Randomized Controlled Trials of Beans
Do legumes—beans, chickpeas, split peas, and lentils—work only to prevent disease, or can they help treat and reverse it as...
animal products
Blueberry Blocking Effects of Yogurt
What happened when researchers tried to tease out what’s in dairy that interferes with the health benefits of berries and...
Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Guacamole
High-fat plant foods—avocados, peanuts, and walnuts—and olive oil are put to the test. In the preface of my book How...
Sources of Oxidized Cholesterol
Chicken, fish, and egg powder in processed foods present greater risk from cholesterol oxidation byproducts, but there are things you...
Oxidized Cholesterol and Alzheimer’s Disease
Oxidized cholesterol can be a hundred times more toxic than regular cholesterol, raising additional concerns about foods such as ghee,...
Are Provoked Urine Challenge Tests for Heavy Metals a Scam?
Is testing for body burden of heavy metals like mercury with “urine mobilization tests,” “challenge tests,” and “provoked urine tests”...
Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet
What evidence is there that our meat-sweet diets play a cause-and-effect role in dementia? What is behind the dramatic increase...
Does Chocolate Cause Acne?
What are the effects of dairy products, sugar, and chocolate on the formation of pimples? Acne affects nearly one in...
Dining by Traffic Light: Green Is for Go, Red Is for Stop
In this article, I explain my traffic light system for ranking the relative healthfulness of Green Light vs. Yellow Light...
Does Coconut Oil Help with Abdominal Fat?
What does a review of the evidence on the effects of coconut oil on weight loss and belly fat find? I begin...
