All Videos for Dairy

The Effects of Avocados on Inflammation

High-fat plant foods—avocados, peanuts, and walnuts—and olive oil are put to the test.



How to Reduce Cholesterol Oxidation

Chicken, fish, and egg powder in processed foods present greater risk from cholesterol oxidation byproducts, but there are things you can do to reduce exposure.



Oxidized Cholesterol as a Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease

Oxidized cholesterol can be a hundred times more toxic than regular cholesterol, raising additional concerns about foods such as ghee, canned tuna, processed meat, and parmesan cheese.



Do Sunflower Seeds Cause Acne?

Should we be concerned about the pimples, cadmium, and “colonic crunch” associated with consumption of sunflower seeds?



Should Women with Fibroids Avoid Soy?

When it comes to uterine fibroids, is soy harmful, harmless, or helpful?



How to Prevent Alzheimer’s with Diet

What evidence is there that our meat-sweet diets play a cause-and-effect role in dementia?



How Much Lead Is in Organic Chicken Soup (Bone Broth)?

Let’s review lead from occupational exposures, shooting ranges, eggs, and bone broth.



Does Cocoa Powder Cause Acne?

Is the link between chocolate and acne due to the sugar, the milk, or the cocoa in chocolate? Researchers put white chocolate, dark chocolate, baking chocolate, and cocoa powder to the test to find out.



Does Chocolate Cause Acne?

What are the effects of dairy products, sugar, and chocolate on the formation of pimples?



The Role of Dairy and Gluten in Canker Sores

Does excluding dairy products, food additives, and gluten-containing grains from one’s diet help those with recurring canker sores (aphthous ulcers)?



Coconut Oil and Abdominal Fat

What does a review of the evidence on the effects of coconut oil on weight loss and belly fat find?



Should Pregnant Women Take Calcium Supplements to Lower Lead Levels?

What are the effects of sodium and calcium intake on blood lead levels in pregnant and breastfeeding women?



Are Avocados Good for Your Cholesterol?

Can guacamole lower your cholesterol as well as other whole-food fat sources like nuts, or is that just spin by the avocado industry?



Exclusion Diets for Eczema

Infants of mothers randomized to cut out eggs, milk, and fish were significantly less likely to have eczema even years later.



Best Foods to Avoid for Eczema

Randomized, double-blind, controlled trials suggest that excluding certain foods, such as eggs and chicken, can significantly improve atopic dermatitis.



Pros and Cons of Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Diets for Autism

What did the most comprehensive double-blind study of diet for autism find, and what are the potential downsides?



Double-Blind Clinical Trial of Diet for Autism

What happens when autistic children on gluten- and casein-free diets are covertly challenged with wheat and dairy?



Are Autism Diet Benefits Just a Placebo Effect?

The original randomized, controlled trials of gluten- and casein-free diets may have been complicated by parental expectation bias.



Gluten-Free, Casein-Free Diets for Autism Put to the Test

What were the results of the first randomized controlled study of a dietary intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?



Does A2 Milk Carry Less Autism Risk?

The casomorphins—breakdown products of casein, a milk protein, with opiate-like activity—in bovine milk appear to have opposite effects than those from human breast milk on infant development, but what about A2 cow’s milk?



Autism and Casein from Cow’s Milk

Casomorphins—breakdown products of casein, a milk protein, with opiate-like activity—may help explain why autism symptoms sometimes improve with a dairy-free diet.



Is It Worth Getting an Annual Physical Exam?

What are the risks and benefits of getting a comprehensive annual physical exam and routine blood testing?



Dr. Gundry’s The Plant Paradox Is Wrong

A book purported to expose “hidden dangers” in healthy foods doesn’t even pass the whiff test.



How to Reduce Your TMAO Levels

Should we be concerned about high-choline plant foods, such as broccoli, producing the same toxic TMAO that results from eating high-choline animal foods, such as eggs?



Dietary Cure for Hidradenitis Suppurativa

What is the role of dairy- and yeast-exclusion diets on arresting and reversing an inflammatory autoimmune disease?



Is Nutritional Yeast Healthy for Everyone?

Those with certain autoimmune diseases such as Crohn’s disease should probably not eat nutritional yeast.



Does Nutritional Yeast Trigger Crohn’s Disease?

Is the exaggerated reaction of many Crohn’s disease patients to baker’s, brewer’s, and nutritional yeast just a consequence of their inflamed leaky gut, or might the yeast be a contributing cause?



Treating Advanced Prostate Cancer with Diet: Part 2

What happens when metastatic prostate cancer patients were taught to increase intake of whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and beans, and to decrease consumption of meat, dairy, and junk?



What About Coconuts, Coconut Milk, and Coconut Oil MCTs?

Do the medium-chain triglycerides in coconut oil and the fiber in flaked coconut counteract the negative effects on cholesterol and artery function?



Coconut Oil and the Boost in HDL “Good” Cholesterol

The effects of coconut oil are compared to butter and tallow. Even if virgin coconut oil and other saturated fats raise LDL “bad” cholesterol, isn’t that countered by the increase in HDL “good” cholesterol?



How Much Arsenic in Rice Is Too Much?

What are some strategies to reduce arsenic exposure from rice?



Where Does the Arsenic in Chicken Come From?

What was the National Chicken Council’s response to public health authorities calling for the industry to stop feeding arsenic-based drugs to poultry?



How to Treat Heart Failure & Kidney Failure with Diet

One way a diet rich in animal-sourced foods like meat, eggs, and cheese may contribute to heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and death is through the production of toxin called TMAO.



The Role of Soy Foods in Prostate Cancer Prevention & Treatment

Soy is put to the test for the treatment of prostate cancer.



Fermented or Unfermented Soy Foods for Prostate Cancer Prevention?

Which appear more protective: fermented soy foods, such as miso and tempeh, or unfermented soy, like tofu and soy milk?



What Is the Ideal White Blood Cell Count?

Since white blood cell count is such a strong predictor of lifespan, what should we aim for and how do we get it there?



Banning Trans Fat in Processed Foods but Not Animal Fat

After the trans fat oil ban, the only remaining major sources of trans fat will be from meat and dairy.



Microbiome: We Are What They Eat

What happens to our gut flora when we switch from a more animal-based diet to a more plant-based diet?



The Role of Burger Viruses in Cancer

Polyomaviruses discovered in meat can survive cooking and pasteurization.



How to Lower Lead Levels with Diet: Breakfast, Whole Grains, Milk, Tofu?

Getting food into your stomach within a few hours of lead exposure can suppress the absorption of lead by 90 percent or more—but which foods are particularly protective?