breast enlargement was noted in Italian children. Poultry or veal...
Cancer-Causing Caramel Color
Caramel coloring may be the most widely consumed food coloring in the world. Unfortunately, its...
How Plastics Can Affect Your Love Life
Most of the attention on phthalates, a group of hormone-disrupting chemicals found in PVC plastics,...
Does Smoking Really Protect Against Parkinson’s Disease?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently celebrated the 50-year anniversary of the landmark 1964...
Raisins and Dental Health
“Raisins have a long-standing reputation as a food that promotes dental caries (cavities),” based on...
How to Prevent Heart Disease in the Womb
The strategy of trying to prevent heart disease risk in childhood has been described as...
Where to Buy Tea Low in Lead
China burns about half of the world’s coal, spewing heavy metals such as mercury and...
Knowingly and Secretly Deciding to Put the Buying Public at Risk
The processed food industries now use tactics similar to those used by cigarette companies to...
