How to Prevent the Infection that May Trigger Type 1 Diabetes
The compelling finding of Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis (MAP) circulating disproportionately within the bloodstream of type...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Ketogenic diets have been found to undermine exercise efforts and lead to muscle shrinkage and bone loss. An official International Society of Sports Nutrition position paper covering keto diets notes the “ergolytic effect” of keto diets on both high-...
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The Role of Meat and Dairy in Triggering Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes “arises following the autoimmune destruction of the insulin-producing pancreatic β [beta] cells…[and]...
What Happens When Pregnant Women Eat More Animal Protein
Are high-protein diets during pregnancy healthful or harmful? That question was answered about 40 years...
Is Type 1 Diabetes Triggered by the Bovine Insulin in Milk?
The tight correlation among countries between the incidence of type 1 diabetes in children and...
Milk Consumption Is Linked to Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes, which typically strikes children and young adults, is an autoimmune disease in...
How Phytoestrogens Can have Anti-Estrogenic Effects
When the Women’s Health Initiative study found that menopausal women taking hormone replacement therapy suffered...
Is Milk Lowering Uric Acid a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?
Parkinson’s disease, the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer’s, is characterized by a slowness...
Morning Sickness Can Be Beneficial
“Since the beginning of time, pregnant women have been reported to suffer from a syndrome...
How Not to Die from Kidney Disease
Kidney failure may be both prevented and treated with a plant-based diet, and it’s no...
How Not to Die from Cancer
After Dr. Dean Ornish conquered our number-one killer, heart disease, he moved on to killer...
How Can Animal Protein Intake Increase Childhood Obesity Risk?
If pregnant crickets are exposed to a predatory wolf spider, their babies will hatch, exhibiting...
Should We Increase Our Protein Intake After Age 65?
A study that purported to show that diets high in meat, eggs, and dairy could...
Dialing Down the Grim Reaper Gene
Only about 1 in 10,000 people live to be a 100 years old. What’s their...
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...
The Diet We Were Designed to Eat
There are three broad theories about evolution and food. One is that humans have become...
Reversing Massive Obesity with Diet
Dr. Walter Kempner introduced the first comprehensive dietary program to treat chronic kidney disease and,...
Changing Protein Requirements
There has been a history of enthusiasm for protein in the nutrition world. A century...
Do You Have to Combine Plant Proteins at a Meal?
All nutrients come from the sun or the soil. Vitamin D, the “sunshine vitamin,” is...
How to Treat Lupus with Turmeric
Different autoimmune diseases tend to target different organs. If our immune system attacks the insulin-producing...
How to Treat Infant Colic
Colic, characterized by prolonged periods of inconsolable crying, affects up to 40 percent of young...
Reduce Acid-Forming Proteins to Protect Kidney Function
Chronic kidney disease is a major public health problem affecting about one in eight Americans,...
The Effect of Animal Protein on the Kidneys
Between 1990 and 2010, some of our leading causes of death and disability remained the...
What a Single Fatty Meal Can Do to Our Arteries
The phenomenon of postprandial angina was described more than 200 years ago: chest pain that...
Choosing to Have a Normal Blood Pressure
For the first 90% of our evolution, humans ate diets containing less than a quarter...
