Eating More to Weigh Less
Energy density explains how a study can show participants lose an average of 17 pounds...
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Friday Favorites: Does Aluminum Cause Alzheimer’s Disease?
Although aluminum isn’t necessarily benign, what convinced me that it does not play a role in Alzheimer’s disease?
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Are There Foods with Negative Calories?
Is it true there are foods like celery that take more calories to digest than...
Lead Contamination of Tea
How much green, white, black, and oolong tea can we consume before the benefits of...
The Healthy Food Movement: Strength in Unity
The tobacco industry has focused more recently on divide-and-conquer strategies to create schisms within the...
Resveratrol Impairs Exercise Benefits
Research on resveratrol, a component of red wine, looked promising in rodent studies, but what...
What Explains the French Paradox?
Why do heart attack rates appear lower than expected in France, given their saturated fat...
Evidence-Based Nutrition
It took more than 7,000 studies and the deaths of countless smokers before the Surgeon...
Is the Fiber Theory Wrong?
The extraordinarily low rates of chronic disease among plant-based populations have been attributed to fiber,...
The Five-to-One Fiber Rule
A guideline is suggested for how to read food labels for grain products such as...
How to Change Your Enterotype
What happens to our gut flora microbiome when we’re on plant-based versus animal-based diets?
What’s Your Gut Microbiome Enterotype?
There appear to be just two types of people in the world: those who have...
How to Reduce the Risk of Sudden Death
Diet and lifestyle improvements started even late in life can offer dramatic benefits.
