Best Dried Fruit for Cholesterol
When I saw there was a paper entitled “Daily Dried Apples Versus Daily Dried Plums:...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Why is the salt industry so powerful? It has its own PR and lobbying firms to play tobacco industry-style tactics to downplay the dangers of high salt intake, but salt is so cheap. How much money is the industry really...
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Do Vegans Get More Cavities?
A diet high in saturated fat, which can clog our arteries and lead to inflammation,...
Kiwifruit for Irritable Bowel Syndrome
An estimated 10-20% of the general population suffers from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which accounts...
Fighting Inflammation with Food Synergy
One of the reasons some studies haven’t shown more impressive results tying disease reduction to...
Treating COPD with Diet
The three top killers in the United States are no longer heart disease, cancer, and...
Poultry and Penis Cancer
One of the reasons it’s so difficult to study the relationship between diet and cancer...
Açaí to Zucchini: Antioxidant Food Rankings
In honor of Chinese New Year (of the dragon), today’s NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day Dragon’s Blood wraps...
Alzheimer’s Disease: Up to Half of Cases Potentially Preventable
November was proclaimed National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, in recognition of the five million Americans...
Dietary Guideline Graphics: From the Food Pyramid to My Plate, Harvard’s Healthy Eating Plate, and PCRM’s Power Plate
In last week’s New England Journal of Medicine, Walter Willett, chair of the Department of...
Inflammation, Diet, and “Vitamin S”
Last month an update was published on the intriguing suggestion that low levels of salicylic...
