Treating Ulcerative Colitis with Diet
If the avoidance of sulfur-rich proteins and food additives can help prevent inflammatory bowel disease,...
Latest in Clinical Nutrition: Volume 27
The “volumes” refer to a series of DVDs (now digital only) upon which NutritionFacts.org is based (all proceeds donated to this charity). The DVDs give folks the opportunity to sneak preview videos months ahead of time, watch them all straight through, and share as gifts, but there’s nothing on the DVDs that won’t eventually end up online free at NutritionFacts.org. You can also buy the DVD as a download in full! Volume 27 is the twenty-second NutritionFacts.org DVD covering the peer-reviewed scientific nutrition literature published between Spring 2011 and Winter 2015. For more information about Volume 27 click here.
Sprinkling Doubt: Taking Sodium Skeptics with a Pinch of Salt
Is the sodium debate a legitimate scientific disagreement or a “controversy” manufactured by industry?
Cholesterol and Alzheimer’s Disease
High-tech advances, such as PET scanning, offer new insight into the role cholesterol plays in...
Kiwifruit for the Common Cold
Compared to bananas, does eating kiwifruit decrease the incidence and severity of upper respiratory tract...
Everything in Moderation? Even Heart Disease?
Health authorities appear to have taken the patronizing view that the public can’t handle the...
Optimal Diet: Just Give It to Me Straight, Doc
Why is there a reticence to provide the public with guidelines that will spare them...
Mediterranean Diet and Atherosclerosis
What happens inside the arteries going to the hearts and brains of those who add...
Laughter as Medicine
What effects do laughing, crying, kissing, cuddling, and sex have on immune function and allergic...
What Are the Healthiest Foods?
Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which foods best supply shortfall nutrients while avoiding...
Omega 3s, Prostate Cancer, and Atrial Fibrillation
Fish and fish oil consumption do not appear to protect against heart disease, arrhythmias, or...
“Veg-Table” Dietary Nitrate Scoring Method
What is the optimal timing and dose of nitrate-containing vegetables, such as beets and spinach,...
Which Type of Protein Is Better for Our Kidneys?
Anti-inflammatory drugs abolish the hyperfiltration and protein leakage response to meat ingestion, suggesting that animal...
Microbiome: The Inside Story
The microbiome revolution in medicine is beginning to uncover the underappreciated role our healthy gut...
Prebiotics: Tending Our Inner Garden
Why does our immune system confuse unhealthy diets with dysbiosis—an overrun of bad bacteria in...
Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook
The processed food industries now use tactics similar to those used by cigarette companies to...
Speeding Recovery from Surgery with Turmeric
The anti-inflammatory effect of curcumin, the pigment in the spice turmeric, was put to the...
How Much Cancer Does Lunch Meat Cause?
Why does the leading cancer and diet authority recommend we avoid bacon, ham, hot dogs,...
How to Prevent Fainting
Syncope (fainting) triggered by standing, strong emotions, or common phobias to blood, injections, and injuries...
Are Calcium Supplements Safe?
The unnaturally large, rapid, and sustained calcium levels in the blood caused by calcium supplements...
Are Calcium Supplements Effective?
What is the optimal daily dietary calcium intake and might benefits for your bones outweigh...
Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Depression
If depression can be induced with pro-inflammatory drugs, might an anti-inflammatory diet be effective in...
What to Take Before a Colonoscopy
By preventing colon spasms, peppermint oil can both reduce the pain and discomfort of colonoscopies...
Should We All Get Colonoscopies Starting at Age 50?
Why do doctors in the United States continue to recommend colonoscopies when most other countries...
Plant-Based Diets for Diabetes
When placed head-to-head against the American Diabetes Association diet, how do plant-based diets fare in...
Industry Response to Plants Not Pills
The whole food is greater than the sum of its parts: how unscrupulous marketers use...
Find Out If Your Doctor Takes Drug Company Money
The vast majority of physicians in the United States take gifts from the pharmaceutical industry....
