Последние новости о клиническом питании: том 11

Данный том составлен в период с апреля 2012 года по апрель 2013 года и включает в себя 58 видео.

Wake up and smell the saffron

Wake Up and Smell the Saffron

Even the scent of the spice saffron may reduce stress hormone levels, and ease the psychological symptoms of...

Saffron vs. Prozac

Saffron versus Prozac

A head-to-head test of the spice saffron versus Prozac for the treatment of clinical...

BPA Plastic and Male Sexual Dysfunction

BPA Plastic and Male Sexual Dysfunction

Canned foods and sliced turkey were found to be contaminated with the plastics chemical BPA, which has been linked to cardiovascular disease,...

Food Sources of Flame-Retardant Chemicals

Other than pet food and fish (which may be most contaminated), how do fire-retardant chemicals (PBDEs) and polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs)...

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DDT in Umbilical Cord Blood

e pregnant women who eat fish, other meat, and dairy still passing along the pesticide DDT—even decades after it was...

child and doctor

How Fast Can Children Detoxify from PCBs?

Based on the half-life of industrial pollutants children may be exposed to in the womb or at the breast, how many years does it take for them to...

Food Sources of Perfluorochemicals

Food Sources of Perfluorochemicals

Where do DDT, hexachlorobenzene, PCBs, and perfluorochemicals (linked to thyroid disease) concentrate in the food...

Plants vs. Pesticides

Plants versus Pesticides

Phytonutrients found in certain foods may protect against the toxic effects of industrial pollutants such as dioxin and DDT, suggesting a dual role...

mother and baby breastfeeding

The Best Baby Formula

Exclusive breastfeeding for a full six months may, ironically, improve our children's taste for vegetables—whereas children fed formula grow up...

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The Wrong Way to Detox

The reason birth order is a predictor of pollutant levels in the bodies of children is that women can pass along as much as half of their PCB burden...

Protein and Heart Disease

Why is the intake of animal protein associated with heart disease—even independent of saturated fat—and the intake of plant protein...

Ergothioneine: A New Vitamin?

If the antioxidant amino acid ergothioneine does indeed turn out to be an essential nutrient, what are the best dietary sources?...

scientist looking at vial in lab

Plant-Based Bioidentical Hormones

Do compounded bioidentical hormones for menopause carry the same risks as conventional hormone replacement drugs, such as...

Gerson Therapy for Cancer

Gerson Therapy is a largely diet-based alternative treatment for cancer. What have 65 years of medical research concluded about its efficacy and...

Gerson-style Therapy versus Chemotherapy

For decades, studies on Gerson therapy for cancer have questioned its safety and efficacy. But, what does the latest head-to-head trial of a...

Beauty is More than Skin Deep

Some foods appear protective against the development of skin wrinkles—while others may make them...

Preventing Wrinkles with Diet

What dietary intervention may significantly protect against wrinkles in the crow's foot area around the...

Standing Up for Your Health

Prolonged daily sitting is associated with a shorter lifespan, even in those who exercise regularly. Standing and treadmill desks are two potential...

Benefits of Fenugreek Seeds

The spice fenugreek appears to significantly improve muscle strength and weightlifting power output, while possessing anticancer properties in...

Antioxidants Sprouting Up

What happens to the antioxidant content of seeds, grains, and beans when you sprout...

Meat Mythcrushers

Meat industry public relations campaign to "crush" myths makes false claim about the millions of pounds of antibiotics fed to farm...

Ractopamine in Pork

BREAKING NEWS video: An analysis of yesterday's Consumer Reports finding that 1 in 5 samples of retail pork tested positive for the growth-promoting...

Yersinia in Pork

This week Consumer Reports released a study showing the majority of retail pork tested was contaminated with antibiotic-resistant strains of the...

Aspartame-Induced Fibromyalgia

Case reports of fibromyalgia chronic pain sufferers cured, by removing the artificial sweetener aspartame (Nutrasweet®) from their...

cups of dark soda

Diet Soda and Preterm Birth

Aspartame may be the reason that diet soda consumption during pregnancy has been linked to premature...

Erythritol May Be a Sweet Antioxidant

The natural sweetener erythritol does not appear to carry the adverse effects associated with other non- and low-caloric natural and artificial...

Neurobiology of Artificial Sweeteners

The disconnect between sweetness sensations coming from our tongue, and the lack of a caloric feedback loop in the gut, may result in...

Unsweetening the Diet

All sweeteners—natural and artificial; caloric and non-caloric—help maintain cravings for intensely sweet...

Cancer as an Autoimmune Disease

Because certain tumors such as breast cancers thrive in settings of low-grade inflammation, our immune response can sometimes facilitate tumor...

Clonal Selection Theory of Immunity

We may have a billion different types of antibody-releasing cells in our immune system, such that each recognizes a different molecular...

Clonal Deletion Theory of Immunity

Plant-based diets may be protective against multiple sclerosis because IGF-1 can prevent our immune system from eliminating autoimmune...

Nonhuman Molecules Lining our Arteries

The foreign meat molecule Neu5Gc builds up in human tumors and atherosclerotic plaques, and may play an inflammatory role in the progression of both...

Meat May Exceed Daily Allowance of Irony

The foreign meat molecule Neu5Gc may not only contribute to the progression of cancer and heart disease by supplying inflammation, but may also set...

Preventing Strokes with Diet

Increasing the intake of potassium-rich foods is associated with a significantly lower stroke...

Potassium and Autoimmune Disease

Plant-based diets appear to decrease inflammation via a variety of mechanisms—including boosting our adrenal gland function, due to the consumption...

Metabolic Syndrome and Plant-Based Diets

Plant-based diets appear to protect against metabolic syndrome, also known as syndrome X, which is characterized by the so-called “deadly...

Whole Grains May Work as Well as Drugs

The consumption of three portions of whole grains a day appears as powerful as high blood pressure medications in alleviating...

Breast Cancer versus Mushrooms

Researchers pit plain white mushrooms against breast cancer cells in vitro to measure aromatase activity, and estimate how many mushrooms women may...

meteors in space

Miocene Meteorites and Uric Acid

Human beings lost the ability to detoxify uric acid millions of years ago. What implications does this have for our health...

Flesh and Fructose

Meat and sugar increase uric acid levels, which are associated with increased risk of gout, hypertension (high blood pressure), obesity, prediabetes,...

Apple Skin: Peeling Back Cancer

Apple peels appear to upregulate the tumor suppressor gene maspin, and have strong antiproliferative effects on breast and prostate cancer cell...