November 28, 2000 -- Here's a story about public science that I find alarming. On October 26, 2000, I submitted a Letter to the Editor of the New York Times, hoping it would be published. It was not. I lost.There...

People do not eat isolated foods or individual nutrients. We tend to eat our food in meals and our meals tend to come from a dietary pattern that we grew up with. Only when we make dramatic changes in our...

One of the most frequent questions I get from athletes is how to get more protein. In their minds they are thinking that if they stuff more protein into their mouths, that it magically goes to their muscles and...

New research adds to previous evidence that pesticides may cause Parkinson's diseaseThe results of a study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience add weight to previous studies implicating pesticides as a cause of or contributor to Parkinson's disease.In the study,...

The New England Journal of Medicine published two reports concluding that high fiber supplements and a low-fat high-fiber diet did not protect against recurring adenomas polyps, a precursor of colon cancer. These results are disappointing in light of the high...

In light of an important study appearing in an issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), researchers associated with the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) reminded the public that cancer is a disease that is largely preventable...

On a windy cloudy day it is fun to lay on your back and watch the clouds go by. They change shapes and with a little imagination one can see lions that become cars and then turn into Leonardo DiCaprio...

A plant-based fat abundant in vegetarian diets and shown to inhibit the growth of prostate and colon cancer cells in vitro, also inhibits the growth in vitro of one line of breast cancer cells, University at Buffalo nutrition researchers...

For a variety of motivations, soy seems today to be cast either as the cure or cause of nearly every ill known to man. On one side you have nutritionists and researchers touting soy's many alleged benefits (and yes --...