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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Fiber and Colon Cancer Protection Colorectal cancer is the third most common cause of cancer death in the world. Thankfully, the good bacteria in our gut take the fiber we eat and make short-chain fatty acids, like butyrate, that protect...
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Why Do Vegan Women Have Fewer Female Cancers?
Cervical cancer is now considered a sexually transmitted disease. It was originally suspected as such,...
Egg Industry Caught Making False Claims
On the basis of concerns from the American Heart Association and consumer groups, the Federal...
Dealing with Air Travel Radiation Exposure
Doctors appear to be causing tens of thousands of cancers with CT scans and dentists...
Preventing Bacterial Vaginosis with Diet
In the same way fermented pickles, kimchi, and sauerkraut foster the growth of good bacteria...
My Testimony Before the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Committee
This week I had the honor of speaking before the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee,...
Probiotics During Cold Season?
Babies delivered via caesarean section appear to be at increased risk for various allergic diseases....
Raspberries Reverse Precancerous Lesions
More berried treasure! A story similar to the strawberries and esophageal cancer revelation I documented...
Which Common Fruit Fights Cancer Better?
Recently, researchers compared the ability of eleven common fruits to suppress cancer cell growth in...
Best Nutrition Bang for Your Buck
When measured on a cost per serving, cost per weight, or cost per nutrition basis,...
Avoid Carnitine and Lecithin Supplements
A landmark study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that choline in eggs,...
Flax and Breast Cancer Prevention
Just a teaspoon of ground flaxseeds a day may help protect against breast cancer. In...
Flax Seeds for Prostate Cancer
 Why is there such a huge disparity in prostate cancer rates around the world? The...
Do Vegans Get More Cavities?
A diet high in saturated fat, which can clog our arteries and lead to inflammation,...
Broccoli Boosts Liver Detox Enzymes
Researchers just found out that the boost in detoxifying enzymes triggered by cruciferous vegetable consumption...
Apple Peels Turn on Anticancer Genes
A new study calculated that if half the U.S. population ate just one more serving of conventional...
Protecting Our Babies from Pollutants
For those of us starting new families, one of the myriad concerns that come up...
The Ice Diet
Other than fiber, what else do plants make that animals don’t that could help account...
Fighting Inflammation with Food Synergy
One of the reasons some studies haven’t shown more impressive results tying disease reduction to...
Treating COPD with Diet
The three top killers in the United States are no longer heart disease, cancer, and...
Açaà 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...
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...
Inflammation, Diet, and “Vitamin S”
Last month an update was published on the intriguing suggestion that low levels of salicylic...
