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Diet as a primary intervention for type 2 diabetes is the most effective in achieving remission when emphasizing whole, plant-based foods with minimal consumption of animal products.

The Squatty Potty is put to the test.

Certain soft drinks and bottled (heated) carrot juice may contain carcinogenic levels above safety standards.

How can we plan well-balanced plant-based diets for infants and kids?

Most chemo drugs are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration without evidence of benefit on survival or quality of life. If you put together all the new chemo drugs that had been approved over a dozen years, the average overall survival benefit is only 2.1 months.

Eating well-balanced plant-based diets during pregnancy can reduce risks of gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders like preeclampsia.

Pawpaw fruits, like soursop, guanabana, sweetsop, sugar apple, cherimoya, and custard apple, contain neurotoxins that may cause a neurodegenerative disease.

A micromort as a unit of comparing and communicating risk to patients equivalent to a one-in-a-million chance of dying.

The weed purslane appears to not only be the safest treatment available for the autoimmune disease lichen planus, but the most effective, too.

Are the higher IQs found in vegetarian children the result of confounding factors or reverse causation?

Walnuts, almonds, and hazelnuts are put to the test for erectile dysfunction, sexual function, sperm count, and semen quality.

Is the purported decline of nutrients in our crops due to soil degradation, or is that just supplement industry propaganda?

What percentage of meat samples test positive for drug residue violations?

Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter?

Typical daily doses of black pepper can affect the metabolism of certain drugs, so make sure you tell your prescribing health professional about your black pepper consumption.

Pregnancy greatly reduces our ability to metabolize caffeine.

Chlorohydrin contaminates hydrolyzed vegetable protein products and refined oils.

At a retail level, about 10 percent of commercial pork products tested contain the hepatitis E virus.

Do the reactions ascribed to monosodium glutamate (MSG) represent a menace, myth, or marvel?

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?