Chicken vs. Veggie Chicken
Nutritional comparison between chicken and fake chicken.
Latest in Clinical Nutrition: Volume 3
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Volume 3 covers the peer-reviewed scientific nutrition literature published between spring 2008 and spring 2009.
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Are Artificial Colors Bad for You?
The effects of artificial colors on impulsivity, inattentiveness, and hyperactivity among young children.
Are Artificial Colors Harmful?
The potential health effects of colorings such as cochineal, a food dye derived from crushed...
Pets & Human Lymphoma
Is having a cat or dog associated with a higher or lower risk of developing...
Is Artificial Butter Flavor Harmful?
The connection between diacetyl and the devastating lung disease bronchiolitis obliterans.
Is Citric Acid Harmful?
A hoax hoodwinks European consumers.
Is Gum Arabic Harmful?
The verdict on this common food additive.
Is Sodium Benzoate Harmful?
When combined with ascorbic acid in soda, sodium benzoate can form the potent carcinogen benzene.
Diet & Hyperactivity
Are soda-drinking teens more hyperactive because of the sugar, caffeine, or preservatives?
Sugar vs. Corn Syrup
Mercury content aside, is high-fructose corn syrup worse than table sugar?
Mercury in Corn Syrup?
Fifty different brands of high-fructose corn syrup-containing foods were tested for mercury.
The Healthiest Sweetener
There are two sweeteners that are actually good for you.
A Harmless Artificial Sweetener – UPDATE: don’t eat! (See doc note below)
Most of the artificial sweeteners on the market have been associated with health problems.
Nutrition without Calories
What has the opposite of junk food—nutrition but no calories?
The Healthiest Beverage
A recipe for making the healthiest beverage even healthier.
Dietary Brain Wave Alteration
A neurological basis for humanity's love affair with Camellia sinensis?
Green Tea vs. White
It appears to depend on whether you add lemon.
Black Tea vs. Earl Grey
Bergamot oil contains a phytonutrient that may be beneficial.
Is Tulsi Tea Good For You?
Holy basil tea may live up to its name.
Is Osmanthus Tea Good For You?
Look for it in Asian markets.
Is Hibiscus Tea Good for You?
The flower that puts the zing in Red Zinger®.
Kuna Indian Secret
What do the Kuna Indians drink that may help account for their apparent low chronic...
Update on Chocolate
Results of a major international scientific conference summarized.
Is Carob Good For You?
Preliminary research on this chocolate substitute.
Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer?
Estimated lifetime risk of developing a brain tumor with and without mobile phone use.
Hot Dogs and Leukemia
How much cancer risk can be avoided through lifestyle change?
Airborne Supplements
One of the largest consumer fraud cases in American history.
Sleep and Immunity
Is the link between immune function and a good night's rest a myth?
Optimal Sleep Duration
What may be the optimal number of hours to sleep, on average, every night to...
Nontoxic Head Lice Treatment
Researchers pit the leading insecticide treatment against a coconut oil emulsion shampoo.
Is White Bread Good for You?
Is eating refined grains, white potatoes, and iceberg lettuce better than nothing?
Boosting Heart Nerve Control
Which food was found to improve heart rate variability?
Update on Spirulina
Concerns about spirulina supplements extend to liver toxicity.
Is Chlorella Good For You?
Chlorella does not have the toxins that may be present in blue-green algae supplements and...
Is Mangosteen Juice Good For You?
Mangosteen juice may be an expensive way to make yourself sick.
Are Star Fruit Good for You?
The oxalate content in star fruit may pose a risk.
Apples and Breast Cancer
Can an apple a day significantly reduce cancer risk?
Fungal Toxins in Apples
Researchers report levels of a fungal toxin in organic and conventional apple juice.
Peanuts in Pregnancy
Should pregnant women avoid peanuts to decrease their child's risk of peanut allergy?
Are Betel Nuts Good For You?
Areca nuts may be both carcinogenic and damaging to the liver.
