A Diet Good for Your Health & Good for the Planet! (Aug 2024)
Can you eat a diet that’s good for your health and good for the planet? A new study suggests that it’s possible. It found that people who ate mostly minimally processed plant foods had lower rates of chronic diseases. Read more

Fighting Cancer & the Common Cold with Garlic? (June 2024)
Garlic lowers blood pressure, regulates cholesterol, and stimulates immunity. I’ve talked before about its effect on heart disease risk factors, but what about immunity? Eating garlic appears to offer the best of both worlds, dampening the overreactive face of the immune system by suppressing inflammation while boosting protective immunity. Read more

Skipping Breakfast to Lose Weight? (Apr 2024)
Breakthroughs in the field of chronobiology—the study of our circadian rhythms—help solve the mystery of the missing morning calories in breakfast studies. Read more

Dairy Milk, Estrogen & Hormone Levels (Feb 2024)
What are the effects of the sex hormones in cow’s milk on men, women, and children?
 All foods of animal origin contain hormones, but most of our dietary exposure to hormones comes from dairy products. Read more