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Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:26 +0000 |
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What foods should we eat and avoid to reduce our risk of atrial fibrillation? Atrial fibrillation, or Afib, is the most common clinical arrhythmia, meaning […]
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Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:00:21 +0000 |
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There is little guarantee that a dietary supplement will actually contain what is advertised on the packaging and not have undeclared contaminants. In one of […]
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Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:00:08 +0000 |
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What food can eradicate H. pylori in the majority of patients? The salting and pickling of fish produce a novel DNA-mutating chemical called CMBA, which […]
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Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:00:59 +0000 |
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The origins of yoga go back thousands of years, and the practice of yoga for health has become popular worldwide. A 2016 survey estimated that […]
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Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:24 +0000 |
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What explains the Achilles’ heel in certain Asian diets? For decades, Japan has had the longest life expectancy in the world, while spending just a […]
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Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 |
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Coffee can improve Parkinson’s symptoms within three weeks compared to placebo, but do the benefits last? When James Parkinson described the classic symptoms of Parkinson’s […]
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Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:00:36 +0000 |
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Our gut flora is determined by what we eat, for good or for ill. When we eat meat (including seafood), dairy, or eggs, our gut […]
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Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:15 +0000 |
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Why don’t more big payors in health care embrace plant-based eating? Many of the diseases “that cause a constant drain on health care budgets can […]
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Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:45 +0000 |
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The hormonal benefits of fenugreek extend beyond the muscle-bulking testosterone boost. In my video about the benefits of fenugreek seeds, I profiled a study in […]
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Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:16 +0000 |
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If you put together all the new chemotherapy drugs approved over a dozen years, the average overall survival benefit is only 2.1 months. Though we […]
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Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:48 +0000 |
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Most chemotherapy drugs are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) without evidence that they benefit survival or quality of life. By 2030, […]
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Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:31 +0000 |
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If you care about your health so much that it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette before and after lunch, maybe you should […]
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Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:10 +0000 |
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Big Meat downplays the magnitude of meat mortality. A series of studies published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found a statistically significant association between […]
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Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 |
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The meat industry’s own study concluded that meat consumption increased the risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and premature death. A series of papers published […]
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Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:51 +0000 |
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The same person paid by Big Sugar to downplay the risks of sugar was paid by Big Meat to downplay the risks of meat. A […]
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Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:32 +0000 |
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The meat industry comes up with a perversion of evidence-based medicine. A series of articles published in the Annals of Internal Medicine culminated in a […]
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Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:00:52 +0000 |
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How legitimate is the common corporate criticism of the scientific nutrition literature that the credibility of observational studies is questionable? While randomized controlled trials are […]
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Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:00:31 +0000 |
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How did Big Corn Syrup and other corporate sugar titans hijack the scientific process? In 2016, a Washington-based lobby group published a scientific review that […]
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Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:28 +0000 |
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International Life Sciences Institute, a nonprofit, is accused of being a front group for Coca-Cola and other junk food giants. In 2019, a series of […]
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Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:30 +0000 |
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Please note: This blog and its accompanying video discuss the important and troubling issue of weight bias and discrimination, which may be a sensitive topic […]
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Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:47 +0000 |
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Please note: This blog and its accompanying video discuss the important and troubling issue of weight bias and discrimination, which may be a sensitive topic […]
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Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:00:03 +0000 |
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Do people who eat nuts live longer simply because they replace protein from animals with protein from plants? The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition “is […]
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Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:00:46 +0000 |
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A micromort, a unit for comparing and communicating risk to patients, is equivalent to a one-in-a-million chance of dying. Hundreds of millions of operations are […]
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Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:00:43 +0000 |
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Hot peppers, soy foods, and pumpkin seeds may help with hair loss. Androgenic or androgenetic alopecia is one of the most common chronic problems seen […]
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Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:00:56 +0000 |
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What are the pros and cons of Propecia and Rogaine for hair loss? “Any consumer looking on the Internet for a treatment for hair loss […]
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Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:00:47 +0000 |
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Might biotin or zinc supplements prevent hair loss in men and women? By the time we’re 50, about half of us, men and women, will […]
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Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:00:14 +0000 |
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I discuss a public health case for modernizing the definition of protein quality. In 2019, Dr. David Katz and colleagues, including one of my favorite […]
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Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:47 +0000 |
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Healthy kidneys are required for potassium excretion. If you aren’t sure if you’re at risk, ask your doctor about getting your kidney function tested. Based […]
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Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:00:09 +0000 |
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Is potassium chloride a win-win by decreasing sodium intake and increasing potassium intake? Of all the terrible things about our diets, high dietary sodium intake—high […]
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Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:14 +0000 |
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A staggering 99.99% of Americans fail to get the minimum recommended potassium intake (despite it being perhaps only half of our natural intake) and stay […]
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