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...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Can we treat the cause of infant reflux with maternal milk elimination? There has been a longstanding problem among zookeepers: The gorillas were throwing up all of the time. “The practice of regurgitation has never been reported in wild Gorillas...
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Benefits of Turmeric Curcumin for Uveitis and Eye Cancer
In 1989, ophthalmologists in India found that eyedrops made from the spice turmeric (known as...
What Not to Do When You Handle Receipts
The plastics chemical bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, was banned for use in baby...
Vitamin D Put to the Test for Crohn’s Disease
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), “a chronic inflammatory condition of the intestine that causes abdominal pain,...
A Supplement Shown to Improve Asthma
Asthma, “a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways,” affects approximately 10 percent of children. About...
Why Drinking Diet Soda Makes You Crave Sugar
Recommendations on limiting sugar consumption vary around the world, with guidelines ranging from “[l]imit sweet...
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...
The Benefits of Ginger for Osteoarthritis
If ginger is so effective against migraines and also helps with the pain of menstrual...
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 Increase Gut Bacterial Richness
We live in an “obesogenic environment,” with cheap junk food everywhere, thanks in part to...
The Benefits of Sesame Seeds for Knee Osteoarthritis
Doctors have been injecting arthritis patients with gold since the 1920s. In fact, “[g]old-based medicines...
How Not to Die from Kidney Disease
Kidney failure may be both prevented and treated with a plant-based diet, and it’s no...
The Healthiest Way to Eat Paleo
There have been about a half dozen studies published on Paleo-type diets, starting around 20...
A Highly Effective, Cheap, Easy-to-Use, Safer Treatment for Heavy Periods
Ginger is most famous for its role in preventing and alleviating nausea and vomiting. There...
Why Some Dairy Products Are More Closely Linked to Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s. Each year in the United...
What’s the Secret to Latino Longevity?
Latinos living in the United States tend to have “less education, a higher poverty rate, and...
How Much Do Vitamin D Supplements Affect Lifespan?
Living Longer With Vitamin D? In 1822, a Polish physician was the first to publish...
The Downside of Curcumin Supplements
Supplement manufacturers often fall into the same reductionist trap as the drug companies. Herbs are...
What to Feed Your Gut Bacteria
For many years, it was believed that the main function of the large intestine was...
White Rice vs. Brown Rice
Rice and Diabetes Risk In 2012, a meta-analysis was published tying white rice consumption to...
How to Avoid Fatty Liver Disease
In the documentary Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock eats exclusively at McDonald’s for a month and...
One Heartbeat per Second to Beat the Clock
Immanuel Kant, the famed 18th century philosopher, described the chemistry of his day as a...
The Benefits of Vinegar Beyond Weight Loss
A double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized study found that body weight and belly fat were significantly reduced...
