Wellness

Are Plant-Based Meats Good for Us?

What are the different impacts of plant protein versus animal protein, and do the benefits of plant proteins translate to…

Plant-Based Meats and Puberty, Obesity, and Fracture Risk

What are the effects of plant-based meats on premature puberty, childhood obesity, and hip fracture risk? As noted in an…

Potatoes: What About Diabetes, Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar, and More?

There are so many ways we eat potatoes—baked, mashed, hashed, fried, scalloped, roasted, and more—but should we be eating them…

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…