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Why do some pine nuts cause a bad taste in our mouth that can last for weeks?

There doesn’t appear to be any difference between the negative effects of high fructose corn syrup and table sugar on body fat, blood pressure, blood sugars, triglycerides, or cholesterol, but high-fructose corn syrup did appear to be more pro-inflammatory.

Who won in a head-to-head test of nutrition knowledge––doctors or patients?

Pomegranates are put to the test for weight loss, diabetes, COPD, prostate cancer, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis.

What is the leading cause of heart disease, our leading cause of death?

Which kind of flaxseed has more cancer-fighting lignans?

The so-called optimism bias may get in the way of a healthy lifestyle.

Meta-analyses of studies involving more than ten million participants confirm that greater egg consumption confers a higher risk of premature death from all causes.

From a rarity to an epidemic disease, diverticulosis is a disease of fiber deficiency.

The overall cost-benefit ratio for mycotoxins depends on which food is contaminated. Is “toxic mold syndrome” real? And what do we do about toxic mold contamination of food?

The best apple, bean, berry, lentil, and nut are the ones you’ll eat the most of; but if you don’t have a strong preference, which has the highest antioxidant power?

What does the "milk pus test" tell us about the U.S. milk supply?

Let’s discuss weight loss, cholesterol, and PCOS treatment with diet. What can a daily eighth of a teaspoon of onion powder do for body fat, and what can raw red onion do for cholesterol?

Is there an advantage to eating a raw plant-based diet over a diet of raw and cooked whole plant foods?

One reason kids may not be eating more healthfully is that their parents vastly overestimate the quality of their child’s diet.

I discuss a public health case for modernizing the definition of protein quality.

What role do vegetarian diets and organic foods play in the prevention or promotion of a birth defect called hypospadias?

Why do contaminated poultry products cause the most foodborne deaths?

What can physicians do to promote healthy, life-extending, lifestyle changes?

At this very moment, many of us have tumors growing inside our bodies, so we cannot wait to start eating and living more healthfully.

Is the link between flavonoid consumption and longevity cause-and-effect, and are all sources of flavonoids equally healthy?

How do barukas, also known as baru almonds, compare with other nuts?

Our bodies are exposed to about 20,000 hits of radiation from cosmic rays every second. Is that good or bad?

Has sunscreen been proven to prevent skin aging and cancer?

Inflammatory markers can double within six hours of eating a pro-inflammatory meal. Which foods are the worst, and which ones reduce inflammation? What does an anti-inflammatory diet look like?

Is green rooibos (analogous to green tea) healthier than red rooibos, the commercially more common oxidized form that’s akin to black tea?

Excluding artificial food colors from children’s diets can improve ADHD symptoms.

Our Lentil–Walnut Burgers with Cheesy Sauce are delicious, hearty, and easy to make.

A healthy heart doesn’t beat like a metronome.

How can we conserve NAD+ by preventing overactivation of the enzymes PARP-1 and CD38, which guzzle NAD+?