Expanding on the subject of my upcoming appearance on The Dr. Oz Show, a landmark new article in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that choline in eggs, poultry, dairy, and fish produces the same toxic TMAO as carnitine in red meat—which...
Young women at high risk for breast cancer given just a teaspoon of ground flaxseeds a day showed fewer precancerous...
People eating conventional diets may ingest a trillion microparticles of the food-whitening additive, titanium dioxide, every day. What implication might this have for inflammation in the...
Exclusive breastfeeding for a full six months may, ironically, improve our children's taste for vegetables—whereas children fed formula grow up with increased rates of inflammatory diseases such as asthma, cancer, and...
The water content of plant foods may help explain why those eating plant-based diets are, on average, so slim. Can ice be thought of as having even “fewer” calories than water, since the body has to warm it...
Certain phytonutrients may tip the balance of healthy gut bacteria in favor of flora associated with improved weight...
Certain good bacteria in our gut can turn the fiber we eat into an anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer compound—called butyrate—that we absorb back into our system. We may be able to boost the number of butyrate-producing bacteria by eating a...
The good bacteria in our gut can digest the fiber we eat, and turn it into an anti-obesity compound—called propionate—that we absorb back into our...