Does Antioxidant Intake Matter for Cancer?
The USDA removed their online antioxidant database of foods, “concerned that ORAC values were routinely misused...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Dr. Dean Ornish showed that a plant-based diet and lifestyle program could apparently reverse the progression of prostate cancer for early stage, localized, watch-and-wait cancer. What about for more advanced stage life-threatening disease? Dr. Dean Ornish showed that a plant-based...
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The Reversal on Fish Oil
Are the purported benefits of fish oil supplementation for the prevention and treatment of heart...
Are Multivitamins Just a Waste of Money?
About one in three Americans take a multivitamin. Is that helpful, harmful, or just a...
Who Should be Careful About Curcumin?
Following flax and wheatgrass, turmeric is the third best-selling botanical dietary supplement, racking up $12...
Foods for Computer Eye Strain
What happens to our eyesight when we sit in front of a computer all day?...
Foods for Glaucoma
Glaucoma is the second leading cause of legal blindness in white women, and the number...
The Vitamin Everyone on a Plant-Based Diet Needs
A new study from China found that compared to omnivores, those who ate egg-free and...
How Seafood Can Impact Brain Development
In my video Fish Intake Associated With Brain Shrinkage, I discussed evidence suggesting that mercury...
How to Boost the Benefits of Exercise
We all know exercise is beneficial to our health. Then why is it that ultramarathon...
Why the Egg-Cancer Link?
Two million men in the U.S. are living with prostate cancer — but that’s better...
Preloading with Watercress Before Exercise
Could exercise be creating harmful free radicals? Oxidizing glucose to produce energy for our bodies...
Toxin Contamination of Spirulina Supplements
On his first day of life, an infant was hospitalized with seizures. Researchers concluded that...
Is Noni or Mangosteen Juice Safe?
There is now another case report of acute toxicity linked to noni juice ingestion, this...
How Should I Take Probiotics?
Foods appear to be better carriers for probiotics than supplements, but if one chooses to...
Probiotics During Cold Season?
Babies delivered via caesarean section appear to be at increased risk for various allergic diseases....
Flax Seeds for Diabetes
Drug companies hope to capitalize on the fact that the consumption of certain plants appears...
Raisins vs. Energy Gels for Athletic Performance
After about an hour of strenuous exercise, long-distance athletes can really start to deplete their...
The Science on Açaí Berries
An independent review of the effects of açaí berries was recently published, which included studies...
Plant-Based Workplace Intervention
A billion people in the world are now overweight. That’s great news for the $13...
Health Food Store Advice: Often Worthless or Worst
How many times has this happened to you? You’re in a natural food store walking...
Açaí to Zucchini: Antioxidant Food Rankings
In honor of Chinese New Year (of the dragon), today’s NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day Dragon’s Blood wraps...
Vitamin B12: How Much and How Often?
Vitamin B12 is not made by plants or animals, but by microbes that blanket the...
Vegan B12 Deficiency: Putting It Into Perspective
When CNN’s documentary The Last Heart Attack premiered—documenting Bill Clinton’s attempt to reverse his heart...
