How do barukas, also known as baru almonds, compare with other nuts? There is a new nut on the market called baru almonds, branded as “barukas” or baru…
Read more How Healthy Are Baruka Nuts? | NutritionFacts.orgIs the apparent protection of plant-based diets for thyroid health due to the exclusion of animal foods, the benefits of plant foods, or both? Several autoimmune diseases affect…
Read more Eating with Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism | NutritionFacts.orgMost plant-based milks are not fortified with iodine. “Adequate dietary iodine is required for normal thyroid function.” In fact, the two thyroid hormones are named after how many…
Read more Vegans and Iodine Deficiency Risk | NutritionFacts.orgMedically important antibiotics are being squandered by animal agriculture to compensate for typical factory farming practices. Cultivating muscle meat directly from cells instead of raising and slaughtering animals…
Read more Antibiotic Resistance, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health | NutritionFacts.orgWhat are the direct health implications of making clean meat—that is, meat without animals? In a 1932 article in Popular Mechanics entitled “Fifty Years Hence,” Winston Churchill predicted…
Read more Food Safety and Cultivated Meat | NutritionFacts.orgWhy are U.S. taxpayers giving billions of dollars to support the likes of the sugar and meat industries? The rise in calorie surplus sufficient to explain the obesity…
Read more Do Taxpayer Subsidies Play a Role in the Obesity Epidemic? | NutritionFacts.orgEndotoxins can build up on pre-cut vegetables and undermine some of their benefits. You may remember when I introduced the endotoxin theory literature in my video The Exogenous…
Read more Pre-Cut Vegetables and Endotoxins | NutritionFacts.orgWhat are the effects of the female sex hormones in cow’s milk on men, women, and children? All foods of animal origin contain hormones, but most of our dietary…
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