Is Coconut Oil Good For You?
The effect of the saturated fat in coconut oil on cholesterol levels.
Is Coconut Milk Good For You?
The impact of coconut milk and flaked coconut on cardiovascular disease risk.
Are Avocados Okay?
Guacamole: friend or foe?
Diverticulosis and Nuts
Should people with diverticulosis avoid nuts, seeds, and popcorn?
Waistline-Expanding Food
Which food has been associated with increased waist circumference?
Waistline-Slimming Food
A biological understanding of why soy may result in less abdominal fat.
Does Tofu Cause Dementia?
The solution to the mystery behind the headlines.
Oxalates in Cinnamon
How much turmeric and cinnamon is too much?
How to Upregulate Metabolism
A biochemical clue as to why vegetarians tend to be significantly slimmer than the rest...
Is Caloric Restriction Good For You?
Animal studies suggest caloric restriction is beneficial, but what does some of the first human...
Aspirin Levels in Plant Foods
Why people eating healthy diets may have aspirin in their bloodstream— even if they don't...
Alcohol Risks vs. Benefits
Does moderate alcohol consumption extend the lifespan of healthy people?
Salt OK if Blood Pressure is OK?
If your blood pressure is normal is there any reason to avoid sodium?
Fill in the Blank
What four letter food is associated with reduced blood pressure and body fat?
Which Plastics Are Harmful?
How to choose the "numbers" of plastic that are probably safest.
Thousands of Vegans Studied
The first study of thousands of vegans is released. It compares their body mass index...
How to Prevent Diabetes
The protection of plant-based diets against diabetes appears to extend beyond weight control.
How to Treat Diabetes
The American Diabetes Association diet head-to-head against a vegan diet.
Meat and Mortality
The massive NIH-AARP study looks at the relationship between meat consumption and total mortality, cancer...
Low Meat or No Meat?
Flexitarians versus vegetarians: who lives longer?
Vegetarian’s Myelopathy
Vegetarians got a disease named after them.
Veggies vs. Cancer
A landmark study pitted 34 common vegetables against 8 different lines of human cancer cells.
#1 Anticancer Vegetable
There are two superfood classes of vegetables most adept at blocking human cancer cell growth...
Forgo Fat-Free Dressings?
Fat is needed to maximize the absorption of certain important phytonutrients.
Antioxidant Level Dynamics
Using an argon laser to measure human antioxidant levels in real time, researchers uncover how...
Fecal Residues on Chicken
Researchers use laser imaging to determine the proportion of retail chicken contaminated with fecal matter.
Carcinogens in Roasted Chicken?
Our bodies are less efficient at detoxifying heterocyclic amines—carcinogens formed from cooked muscle tissue—than once...
Muscle Tremors and Diet
Essential tremor, one of the most common neurological conditions, appears to be linked to meat...
Carcinogens in Roasted Coffee?
If there are carcinogens created when you roast chicken, what about roasted coffee beans?
Fast Food Tested for Carcinogens
Chicken from seven fast food outlets were tested to see which had the highest levels...
Restaurant Worker Hand Washing
What percentage of restaurant workers comply with the federal Food Code guidelines for hand washing?
Sexually Transmitted Fish Toxin
There are neurotoxins in certain fish that can survive cooking and cause unusual symptoms.
New Corpse Smell
Compounds released from the putrefaction of flesh can cause a common form of seafood poisoning.
USDA Parasite Game
What percentage of retail beef samples are infested with Sarcocystis parasites?
Brain Parasites in Meat
What percentage of U.S. lambs are infested with toxoplasma parasites?
Meat Hormones and Female Infertility
What is behind the purported link between poultry consumption and anovulatory infertility?
Soy Hormones and Male Infertility
The phytoestrogens in soy appear to protect against cancer, but might they reduce male fertility?
Vegetarian Zinc Requirements
Vegetarians may be at risk for zinc deficiency.
