How Risky Is the Arsenic in Rice?

How Risky Is the Arsenic in Rice?

Getting rice down to the so-called safe water limit for arsenic would still allow for roughly 500 times greater cancer risk than is normally considered acceptable. Given the level of arsenic in rice, how could we figure out how much rice is too much? There are no U.S....
Top 10 NutritionFacts.org Videos of 2020

Top 10 NutritionFacts.org Videos of 2020

NutritionFacts.org arises from my annual review of the medical literature. With the help of a team of hundreds of volunteers, we churned through tens of thousands of papers published in the peer-reviewed scientific nutrition literature and are ramping up to break new...
Arsenic in Rice Milk, Rice Krispies, and Brown Rice Syrup

Arsenic in Rice Milk, Rice Krispies, and Brown Rice Syrup

I recommend people switch away from using rice milk For kids and teens, the amount of arsenic flowing through their bodies was found to be about 15 percent higher for each quarter cup of rice consumed per day, and a similar link was found in adults. A study of...

Preventing Breast Cancer

The latest on Preventing Breast Cancer One out of every eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her life­time. Five-year survival rates are good (85 to 99 percent) unless tumors have metastasized (falls to 25 percent). Death rates have dropped since 1989,...
How to Protect Yourself from Super Viruses, Part 1

How to Protect Yourself from Super Viruses, Part 1

UPDATED MARCH 12, 2020 | PUBLISHED MARCH 5, 2020 by ELIZABETH JANE HALL AND POLIANA V. VALE, M.D. Wildwood Lifestyle Center Coronavirus, SARS, Ebola, influenza! What are the potential preventive strategies being ignored by most media reports? In this two-part blog, we...