Blood Type Diet Debunked
A systematic review finds no evidence to support the notion that people should choose diets...
Latest in Clinical Nutrition: Volume 18
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Why Do We Age?
A bacteria discovered on Easter Island may hold the key to the proverbial fountain of...
Caloric Restriction vs. Animal-Protein Restriction
The lifespan extension associated with dietary restriction may be due less to a reduction in...
California Children Are Contaminated
The levels of arsenic, banned pesticides, and dioxins exceeded cancer benchmarks in each of the...
How Many Cancers Have Been Caused by Arsenic-Laced Chicken?
Arsenic-containing drugs intentionally added to poultry feed to reduce the parasite burden and pinken the...
Taxpayer Subsidies for Unhealthy Foods
What if billions in tax dollars were invested in healthier options, rather than given to...
Preventing Asthma with Fruits and Vegetables
A study involving more than a million kids suggests the striking worldwide variation in childhood...
Treating Asthma with Fruits and Vegetables
Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption to seven servings a day appears to cut asthma exacerbation...
Treating Asthma with Plants vs. Supplements?
Whole fruits and vegetables were compared to both antioxidant pills, as well as supplements containing...
Treating Asthma and Eczema with Plant-Based Diets
Pilot studies on treating allergic eczema and severe asthma with dietary interventions have shown remarkable...
Cholesterol Feeds Breast Cancer Cells
Cholesterol appears to stimulate the growth of human breast cancer cells—which may explain why phytosterol-rich...
Statin Cholesterol Drugs and Invasive Breast Cancer
Reducing cholesterol levels may inhibit breast cancer development, but the long-term use of cholesterol-lowering statin...
Cancer Risk from French Fries
The association between cancer and the consumption of deep-fried foods may be due to carcinogens...
Fish and Diabetes
The relationship between fish consumption and diabetes risk may be due to toxic pollutants that...
Diabetes and Dioxins
Industrial pollutants that build up in our own body fat may help explain the link...
Pollutants in Salmon and Our Own Fat
Farmed Atlantic salmon, the kind of salmon most commonly found in restaurants and supermarkets, may...
Walnuts and Artery Function
Not eating walnuts may double our risk of dying from heart disease (compared to at...
Debunking Egg Industry Myths
The latest meta-analysis of studies on egg consumption and heart disease risk found that even...
Eggs and Arterial Function
Even studies funded by the American Egg Board show our arteries benefit from not eating...
Alpha-Gal and the Lone Star Tick
Our immune response against a foreign molecule present in animal products may play a role...
Tick Bites, Meat Allergies, and Chronic Urticaria
The rising incidence of tick-bite induced meat allergies may account for cases of previously unexplained...
Appropriating Plant Defenses
Plants and animals share similar biochemical pathways and signaling systems, which may explain why so...
Xenohormesis: What Doesn’t Kill Plants May Make Us Stronger
A new concept in biology tries to explain why the consumption of certain natural compounds...
Plants as Intellectual Property – Patently Wrong?
Barriers to patent natural commodities, such as the spice turmeric, keeps prices low—but if no...
Magic Bullets vs. Promiscuous Plants
The pharmaceutical industry is starting to shift away from designing single target drugs to trying...
Fruits, Veggies, and Longevity: How Many Minutes Per Mouthful?
The first study to gauge how much longer we live based on the number of...
