Meat and Nutrition: The Latest Research

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Observational Studies Show Similar Results to Randomized Controlled Trials

How legitimate is the common corporate criticism of the scientific nutrition literature that the credibility of observational studies is questionable?

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How Big Sugar Manipulated the Science for Dietary Guidelines

How did Big Corn Syrup and other corporate sugar titans hijack the scientific process?

How Big Sugar Undermines Dietary Guidelines

International Life Sciences Organization, a nonprofit, is accused of being a front group for Coca-Cola and other junk food giants.

Are the Health Benefits of Nuts Limited to Those Eating Bad Diets?

Do nut eaters live longer simply because they swap in protein from plants in place of animal protein?

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Food for Hair Growth

Hot peppers, soy foods, and pumpkin seeds may help with hair loss.

Animal Protein vs. Plant-Based Protein

I discuss a public health case for modernizing the definition of protein quality.

Saturated Fat Causes Artery and Lung Inflammation

What happens within hours of eating a high-fat meal?

Ultra-Processed Junk Food Put to the Test

What happened when ultra-processed foods were matched for calories, sugar, fat, and ﬁber content in the first randomized controlled trial?

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?

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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?

Why Don’t People Eat Healthier?

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

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.

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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Do Potatoes Increase the Risk of Diabetes?

Does the link between white potatoes and diabetes extend to non-fried potatoes without butter or sour cream?

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Which Foods Are Anti-Inflammatory?

Foods that reduce inflammation. What does an anti-inflammatory diet look like?

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Foods That Cause Inflammation

Inflammatory markers can double within six hours of eating a pro-inflammatory meal. Which foods are the worst?

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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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Avoid These Foods to Prevent a Leaky Gut

Avoid these foods for leaky gut prevention: common drugs, foods, and beverages can disrupt the integrity of our intestinal barrier.

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Plant-Based Eating Score Put to the Test

How can you get a perfect diet score?

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Can Cholesterol Get Too Low?

Why might healthy lifestyle choices wipe out 90 percent of our risk for having a heart attack, whereas drugs may only reduce risk by 20 to 30 percent?

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Fasting to Reverse Diabetes

By losing 15 percent of their body weight, nearly 90 percent of those who’ve had type 2 diabetes for less than four years can achieve remission.

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Can Vegan Fecal Transplants Lower TMAO Levels?

If the microbiome of those eating plant-based diets protects against the toxic effects of TMAO, what about swapping gut flora?

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Fasting for Post-Traumatic Brain Injury Headache

What effect do fasting and a plant-based diet have on TBI and migraines?

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The Role Meat May Play in Triggering Parkinson’s Disease

What does the gut have to do with developing Parkinson’s disease?

Foods Designed to Hijack Our Appetites

I debunk the myth of protein as the most satiating macronutrient.

Are Emulsifiers Like Carboxymethylcellulose and Polysorbate 80 Safe?

Emulsifiers are the most widely used food additive. What are they doing to our gut microbiome?

How to Boost Brain BDNF Levels for Depression Treatment

Fasting and exercise can raise BDNF levels in our brain, but this can also be achieved by eating and avoiding certain foods.

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.

Diet for Hypothyroidism: A Natural Treatment for Hashimoto’s Disease

What were the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a half teaspoon of powdered black cumin a day in Hashimoto’s (autoimmune thyroiditis) patients?

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 Human Health Effects of Cultivated Meat: Chemical Safety

More than 95 percent of human exposure to industrial pollutants like dioxins and PCBs comes from fish, other meat, and dairy.

The Human Health Effects of Cultivated Meat: Antibiotic Resistance

Miracle drug antibiotics are being squandered to compensate for the overcrowded, stressful, unhygienic conditions on factory farms.

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.

Is Heme Iron the Reason Meat Is Carcinogenic?

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

Heme-Induced N-Nitroso Compounds and Fat Oxidation

What do clinical studies show about the role of heme in the formation of a class of carcinogenic compounds?