If Fructose Is Bad, What About Fruit?
Does the fructose naturally found in fruit and fruit juice have the same adverse effects...
Latest in Clinical Nutrition: Volume 22
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Back in Circulation: Sciatica & Cholesterol
Atherosclerotic plaque clogging the arteries feeding our spine may lead to low back pain, disc...
Kempner Rice Diet: Whipping Us Into Shape
Dr. Walter Kempner was a pioneer in the use of diet to treat life-threatening chronic...
Food Industry-Funded Research Bias
Using the tobacco industry playbook, food companies have been caught trying to undermine public health...
Coffee and Artery Function
The new dietary guidelines for beverages recommend tea and coffee second only to water in...
Chicken Big: Poultry and Obesity
Chicken consumption is associated with more weight gain than other meat.
Aspartame and the Brain
The reason artificially sweetened beverages have been associated with depression may be because of psychological...
Paleo Diets May Negate Benefits of Exercise
The deleterious effects of a Paleolithic diet appear to undermine the positive effects of a...
Can Diet Protect Against Kidney Cancer?
Plant-based diets appear to protect against renal cell carcinoma both directly and indirectly.
Estrogen in Meat, Dairy, and Eggs
The sex steroids found naturally in animal products likely exceed the hormonal impacts of endocrine-disrupting...
Why Do Vegan Women Have 5x Fewer Twins?
The hormones naturally found in foods of animal origin may help explain why women who...
Preventing Crohn’s Disease with Diet
Diets centered around whole plant foods may help prevent Crohn’s disease through the benefits of...
Ciguatera Poisoning & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
The effects of the neurotoxins that can contaminate fish like red snapper and grouper can...
Which Dietary Factors Affect Breast Cancer Most?
American Institute for Cancer Research recommendation compliance associated not only with cancer prevention and survival...
The Saturated Fat Studies: Buttering Up the Public
Dairy industry campaign to “neutralize the negative image of milkfat among regulators and health professionals...
The Saturated Fat Studies: Set Up to Fail
How might Big Butter design a study (like the Siri-Tarino and Chowdhury meta-analyses) to undermine...
How Many Meet the Simple Seven?
The American Heart Association came up with seven simple lifestyle goals to combat the leading...
Plant-Based Diets and Diabetes
We’ve known for a half century that plant-based diets are associated with lower diabetes risk,...
Are Raisins Good Snacks for Kids?
The California Raisin Marketing Board need not have funded such misleading studies, given the healthfulness...
Never Too Late to Start Eating Healthier
Since many tumors take decades to grow it’s remarkable that cancer risk can so dramatically...
Enhancing Athletic Performance with Peppermint
Study finds remarkable improvements in exercise performance drinking homemade peppermint water, but there may be...
Turmeric Curcumin vs. Exercise for Artery Function
Those who sit most of the day and are unable to use a standing or...
Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Plants
If foods like berries and dark green leafy vegetables have been found protective against cognitive...
Flaxseeds for Hypertension
Extraordinary results reported in a rare example of a double-blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized trial of a...
The Actual Benefit of Diet vs. Drugs
The medical profession oversells the benefits of drugs for chronic disease since so few patients...
Why Prevention Is Worth a Ton of Cure
More people might be open to changing their diet and lifestyle if they knew how...
