Do Vitamin B12 Supplements Cause Acne?
Acne can be triggered in one in ten people who get vitamin B12 injections.
Acne can be triggered in one in ten people who get vitamin B12 injections.
How can we explain the drop in stroke risk as the Japanese diet became Westernized by eating more meat and dairy?
The first study in history on the incidence of stroke of vegetarians and vegans suggests they may be at higher risk.
What is the relationship between stroke risk and dairy, eggs, meat, and soda?
Like the tobacco industry adding extra nicotine, the food industry employs taste engineers to accomplish a similar goal: maximize the irresistibility of their products.
The big fat “fat gene” accounts for less than 1% of the differences in size between people.
Plant-based diets are put to the test for treating migraine headaches.
The effect of fasting to lower blood pressure compared to medications, cutting down on alcohol, meat and salt, eating more fruits and vegetables, or eating completely plant-based.
Public health authorities continue to drop the upper tolerable limit of daily added sugar intake.
Eating every other day can raise your cholesterol.
I was honored to testify before the US government’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Check out the video to see my speech and a few of my favorite excerpts.
Keto diets put to the test for diabetes reversal.
The effects of ketogenic diets on nutrient sufficiency, gut flora, and heart disease risk.
The clinical use of ketogenic diets for epilepsy and cancer: what does the science say?
How the food industry responds to “health food faddists.”
The best and worst foods for bad breath and gum inflammation.
Plant-based diets are put to the test in the treatment of periodontal disease.
Is butter—and other saturated fats—bad for you or not?
How the meat and dairy industries design studies showing their products have neutral or even beneficial effects on cholesterol and inflammation.
Dairy is compared to other foods for cardiovascular (heart attack and stroke) risk.
What about the recent studies that show cheese has neutral or positive health effects?
What happens when you put diabetics on a diet composed of largely whole grains, vegetables, and beans?
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.
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.
What evidence is there that our meat-sweet diets play a cause-and-effect role in dementia?
Are the health benefits associated with apple consumption simply due to other healthy behaviors among apple-eaters?
In this video, I explain my traffic light system for ranking the relative healthfulness of Green Light vs. Yellow Light vs. Red Light foods.
What are the effects of oatmeal, walnuts, extra virgin olive oil, and avocados on LDL cholesterol size?
Can guacamole lower your cholesterol as well as other whole-food fat sources like nuts, or is that just spin by the avocado industry?
Natural topical remedies for eczema, including licorice root gel, St. John’s Wort cream, and emollients such as coconut oil, mineral oil, and petroleum jelly, are put to the test.
A book purported to expose “hidden dangers” in healthy foods doesn’t even pass the whiff test.
Dr. Dean Ornish showed that a plant-based diet and lifestyle program could apparently reverse the progression of prostate cancer, but that was for early stage, localized, watch-and-wait cancer. What about for more advanced stage life-threatening disease?
Do the medium-chain triglycerides in coconut oil and the fiber in flaked coconut counteract the negative effects on cholesterol and artery function?
The effects of coconut oil are compared to butter and tallow. Even if virgin coconut oil and other saturated fats raise LDL “bad” cholesterol, isn’t that countered by the increase in HDL “good” cholesterol?
Are there unique benefits to brown rice that would justify keeping it in our diet despite the arsenic content?
Do the health benefits of rice consumption outweigh any potential risk from the arsenic contamination?
The Fairness Doctrine example shows the extent to which purveyors of unhealthy products will go to keep the truth from the American public.
Vitamin C is pitted head-to-head against antibiotics for bacterial vaginal infections.
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.