How Much Added Sugar Is Okay?
Public health authorities continue to lower the upper tolerable limit of daily added sugar intake....
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How Big Is the Cancer Risk from Processed Meat?
Palmitic acid, a saturated fat concentrated in meat and dairy, can boost the metastatic potential of cancer cells through the fat receptor CD36. The leading cause of death in cancer patients is metastasis formation. That’s how most people die of...
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Circadian Rhythms and Our Health and Weight
Given the power of chronotherapy—how the same dose of the same drugs taken at a...
Pre-Cut Vegetables and Endotoxins
Endotoxins can build up on pre-cut vegetables and undermine some of their benefits. You may...
Are Fortified Children’s Breakfast Cereals Just Candy?
The industry responds to the charge that breakfast cereals are too sugary. In 1941, the...
Dairy Milk Hormones’ Effects on Cancer
What are the effects of the female sex hormones in cow’s milk on men, women,...
Treating Reflux in Kids with Diet
Even those who test negative for cow’s milk allergy may have hypersensitivity reactions to dairy...
High Oxalate Greens and Kidney Stones
Given their oxalate content, how much is too much spinach, chard, beet greens, chaga mushroom...
Attempts by Big Sugar to Manipulate the Science
“Corporations are legally required to maximize shareholder profits and therefore have to oppose public health...
Can Reflux in Babies Be Treated with Diet?
Can we treat the cause of infant reflux with maternal milk elimination? There has been...
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...
What Are the Best Foods for Gingivitis and Halitosis?
I discuss the best and worst foods for gum inflammation and bad breath. Yes, saturated...
Treating Periodontitis with Diet
Plant-based diets are put to the test in the treatment of periodontal disease. How does...
Does the Science Say That Butter Is Really Back?
Are butter and other saturated fats bad for you or not? My video Friday Favorites:...
Is Dietary Cholesterol in a Relationship with Cancer?
What is the relationship between the consumption of eggs and other cholesterol-rich foods and cancers...
The Dairy Industry’s Misleading Study Designs
How do the meat and dairy industries design studies that show their products have neutral...
Cheese and the Comparison Challenge
Dairy is compared to other foods for cardiovascular (heart attack and stroke) risk. When studies...
Is Cheese Really Good for Our Health?
What is the real story behind the recent studies that show cheese has neutral or...
Does a Macrobiotic Diet Help with Diabetes?
What happens when you add massive amounts of carbohydrates in the form of whole grains...
Why Should (or Shouldn’t) We Eat a Macrobiotic Diet?
What happens when you put diabetics on a diet composed largely of whole grains, vegetables,...
What Is the Best Food for Gingivitis and Periodontal Disease?
What would happen if you stopped brushing your teeth but ate more healthfully? Experimentally, when...
Coffee Benefits Blocked by Adding Milk?
I open my video Does Adding Milk Block the Benefits of Coffee? with a graph...
A Plant-Based Workplace Wellness Program Put to the Test
What is the return on investment for educating employees about healthy eating and living? “How...
Which Diet Works Even Better the Longer You Do It?
The most well-published community-based lifestyle intervention in the medical literature is also one of the...
Foods That Improve Sexual Function in Women
Addyi (flibanserin), the drug marketed for “hypoactive sexual desire disorder,” is ineffective and unsafe. What...
