Preserving Immune Function in Athletes with Nutritional Yeast
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Friday Favorites: The Trade-Off Between Fertility and Longevity, and the Causes of Precocious Puberty
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Enhanced Athletic Recovery without Undermining Adaptation
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Choline may be the reason egg consumption is associated with prostate cancer progression and death.
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BOLD Indeed: Beef Lowers Cholesterol?
The beef industry designed a study to show that a diet containing beef was able...
Tell Your Doctor if You Eat Grapefruit
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Testing Your Diet with Pee and Purple Cabbage
Plant-based diets tend to be alkaline-forming. This may help protect muscle mass, and reduce the...
Alkaline Diets, Animal Protein, and Calcium Loss
The decades-old dogma that the acid-forming quality of animal protein leads to bone loss has...
Breast Cancer Survival Vegetable
Simple changes in diet and lifestyle may quadruple a woman’s survival rate from breast cancer.
Prostate Cancer Survival: The A/V Ratio
Reducing the ratio of animal to plant protein in men’s diets may slow the progression...
Treating Multiple Sclerosis with the Swank MS Diet
A plant-based diet may not only be the safest treatment for multiple sclerosis; it may...
