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What Foods Help Hair Growth? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Hot peppers, soy foods, and pumpkin seeds may help with hair loss. Androgenic or androgenetic alopecia is one of the most common chronic…
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Are Potassium Chloride Salt Substitutes Worth Trying? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Is potassium chloride a win-win by decreasing sodium intake and increasing potassium intake? Of all the terrible things about our diets, high dietary…
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Protect Your Arteries from Saturated Fat with These Foods | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] If you’re going to have something unhealthy, is there anything you can eat with it to help mitigate the damage it may cause?…
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How a Single Meal Can Cripple Your Arteries and Lungs | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] What happens within hours of eating a high-fat meal? We are only as old as our arteries. What can we do to preserve…
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Can Ultra-Processed Foods Be Fixed by Tweaking Their Nutrients? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] What happened when ultra-processed foods were matched for calories, sugar, fat, and fiber content in the first randomized controlled trial? In the United…
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How the Fight to Ban Trans Fat Was Won | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] What was the secret to the public health community’s triumph when past attempts to regulate the food industry failed? There are three broad…
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Why Healthy Fast-Food Menu Options Can Backfire | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Adding a healthy option can actually drive people to make even worse choices, thanks to a mind-blowing glitch of human psychology. In 2017,…
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Are Nuts and Peanut Butter Linked to a Longer Life? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Why are nuts associated with decreased mortality, but not peanut butter? According to the largest study of risk factors for death in human…
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How We Eat vs. How We Think We Eat | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] The so-called optimism bias may get in the way of a healthy lifestyle. Yes, media messages about nutrition are often confusing and inconsistent,…
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Could Your Pills and Food Be Causing a Leaky Gut? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Common drugs, foods, and beverages can disrupt the integrity of our intestinal barrier, causing a leaky gut. Intestinal permeability, the leakiness of our…
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How to Beat Heart Disease Before It Starts | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Why might healthy lifestyle choices wipe out 90% of our risk for having a heart attack, while drugs may only reduce risk by…
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Chlorohydrin 3-MCPD in Bragg’s Liquid Aminos | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Chlorohydrin contaminates hydrolyzed vegetable protein products and refined oils. In 1978, chlorohydrins were found in protein hydrolysates. What does that mean? Proteins can…
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Are Doctors Knowledgeable About Nutrition? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Do you know more about basic nutrition than most doctors? “A poor diet now outranks smoking as the leading cause of death globally…
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Do Fruits and Vegetables Boost Our Mood? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] A randomized controlled trial investigates diet and psychological well-being. “Psychological health can be broadly conceptualized as comprising 2 key components: mental health (i.e.,…
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Dietary Diversity and Overeating | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Big Food uses our hard-wired drive for dietary diversity against us. How did we evolve to solve the daunting task of selecting a…
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Are Carboxymethylcellulose, Polysorbate 80, and Other Emulsifiers Safe? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Emulsifiers are the most widely used food additives. What are they doing to our gut microbiome? When grocery shopping these days, unless you’re…
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Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those reported on conventional treatments for both active and…
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Can We Safely Use Aluminum Foil, Bottles, and Pots? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] DNA damage is assessed in users of aluminum cookware. “Over the last decades, the toxicity of aluminum for humans has been heavily discussed…
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What About Animal Protein and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Might 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…
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What About Vegan Junk Food and Vegetarians’ Stroke Risk? | NutritionFacts.org
[ad_1] Just 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…