We Are Human-Microbe Superorganisms
The microbiome revolution in medicine is beginning to uncover the underappreciated role our healthy gut...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
Is the link between chocolate and acne due to the sugar, the milk, or the cocoa in chocolate? Researchers put white chocolate, dark chocolate, baking chocolate, and cocoa powder to the test to find out. A century ago, “diet was...
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The Effect of Animal Protein on the Kidneys
Between 1990 and 2010, some of our leading causes of death and disability remained the...
Best Food for the Common Cold
It is well known that deficiencies in certain vitamins and minerals can lead to significant...
How to Treat Ulcerative Colitis with Diet
The rotten egg gas, hydrogen sulfide, is one of the main malodorous compounds in human...
Sip Smoothies Slowly
A famous study in 2000 compared the impact of soda versus jelly beans. Researchers had...
Does Rye Bread Protect Against Cancer?
Previously, I’ve explored the beneficial effects of flaxseeds on prostate cancer (Flaxseeds vs. Prostate Cancer),...
Treating Kidney Stones with Diet
Studies suggest that excessive consumption of animal protein poses a risk of kidney stone formation,...
What Are the Benefits of Organic?
The medical literature has been historically hostile to organic foods, blaming in part erroneous information supplied...
How Milk May Contribute to Childhood Obesity
We’ve known that breastfed infants may be protected against obesity later in life for more than...
Why Is Milk Consumption Associated with More Bone Fractures?
Milk is touted to build strong bones, but a compilation of all the best studies...
Reduce Saturated Fat Intake to Protect Your Pancreas
The reason those eating plant-based diets have less fat buildup in their muscle cells and...
How to Design Saturated Fat Studies to Hide the Truth
Where do the international consensus guidelines to dramatically lower saturated fat consumption come from? (I...
Butter Is Back?
Time magazine’s cover exhorting people to eat butter could be viewed as a desperate attempt...
Should Pregnant Women Avoid Cow’s Milk?
Foods of animal origin in general naturally contain hormones, but cow’s milk may be of...
Estrogen in Animal Products
Estrogen hormones can be thousands of times more estrogenic than typical endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Dietary exposure...
The Role of Caffeine in Artery Function
There are dietary guidelines for food, but what about for beverages? A Beverage Guidance Panel...
Dietary Estrogens and Male Fertility
In my video, The Role of Diet in Declining Sperm Counts, I discussed the association...
Dioxins in U.S. Farm-Raised Catfish
Dioxins are highly toxic pollutants that accumulate in tissue fat. Almost all dioxins found in...
How to Prevent Childhood Obesity and Diabetes
Thirty years ago, virtually all diabetes in young individuals was thought to be autoimmune Type...
Gluten Sensitivity Put to the Test
In 1980, researchers in England reported a series of women with no evidence of celiac...
A Simple Yet Neglected Cure for Childhood Constipation
Back in the 1950s, it was suggested that some cases of constipation among children might...
The Dietary Link Between Acne and Cancer
Acne is an epidemic skin disease of industrialized countries, reaching prevalence rates of over 85 percent of...
How to Suppress the Aging Enzyme TOR
Over the last decade, more than 5,000 papers have been published about TOR, an engine-of-aging...
How Dark Chocolate Affects Our Arteries
Chocolate: delicious beauty or harmful beast? Or both? Although chocolate products can contain high levels...
