Using the Cigarette Tax Playbook Against Big Food
How might we replicate one of our great public health victories—the reduction of smoking rates—in the field of nutrition?
How might we replicate one of our great public health victories—the reduction of smoking rates—in the field of nutrition?
How might we prevent the inflammation from gluten-free diets?
Burning incense has been found to generate about four times the particulate matter as burning cigarettes.
How might we replicate the protective effects of fasting with food?
Do the benefits of short-term fasting during cancer therapy found in the lab translate into the clinical setting?
Might short-term fasting during cancer treatment minimize side effects while boosting efficacy?
What did randomized controlled trials find as the effects of supplemental feeding on clinical outcomes?
What foods should we eat and avoid to reduce our risk of Afib?
What food can eradicate H. pylori in the majority of patients?
What explains the Achilles’ heel in certain Asian diets?
If you put together all of the new chemo drugs that had been approved over a dozen years, the average overall survival benefit is only 2.1 months.
Most chemo drugs are approved by the FDA without evidence of benefit on survival or quality of life.
If you care about your health so much that it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette before and after lunch, maybe you should order a bean burrito instead of a meaty one.
Big Meat downplays the magnitude of meat mortality.
The meat industry’s own study concluded that meat consumption increased the risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and premature death.
The meat industry comes up with a perversion of evidence-based medicine.
How legitimate is the common corporate criticism of the scientific nutrition literature that the credibility of observational studies is questionable?
How did Big Corn Syrup and other corporate sugar titans hijack the scientific process?
How common is weight stigmatization in health care?
A micromort as a unit of comparing and communicating risk to patients equivalent to a one in a million chance of dying.
I discuss a public health case for modernizing the definition of protein quality.
What happened when ultra-processed foods were matched for calories, sugar, fat, and fiber content in the first randomized controlled trial?
What was the secret to the public health community’s triumph when past attempts to regulate the food industry failed?
Which legumes are best at inhibiting the matrix metalloproteinase enzymes that allow cancer to become invasive?
How can we avoid the breakdown product of pesticides that may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease as much as if you carried APOE e4, the so-called Alzheimer’s gene?
I quantify the risks of colon and rectal cancers from eating bacon, ham, hot dogs, sausage, and lunch meat.
How did the meat industry, government, and cancer organizations respond to the confirmation that processed meat, like bacon, ham, hot dogs, and lunch meat, causes cancer?
Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter?
Fasting and exercise can boost the longevity hormone FGF21, but what can we eat—or avoid eating—to get similar effects?
We co-evolved a symbiosis with our good gut bacteria, but we are not holding up our end of the bargain.
The so-called optimism bias may get in the way of a healthy lifestyle.
Exposure to the bovine leukemia virus from meat and dairy (or a blood transfusion from those who eat meat or dairy) is a risk factor for cancer.
As many as 37 percent of breast cancer cases may be attributable to exposure to bovine leukemia virus.
Billion-dollar drugs pulled from the market for carcinogenic contamination less than that found in a single serving of grilled chicken.
What can physicians do to promote healthy, life-extending, lifestyle changes?
If you eat potatoes when they’re cold, as in potato salad, or chilled and reheated, you can get a nearly 40 percent lower glycemic impact.
Glycidol may help explain why people who eat fried foods get more cancer.
The foundation of cancer prevention is plants, not pills.
Does choosing organic over conventional foods protect against cancer? The effects of pesticides on cancer risk.
What did randomized controlled human trials find about the ways we may—or may not—benefit from eating onions?