Animal Protein’s Effect on Bones Under Question

We’ve known for decades that bone fractures are more prevalent in populations consuming large amounts of dietary calcium than populations consuming lower amounts of dietary calcium. Populations ... READ MORE...

Your Heartburn Is Trying To Tell You Something

 The latest news about acid inhibiting drugs and their adverse effects on vitamin B-12 absorption is just another example of an unintended consequence of treating symptoms with harsh drugs. These ... READ MORE...

Barnard and Baur vs. Masterjohn and Salatin

Since its inception in 2006, Intelligencesquaredus.org  has provided a forum for intelligent discussion, grounded in facts and informed by reasoned analysis; to transcend the toxically emotional and ... READ MORE...

Genes Load the Gun, but Lifestyle Pulls the Trigger

Everyone has genetic predispositions for chronic diseases.  However, as the title of this blog suggests, a genetic predisposition for a disease does not condemn a person to that disease.  Nature ... READ MORE...

Caffeine and Your Arteries

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn’s heart disease reversal diet is a strict, low-fat WFPB diet that forbids: meat, fish, poultry, eggs, dairy, oil, nuts, seeds and avocado. During one of his lectures at Plant ... READ MORE...

Dietary Acid Load and Type 2 Diabetes

Dietary acid load and risk of type 2 diabetes: the E3N-EPIC cohort study  The study was conducted by Guy Fagherazzi et al. and was published in Diabetologia on November 11,  2013.  The objective ... READ MORE...

You Have The Power To Take Back Your Health!

After Dr. Dean Ornish proved you could reverse our #1 cause of death, heart disease, open up arteries without drugs, without surgery, just with a plant-based diet and other healthy lifestyle changes, ... READ MORE...

Dr. Noakes knows running, but not Nutrition

Today I discovered that the well respected Professor of Sports Medicine and marathon runner Dr. Tim Noakes advocates a low carbohydrate diet.   Noakes is most famous for his landmark book the Lore of ... READ MORE...

What is Nutrition?

Many years ago I remember reading this simple, broad and clear definition of Nutrition:  Nutrition – The relationship between agriculture and health.  It was in some USDA nutrition education ... READ MORE...

You must read the China Study!

I assume that most people visiting this site have either read The China Study by T.Colin Campbell PhD and Dr. Tom Campbell or they’ve heard of the book, but haven’t gotten around to reading it yet.  ... READ MORE...