Nutrition

What are the pros and cons of relative risk, absolute risk, number needed to treat, and average postponement of death when taking cholesterol-lowering...

Nutrition

A Mayo Clinic visualization tool can help you decide if cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are right for you. “Physicians have a duty to inform their p...

Nutrition

A randomized controlled trial investigates diet and psychological well-being. “Psychological health can be broadly conceptualized as comprising 2 key...

Nutrition

How can we use sensory-specific satiety to our advantage? When we eat the same foods over and over, we become habituated to them and end up liking the...

Nutrition

Even if we could accurately diagnose small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), if there is no difference in symptoms between those testing positiv...

Nutrition

In every grade school class photo, I seem to have a mess of tousled hair on my head. No matter how much my mom tried to tame my hair, it was a little...

Nutrition

It may not be the number of bacteria growing in our small intestine, but the type of bacteria, which can be corrected with diet. When researchers test...

Nutrition

How can you calculate your own personal heart disease risk to help you determine if you should start on a cholesterol-lowering statin drug? The muscle...

Nutrition

Do you know more about basic nutrition than most doctors? “A poor diet now outranks smoking as the leading cause of death globally and in the United S...

Nutrition

What is the dirty little secret of drugs for lifestyle diseases? Drug companies go out of their way—in direct-to-consumer ads, for example—to “present...

Nutrition

Big Food uses our hard-wired drive for dietary diversity against us. How did we evolve to solve the daunting task of selecting a diet that supplies al...

Nutrition

I debunk the myth of protein as the most satiating macronutrient. The importance of satiety is underscored by a rare genetic condition known as Prader...