The Foods with the Highest Aspirin Content
The results of a recent aspirin meta-analyses suggesting a reduction of cancer mortality by about...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
The case for plant-based eating to reduce the burden of diabetes has never been stronger. There are all sorts of different scoring systems to rate diet quality. My favorite, for its simplicity, is the dietary phytochemical index—a fancy name for...
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How to Get the Benefits of Aspirin Without the Risks
For people without a personal history of cardiovascular disease, aspirin’s risks may outweigh its benefits,...
The Risks and Benefits of Taking Low-Dose Aspirin
Salicylic acid, the active ingredient in aspirin, has been used for thousands of years as...
How Much Vitamin C Should You Get Every Day?
“For many years, the RDA [recommended daily allowance] for all vitamins were based on preventing...
How to Lower Your Sodium Intake
Reduction of salt consumption by just 15 percent could save the lives of millions. If...
How to Achieve Food Synergy
There are thousands of phytochemicals that will never make it onto the side of a...
How to Increase Gut Bacterial Richness
We live in an “obesogenic environment,” with cheap junk food everywhere, thanks in part to...
How Not to Die from High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure is the number-one risk factor for death in the world. In the...
The Best Source of Resistant Starch
Resistant starch wasn’t discovered until 1982. Before that, we thought all starch could be digested...
The Answer to a Colon Cancer Mystery
Fiber and Colon Cancer Protection Colorectal cancer is the third most common cause of cancer...
What About Canned Fruit?
Food cans used to be soldered with lead compounds—so much so that people living off...
Should We Increase Our Protein Intake After Age 65?
A study that purported to show that diets high in meat, eggs, and dairy could...
Meat Can Cause Stress Hormone Levels to Rise and Testosterone Levels to Drop
A critique of the scientific validity of the dietary advice in Men’s Health magazine discovered...
The Diet We Were Designed to Eat
There are three broad theories about evolution and food. One is that humans have become...
What’s the Secret to Latino Longevity?
Latinos living in the United States tend to have “less education, a higher poverty rate, and...
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...
The Best Dried Fruit for Osteoporosis
“We are in an epidemic of osteoporosis. There can be no doubt about that.” Ten...
Is the Risk of Skin Cancer from Sun Exposure Overblown?
By the turn of the 20th century, rickets, the vitamin D deficiency disease, was rampant,...
Consequences of Prostate Cancer Treatment
A cancer diagnosis is seen as a teachable moment in medicine where we can try...
What to Feed Your Gut Bacteria
For many years, it was believed that the main function of the large intestine was...
White Rice vs. Brown Rice
Rice and Diabetes Risk In 2012, a meta-analysis was published tying white rice consumption to...
From Adequate Nutrition to Optimum Nutrition
Research in human nutrition over the past four decades has led to many discoveries as...
How to Avoid Fatty Liver Disease
In the documentary Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock eats exclusively at McDonald’s for a month and...
The Best Foods to Slow Your Metabolism
The largest component of our daily energy budget is resting metabolic rate. As I discuss...