Xenoestrogens and Sperm Counts
Endocrine-disrupting xenoestrogens in fish may be interfering with male fertility.
Xenoestrogens and Early Puberty
Until the 20th century, the average age of puberty for girls was 16 or 17...
Maternal Mercury Levels
The resulting loss of child intelligence linked to maternal fish consumption is estimated to cost...
Fish Fog
The link between fish consumption and neurobehavioral abnormalities in adults is likely related to mercury...
Amalgam Fillings vs. Canned Tuna
Eating a can of tuna once a week is equivalent to living with how many...
Cannibalistic Feed Biomagnification
Feeding meat and bone meal to farm animals may increase the levels of industrial pollutants...
DDT in Fish Oil Supplements
Though banned decades ago, the pesticide DDT persists in the food supply.
Avoiding Other Banned Pesticides
Industrial pollutants in the food supply may help explain the link between dairy consumption and...
The Problem with Organic Salmon
Much of our fish supply is so polluted that algae-derived sources of long-chain omega-3 fatty...
Artificial Coloring in Fish
Canthaxanthine feed additives given to farmed fish may be linked to a condition in consumers...
Is Cod Liver Oil Good for You?
Even distilled cod liver oil supplements may have toxic levels of vitamin A.
Are Vitamin C Pills Good For You?
What apparent effect does taking vitamin C supplements have on our lifespan?
Are Iron Pills Good for You?
A question as to whether cancer and Alzheimer's disease can be considered "ferrotoxic" diseases.
Are Multivitamins Good for You?
What apparent effect does taking multivitamin supplements have on our lifespan?
Lutein, Lycopene, and Selenium Pills
Which of these three has been associated with increased cancer risk?
Juice Plus+® Supplements
What the peer-reviewed scientific literature has to say about Juice Plus+® supplements.
Glyconutrient Supplements
What the peer-reviewed scientific literature has to say about glyconutrient supplements.
Is Gluten Bad For You?
Approximately 1 out of every 133 Americans has celiac disease.
Soy Foods and Menopause
Does eating soy foods help with hot flashes?
Toxins in Raw Mushrooms?
Agaratine, a natural toxin found in mushrooms, is destroyed by cooking.
Toxins in Sweet Potatoes?
Sweet potatoes are one of the healthiest known vegetables.
Arsenic in Rice
Ways to decrease one's arsenic intake from rice.
Arsenic in Chicken
The poultry industry feeds their birds millions of pounds of arsenic-containing drugs every year.
Aluminum in Vaccines vs. Food
What is the #1 source of aluminum in the diet?
Brown Rice vs. Black Rice
Which has more antioxidants: black rice, brown rice, or red rice?
Maxing Out on Antioxidants
Are there diminishing returns when it comes to whole food antioxidants?
Nutrient-Blocking Effects of Dairy
Dairy appears to block the beneficial effects of tea, but what about other phytonutrients?
Hormones in Skim vs. Whole Milk
Genetic manipulation has resulted in cows lactating into the third trimester of pregnancy, leading to...
Dairy Hormonal Interference
Concern that the consumption of cow's milk can upset our body's hormonal balance.
Long-Term Vegan Bone Health
The bone mineral density of vegans compared to omnivores.
Whose Health Unaffected by Eggs?
A leading stroke expert ruffles a few feathers.
Eliminating the #1 Cause of Death
How to essentially eliminate the great scourge of the Western world.
Cancer Reversal Through Diet?
Dr. Dean Ornish turns from reversing heart disease to trying to reverse prostate cancer.
Saturated Fat and Cancer Progression
Does cutting down on saturated fat intake improve cancer-free survival?
Flaxseeds vs. Chia Seeds
Flax and chia seeds can both be considered superfoods, but which one has the edge?
Flatophonia: The Art of the Musical Anus
A menagerie of weird studies published in nutrition journals.
Research into Reversing Aging
The first dietary intervention shown to boost telomerase activity.
