For every life saved by mammography, as many as two to ten women are overdiagnosed and unnecessarily turned into breast cancer patients—and let’s not overlook all of the attendant harms of chemo, radiation, or surgery without the benefits.
Various health organizations offer clashing mammogram recommendations that range from annual mammograms starting at age 40 to eliminating routine mammograms altogether. Who should you trust?
When women are fully informed about the risks and benefits of mammograms, 70 percent may choose not to get screened. You may be in that 30 percent who opts to get a mammogram and absolutely have the right to decide for yourself.
Most women are just being told what to do, rather than being given the facts needed to make a fully informed decision.
Politics, prejudice, and pressure coming from both sides add to the complexity of cannabis research.
High doses of lycopene—the red pigment in tomatoes—were put to the test to see if it could prevent precancerous prostate lesions from turning into full-blown cancer.
Extracts of amla (Indian gooseberry) were pitted head-to-head against cholesterol-lowering statin drugs and the blood thinners aspirin and Plavix.
In certain medical conditions, probiotic supplements may actually make things worse.
What does the world’s leading authority on carcinogens have to say about mobile phones?
Do mobile phones cause brain tumors? Whenever a trillion-dollar industry is involved—whether it’s Big Food, Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, or Big Telecom—there’s so much money that the science can get manipulated.
Might lectins help explain why those who eat more beans and whole grains have less cancer?
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?
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?
Açaí berries are touted for their antioxidant power, but does that translate into increased antioxidant capacity of your bloodstream when you eat them?
The Fairness Doctrine example shows the extent to which purveyors of unhealthy products will go to keep the truth from the American public.
After the trans fat oil ban, the only remaining major sources of trans fat will be from meat and dairy.
The food industry fought tooth and nail to retain partially hydrogenated oils, even though they were killing 50,000 Americans a year.
Much of the lead found in adults today was deposited into our skeletons decades ago and is just now leaching out from our bones into our blood. What are the health consequences of having lead levels down around the American average?
What are the health consequences of even “low” levels of lead exposure?
How the lead industry got the best science money could buy.
What happened in Flint, Michigan, how was it discovered, and how many more Flints are there?
The 69-year delay in banning lead in paint in the United States has been attributed to the marketing and lobbying efforts of the industry profiting from the poison.
Shaving before applying underarm antiperspirants can increase aluminum absorption. Could this explain the greater number of tumors and the disproportionate incidence of breast cancer in the upper outer quadrant of the breast near the armpit?
Physical fitness authorities seem to have fallen into the same trap as the nutrition authorities, recommending what they think may be achievable, rather than simply informing us what the science says and letting us make up our own mind.
What effect do chia seeds have on weight loss, blood sugar, cholesterol, blood pressure, and inflammation?
Selecting foods to improve pelvic blood flow and decrease inflammation both immediately after a meal and for the long term may improve sexual functioning in men and women.
The majority of dietary supplement facilities tested were found noncompliant with good manufacturing practices guidelines.
Just as most doctors smoked in the 1950s, most physicians today continue to consume foods that are contributing to our epidemics of dietary disease.
Increasing the cost of cigarettes through tobacco taxes is one of the most effective ways to decrease the harms of smoking. What does the science say about taxing sodium, sugar, and saturated fat?
How the egg industry funded a study designed to cover up the toxic trimethylamine oxide reaction to egg consumption.
Is a plant-based diet sufficient to reach sodium goals?
Combining certain foods together may be more beneficial than eating them separately.
Given that diet is the number-one cause of death and disability, nutrition is surely the number-one subject taught in medical school, right? And it’s certainly the number-one issue your doctor talks with you about, right? If only. How can there be such a disconnect between the available evidence and the practice of medicine?
Even when journalists do their due diligence, they still run the risk of deceiving their readers thanks to medical journals’ own spin.
We have tremendous power over our health destiny and longevity.
Why does the meat industry add salt to its products when millions of lives are at stake?
What was the response to the revelation that as many as 37 percent of breast cancer cases may be attributable to exposure to bovine leukemia virus, a cancer-causing cow virus found in the milk of nearly every dairy herd in the United States?
