Cancer, Interrupted: Green Tea
Using the cooked meat carcinogen PhIP to turn normal breast cells cancerous, researchers explore the...
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How Ultra-Processed Foods Could Cause Disease: Industrial Contaminants
There are contaminants of processed foods that don’t show up on the ingredients label.
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Heterocyclic Amines in Eggs, Cheese, & Creatine?
Even vegetarians could potentially be exposed to the carcinogens typically formed by cooking meat through...
Reducing Cancer Risk in Meat-Eaters
Those who eat meat risk food poisoning from undercooked meat, but also exposure to cooked...
PhIP: The Three-Strikes Breast Carcinogen
The cooked meat carcinogen PhIP—found in fried bacon, fish, and chicken—may not only trigger cancer...
Estrogenic Cooked-Meat Carcinogens
DNA-damaging chemicals, formed when meat is cooked, stimulate breast cancer cells almost as much as...
Fibromyalgia vs. Mostly Raw & Mostly Vegetarian Diets
How plant-based does one's diet need to be in order to effectively treat fibromyalgia?
Fibromyalgia vs. Vegetarian and Raw Vegan Diets
Plant-based diets may be effective for the treatment of fibromyalgia, a painful condition suffered by...
Apple Skin: Peeling Back Cancer
Apple peels appear to upregulate the tumor suppressor gene maspin, and have strong antiproliferative effects...
Apple Juice May Be Worse than Sugar Water
Why the spike in antioxidant levels in our bloodstream after drinking apple juice might not...
Flesh and Fructose
Meat and sugar increase uric acid levels, which are associated with increased risk of gout,...
Miocene Meteorites and Uric Acid
Human beings lost the ability to detoxify uric acid millions of years ago. What implications...
Tree Nuts or Peanuts for Breast Cancer Prevention?
Eating fiber-containing foods—especially nuts—during adolescence may significantly lower the risk of developing potentially precancerous fibrocystic...
