Wellness

Why Cooling Potatoes Lowers Their Glycemic Load

If you eat potatoes when they’re cold, as in potato salad, or chilled and reheated, you can get a nearly…

How to Tame Blood Sugar Spikes after Eating Potatoes

Broccoli, vinegar, and lemon juice are put to the test to blunt the glycemic index of white potatoes. White potatoes…

Which Potato Is the Most Nutritious?

Are yellow-fleshed potatoes healthier than white? And what about the glycoalkaloid toxins? The high glycemic impact of potatoes may increase…

Do Vitamin C Supplements Help Reduce Anxiety?

What are the risks and benefits of using vitamin C for depression and anxiety? “In adults, emerging evidence suggests that…

How to Boost Your Life Expectancy by 12 to 14 Years

What can physicians do to promote healthy, life-extending lifestyle changes? A pivotal paper published in Europe more than a decade…

Peeling Back the Onion Claims

What did randomized, controlled human trials find about the ways we may—or may not—benefit from eating onions? Onions are potentially…

NDMA: A Cancer-Causing Contaminant in Meds and Meat

Billion-dollar drugs have been pulled from the market for less carcinogenic contamination than is found in a single serving of…

Could Bovine Leukemia Virus be a Cause of Breast Cancer?

As many as 37% of breast cancer cases may be attributable to exposure to the bovine leukemia virus. The incidence…

The Link Between Breast Cancer and a Virus in Meat and Dairy

Exposure to the bovine leukemia virus from meat and dairy (or a blood transfusion from those who eat meat or…

How We Eat vs. How We Think We Eat

The so-called optimism bias may get in the way of a healthy lifestyle. Yes, media messages about nutrition are often…

How Prebiotic Foods Keep Your Microbiome Healthy

We co-evolved a symbiosis with our good gut bacteria, but we aren’t holding up our end of the bargain. If…