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Nutrition

Does Fasting Help Treat Depression? 

Caloric restriction can boost levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which is considered to play a critical role in mood disorders. For m...

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Cleaning Products, Air Fresheners, and Lung Function 

There is a reason the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prohibits not only smoking but also scented or fragranced products in its buildi...

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Boosting BDNF Levels in Our Brain to Treat Depression 

We can raise BDNF levels in our brain by fasting and exercising, as well as by eating and avoiding certain foods. There is accumulating evidence that...

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True Health Intiative: Scientific Consensus on a Healthy Diet 

The leading risk factor for death in the United States is the American diet. About a decade ago, the American Heart Association (AHA) expressed concer...

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2024 Year in Review

Celebrating 2024. Celebrating Your Support. What a year NutritionFacts.org had! Our successes, output, and outreach in 2024 are thanks to your support...

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The Risks vs. Benefits of Angioplasty and Heart Stents 

What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they promote expensive, risky procedures with no benefit? “Percutaneous...

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Heart Stents and Their Risks 

Why are doctors killing or stroking out thousands of people a year for nothing? How do doctors even convince patients to sign up for procedures that a...

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Why Use Stents When They Don’t Work? 

Again and again, studies have shown that doctors tend to make clinical decisions for patients based on how much they themselves will get paid. In 2007...

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Do Heart Stents Benefit Angina Chest Pain? 

Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like non-emergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only risk to millions of patients. Angioplasty a...

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Gaming the System: Cardiologists, Heart Stents, and Upcoding 

Cardiologists can criminally game the system by telling patients they have much more serious, unstable diseases than they really have—fraud that resul...

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Treating Fatty Liver Disease with Diet 

What are the three sources of liver fat in fatty liver disease, and how can we get rid of it? Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is now the most...

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Bird Flu: Emergence, Dangers, and Preventive Measures

In the United States in January 2025 alone, approximately 20 million commercially-raised birds, mostly egg-laying hens, were affected by the highly pa...