Preventing Tooth Decay

Meet Sir Edward Mellanby, the discoverer of vitamin D. Along with his wife, Dr. May Mellanby, he identified dietary factors that control th...

Skin Texture, Cancer and Dietary Fat

Richard and I exchanged a series of e-mails last week in which he remarked that Thai people generally have nice skin, which is something I...

More Thoughts on the Glycemic Index

In the last post, I reviewed the controlled trials on the effect of the glycemic index (GI) of carbohydrate foods on health. I concluded th...

Integrated Nutrition, Lifestyle and Health Database

Ricardo from the website Canibais e Reis has just released a fantastic resource for anyone who's interested in the relationship between...

It's Time to Let Go of The Glycemic Index

The glycemic index (GI) is a measure of how much an individual food elevates blood sugar when it's eaten. To measure it, investigators ...

Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture

In April of 1982, archaeologists from around the globe converged on Plattsburgh, New York for a research symposium. Their goal: ...[to use]...

Are the MK-4 and MK-7 Forms of Vitamin K2 Equivalent?

The vitamin K found in food can be divided into two categories: phylloquinone (K1) and menaquinone (K2). K1 is concentrated in leafy greens...

Margarine and Phytosterolemia

Margarine is one of my favorite foods. To rip on. It's just so easy! The body has a number of ways of keeping bad things out while tak...

Latest Study on Vitamin K and Coronary Heart Disease

A Dutch group led by Dr. Yvonne T. van der Schouw recently published a paper examining the link between vitamin K intake and heart attack (...

What Can Evolution Teach us About the Human Diet?

Vegetarians deserve our respect. They're usually thoughtful, conscientious people who make sacrifices for environmental and ethical rea...

Statistics

Ricardo just sent me a link to the British Heart Foundation statistics website . It's a goldmine. They have data on just about every ...