Cancer, Interrupted: Garlic and Flavonoids
Garlic and flavonoid phytonutrients found in fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains appear to protect against...
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Friday Favorites: Can Vitamin and Mineral Supplements Prevent Alzheimer’s?
The Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease by Vitamin E and Selenium trial randomized more than 7,500 older men to take vitamin E, selenium, both, or neither (just placebos) for five years.
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Cancer, Interrupted: Green Tea
Using the cooked meat carcinogen PhIP to turn normal breast cells cancerous, researchers explore the...
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...
