98% of American Diets Potassium-Deficient
Less than 2% of Americans achieve even the recommended minimum adequate intake of potassium, due...
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Do Vegetarians Have More or Less Depression and Anxiety?
Snapshot-in-time cross-sectional studies are mixed when it comes to vegetarian diets and mental health outcomes.
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Meat May Exceed Daily Allowance of Irony
The foreign meat molecule Neu5Gc may not only contribute to the progression of cancer and...
Nonhuman Molecules Lining our Arteries
The foreign meat molecule Neu5Gc builds up in human tumors and atherosclerotic plaques, and may...
How Tumors Use Meat to Grow: Xeno-Autoantibodies
Cancer may use a molecule found in animal products to trick our immune system into...
The Inflammatory Meat Molecule Neu5Gc
Plant-based diets may help rheumatoid arthritis by decreasing exposure to an inflammatory compound found in...
Clonal Deletion Theory of Immunity
Plant-based diets may be protective against multiple sclerosis because IGF-1 can prevent our immune system...
Clonal Selection Theory of Immunity
We may have a billion different types of antibody-releasing cells in our immune system, such...
Cancer as an Autoimmune Disease
Because certain tumors such as breast cancers thrive in settings of low-grade inflammation, our immune...
Unsweetening the Diet
All sweeteners—natural and artificial; caloric and non-caloric—help maintain cravings for intensely sweet foods.
Neurobiology of Artificial Sweeteners
The disconnect between sweetness sensations coming from our tongue, and the lack of a caloric...
How Diet Soda Could Make Us Gain Weight
People consuming low-calorie sweeteners may overcompensate by eating more than they otherwise would.
Erythritol May Be a Sweet Antioxidant – UPDATE: don’t eat! (See doc note below)
The natural sweetener erythritol does not appear to carry the adverse effects associated with other...