Microplastic Contamination and Seafood Safety
Can ingested plastic particles from fish get into our bloodstream?
Can ingested plastic particles from fish get into our bloodstream?
How the meat and dairy industries design studies showing their products have neutral or even beneficial effects on cholesterol and inflammation.
What happens when you add massive amounts of carbs to the daily diet of type 2 diabetics in the form of whole grains?
Vitamin C, vitamin D, and omega-3 fish oil supplements put to the test to improve the core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder.
What does the best available balance of evidence say right now about what to eat and what to avoid to reduce your risk of cancer?
There may be a way to get the benefits of over-the-counter melatonin supplements without the risk.
Poultry is the most common cause of serious food-poisoning outbreaks, followed by fish, then beef. But aren’t people more likely to order their burgers rarer than their chicken sandwiches? The primary location where outbreaks occur is the home, not restaurants.
Researchers tested 76 samples of different kinds of organic and conventional meats for 33 different carcinogens.
What are the eight preparation methods to reduce exposure to carcinogens in cooked meat?
What dietary change can simultaneously help detoxify mercury, lead, and cadmium from the body?
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 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.
What is the role of erectile dysfunction drugs like Cialis and Levitra in the promotion and progression of prostate cancer and melanoma?
Is testing for body burden of heavy metals like mercury with “urine mobilization tests,” “challenge tests,” and “provoked urine tests” just a scam?
What evidence is there that our meat-sweet diets play a cause-and-effect role in dementia?
What are the effects of sodium and calcium intake on blood lead levels in pregnant and breastfeeding women?
Infants of mothers randomized to cut out eggs, milk, and fish were significantly less likely to have eczema even years later.
Most hunters may not be aware about the health risks related to consuming meat from animals shot with lead ammunition.
The same diet that helps regulate hormones in women may also reduce exposure to endocrine-disrupting pollutants.
Do the medium-chain triglycerides in coconut oil and the fiber in flaked coconut counteract the negative effects on cholesterol and artery function?
A daily half-cup of cooked rice may carry a hundred times the acceptable cancer risk of arsenic. What about seaweed from the coast of Maine?
What happens when our crops are grown in soil contaminated with arsenic-based pesticides and arsenic drug-laced chicken manure?
What was the National Chicken Council’s response to public health authorities calling for the industry to stop feeding arsenic-based drugs to poultry?
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.
Which appear more protective: fermented soy foods, such as miso and tempeh, or unfermented soy, like tofu and soy milk?
All plants produce “phytochelatins” to bind up heavy metals to protect themselves from the harmful effects, so what if we ate the plants?
The reason egg consumption is associated with elevated cancer risk may be the TMAO, considered the “smoking gun” of microbiome-disease interactions.
Whole plant sources of sugar and fat can ameliorate some of the postprandial (after-meal) inflammation caused by the consumption of refined carbohydrates and meat.
Miso is packed with sodium, which is linked to both stomach cancer and high blood pressure, so is it safe to consume?
What happened to women who were randomized to eat more meat and dairy during pregnancy? What effect does animal protein consumption have on cortisol and testosterone levels in men?
How the egg industry funded a study designed to cover up the toxic trimethylamine oxide reaction to egg consumption.
The benefits of taking a daily aspirin must be weighed against the risk of internal bleeding.
Is a plant-based diet sufficient to reach sodium goals?
Why do those eating plant-based diets appear to suffer less from morning sickness?
How might we prevent and reverse hypertension, the number-one risk factor for death in the world?
Learn why I recommend 250mg a day of a pollutant-free source of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids.
Overt omega-3 deficiency is rare, but do short-term experiments on cognitive function suggest there might be an optimal DHA dose?
What is the optimal source and amount of protein for senior citizens?
Single meals can affect testosterone and cortisol (stress hormone) levels. Some foods eaten regularly during pregnancy may even reprogram children’s responses to stress later in life.
Ninety percent of our exposure to the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) comes from certain components of our diet.