Hearts Shouldn’t Skip a Beet
The nitrate in vegetables, which the body can turn into the vasodilator nitric oxide, may...
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Friday Favorites: The Best Diet for COVID and Long-COVID
Healthy plant-based diets appear to help reduce the risks of severe COVID-19 and getting infected in the first place, even independent of comorbidities.
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Pretty in Pee-nk
Beeturia, the passage of pink urine after beetroot consumption, is a reminder that phytonutrients circulate...
Asparagus Pee
Young infants, and perhaps those with recurrent oxalate kidney stones, should avoid beets. But most...
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)...
Don’t Use Antiseptic Mouthwash
The natural flora on our tongue (lingual bacteria) are essential for the athletic performance-enhancing effect...
Priming the Proton Pump
To understand how beets could reduce the oxygen cost of exercise while improving athletic performance,...
Doping with Beet Juice
Beets found to significantly improve athletic performance while reducing oxygen needs—upsetting a fundamental tenet of...
Soy Worth a Hill of Beans?
Are soybeans better than other types of beans for heart disease prevention—or does the soy...
New Vitamin B12 Test
Who should get tested for vitamin B12 (cobalamin) deficiency, and which is the best test...
Daily Source of Vitamin B12
Fortified foods, such as some breakfast cereals and types of nutritional yeast, can provide another...
Cheapest Source of Vitamin B12
Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) supplementation can cost as little as $2 a year.
Safest Source of B12
Since foods are effectively a package deal, what's the best way to get vitamin B12...
