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April 29, 2022 Flashback Friday: Pros and Cons of a Macrobiotic Diet What happens when you put diabetics on a diet composed of largely whole grains, vegetables,...
April 25, 2022 Ultra-Processed Junk Food Put to the Test What happened when ultra-processed foods were matched for calories, sugar, fat, and fiber content in...
April 22, 2022 Flashback Friday: Are Apples the Best Food for a Better Sex Life in Women? Addyi (flibanserin), the drug marketed for “hypoactive sexual desire disorder,” is ineffective and unsafe. What...
April 20, 2022 How We Won the Fight to Ban Trans Fat What was the secret to the public health community’s triumph when past attempts to regulate...
April 18, 2022 Do Healthy Fast-Food Options Lead to Healthier Choices? Adding a healthy option can actually drive people to make even worse choices, thanks to...
April 13, 2022 Blocking the Cancer Metastasis Enzyme MMP-9 with Beans and Chickpeas Which legumes are best at inhibiting the matrix metalloproteinase enzymes that allow cancer to become...
April 11, 2022 Pesticides (DDT) and Alzheimer’s Disease How can we avoid the breakdown product of pesticides that may increase the risk of...
April 8, 2022 Flashback Friday: The Gladiator Diet and the First Studies on Vegetarian Athletes Comparing the diets of the Roman gladiator “barley men” and army troopers to the modern...
April 6, 2022 How Much Cancer Does Processed Meat Cause? I quantify the risks of colon and rectal cancers from eating bacon, ham, hot dogs,...
April 4, 2022 IARC: Processed Meat Like Bacon Causes Cancer How did the meat industry, government, and cancer organizations respond to the confirmation that processed...