The quality of school lunches has been deteriorating for decades, and it just got another downgrade.
As reported by CNN, two Kraft Heinz ready-to-eat prepackaged Lunchables are being added to K-12 school lunch programs across the U.S. as of this fall semester.
Chronic pain is a more common medical condition than depression or diabetes. Treating it focuses on managing the discomfort because there is no cure that has proven reliably effective.
Cataracts is an eye condition that causes your vision to blur due to a buildup of proteins on the lens of your eye. Left untreated, cataracts can result in progressive loss of vision and, ultimately, blindness.
For almost two decades, scientists have been experimenting with “Yamanaka factors,” special molecules that convert adult cells into stem cells—cells that can be nudged to become any of a range of different kinds of cells.
The World Health Organization has finally gotten around to declaring the popular artificial sweetener aspartame a potential carcinogen.[1] I warned about aspartame’s cancer-causing potential on my site over 25 years ago, in my best-selling book, “Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, NutraSweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health,” in 2006, and in an article I wrote for The Huffington Post.[2] It’s since been deleted—but you can see just how long this danger has been known.
An obscure enzyme named HDAC9 may be a key to understanding the origins and prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia in general.
In 2014, Dr. Dale Bredesen published a paper demonstrating healthy lifestyle choices could reverse Alzheimer’s in 9 out of 10 patients. His team is now launching a new randomized, controlled trial at six sites. Biological aging, brain aging and epigenetics will be included in this trial, using newer blood tests that weren’t available even a few years ago.
Using only a patient’s medical records, artificial intelligence predicted a person’s likelihood of developing pancreatic cancer at least as well as doctors using family histories and genetic screenings, according to a study by Harvard University, Boston-area hospitals, and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned people not to consume aspartame (Equal), sucralose (Splenda) or other artificial sweeteners for weight control.
A 2023 systematic review and meta-analysis found daily vitamin D supplementation reduced cancer mortality by a significant 12 percent.