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Reposted from my Latest in Nutrition e-newsletter (sign up for free here): CNN's recent documentary "The Last Heart Attack" featured Drs. Ornish and Esselstyn successfully preventing, stopping, and even reversing our number one killer—heart disease—with a plant-based diet. Though billed as the latest cutting-edge...

According to the best available science, three quarters of women find both penis length and girth "somewhat important" or "very important." What does this have to do with diet?  Phthalates.  Phthalates are chemical compounds used in a wide range of consumer products,...

      One of my more risqué NutritionFacts.org videos, today's video-of-the-day Rosy Glow, touches on the relationship between erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular disease. Arteries are arteries, whether they're supplying blood to the heart or to other vital organs. And...

In today's NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day Golden glow, and tomorrow's, Produce, not pills to increase physical attractiveness, I review the new research suggesting the consumption of dark green leafy vegetables improves the healthy appearance of Caucasians due to carotenoid deposition in the skin. Taking those...

With hundreds of videos on more than a thousand topics and new content every day it may be hard to keep up with NutritionFacts.org! So I thought every weekend I’d start reposting some of the most popular back-and-forth of...

Reposted from http://crazysexylife.com/2011/pus-in-milk/: In the new NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day today, I note that the antiseptics used to disinfect cow teats can provide a source of iodine, but have been found to boost the level of pus in the milk of cows...

  September is Alzheimer's Month, in recognition of the five million Americans stricken with the devastating disease, now the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. We've known for almost 20 years that compared to long-time vegetarians, those eating meat (including...

A week before the premiere of Contagion, a star-studded thriller about (spoiler alert!) a pork-borne pandemic, is unfortunate timing for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to announce the identification of a new strain of swine flu in two young American...

In our society, we physicians are afforded extraordinary power. "In the case of the United States," noted an article in the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, "the question of how a profession held in low esteem and mired in a...

In 2008, the Harvard Physician's Health Study, which followed 20,000 physicians for 20 years, found that those eating just a single egg a day or more had significantly higher total mortality risk, meaning eating just one egg a day was...

This week NutritionFacts.org celebrates the upload of its 300th video. Though the site is officially only 9 days old, it launched "preloaded" with 288 videos taken from the last four years of my Latest in Clinical Nutrition DVD series. My primary motivation to move this...

We've known that regular soy consumption appears to both prevent breast cancer—the number one cancer killer of young women—and prolong survival in women battling the dreaded disease, but we haven't understood why. Soybeans naturally contain weakly estrogenic compounds called phytoestrogens...

When I treasure hunt through the medical literature every year for NutritionFacts.org, there are three qualities I find myself using most often to sift the year's nutritional nuggets into video form. Is it groundbreaking? Is it interesting? Is it practical?...

As excitement builds towards the premiere this Saturday at 8 and 11pm ET of CNN's new documentary The Last Heart Attack—documenting Bill Clinton's attempt to reverse his heart disease through diet—pundits are eager to point out the downsides. Yes, eating...

The CDC published a paper this week in the American Journal of Public Health suggesting that eating healthy, exercising regularly, and avoiding smoking and excessive alcohol intake can add more than a decade to our lives. And the criteria were...

In this month's Journal of Nutrition, researchers at Penn State report on their experiment in which overweight men were fed a high-fat (chicken) meal with or without a healthy dose of herbs and spices such as cinnamon, cloves, ginger,...

Though bumped last night due to developments in Libya, the new CNN documentary The Last Heart Attack features Bill Clinton’s attempts to reverse his heart disease with a plant-based diet. In From omnivore to vegan: The dietary education of...

Ever watch one of my DVDs and wish you could send some nutritional nugget to someone you know? Now you can! A year in the making, NutritionFacts.org features hundreds of my videos to share, search, rate, and discuss. Everything's...

I'm so excited to announce that the newest volume of my annual Latest in Nutrition DVD series is now available for pre-order and will ship out July 1.As usual, I scoured the world's scholarly literature on clinical nutrition so you...