Food Safety and Cultivated Meat 

Food Safety and Cultivated Meat 

by | May 27, 2025 | Nutrition

What are the direct health implications of making clean meat—that is, meat without animals? In a 1932 article in Popular Mechanics entitled “Fifty Years Hence,” Winston Churchill predicted that we would one day “escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order...
Statins and Muscle Pain Side Effects 

Statins and Muscle Pain Side Effects 

by | May 22, 2025 | Nutrition

Why is the incidence of side effects from statins so low in clinical trials while appearing to be so high in the real world? “There is now overwhelming evidence to support reducing LDL-C (low-density lipoprotein cholesterol)”—so-called bad cholesterol—to reduce...
Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease 

Eating to Treat Crohn’s Disease 

by | May 20, 2025 | Nutrition

Switching to a plant-based diet has been shown to achieve far better outcomes than those reported on conventional treatments for both active and quiescent stages of Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis. Important to our understanding and the prevention of the...
Eating to Keep Ulcerative Colitis in Remission 

Eating to Keep Ulcerative Colitis in Remission 

by | May 15, 2025 | Nutrition

Plant-based diets can be 98 percent effective in keeping ulcerative colitis patients in remission, far exceeding the efficacy of other treatments. “One of the most common questions physicians treating patients with IBD [inflammatory bowel disease] are asked is whether...