Saffron for the Treatment of PMS
The spice saffron appears to improve both the emotional and physical symptoms of premenstrual syndrome.
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Wake Up and Smell the Saffron
Even the scent of the spice saffron may reduce stress hormone levels, and ease the...
Saffron vs. Prozac
A head-to-head test of the spice saffron versus Prozac for the treatment of clinical depression.
CDC Report on Environmental Chemical Exposure
The latest national survey on the levels of chemical pollutants (such as heavy metals, toxic...
President’s Cancer Panel Report on Environmental Risk
The official National Cancer Institute report on the "unacceptable" burden of cancer stemming from industrial...
Pesticides in Chinese Bamboo Shoots
Cans of bamboo shoots imported from China may have concerning levels of pesticide contamination.
BPA Plastic and Male Sexual Dysfunction
Canned foods and sliced turkey were found to be contaminated with the plastics chemical BPA,...
Pollutants in Californian Breast Tissue
Levels of flame-retardant chemical pollutants (PBDEs) in the tissues of women from around the world...
Food Sources of Flame-Retardant Chemicals
Other than pet food and fish (which may be most contaminated), how do fire-retardant chemicals...
DDT in Umbilical Cord Blood
Are pregnant women who eat fish, other meat, and dairy still passing along the pesticide...
How Fast Can Children Detoxify from PCBs?
Based on the half-life of industrial pollutants children may be exposed to in the womb...
Food Sources of Perfluorochemicals
Where do DDT, hexachlorobenzene, PCBs, and perfluorochemicals (linked to thyroid disease) concentrate in the food...
Plants vs. Pesticides
Phytonutrients found in certain foods may protect against the toxic effects of industrial pollutants such...
The Best Baby Formula
Exclusive breastfeeding for a full six months may, ironically, improve our children's taste for vegetables—whereas...
The Wrong Way to Detox
The reason birth order is a predictor of pollutant levels in the bodies of children...
Lowering Dietary Antibiotic Intake
What a few days eating vegetarian can do to the levels of antibiotics and phthalates...
More Antibiotics in White Meat or Dark Meat?
Concentrations of antibiotic residues vary between different edible muscle tissues in poultry.
Protein and Heart Disease
Why is the intake of animal protein associated with heart disease—even independent of saturated fat—and...
Ergothioneine: A New Vitamin?
If the antioxidant amino acid ergothioneine does indeed turn out to be an essential nutrient,...
Changing Protein Recommendations?
A research group is suggesting that human protein requirements may have been underestimated.
Plant-Based Bioidentical Hormones
Do compounded bioidentical hormones for menopause carry the same risks as conventional hormone replacement drugs,...
Gerson Therapy for Cancer
Gerson Therapy is a largely diet-based alternative treatment for cancer. What have 65 years of...
Gerson-style Therapy vs. Chemotherapy
For decades, studies on Gerson therapy for cancer have questioned its safety and efficacy. But,...
Beauty Is More than Skin Deep
Some foods appear protective against the development of skin wrinkles—while others may make them worse.
Preventing Wrinkles with Diet
What dietary intervention may significantly protect against wrinkles in the crow's foot area around the...
Standing Up for Your Health
Prolonged daily sitting is associated with a shorter lifespan, even in those who exercise regularly....
Benefits of Fenugreek Seeds
The spice fenugreek appears to significantly improve muscle strength and weightlifting power output, while possessing...
Side Effect of Fenugreek Consumption
Fenugreek seeds may protect against cancer and improve muscle mass, but they can make your...
Antioxidants Sprouting Up
What happens to the antioxidant content of seeds, grains, and beans when you sprout them?
Meat Mythcrushers
Meat industry public relations campaign to "crush" myths makes false claim about the millions of...
Ractopamine in Pork
BREAKING NEWS video: An analysis of yesterday's Consumer Reports finding that 1 in 5 samples...
Yersinia in Pork
This week Consumer Reports released a study showing the majority of retail pork tested was...
Aspartame-Induced Fibromyalgia
Case reports of fibromyalgia chronic pain sufferers cured, by removing the artificial sweetener aspartame (Nutrasweet®)...
Diet Soda and Preterm Birth
Aspartame may be the reason that diet soda consumption during pregnancy has been linked to...
Erythritol May Be a Sweet Antioxidant – UPDATE: don’t eat! (See doc note below)
The natural sweetener erythritol does not appear to carry the adverse effects associated with other...
How Diet Soda Could Make Us Gain Weight
People consuming low-calorie sweeteners may overcompensate by eating more than they otherwise would.
Neurobiology of Artificial Sweeteners
The disconnect between sweetness sensations coming from our tongue, and the lack of a caloric...
Unsweetening the Diet
All sweeteners—natural and artificial; caloric and non-caloric—help maintain cravings for intensely sweet foods.
Cancer as an Autoimmune Disease
Because certain tumors such as breast cancers thrive in settings of low-grade inflammation, our immune...
Clonal Selection Theory of Immunity
We may have a billion different types of antibody-releasing cells in our immune system, such...
Clonal Deletion Theory of Immunity
Plant-based diets may be protective against multiple sclerosis because IGF-1 can prevent our immune system...
The Inflammatory Meat Molecule Neu5Gc
Plant-based diets may help rheumatoid arthritis by decreasing exposure to an inflammatory compound found in...
How Tumors Use Meat to Grow: Xeno-Autoantibodies
Cancer may use a molecule found in animal products to trick our immune system into...
Nonhuman Molecules Lining our Arteries
The foreign meat molecule Neu5Gc builds up in human tumors and atherosclerotic plaques, and may...
Meat May Exceed Daily Allowance of Irony
The foreign meat molecule Neu5Gc may not only contribute to the progression of cancer and...
98% of American Diets Potassium-Deficient
Less than 2% of Americans achieve even the recommended minimum adequate intake of potassium, due...
Preventing Strokes with Diet
Increasing the intake of potassium-rich foods is associated with a significantly lower stroke risk.
Potassium and Autoimmune Disease
Plant-based diets appear to decrease inflammation via a variety of mechanisms—including boosting our adrenal gland...
Metabolic Syndrome and Plant-Based Diets
Plant-based diets appear to protect against metabolic syndrome, also known as syndrome X, which is...
Whole Grains May Work as Well as Drugs
The consumption of three portions of whole grains a day appears as powerful as high...
Breast Cancer vs. Mushrooms
Researchers pit plain white mushrooms against breast cancer cells in vitro to measure aromatase activity,...
Why Do Asian Women Have Less Breast Cancer?
Mushrooms, green tea, and soy consumption may decrease breast cancer risk, but how many mushrooms,...
Preventing Breast Cancer by Any Greens Necessary
Which was associated with lowest breast cancer risk in African-American women? Apples, bananas, broccoli, cabbage,...
Tree Nuts or Peanuts for Breast Cancer Prevention?
Eating fiber-containing foods—especially nuts—during adolescence may significantly lower the risk of developing potentially precancerous fibrocystic...
Miocene Meteorites and Uric Acid
Human beings lost the ability to detoxify uric acid millions of years ago. What implications...
Flesh and Fructose
Meat and sugar increase uric acid levels, which are associated with increased risk of gout,...
Apple Juice May Be Worse than Sugar Water
Why the spike in antioxidant levels in our bloodstream after drinking apple juice might not...
Apple Skin: Peeling Back Cancer
Apple peels appear to upregulate the tumor suppressor gene maspin, and have strong antiproliferative effects...
