Top 10 NutritionFacts.org Videos of 2021

Top 10 NutritionFacts.org Videos of 2021

NutritionFacts.org arises from my annual review of the medical literature. With the help of a team of hundreds of volunteers, we churned through tens of thousands of scientific papers published in the peer-reviewed nutrition literature and are ramping up to break new...
Thank You for Your Support

Thank You for Your Support

Thanks to your generosity, we have almost hit our goal! Without your support, I wouldn’t be able to spend my days digging into all of the best research and delivering it straight to you. Our number one funding stream is individual contributions from people like you. A...
Does Chocolate Cause Acne? 

Does Chocolate Cause Acne? 

What are the effects of dairy products, sugar, and chocolate on the formation of pimples? Acne affects nearly one in ten people globally, “making it the eighth most prevalent disease worldwide.” What is nutrition’s role? If we go back a century, dermatology textbooks...
Dining by Traffic Light: Green Is for Go, Red Is for Stop

Dining by Traffic Light: Green Is for Go, Red Is for Stop

In this article, I explain my traffic light system for ranking the relative healthfulness of Green Light vs. Yellow Light vs. Red Light foods. Whenever I’m asked at a lecture whether a specific food is healthy or not, my reply is: “Compared to what?” For example, are...
Support NutritionFacts.org — Fill the Carrot

Support NutritionFacts.org — Fill the Carrot

Today is the start of our annual end-of-year fundraising drive. More than half of our entire annual operating budget is raised around these final few weeks of the year, and our goal is to raise $350,000. We count on your giving-season generosity to make a...