Category Archives: nutrition

Seven dates a day for three weeks are put to the test in a randomized controlled trial. (I’m talking about the fruit, not a planned get together.) Dates are one of the healthiest sweeteners. I use them when I cook and bake, and you’ll find them as key ingredients in The How Not to DieContinue reading “Are Dates Good for Colon Health?”

You’ve asked, and we’ve listened. Massive thanks to each one of you who wants to help spread our work to disseminate the latest in nutrition research. With more than ten years’ worth of informational content, several books and cookbooks, and our newer resources, including guides and infographics, we have plenty of ways for you toContinue reading “Ten (Free!) Ways You Can Support the Work of Dr. Greger and NutritionFacts”

What do we need to know about the safety of marijuana edibles? You may recall from my video Smoking Marijuana vs. Using a Cannabis Vaporizer that smoking cannabis can create respiratory problems, so using a vaporizer is an alternative. What about eating it? I discuss that in my video Are Cannabis Edibles Safe?. “Vaping isContinue reading “Is It Safe to Consume Cannabis Edibles?”

Are butter and other saturated fats bad for you or not? My video Friday Favorites: Is Butter Really Back? What the Science Says explores the uses and misuses of research on butter consumption and health. Time magazine famously exhorted people to “Eat Butter” and no doubt sold a lot of magazines, but perhaps at the cost of selling the public short.Continue reading “Does the Science Say That Butter Is Really Back?”

The Mayo Clinic puts laetrile to the test to see if it is an effective cancer treatment. My video Does Laetrile (Amygdalin or Vitamin B17) Work as an Alternative Cancer Cure? looks at amygdalin and whether it is “quackery or cure.” A cyanide-containing compound found in apple seeds, amygdalin is ten times more concentrated inContinue reading “Is Laetrile (Amygdalin or Vitamin B17) an Effective Alternative Cure for Cancer?”

If you choose alternative cancer treatments, do you live longer? In addition to conventional therapies, “does the use of alternative medicine predict survival from cancer?” Even if the alternative therapies themselves were useless, one might predict users would live longer because they tend to have more hope and a greater “will to live,” and areContinue reading “Are Apricot Seeds an Alternative Cancer Cure?”

Oxidized cholesterol, which is concentrated in products containing eggs, processed meat, and parmesan cheese, has cancer-fueling estrogenic effects on human breast cancer. In 1908, the presence of cholesterol crystals was noted “in the proliferating areas of cancers,” suggesting that cholesterol “may, in some way or other, be associated with the regulation of proliferation.” A centuryContinue reading “Can Oxidized Cholesterol 27HC Explain Three Breast Cancer Mysteries?”

Every month, we publish around eight new videos, four Friday Favorites, eight blogs, and four podcasts on NutritionFacts.org. We are bursting at the seams with all sorts of health and nutrition info that we don’t want you to miss, so we wanted to wrap up the juiciest bits into a nice, bite-sized blog as anContinue reading “Dr. Greger’s Top Takeaways on Brain Health, Erythritol, and Gluten-Free Diets”

What is the relationship between the consumption of eggs and other cholesterol-rich foods and cancers of the colon, breast, endometrium, pancreas, and throat? In 1969, a correlation analysis was performed by a Dr. Gregor—no relation, and he spelled it wrong—and his colleagues. They found a rather tight correlation between animal protein intake and intestinal cancerContinue reading “Is Dietary Cholesterol in a Relationship with Cancer?”

Dozens of lipsticks and lip glosses are put to the test. “Over the past years, using cosmetic products has increased worldwide at an alarming rate due to unending pursuit for individual beautification…” There’s nothing necessarily wrong with that unless cosmetic products contain ingredients that may be linked to disease—ingredients such as toxic heavy metals likeContinue reading “Lipstick Contaminated with Lead?”