
Greens, Green Tea, and Nuts Put to the Test for Telomeres
Not all plant foods are linked to less cellular aging based on telomere attrition, and not all animal foods are linked to more.
Not all plant foods are linked to less cellular aging based on telomere attrition, and not all animal foods are linked to more.
What are the three reasons plant protein is preferable to animal protein for kidney protection?
The optimal intake of dietary cholesterol may be zero.
Plant-based diets improve the performance of athletes and nonathletes alike.
Why are erythritol levels in the blood associated with higher levels of chronic disease?
Why can a single meal high in saturated fat impair cognition?
Enhance athletic performance with diet.
Almonds are put to the test in a randomized controlled trial for facial wrinkles.
Specific foods have been shown in randomized controlled trials to improve symptoms like hot flashes.
What foods should we eat and avoid to reduce our risk of Afib?
How might weight stigma be a vicious cycle?
Is potassium chloride win-win by decreasing sodium intake and increasing potassium intake?
What happens within hours of eating a high-fat meal?
Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter?
Are yellow-fleshed potatoes healthier than white? And, what about the glycoalkaloid toxins?
How do barukas, also known as baru almonds, compare with other nuts?
If the microbiome of those eating plant-based diets protects against the toxic effects of TMAO, what about swapping gut flora?
Rectal biopsies taken before and after eating meat determine the potentially DNA-damaging dose of heme.
DNA damage is assessed in users of aluminum cookware.
Calories eaten in the morning count less and are healthier than calories eaten in the evening.
Though a bane for dieters, a slower metabolism may actually be a good thing.
Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trials on berries and the first clinical study on the effects of berries on arthritis.
Blueberries are put to the test against insulin resistance, oxidation, and DNA damage.
Plant-based diets are put to the test in the treatment of periodontal disease.
The relationship between the consumption of eggs and other cholesterol-rich foods and cancers of the colon, breast, endometrium, pancreas, and throat.
Avocados, greens, and lutein and zeaxanthin supplements are put to the test for improving cognitive function.
What is the best source of lutein, the primary carotenoid antioxidant in the brain?
Randomized controlled trials put plant-based eating to the test for athletic performance.
Vitamin C, turmeric, beta-glucan fiber, and vitamin B12 are put to the test for recurring canker sores (aphthous ulcers).
Lentils and chickpeas, also known as garbanzo beans, are put to the test.
There have been at least eight randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials of ginger for pain.
The natural plant-based sweeteners stevia and monk fruit (Luo Han Guo) are pitted head-to-head against aspartame and Splenda.
Do legumes—beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils—work only to prevent disease, or can they help treat and reverse it as well?
High-fat plant foods—avocados, peanuts, and walnuts—and olive oil are put to the test.
What are the effects of spinach and berries on oxidative stress, inflammation, and muscle soreness in athletes?
What evidence is there that our meat-sweet diets play a cause-and-effect role in dementia?
What happened when cancer patients were given three quarters of a cup of canned tomato sauce every day for three weeks?
Women with uterine fibroids should consider adding green tea to their daily diet, as a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled interventional trial suggests it may help as well as surgery.
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.
The sulforaphane found in five cents’ worth of broccoli sprouts has been shown to benefit autism in a way no drug ever has in randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study.