Why Is Extra Salt Injected into Meat?
Why is the salt industry so powerful? It has its own PR and lobbying firms...
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NDMA: A Cancer-Causing Contaminant in Meds and Meat
Toxoplasma brain parasites can cause personality alterations. Of all causes of foodborne disease, a brain parasite called toxoplasma is ranked as the fourth leading cause of hospitalization and the second leading cause of death in the United States. Nearly a...
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How Can Animal Protein Intake Increase Childhood Obesity Risk?
If pregnant crickets are exposed to a predatory wolf spider, their babies will hatch, exhibiting...
Vitamin D Supplements for Reducing Cancer Mortality
It all started with a famous study entitled “Do sunlight and vitamin D reduce the...
Dairy Industry Responds to Bovine Leukemia Virus in Breast Cancer
What was the response to the revelation that as many as 37 percent of breast...
Cow Cancer Virus Implicated in Breast Cancer
Up to 20 percent of all cancers in general are linked to infections, particularly viruses,...
Should You Be Concerned About Bovine Leukemia Virus in Milk?
Decades ago, concern was raised that the milk of dairy cows frequently contains a leukemia-causing...
Vegans Should Consider Taking DHA Supplements
We are all fatheads. Indeed, about half the dry weight of our brain is fat....
Do DHA Supplements Improve Brain Function?
The concept of vitamins was first described by none other than Dr. Funk. In his...
Why Did Doctors Keep Prescribing Cancer?
We’ve known about the role of estrogen in breast cancer going back to the 1800s,...
Preorder How Not to Diet Now!
My new book How Not to Diet is now available for pre-order! It’s hard to...
The Best Source of Resistant Starch
Resistant starch wasn’t discovered until 1982. Before that, we thought all starch could be digested...
The Answer to a Colon Cancer Mystery
Fiber and Colon Cancer Protection Colorectal cancer is the third most common cause of cancer...
Make Sure Iodine Is in Your Prenatal
Although severe iodine deficiency was eliminated in the United States nearly a century ago after...
The Healthiest Way to Eat Paleo
There have been about a half dozen studies published on Paleo-type diets, starting around 20...
What About Canned Fruit?
Food cans used to be soldered with lead compounds—so much so that people living off...
Why Doctors Are So Drug Happy
Who funds most of the studies that show drugs are safe and effective? The drug...
Dishonest Doctors
One of the critical questions to ask whenever reading a medical journal article is, “Who...
TV Appearance, Now Hiring, and New Swag
You asked for more merch, and we answered! We’re rolling out new items on the...
Should We Increase Our Protein Intake After Age 65?
A study that purported to show that diets high in meat, eggs, and dairy could...
Dialing Down the Grim Reaper Gene
Only about 1 in 10,000 people live to be a 100 years old. What’s their...
A Highly Effective, Cheap, Easy-to-Use, Safer Treatment for Heavy Periods
Ginger is most famous for its role in preventing and alleviating nausea and vomiting. There...
Pomegranates Put to the Test for Prostate Cancer
The pomegranate “has been revered through the ages for its medicinal properties”––so much so that...
Why Some Dairy Products Are More Closely Linked to Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s. Each year in the United...
Why There Is So Much Commercial Corruption in Nutrition
The prevalence of chronic diseases such as diabetes has skyrocketed, as has the number of...
