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How We Won the Fight to Ban Trans Fat

What was the secret to the public health community’s triumph when past attempts to regulate the food industry failed?

Blocking the Cancer Metastasis Enzyme MMP-9 with Beans and Chickpeas

Which legumes are best at inhibiting the matrix metalloproteinase enzymes that allow cancer to become invasive?

Pesticides (DDT) and Alzheimer’s Disease

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?

How Much Cancer Does Processed Meat Cause?

I quantify the risks of colon and rectal cancers from eating bacon, ham, hot dogs, sausage, and lunch meat.

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IARC: Processed Meat Like Bacon Causes Cancer

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?

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Do the Health Benefits of Peanut Butter Include Longevity?

Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter?

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How to Boost FGF21 with Diet for Longevity

Fasting and exercise can boost the longevity hormone FGF21, but what can we eat—or avoid eating—to get similar effects?

How to Keep Your Microbiome Healthy with Prebiotic Foods

We co-evolved a symbiosis with our good gut bacteria, but we are not holding up our end of the bargain.

Why Don’t People Eat Healthier?

The so-called optimism bias may get in the way of a healthy lifestyle.

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Breast Cancer and the Bovine Leukemia Virus in Meat and Dairy

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.

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Bovine Leukemia Virus as a Cause of Breast Cancer

As many as 37 percent of breast cancer cases may be attributable to exposure to bovine leukemia virus.

Cancer-Causing NDMA in Medications (Zantac, Metformin) and Meat

Billion-dollar drugs pulled from the market for carcinogenic contamination less than that found in a single serving of grilled chicken.

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How to Increase Your Life Expectancy 12 to 14 Years

What can physicians do to promote healthy, life-extending, lifestyle changes?

Glycemic Index of Potatoes: Why You Should Chill and Reheat Them

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.

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The Carcinogen Glycidol in Cooking Oils

Glycidol may help explain why people who eat fried foods get more cancer.

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Fighting the Ten Hallmarks of Cancer with Food

The foundation of cancer prevention is plants, not pills.

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Pesticides and Cancer Risk

Does choosing organic over conventional foods protect against cancer? The effects of pesticides on cancer risk.

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Are Onions Beneficial for Testosterone, Osteoporosis, Allergies, and Cancer?

What did randomized controlled human trials find about the ways we may—or may not—benefit from eating onions?

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Should We Be Concerned About Aflatoxin?

Is “toxic mold syndrome” a real thing? And, what do we do about toxic mold contamination of food?

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Should We Be Concerned About the Effects of Ochratoxin?

The overall cost-benefit ratio for mycotoxins depends on which food is contaminated.

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The Dangerous Effects of Heavy Metal Music

How might we moderate the rare but very real risk of headbanging?

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White Button Mushrooms for Prostate Cancer

What can reishi mushrooms, shiitake mushroom extracts, and whole powdered white mushrooms do for cancer patients?

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Medicinal Mushrooms for Cancer Survival

Did the five randomized controlled trials of reishi mushrooms in cancer patients show benefits in terms of tumor response rate, survival time, or quality of life?

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Lifestyle and Disease Prevention: Your DNA Is Not Your Destiny

Treating the underlying cause of chronic lifestyle diseases.

Is It Safe to Eat Raw Mushrooms?

Microwaving is probably the most efficient way to reduce agaritine levels in fresh mushrooms.

The Benefits of Moringa: Is It the Most Nutritious Food?

Does the so-called miracle tree live up to the hype?

The Scientific Consensus on a Healthy Diet

The leading risk factor for death in the United States is the American diet.

The Food That Can Downregulate the Metastatic Cancer Gene

The Food That Can Downregulate a Metastatic Cancer Gene

Women with breast cancer should include the “liberal culinary use of cruciferous vegetables.”

How to Control Cancer Metastasis with Diet

How to Help Control Cancer Metastasis with Diet

Randomized controlled trials show lowering saturated fat intake can lead to improved breast cancer survival.

What Causes Cancer to Metastasize?

Palmitic acid, a saturated fat concentrated in meat and dairy, can boost the metastatic potential of cancer cells through the fat receptor CD36.

The Best Diet for Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism

Is the apparent protection of plant-based diets for thyroid health due to the exclusion of animal foods, the benefits of plant foods, or both?

The Best Diet for Crohn’s Disease Treatment

Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those reported on conventional treatments in both active and quiescent stages in both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

The Best Diet for Ulcerative Colitis Treatment

Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, blowing away other treatments.

Preventing Inflammatory Bowel Disease with Diet

Eating a diet filled with animal products can disrupt your microbiome faster than taking an antibiotic.

Studies on Millet Nutrition: Is It a Healthy Grain?

Millet isn’t the name of a specific grain, but a generic term that applies to a number of totally different plants. Which is the most healthful?

Is Heme Iron the Reason Meat Is Carcinogenic?

Rectal biopsies taken before and after eating meat determine the potentially DNA-damaging dose of heme.

Does Heme Iron Cause Cancer?

Laboratory models suggest that extreme doses of heme iron may be detrimental, but what about the effects of nutritional doses in humans? A look at heme’s carcinogenic effects.

Plant-Based Protein: Are Pea and Soy Isolates Harmful?

Plant-Based Protein: Are Pea and Soy Protein Isolates Harmful?

What are the different impacts of plant protein versus animal protein, and do the benefits of plant proteins translate to plant protein isolates?

Are Beyond Meat and the Impossible Burger Healthy?

What happens when you compare the trans fats, saturated fat, sodium, and cholesterol levels in plant-based versus animal-based burgers?

Is Sorghum a Healthy Grain?

How does sorghum compare with other grains in terms of protein, antioxidants, and micronutrients? And the benefits of red sorghum compared to black and white varieties.