I quantify the risks of colon and rectal cancers from eating bacon, ham, hot dogs, sausage, and lunch meat. In 2018, arguably the most prestigious cancer research institution…
Read more How Big Is the Cancer Risk from Processed Meat? | NutritionFacts.orgHow did the meat industry, government, and cancer organizations respond to the confirmation that processed meat, like bacon, ham, hot dogs, and lunch meat, causes cancer? “It is…
Read more The Backlash to IARC’s Report that Meat Probably Causes Cancer | NutritionFacts.orgThe first study in history on the incidence of stroke in vegetarians and vegans suggests they may be at higher risk. “When ranked in order of importance, among…
Read more The Stroke Risk of Vegetarians | NutritionFacts.orgImplausible explanations for the obesity epidemic serve the needs of food manufacturers and marketers more than public health and an interest in truth. When it comes to uncovering…
Read more Obesity and a Toxic Food Environment | NutritionFacts.orgLike the tobacco industry adding extra nicotine to cigarettes, the food industry employs taste engineers to accomplish a similar goal of maximizing the irresistibility of its products. The…
Read more Corporate Influence and Our Epidemic of Obesity | NutritionFacts.orgWe all like to think we make important life decisions, like what to eat, consciously and rationally, but if that were the case, we wouldn’t be in the…
Read more Are Food Ads Making Us Obese? | NutritionFacts.orgThe unprecedented rise in the power, scope, and sophistication of food marketing starting around 1980 aligns well with the blastoff slope of the obesity epidemic. In the 1970s,…
Read more Marketing Takes Off and Obesity Soars | NutritionFacts.orgThe rise in the U.S. calorie supply responsible for the obesity epidemic wasn’t just about more food, but a different kind of food. The rise in the number…
Read more Processed Foods and Obesity | NutritionFacts.orgWe have an uncanny ability to pick out the subtle distinctions in calorie density of foods, but only within the natural range. The traditional medical view on obesity,…
Read more Cutting the Calorie-Rich-And-Processed Foods | NutritionFacts.orgHere is a review of reviews on the health effects of animal foods versus plant foods. Instead of looking only at individual studies or individual reviews of studies,…
Read more What Should We Eat? | NutritionFacts.orgHere is a review of reviews on the health effects of tea, coffee, milk, wine, and soda. If you’ve watched my videos or read my books, you’ve heard…
Read more What Should We Drink? | NutritionFacts.orgPlastering front-of-package nutrient claims on cereal boxes is an attempt to distract us from the incongruity of feeding our children multicolored marshmallows for breakfast. The American Medical Association…
Read more Children’s Cereals: Candy for Breakfast? | NutritionFacts.orgPublic health authorities continue to lower the upper tolerable limit of daily added sugar intake. Dating back to the original “Dietary Goals for the United States” in 1977,…
Read more How Much Added Sugar Is Okay? | NutritionFacts.orgDairy consumption is associated with years of advanced ovarian aging, thought to be due to the steroid hormones or endocrine-disrupting chemicals in cow’s milk. When it comes to…
Read more Milk Hormones and Female Infertility | NutritionFacts.orgThe industry responds to the charge that breakfast cereals are too sugary. In 1941, the American Medical Association’s Council on Foods and Nutrition was presented with a new…
Read more Are Fortified Children’s Breakfast Cereals Just Candy? | NutritionFacts.orgThe sugar industry responds to evidence implicating sweeteners in the obesity epidemic. In terms of excess body fat, the “well-documented obesity epidemic may merely be the tip of the…
Read more Sugar and Gaining Weight | NutritionFacts.orgStudies show that many doctors either tend to overestimate the amount of weight that can be lost with obesity drugs or are simply clueless. Current options for weight-loss…
Read more Can You Lose Weight with Pills? | NutritionFacts.orgWhy don’t more people take the weight-loss medications currently on the market? Despite the myriad menus of FDA-approved medications for weight loss, they’ve only been prescribed for about…
Read more Is It Safe to Take Weight-Loss Pills? | NutritionFacts.org
