CAMELOT FANTASIES

The latest meta-analysis of studies on egg consumption and heart disease risk found that even less than a single egg a day is associated with increased risk of both cardiovascular disease and diabe...

Not eating walnuts may double our risk of dying from heart disease (compared to at least one serving a week)—perhaps because nuts appear to improve endothelial function, allowing our arteries to ...

Farmed Atlantic salmon, the kind of salmon most commonly found in restaurants and supermarkets, may be the single largest source of toxic dietary pollutants.

Industrial pollutants that build up in our own body fat may help explain the link between obesity and diabetes.

The relationship between fish consumption and diabetes risk may be due to toxic pollutants that build up in the aquatic food chain.

The spice turmeric appears to be able to switch back on the self-destruct mechanism within cancer cells.

Less than a teaspoon a day of turmeric appears to significantly lower the DNA-mutating ability of cancer-causing substances.

Dramatically lower cancer rates in India may in part be attributable to their more plant-based, spice-rich diet.

The artificial food coloring Red No. 3 has yet to be banned—despite its purported role in causing thousands of cases of thyroid cancer.

Foods of animal origin (especially fish) appear to be the most important source of human exposure to industrial pollutants such as alkylphenol xenoestrogens.