Wellness

Are Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products Good for Us?

Clinical trials on Quorn show that it can improve satiety and help control cholesterol, blood sugar, and insulin levels. You…

Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching

The influenza virus has existed for millions of years as an innocuous intestinal virus of wild ducks. What turned a…

Heme and Impossible Burgers 

Is heme just an innocent bystander in the link between meat intake and breast cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and…

Heme Iron and Cancer 

Laboratory models suggest that extreme doses of heme iron may be detrimental, but what about the effects of nutritional doses…

Is There a Limit to How Many Lychee Fruit We Should Eat? 

There is a toxin in lychee fruit that can be harmful, but is it harmful only under certain circumstances? Lychee…

Does Processed Meat Affect Our Lung Function? 

If the nitrites in foods like ham and bacon cause lung damage, what about “uncured” meat with “no nitrites added”?…

How Protein and Micronutrients Changed My Health

After years of dieting and obsessing over calories, I learned an important lesson: the quality of what we eat matters…

Anti-Inflammatory Herbal Tea Recipe

For years, I lived with the effects of Hashimoto’s disease—thinning hair, stubborn weight gain, and constant fatigue. It felt like…

How Circadian Alignment Changed My Health

I want to talk about something that’s made a huge difference in my health: circadian alignment—basically, syncing up with nature’s…

How Omega-3s Can Help Reduce Anxiety By Stimulating the Vagus Nerve

I’ll never forget my first panic attack. I was 12, and I had a huge project due the next day…

Aging & Digestion: Managing Blood Sugar for a Healthier Life

Want to stay youthful and energetic for as long as possible? While aging is inevitable, making smart dietary choices—especially those…

Is Millet a Nutritious Grain? 

Millet isn’t the name of a specific grain, but a generic term that applies to a number of totally different…

What About Millet and Diabetes? 

What were the remarkable results of a crossover study randomizing hundreds of people with diabetes to one and a third…

The Effectiveness of Angioplasty and Heart Stent Procedures 

There are demonstrably no benefits to the hundreds of thousands of angioplasty and stent procedures performed outside of an emergency…

Why Aren’t Angioplasty Heart Stents More Effective? 

Most heart attacks are caused by nonobstructive plaques that infiltrate the entire coronary artery tree. There is no such thing…

2024 Year in Review

Celebrating 2024. Celebrating Your Support. What a year NutritionFacts.org had! Our successes, output, and outreach in 2024 are thanks to…

Heart Stents and Their Risks 

Why are doctors killing or stroking out thousands of people a year for nothing? How do doctors even convince patients…

The Risks vs. Benefits of Angioplasty and Heart Stents 

What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they promote expensive, risky procedures with no…

Do Heart Stents Benefit Angina Chest Pain? 

Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like non-emergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only risk to millions of patients.…

Why Use Stents When They Don’t Work? 

Again and again, studies have shown that doctors tend to make clinical decisions for patients based on how much they…