Too much choline—a compound concentrated in eggs and other animal products—can make bodily secretions smell like rotting fish, and may increase the risk of heart disease, due to conversion in the gut to trimethylamine....
The beef industry designed a study to show that a diet containing beef was able to lower cholesterol—if one cuts out enough poultry, pork, fish, and cheese to halve one’s total saturated fat...
The decades-old dogma that the acid-forming quality of animal protein leads to bone loss has been called into...
Simple changes in diet and lifestyle may quadruple a woman’s survival rate from breast cancer....
Reducing the ratio of animal to plant protein in men’s diets may slow the progression of prostate...
A plant-based diet may not only be the safest treatment for multiple sclerosis; it may also be the most...
Methionine restriction—best achieved through a plant-based diet—may prove to have a major impact on patients with cancer because, unlike normal tissues, many human tumors require the amino acid methionine to...
A higher rate of cancer deaths among those that handle and process meat is attributed to infection with viruses, and chronic exposure to animal...