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Continue ReadingHumans are hosts to one of the greatest mass extinctions known to earth – and it’s happening inside our gut.
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Continue ReadingClimate change will reduce our ability to reliably get inexpensive, healthy, and plentiful food. Our actions today will determine how we eat in the future.
Continue ReadingA supplement named NeuroActiv6 claims to improve brain function and may improve conditions ranging from ADHD to depression. This article reviews the science behind these claims and discusses how the ingredients might help brain health.
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Continue ReadingApproximately 1 out of 5 deaths worldwide is due to poor nutrition, and doctors are not adequately trained to counsel their patients on improving their nutrition to ward off disease.
Continue ReadingUnfortunately, the link between dietary supplement use and negative health impacts is not new. This is likely because the selling of these supplements is not controlled by the U.S. Food…
Continue ReadingHave you ever read the Nutrition Facts on a diet soda or sugar-free gum? If so, you might have noticed a bolded sentence that reads: PHENYLKETONURICS: CONTAINS PHENYLALANINE. In the…
Continue ReadingNo bread. No sugar. No rice, potatoes, corn, soy, milk, onions, garlic, chocolate, processed meats, or alcohol. Is this a starvation diet or a method of torture? Actually, this is…
Continue ReadingMaybe it reminds us of a warm beach vacation. Or sipping a pina colada. But whatever the reason, many Americans are making coconut oil a part of their diet. But…
Continue ReadingMany of us can still remember seeing our favorite pop singers with the perfect milk mustache on commercials for “Got milk?”. Later, in the school cafeteria, we would try to…
Continue ReadingA researcher is looking at preliminary data from the CARET study when he does a double-take. He thinks: that can’t be right- people who supplemented with vitamin A have higher…
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