Sports Drinks Are Neither Safe Nor Effective
Commercial influences may have corrupted the American College of Sports Medicine’s hydration guidelines. If you...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
Just because you’re eating a vegetarian or vegan diet doesn’t mean you’re eating healthfully. “Plant-Based Diets Are Associated with a Lower Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiovascular Disease Mortality, and All-Cause Mortality in a General Population of Middle-Aged Adults”: This...
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Water vs. Coconut Water vs. Sports Drinks for Athletes
Coconut water is tested head-to-head against plain water and sports drinks in athletes. As you...
What Should We Do to Lower Lead Levels in Breast Milk?
What are the effects of sodium and calcium intake on blood lead levels in pregnant...
Lead Contamination in Hot Sauces
Given the lead contamination found in candies containing chili imported from Mexico, 25 hot sauces...
How to Lower Your Sodium-to-Potassium Ratio
The potassium content in greens is one of two ways they can improve artery function...
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...
What About the Sodium in Miso?
According to the second World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research expert report, “[s]alt...
Should We Tax Meat and Dairy Like We Do Cigarettes?
One of the most effective ways to decrease the harms of smoking is by increasing...
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 Not to Die from Kidney Disease
Kidney failure may be both prevented and treated with a plant-based diet, and it’s no...
Why Is Extra Salt Injected into Meat?
Why is the salt industry so powerful? It has its own PR and lobbying firms...
Make Sure Iodine Is in Your Prenatal
Although severe iodine deficiency was eliminated in the United States nearly a century ago after...
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...
Healthier Salt Substitutes
As I discuss in my video Shaking the Salt Habit, the two most prominent dietary...
Don’t Be Confused by Big Salt
High blood pressure is not the only harmful effect of too much salt—it’s also been...
Reduce Acid-Forming Proteins to Protect Kidney Function
Chronic kidney disease is a major public health problem affecting about one in eight Americans,...
Fennel Seeds vs. Ginger for Menstrual Cramps and PMS
Ninety percent of women report having painful menstrual cramps at least some of the time....
Salt Is Put to the Test
From a medical journal editor: “Like any group with vested interests, the food industry resists...
Don’t Let Their Divide and Conquer Strategy Work
Dietary changes appear to be shifting universally toward a diet dominated by higher intakes of...
What Are the Best and Worst Foods?
I’ve always pictured my role primarily as providing the latest science, but you can’t understand...
Who’s Right in the Salt Debate?
For decades, a sometimes furious battle has raged among scientists over the extent to which...
Bad Gut Flora Can Undermine Our Natural Liver Detox
Colon cancer is a leading cancer killer, yet there’s a paradox in Africa: Africans rarely...
How to Treat Dry Eye Disease Naturally with Diet
One of the most common eye disorders, dry eye disease, causes irritation or discomfort, and...
