Is potassium chloride a win-win by decreasing sodium intake and increasing potassium intake? Of all the terrible things about our diets, high dietary sodium intake—high salt intake—is the…
Read more Are Potassium Chloride Salt Substitutes Worth Trying? | NutritionFacts.orgIf you’re going to have something unhealthy, is there anything you can eat with it to help mitigate the damage it may cause? If you compare the artery…
Read more Protect Your Arteries from Saturated Fat with These Foods | NutritionFacts.orgWhat happens within hours of eating a high-fat meal? We are only as old as our arteries. What can we do to preserve arterial function as we age?…
Read more How a Single Meal Can Cripple Your Arteries and Lungs | NutritionFacts.orgWhat happened when ultra-processed foods were matched for calories, sugar, fat, and fiber content in the first randomized controlled trial? In the United States, “junk food” is often…
Read more Can Ultra-Processed Foods Be Fixed by Tweaking Their Nutrients? | NutritionFacts.orgWhat was the secret to the public health community’s triumph when past attempts to regulate the food industry failed? There are three broad approaches to mediating the ruin…
Read more How the Fight to Ban Trans Fat Was Won | NutritionFacts.orgAdding a healthy option can actually drive people to make even worse choices, thanks to a mind-blowing glitch of human psychology. In 2017, and to much fanfare, menu…
Read more Why Healthy Fast-Food Menu Options Can Backfire | NutritionFacts.orgWhy are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter? According to the largest study of risk factors for death in human history, a poor diet causes…
Read more Are Nuts and Peanut Butter Linked to a Longer Life? | NutritionFacts.orgThe so-called optimism bias may get in the way of a healthy lifestyle. Yes, media messages about nutrition are often confusing and inconsistent, but many Americans know what…
Read more How We Eat vs. How We Think We Eat | NutritionFacts.orgCommon drugs, foods, and beverages can disrupt the integrity of our intestinal barrier, causing a leaky gut. Intestinal permeability, the leakiness of our gut, may be a new…
Read more Could Your Pills and Food Be Causing a Leaky Gut? | NutritionFacts.orgWhy might healthy lifestyle choices wipe out 90% of our risk for having a heart attack, while drugs may only reduce risk by 20% to 30%? On the…
Read more How to Beat Heart Disease Before It Starts | NutritionFacts.orgChlorohydrin contaminates hydrolyzed vegetable protein products and refined oils. In 1978, chlorohydrins were found in protein hydrolysates. What does that mean? Proteins can be broken down into amino…
Read more Chlorohydrin 3-MCPD in Bragg’s Liquid Aminos | NutritionFacts.orgDo you know more about basic nutrition than most doctors? “A poor diet now outranks smoking as the leading cause of death globally and in the United States,…
Read more Are Doctors Knowledgeable About Nutrition? | NutritionFacts.orgA randomized controlled trial investigates diet and psychological well-being. “Psychological health can be broadly conceptualized as comprising 2 key components: mental health (i.e., the presence of absence of…
Read more Do Fruits and Vegetables Boost Our Mood? | NutritionFacts.orgBig Food uses our hard-wired drive for dietary diversity against us. How did we evolve to solve the daunting task of selecting a diet that supplies all the…
Read more Dietary Diversity and Overeating | NutritionFacts.orgEmulsifiers are the most widely used food additives. What are they doing to our gut microbiome? When grocery shopping these days, unless you’re sticking to the produce aisle,…
Read more Are Carboxymethylcellulose, Polysorbate 80, and Other Emulsifiers Safe? | NutritionFacts.orgSwitching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those reported on conventional treatments for both active and quiescent stages of Crohn’s disease…
Read more Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease | NutritionFacts.orgDNA damage is assessed in users of aluminum cookware. “Over the last decades, the toxicity of aluminum for humans has been heavily discussed and is still not completely…
Read more Can We Safely Use Aluminum Foil, Bottles, and Pots? | NutritionFacts.orgMight animal protein-induced increases in the cancer-promoting growth hormone IGF-1 help promote brain artery integrity? In 2014, a study on stroke risk and dietary protein found that greater…
Read more What About Animal Protein and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk? | NutritionFacts.orgJust because you’re eating a vegetarian or vegan diet doesn’t mean you’re eating healthfully. “Plant-Based Diets Are Associated with a Lower Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiovascular Disease…
Read more What About Vegan Junk Food and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk? | NutritionFacts.orgDoes eating fish or taking fish oil supplements reduce stroke risk? In my last video, we started to explore what might explain the higher stroke risk in vegetarians…
Read more What About Omega-3s and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk? | NutritionFacts.org
