Lychee Fruit and Hypoglycin: How Many Are Too Many?
There is a toxin in lychee fruit that can be harmful, but only under certain...
Latest in Clinical Nutrition: Volume 53
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The Effects of Processed Meat on Lung Function
If the nitrites in foods like ham and bacon cause lung damage, what about “uncured”...
Studies on Millet Nutrition: Is It a Healthy Grain?
Millet isn’t the name of a specific grain, but a generic term that applies to...
The Benefits of Millet for Diabetes
What were the remarkable results of a crossover study randomizing hundreds of people with diabetes...
Do Angioplasty Heart Stent Procedures Work?
There are demonstrably no benefits to the hundreds of thousands of angioplasty and stent procedures...
Why Angioplasty Heart Stents Don’t Work Better
Most heart attacks are caused by nonobstructive plaques that infiltrate the entire coronary artery tree....
The Risks of Heart Stents
Why are doctors killing or stroking out thousands of people a year for nothing? How...
Angioplasty Heart Stent Risks vs. Benefits
What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they are...
Do Heart Stent Procedures Work for Angina Chest Pain?
Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like nonemergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only...
Why Are Stents Still Used If They Don’t Work?
Over and over, studies have shown that doctors tend to make different clinical decisions for...
Heart Stents and Upcoding: How Cardiologists Game the System
Cardiologists can criminally game the system by telling a patient they have a much more...
Just How Bad Is Hospital Food?
What do hospitals have to say for themselves for feeding people meals that appear to...
The Best Diet for Fatty Liver Disease Treatment
What are the three sources of the liver fat in fatty liver disease and how...
Kombucha’s Side Effects: Is It Bad for You?
What are the risks versus benefits of drinking kombucha?
Preventing Inflammatory Bowel Disease with Diet
Eating a diet filled with animal products can disrupt your microbiome faster than taking an...
The Best Diet for Ulcerative Colitis Treatment
Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, blowing...
The Best Diet for Crohn’s Disease Treatment
Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those...
How Common Are Muscle Side Effects from Statins?
Why is the incidence of side effects from statins so low in clinical trials but...
The Human Health Effects of Cultivated Meat: Food Safety
What are the direct health implications of making clean meat—that is, meat without animals?
The Human Health Effects of Cultivated Meat: Antibiotic Resistance
Miracle drug antibiotics are being squandered to compensate for the overcrowded, stressful, unhygienic conditions on...
The Human Health Effects of Cultivated Meat: Chemical Safety
More than 95 percent of human exposure to industrial pollutants like dioxins and PCBs comes...
Elderberry Benefits and Side Effects: Does It Help with Colds and the Flu?
How effective are flu shots, elderberries, echinacea, and cranberries?
Are Vegans at Risk for Iodine Deficiency?
Most plant-based milks are not fortified with iodine.
The Healthiest Natural Source of Iodine
How much nori, dulse, or arame approximate the recommended daily allowance for iodine?
The Best Diet for Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism
Is the apparent protection of plant-based diets for thyroid health due to the exclusion of...
Diet for Hypothyroidism: A Natural Treatment for Hashimoto’s Disease
What were the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a half teaspoon of...
