Vegans and Iodine Deficiency Risk
Most plant-based milks are not fortified with iodine. “Adequate dietary iodine is required for normal...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
Why might healthy lifestyle choices wipe out 90% of our risk for having a heart attack, while drugs may only reduce risk by 20% to 30%? On the standard American diet, atherosclerosis—hardening of the arteries, the number one killer of...
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Chemical Safety, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health
More than 95 percent of human exposure to industrial pollutants like dioxins and PCBs comes...
Antibiotic Resistance, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health
Medically important antibiotics are being squandered by animal agriculture to compensate for typical factory farming...
Food Safety and Cultivated Meat
What are the direct health implications of making clean meat—that is, meat without animals? In...
Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease
Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those...
Eating to Keep Ulcerative Colitis in Remission
Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, far...
Treating Fatty Liver Disease with Diet
What are the three sources of liver fat in fatty liver disease, and how can...
Heme Iron and Cancer
Laboratory models suggest that extreme doses of heme iron may be detrimental, but what about...
Heme and Impossible Burgers
Is heme just an innocent bystander in the link between meat intake and breast cancer,...
Are Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products Good for Us?
Clinical trials on Quorn show that it can improve satiety and help control cholesterol, blood...
Plant-Based Meats and Puberty, Obesity, and Fracture Risk
What are the effects of plant-based meats on premature puberty, childhood obesity, and hip fracture...
Are Plant-Based Meats Good for Us?
What are the different impacts of plant protein versus animal protein, and do the benefits...
How Healthy Are the Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat vs. Beef?
What happens when you compare the trans fats, saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol levels in...
What Are the Environmental Impacts of Plant-Based Meats?
Environmental assessments of 50 different plant-based meats show them to be vastly more sustainable than...
Obesity’s Impacts on Gallstones, Acid Reflux, and Heart Disease
Sufficient, sustained weight loss may cut the risk of fatal heart attacks and strokes in...
Does Fasting Help Autoimmune Diseases?
Various fasting regimens have been attempted for inflammatory autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, ankylosing spondylitis,...
Acne and Vitamin B12
Acne can be triggered in one in ten people who get vitamin B12 injections. “Acne...
Eating to Reverse Heart Failure
An entire issue of a cardiology journal dedicated to plant-based nutrition explores the role an...
How Heavy Is Your Food’s Carbon Footprint?
How much greenhouse gas does the production of different foods cause, measured in miles driven...
Eating to Fight the Climate Crisis
The EAT-Lancet Commission lays out the best diet for human and planetary health. “Scientists have...
Junk Food in Hospitals
Why is hospital food so unhealthy? “Put in stark terms, CVD [cardiovascular disease] claims 1...
Treat Type 1 Diabetes with a Plant-Based Diet?
Is it possible to reverse type 1 diabetes if caught early enough? The International Journal...
The Largest Study on Fasting in the World
The Buchinger-modified fasting program is put to the test. A century ago, fasting—“starvation, as a...
What’s the Best Weight-Loss and Disease-Prevention Diet?
The most effective diet for weight loss may also be the most healthful. Why are...
