Obesity and a Toxic Food Environment
Implausible explanations for the obesity epidemic serve the needs of food manufacturers and marketers more...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
If the nitrites in foods like ham and bacon cause lung damage, what about “uncured” meat with “no nitrites added”? “Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified processed meat as carcinogenic to humans.” Also known as cured meat, such as...
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Corporate Influence and Our Epidemic of Obesity
Like the tobacco industry adding extra nicotine to cigarettes, the food industry employs taste engineers...
Processed Foods and Obesity
The rise in the U.S. calorie supply responsible for the obesity epidemic wasn’t just about...
What Should We Drink?
Here is a review of reviews on the health effects of tea, coffee, milk, wine,...
Does Marijuana Affect Weight Gain or Bone Density?
Are the apparent adverse effects of heavy cannabis use on the bone just due to...
How Healthy Are Ancient Grains?
Ancient types of wheat, like kamut, are put to the test for inflammation, blood sugar,...
Are Fortified Children’s Breakfast Cereals Just Candy?
The industry responds to the charge that breakfast cereals are too sugary. In 1941, the...
Muscle Shrinkage and Bone Loss on Keto Diets?
Ketogenic diets have been found to undermine exercise efforts and lead to muscle shrinkage and...
Cannabis on Fertility and Pregnancy
Pregnant and breastfeeding women should probably be advised to either decrease or, when possible, cease...
What Is the Best Diet for Preventing Colon Cancer?
What would happen within just two weeks after swapping the diets of Americans with those...
Cannabis and Pesticides
The biggest barrier to reducing toxic pesticides in cannabis is, not surprisingly, the cannabis industry...
What Is Orthorexia?
I trace the source and legitimacy of a disorder purporting to describe an “unhealthy obsession...
Is It Safe to Consume Cannabis Edibles?
What do we need to know about the safety of marijuana edibles? You may recall...
Does Smoking Cannabis Cause Lung Cancer?
On a puff-by-puff basis, cannabis smoke deposits four times more tar in the lungs than...
How to Eat to Reduce Cancer Risk
What does the best available balance of evidence say right now about what to eat...
Does Switching from Cannabis Smoking to a Vaporizer Reduce Respiratory Symptoms?
Cannabis vapor has less tar, but may contain more ammonia. What happens to respiratory symptoms...
Lung Inflammation Smoking Cannabis vs. Cocaine vs. Tobacco
There is unequivocal evidence that regular cannabis smoking causes acute lung inflammation, but what are...
After Marijuana Legalization Did Opioid Overdoses Go Up, Stay the Same, or Go Down?
What happened in states after medical marijuana laws were passed? Did opioid overdoses go up,...
Randomized Controlled Trials of Beans
Do legumes—beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils—work only to prevent disease, or can they help...
Blueberry Blocking Effects of Yogurt
What happened when researchers tried to tease out what’s in dairy that interferes with the...
The Public Health Concerns of Weed Legalization
There are some serious public health concerns about the legalization of marijuana, but they’re probably...
Blueberries Can Improve Artery Function
What is the optimum dose of wild blueberries to eat at a meal? A single...
Cannabis Brain Damage Reversible in Adults
If you start smoking marijuana as an adult, how much cannabis is too much? “Can...
Cannabis Brain Damage in Teens May Not Be Reversible
Is the American Academy of Pediatrics’ opposition to cannabis legalization just reefer madness revisited? “Since...
