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...
April 1, 2022 Flashback Friday: Is Ginger Beneficial in a Diabetic Diet? Ground ginger and ginger tea are put to the test for blood sugar control.
March 30, 2022 Should You Get Personalized Genetic Risk Testing? Overrated “precision medicine” may just be serving vested interests, and consumer DNA testing can be...
March 28, 2022 Do the Health Benefits of Peanut Butter Include Longevity? Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter?
March 25, 2022 Flashback Friday: Benefit of Dates for Colon Health Seven dates a day for three weeks are put to the test in a randomized...
March 23, 2022 How to Boost FGF21 with Diet for Longevity Fasting and exercise can boost the longevity hormone FGF21, but what can we eat—or avoid...
March 18, 2022 Flashback Friday: Sugar Industry Attempt to Manipulate the Science How the food industry responds to “health food faddists.”
March 16, 2022 How to Keep Your Microbiome Healthy with Prebiotic Foods We co-evolved a symbiosis with our good gut bacteria, but we are not holding up...