Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fish Food Poisoning
Ciguatera is one of the most common forms of food poisoning, which occurs after the...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
What happens when our crops are grown in soil contaminated with arsenic-based pesticides and arsenic drug-laced chicken manure? When arsenic-containing drugs are fed to chickens, not only does the arsenic grow out into their feathers, which are then fed back...
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Estrogen in Animal Products
Estrogen hormones can be thousands of times more estrogenic than typical endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Dietary exposure...
Paleo Diet May Undermine Benefit of CrossFit Exercise
Much of the low-carb and paleo reasoning revolves around insulin. To quote a paleo blogger,...
Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet
Up to half of Alzheimer’s cases may be attributable to just seven risk factors shown...
Dietary Estrogens and Male Fertility
In my video, The Role of Diet in Declining Sperm Counts, I discussed the association...
Children’s Supplements Found Contaminated with Pollutants
A number of case-control studies have found that giving kids cod liver oil supplements may...
Plant-Based Diets for Hypertension
Recently, researchers from Taiwan pitted the herbal tea hibiscus against obesity. They gave hibiscus to...
How to Protect Our Telomeres with Diet
In my video, Does Meditation Affect Cellular Aging?, I discussed how stress reduction through meditation...
Dioxins in U.S. Farm-Raised Catfish
Dioxins are highly toxic pollutants that accumulate in tissue fat. Almost all dioxins found in...
Antibiotic-Resistant “Superbugs” in Meat
As a rule, “high-ranking public-health officials try to avoid apocalyptic descriptors. So, it’s worrying to...
Why Are Chickens Fed Prozac?
Between 1940 and 1971, the synthetic estrogen DES was prescribed to several million pregnant women...
Do Dietary Toxins Contribute to Hand Tremors?
Essential tremor, affecting 1 in 25 adults over 40 and up to 1 in 5...
How to Treat Gout With Diet
The Washington State Fruit Commission, our largest cherry producer, can fund reviews that cherry-pick studies...
Where Do You Get Your Fiber?
Vegetarians and vegans are all too familiar with the question: Where do you get your...
Hives from Tick Bite-Induced Meat Allergies
In a previous video Alpha Gal and the Lone Star Tick, I started talking about...
Dioxins Stored in Our Own Fat May Increase Diabetes Risk
Finding higher diabetes rates among those heavily exposed to toxic pollutants—such as those exposed to...
Why Would Eating Fish Increase Diabetes Risk?
In the past two years, six separate meta-analyses have been published on the relationship between...
Why Deep Fried Foods May Cause Cancer
In the latest study on dietary patterns and breast cancer risk among women, healthier eating...
Our Tax Dollars Subsidize Unhealthy Foods
Why do food companies sell junk? Because unhealthy commodities are highly profitable. This is in...
How Contaminated Are Our Children?
In a study highlighted in my video, California Childen Are Contaminated, researchers analyzed the diets...
Living Longer by Reducing Leucine Intake
Many studies have shown that calorie restriction, without malnutrition, can increase lifespan and lower the...
Colon Cancer Prevention: Is It the Fiber or the Phytates?
Dietary factors are considered the most important environmental risk factors for cancer. Within recent years,...
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...
