Treating Multiple Sclerosis with the Swank MS Diet
A plant-based diet may not only be the safest treatment for multiple sclerosis; it may...
Latest in Clinical Nutrition: Volume 15
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Prostate Cancer Survival: The A/V Ratio
Reducing the ratio of animal to plant protein in men’s diets may slow the progression...
Breast Cancer Survival Vegetable
Simple changes in diet and lifestyle may quadruple a woman’s survival rate from breast cancer.
Alkaline Diets, Animal Protein, and Calcium Loss
The decades-old dogma that the acid-forming quality of animal protein leads to bone loss has...
Testing Your Diet with Pee and Purple Cabbage
Plant-based diets tend to be alkaline-forming. This may help protect muscle mass, and reduce the...
Tell Your Doctor if You Eat Grapefruit
The role white and pink (red) grapefruit may play in weight loss and cholesterol control,...
BOLD Indeed: Beef Lowers Cholesterol?
The beef industry designed a study to show that a diet containing beef was able...
Eggs and Choline: Something Fishy
Too much choline—a compound concentrated in eggs and other animal products—can make bodily secretions smell...
Eggs, Choline, and Cancer
Choline may be the reason egg consumption is associated with prostate cancer progression and death.
Chronic Headaches and Pork Tapeworms
Chronic headaches such as migraines or “tension” headache symptoms may be a sign of pork...
Enhanced Athletic Recovery without Undermining Adaptation
Might the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of plant-based diets undermine some of the benefits of...
Preserving Immune Function in Athletes with Nutritional Yeast
Athletes who overtrain may put excessive stress on their bodies, and become more susceptible to...
Nutrient-Dense Approach to Weight Management
Americans eating meat-free diets average higher intakes of nearly every nutrient, while maintaining a lower...
How Many Poppy Seeds Are Too Many?
Soaking and cooking poppy seeds can lower their morphine and codeine levels—but those undergoing drug...
Increased Lifespan from Beans
The intake of legumes—beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils—may be the single most important dietary...
BRCA Breast Cancer Genes and Soy
One reason why soy consumption is associated with improved survival and lower recurrence rates in...
Canned Beans or Cooked Beans?
Canned beans are convenient, but are they as nutritious as home-cooked? And, if we do...
Lifestyle Medicine: Treating the Causes of Disease
If doctors can eliminate some of our leading killers by treating the underlying causes of...
The Broccoli Receptor: Our First Line of Defense
There is a receptor in our intestines activated by phytonutrients in cruciferous vegetables that boosts...
Counteracting the Effects of Dioxins Through Diet
Phytonutrients in certain plant foods may block the toxic effects of industrial pollutants, like dioxins,...
Phosphate Additives in Meat Purge and Cola
The consumption of phosphorus preservatives in junk food, and injected into meat, may damage blood...
Phosphate Additives in Chicken
The phosphorus preservatives injected into poultry may not just be an arterial toxin. They also...
How to Avoid Phosphate Additives
The vast majority of chicken and poultry products are injected with phosphorus preservatives, which are...
Are Sugary Foods Addictive?
Evidence from PET scans suggests brain activity changes from the overconsumption of sugar may parallel...
Are Fatty Foods Addictive?
Those eating calorie-dense diets may have a reduced capacity to enjoy all of life’s pleasures...
Fish Intake Associated with Brain Shrinkage
Exposure to mercury during pregnancy appears to influence fetal brain development, as detected by decreased...
Mercury vs. Omega-3s for Brain Development
Risk/benefit analysis of 33 fish species contrasts the brain-boosting effects of DHA with the brain-damaging...
Cavities and Coronaries: Our Choice
Coronary heart disease, our #1 cause of death, was found to be almost non-existent in...
One in a Thousand: Ending the Heart Disease Epidemic
Many of our most common diseases found to be rare, or even nonexistent, among populations...
