When Charities Collaborate with the Food Industry
When the history of the world’s attempts to address obesity is written, one researcher writes,...
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How Big Is the Cancer Risk from Processed Meat?
The incidence of cancers has been rising for the last half century, and the question is why? Up to 20 percent of all cancers are caused by infectious agents, chiefly viruses. We’ve known this was possible for a century, when...
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Drugs vs. Lifestyle for Preventing Diabetes
In just one decade, the number of people with diabetes has more than doubled. According...
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 Learning to Cook Can Save Your Life
The eating habits of modern Americans have been described as, “eating breakfast in their cars,...
How to Reduce Your Dietary Cadmium Absorption
Cadmium is known as a highly toxic metal that represents a major hazard to human...
Hives from Tick Bite-Induced Meat Allergies
In a previous video Alpha Gal and the Lone Star Tick, I started talking about...
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...
Reducing Arsenic in Chicken and Rice
In 2013, Maryland became the first state to ban the feeding of an arsenic-containing drug...
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...
What is ‘Meat Glue’?
The so-called “meat glue enzyme” transglutaminase is used by the meat industry to add value...
Is Liquid Smoke Safe?
We know smoke inhalation isn’t good for us, but what about smoke ingestion? Decades ago,...
Does Antioxidant Intake Matter for Stroke and Heart Disease?
In my video Food Antioxidants and Cancer, I talked about how antioxidants from whole plants...
Peeks Behind the Egg Industry Curtain
The American Egg Board is a promotional marketing board appointed by the U.S. government whose...
Meat Industry Wins Right to Sell Tainted Meat
In my last post, I talked about a particularly virulent strand of Salmonella traced to...
Chicken Salmonella Outbreaks Show Food Safety Systems Failure
Salmonella causes more hospitalizations and more deaths than any other foodborne illness, and it’s been...
Viral Food Poisoning from Pesticides?
Although the most serious causes of food poisoning like Salmonella come largely from animal products...
The Top Four Anti-Inflammatory Spices
Once in a while I come across a study that’s so juicy I have to...
Superbugs on Retail Chicken
One of the most concerning developments in medicine is the emergence of bacterial super-resistance—resistance not...
Foods for Macular Degeneration
Anyone who has gotten a bad sunburn knows how damaging the UV rays in sunlight...
