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How Prebiotic Foods Keep Your Microbiome Healthy
We co-evolved a symbiosis with our good gut bacteria, but we aren’t holding up our end of the bargain. If you look at the classics—the most frequent…
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How We Eat vs. How We Think We Eat
The so-called optimism bias may get in the way of a healthy lifestyle. Yes, media messages about nutrition are often confusing and inconsistent, bu…
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The Link Between Breast Cancer and a Virus in Meat and Dairy
Exposure to the bovine leukemia virus from meat and dairy (or a blood transfusion from those who eat meat or dairy) is a risk factor for cancer. In …
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Could Bovine Leukemia Virus be a Cause of Breast Cancer?
As many as 37% of breast cancer cases may be attributable to exposure to the bovine leukemia virus. The incidence of breast cancer continues to incr…
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NDMA: A Cancer-Causing Contaminant in Meds and Meat
Billion-dollar drugs have been pulled from the market for less carcinogenic contamination than is found in a single serving of grilled chicken. In 2…
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Peeling Back the Onion Claims
What did randomized, controlled human trials find about the ways we may—or may not—benefit from eating onions? Onions are potentially a good source…
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How to Boost Your Life Expectancy by 12 to 14 Years
What can physicians do to promote healthy, life-extending lifestyle changes? A pivotal paper published in Europe more than a decade ago entitled “…
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Do Vitamin C Supplements Help Reduce Anxiety?
What are the risks and benefits of using vitamin C for depression and anxiety? “In adults, emerging evidence suggests that higher daily intake of fi…
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Which Potato Is the Most Nutritious?
Are yellow-fleshed potatoes healthier than white? And what about the glycoalkaloid toxins? The high glycemic impact of potatoes may increase the ri…
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How to Tame Blood Sugar Spikes after Eating Potatoes
Broccoli, vinegar, and lemon juice are put to the test to blunt the glycemic index of white potatoes. White potatoes have a high glycemic index, an…
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Why Cooling Potatoes Lowers Their Glycemic Load
If you eat potatoes when they’re cold, as in potato salad, or chilled and reheated, you can get a nearly 40% lower glycemic impact. If you systemati…
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