Paleopoo: What We Can Learn from Fossilized Feces
Ancient dietary practices based on analyzing the fiber content of fossilized human waste can give us insights for combating the modern obesity epidemic.
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When Drugs & Diets Don’t Lower Diabetes Deaths
Why do some drug-based strategies shorten the lives of diabetics and some diet-based strategies fail to decrease diabetes deaths?
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Antibacterial Toothpaste: Harmful, Helpful, or Harmless?
Is triclosan in Colgate Total toothpaste safe in regards to the nitrate-reducing bacteria on our tongue and potential endocrine-disrupting effects on thyroid function and obesity?
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Omega-3s & the Eskimo Fish Tale
The concept that heart disease was rare among the Eskimos appears to be a myth.
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The Evidence that Salt Raises Blood Pressure
Rather than reformulate their products with less sodium and save lives, food manufacturers have lobbied governments, refused to cooperate, encouraged misinformation campaigns, and tried to discredit the evidence.
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Heart Disease May Start in the Womb
Fatty streak formation occurs in human fetal arteries and is linked to the pregnant mother’s cholesterol level.
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Turmeric Curcumin for Prediabetes
A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial on the use of the turmeric pigment curcumin to prevent diabetes in prediabetics is published with extraordinary results.
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The Alzheimer’s Gene: Controlling ApoE
Diet may explain the Nigerian Paradox, where they have among the highest rates of the Alzheimer’s susceptibility gene, ApoE4, but among the lowest rates of Alzheimer’s disease.
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The Role of Vitamin C in the Treatment of Terminal Cancer
What can we conclude about the role of IV vitamin C after 33 years of trials involving at least 1,600 patients?
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Vitamin C Supplements for Terminal Cancer Patients
If studies from the 1970s showed cancer patients treated with vitamin C lived 4 times longer and sometimes even 20 times longer, why isn’t it standard practice today?
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Intravenous Vitamin C for Terminal Cancer Patients
Studies in the 1970s with terminal cancer patients appeared to show an extraordinary survival gain with vitamin C, a simple and relatively nontoxic therapy.
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Eating More to Weigh Less
Energy density explains how a study can show participants lose an average of 17 pounds within 21 days while eating a greater quantity of food.