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Do Meat-Eaters Have More Antibiotic Resistance in Their Guts?

Those eating plant-based have a reduced load of antibiotic resistance genes in their gut. There are nearly one million Salmonella and Campylobacter infections in children 10 years and younger each year in the United States alone. Some of these infections...

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June 26, 2025

Treating Hashimoto’s Disease (Hypothyroidism) Naturally with Diet

What were the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a daily half teaspoon...

June 24, 2025

Eating with Hypothyroidism and Hyperthyroidism

Is the apparent protection of plant-based diets for thyroid health due to the exclusion of...

June 19, 2025

A Healthy, Natural Source of Iodine?

How much nori, dulse, or arame approximates the recommended daily allowance for iodine? Dairy milk...

June 17, 2025

Vegans and Iodine Deficiency Risk

Most plant-based milks are not fortified with iodine. “Adequate dietary iodine is required for normal...

June 12, 2025

What About Elderberry, Echinacea, and Cranberries for Colds and the Flu?

How effective are flu shots, elderberries, echinacea, and cranberries? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control...

June 10, 2025

Skip the Salt and Shake on Potassium Chloride?

Worldwide, physical inactivity accounts for more than 10 million years of healthy life lost, but...

June 5, 2025

Chemical Safety, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health

More than 95 percent of human exposure to industrial pollutants like dioxins and PCBs comes...

June 3, 2025

Antibiotic Resistance, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health

Medically important antibiotics are being squandered by animal agriculture to compensate for typical factory farming...

May 29, 2025

Celebrating Food, Culture, and AAPI Month with Remy Morimoto Park

We had the pleasure of talking with Remy Morimoto Park about food, culture, and AAPI...

May 27, 2025

Food Safety and Cultivated Meat

What are the direct health implications of making clean meat—that is, meat without animals? In...

May 22, 2025

Statins and Muscle Pain Side Effects

Why is the incidence of side effects from statins so low in clinical trials while...

May 20, 2025

Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease

Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those...

May 15, 2025

Eating to Keep Ulcerative Colitis in Remission

Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, far...

May 13, 2025

Foods That Disrupt Our Microbiome

Eating a diet filled with animal products can disrupt our microbiome faster than taking an...

May 8, 2025

Skincare as You Age Infographic

When I dove into the scientific research for my book How Not to Age, I...

May 6, 2025

Treating Fatty Liver Disease with Diet

What are the three sources of liver fat in fatty liver disease, and how can...

May 2, 2025

Bird Flu: Emergence, Dangers, and Preventive Measures

In the United States in January 2025 alone, approximately 20 million commercially-raised birds, mostly egg-laying...

May 1, 2025

Inhospitable Hospital Food

What do hospitals have to say for themselves about serving meals that appear to be...

April 29, 2025

Gaming the System: Cardiologists, Heart Stents, and Upcoding

Cardiologists can criminally game the system by telling patients they have much more serious, unstable...

April 24, 2025

Why Use Stents When They Don’t Work?

Again and again, studies have shown that doctors tend to make clinical decisions for patients...

April 22, 2025

Do Heart Stents Benefit Angina Chest Pain?

Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like non-emergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only...

April 17, 2025

The Risks vs. Benefits of Angioplasty and Heart Stents

What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they promote...

April 15, 2025

Heart Stents and Their Risks

Why are doctors killing or stroking out thousands of people a year for nothing? How...

April 11, 2025

2024 Year in Review

Celebrating 2024. Celebrating Your Support. What a year NutritionFacts.org had! Our successes, output, and outreach...

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