I enjoyed reading about Conscious Ohio’s weekly healthy vegan lunches. However, the article may have perpetuated the common misconception that plant-based diets are deficient in iron. In fact, a balanced vegan diet, including beans, grains and leafy greens, easily provides adequate iron. According to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, “Studies have shown that the incidence of iron deficiency anemia is not greater among individuals Read the rest of this entry »
âIf I were president, I would make our first priority the health of our children, because the health of our children is actually the worst itâs ever been. We act like a fat kid is cute. Well, a fat kid is going to get diabetes and itâs going to shorten their life. Kids today are going to live a shorter life than their parents and that is a tragedy.â
Those words, though not president yet, help to show that Dr. Neal Barnard is Read the rest of this entry »
Huffman noted that while PCRM and The Cancer Project frequently reference nitrite and nitrate as carcinogenic, the federal National Toxicology Program has concluded quite the opposite following a multi-year study in 2000. As a result of these important findings, nitrite has been excluded from the U.S. master list of carcinogens. Likewise, National Institutes of Health researchers are finding not just nitrite’s safety, but its benefits. They are Read the rest of this entry »