Why Drinking Diet Soda Makes You Crave Sugar
Recommendations on limiting sugar consumption vary around the world, with guidelines ranging from “[l]imit sweet...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Blueberries are put to the test against insulin resistance, oxidation, and DNA damage. A famous pair of Harvard studies involved so many people over such long a time that they’ve accumulated millions of person-years of data. As I discuss in...
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The Foods with the Highest Aspirin Content
The results of a recent aspirin meta-analyses suggesting a reduction of cancer mortality by about...
How to Get the Benefits of Aspirin Without the Risks
For people without a personal history of cardiovascular disease, aspirin’s risks may outweigh its benefits,...
The Risks and Benefits of Taking Low-Dose Aspirin
Salicylic acid, the active ingredient in aspirin, has been used for thousands of years as...
How Much Vitamin C Should You Get Every Day?
“For many years, the RDA [recommended daily allowance] for all vitamins were based on preventing...
How to Lower Your Sodium Intake
Reduction of salt consumption by just 15 percent could save the lives of millions. If...
The Benefits of Wakame Seaweed Salad on Blood Pressure
I used to think of seaweed as just a beneficial whole-food source of minerals like...
How to Achieve Food Synergy
There are thousands of phytochemicals that will never make it onto the side of a...
How to Increase Gut Bacterial Richness
We live in an “obesogenic environment,” with cheap junk food everywhere, thanks in part to...
How Not to Die from High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure is the number-one risk factor for death in the world. In the...
Why Is Extra Salt Injected into Meat?
Why is the salt industry so powerful? It has its own PR and lobbying firms...
The Best Source of Resistant Starch
Resistant starch wasn’t discovered until 1982. Before that, we thought all starch could be digested...
The Answer to a Colon Cancer Mystery
Fiber and Colon Cancer Protection Colorectal cancer is the third most common cause of cancer...
What About Canned Fruit?
Food cans used to be soldered with lead compounds—so much so that people living off...
Should We Increase Our Protein Intake After Age 65?
A study that purported to show that diets high in meat, eggs, and dairy could...
Pomegranates Put to the Test for Prostate Cancer
The pomegranate “has been revered through the ages for its medicinal properties”––so much so that...
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...
The Diet We Were Designed to Eat
There are three broad theories about evolution and food. One is that humans have become...
What’s the Secret to Latino Longevity?
Latinos living in the United States tend to have “less education, a higher poverty rate, and...
Why We Should Cut Down on Salt Independently of Blood Pressure
If you put people on a low-salt diet, meaning only getting twice as much sodium...
The Best Dried Fruit for Osteoporosis
“We are in an epidemic of osteoporosis. There can be no doubt about that.” Ten...
Reversing Massive Obesity with Diet
Dr. Walter Kempner introduced the first comprehensive dietary program to treat chronic kidney disease and,...
Is the Risk of Skin Cancer from Sun Exposure Overblown?
By the turn of the 20th century, rickets, the vitamin D deficiency disease, was rampant,...
Consequences of Prostate Cancer Treatment
A cancer diagnosis is seen as a teachable moment in medicine where we can try...
