Wellness

The Corporate Playbook Behind Undermining Dietary Guidelines

International Life Sciences Institute, a nonprofit, is accused of being a front group for Coca-Cola and other junk food giants.…

Big Sugar Twists the Science behind the Dietary Guidelines

How did Big Corn Syrup and other corporate sugar titans hijack the scientific process? In 2016, a Washington-based lobby group…

When Should We Rely on Observational Studies?

How legitimate is the common corporate criticism of the scientific nutrition literature that the credibility of observational studies is questionable?…

Meat Studies Fail to Apply GRADE Properly

The meat industry comes up with a perversion of evidence-based medicine. A series of articles published in the Annals of…

The Many Conflicts of Interest Behind the Meat Studies

The same person paid by Big Sugar to downplay the risks of sugar was paid by Big Meat to downplay…

The Meat Papers Contradicted Their Own Data

The meat industry’s own study concluded that meat consumption increased the risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and premature death.…

How Big Meat Distorted the Evidence

Big Meat downplays the magnitude of meat mortality. A series of studies published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found…

How Many Minutes of Life Does a Burger Cost?

If you care about your health so much that it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette before and…

Chemotherapy Is Expensive—Is It Effective?

Most chemotherapy drugs are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) without evidence that they benefit survival or…

How Much Do New Chemotherapy Drugs Extend Life?

If you put together all the new chemotherapy drugs approved over a dozen years, the average overall survival benefit is…

Fenugreek May Help Sexual Function, Period Pain, and Lactation

The hormonal benefits of fenugreek extend beyond the muscle-bulking testosterone boost. In my video about the benefits of fenugreek seeds,…

Why Don’t Health Insurers Promote a Healthier Diet?

Why don’t more big payors in health care embrace plant-based eating? Many of the diseases “that cause a constant drain…

Feeding Our Gut Microbiome for Better Health

Our gut flora is determined by what we eat, for good or for ill. When we eat meat (including seafood),…

Can Coffee Help Parkinson’s Symptoms?

Coffee can improve Parkinson’s symptoms within three weeks compared to placebo, but do the benefits last? When James Parkinson described…

Pickled Paradox: Kimchi’s Link to Stomach Cancer

What explains the Achilles’ heel in certain Asian diets? For decades, Japan has had the longest life expectancy in the…