by | Nov 7, 2023 | Nutrition
Advisories telling pregnant women to cut down on fish consumption may be too late for certain persistent pollutants. If you intentionally expose people to mercury by feeding them fish (like tuna) for 14 weeks, the level of mercury in their bloodstream goes up, as you...
by | Nov 2, 2023 | Nutrition
What are the effects of chewing gum on hunger and appetite? “Horace Fletcher,” proclaimed one of his obituaries in 1919, “taught the world to chew.” Also known as the “Great Masticator,” Fletcher was a health reformer who popularized the idea of chewing each...
by | Oct 31, 2023 | Nutrition
Pregnant and breastfeeding women should probably be advised to either decrease or, when possible, cease cannabis use entirely, and couples trying to conceive may also want to consider cutting down. Approximately one in six couples “are unable to conceive after a year...
by | Oct 26, 2023 | Nutrition
If extra chewing is effective in suppressing your appetite when it comes to food, what about chewing gum as a weight-loss strategy? As I discuss in my video Does Chewing Gum Help with Weight Loss?, chewing gum may only burn about three calories an hour, but the...
by | Oct 24, 2023 | Nutrition
Plant-based diets are the single most important—yet underutilized—opportunity to reverse the pending obesity and diabetes-induced epidemic of disease and death. Dr. Kim Williams, immediate past president of the American College of Cardiology, started out an editorial...
by | Oct 19, 2023 | Nutrition
If sugar consumption is considered to be the one and only cause of cavities, can we have any sugar? How much is too much? Dental cavities may be humanity’s most prevalent disease, affecting 35 percent of the global population. The average number of decayed, missing,...
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