March 2, 2012 Vitamin C-Enriched Bacon The addition of vitamin C to processed (cured) meats such as bacon may actually make...
March 1, 2012 Carcinogens in the Smell of Frying Bacon Frying bacon outdoors decreases the concentration of airborne nitrosamine carcinogens.
February 29, 2012 Prevention Is Better Than Cured Meat The levels of nitrosamines—considered the most carcinogenic agents in cigarette smoke—were recently measured in an...
February 28, 2012 Are Nitrates Pollutants or Nutrients? Phytonutrients, such as vitamin C, prevent the formation of nitrosamines from nitrites—which explains why adding...
February 27, 2012 Bacon & Botulism The nitrite preservatives in processed meats such as bologna, bacon, ham, and hot dogs form...
February 24, 2012 When Nitrites Go Bad Nitrites in processed meat form nitrosamines, a class of potent carcinogens found in cigarette smoke,...
February 23, 2012 Is Bacon Good or Is Spinach Bad? If the nitrates in vegetables such as greens are health-promoting because they can be turned...
February 22, 2012 Vegetables Rate by Nitrate If nitrates can boost athletic performance and protect against heart disease, which vegetables have the...
February 21, 2012 Hearts Shouldn’t Skip a Beet The nitrate in vegetables, which the body can turn into the vasodilator nitric oxide, may...
February 20, 2012 Pretty in Pee-nk Beeturia, the passage of pink urine after beetroot consumption, is a reminder that phytonutrients circulate...
February 17, 2012 Asparagus Pee Young infants, and perhaps those with recurrent oxalate kidney stones, should avoid beets. But most...
February 16, 2012 Out of the Lab Onto the Track Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover studies convinced the scientific establishment that nitrate-rich vegetables (such as beets)...