Broccoli Boosts Liver Detox Enzymes
Researchers just found out that the boost in detoxifying enzymes triggered by cruciferous vegetable consumption...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
The use of cinnamon to help treat diabetes remains controversial. We know that cinnamon is so good at controlling one’s blood sugar that you can cheat on a diabetes test by consuming two teaspoons of cinnamon the night before your...
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Foods That May Block Cancer Formation
More than 85% of breast cancers are sporadic and attributable to long-term exposure to environmental...
Plant-Based Diets for Fibromyalgia
Millions suffer from fibromyalgia, a condition characterized by months of widespread pain, often accompanied by...
Apple Peels Turn on Anticancer Genes
A new study calculated that if half the U.S. population ate just one more serving of conventional...
Uric Acid from Meat and Sugar
Human beings lost the ability to detoxify uric acid millions of years ago. What implications...
Go Nuts for Breast Cancer Prevention
The Black Women’s Health Study, which highlighted collards and carrots, was out of Boston University....
Plant-Based Diets for Metabolic Syndrome
Metabolic syndrome, also known as syndrome X, is a medical disorder characterized by the so-called...
Plant-Based Diets for Psoriasis
Plant-based diets appear to decrease inflammation via a variety of mechanisms, including boosting our adrenal...
98% of American Diets Potassium-Deficient
Less than 2% of Americans achieve even the recommended minimum adequate intake of potassium, due...
Plant-Based Diets for Multiple Sclerosis
The distinguished neurologist Roy Swank‘s low saturated fat diet remains the “most effective treatment of multiple...
Plant-Based Diets for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Plant-based diets may help rheumatoid arthritis by decreasing exposure to an inflammatory “Trojan horse” compound...
How Tumors Use Meat to Grow
Certain cancers—like breast cancer—can be thought of in part as an autoimmune disease. When people...
What Is the Healthiest Meat?
Thanks to the Chinese space program, scientists in Beijing recently published a formal nutritional analysis...
The Ice Diet
Other than fiber, what else do plants make that animals don’t that could help account...
Eating To Extend Our Lifespan
Why can’t we live forever? Some animals do, and I don’t mean some 200 year...
Dietary Guideline Graphics: From the Food Pyramid to My Plate, Harvard’s Healthy Eating Plate, and PCRM’s Power Plate
In last week’s New England Journal of Medicine, Walter Willett, chair of the Department of...
Bowel Movements: The Scoop on Poop
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Painter and Burkitt’s landmark paper...
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...
The Last Heart Attack: Perfect Timing for the Launch of NutritionFacts.org
Though bumped last night due to developments in Libya, the new CNN documentary The Last...
