What 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.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.orgWhat should we eat—and not eat—to lower the cardiovascular disease risk factor lipoprotein(a)? Lipoprotein A, also known as Lp(a), is an independent, genetic, and causal factor for cardiovascular…
Read more Eating to Lower Lp(a) | 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.orgThe power of the “eat more” food environment can overcome our conscious controls. Food and beverage companies frame body weight as “a matter of personal choice.” Even when…
Read more Should We Take Any Responsibility for the Obesity Epidemic? | 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.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.org
