Nutrition
Amygdalin may help prevent some cancers
By Jimmy Downs
Thursday May 16, 2013 (foodconsumer.org) -- Amygdalin (laetrile or vitamin B17) and other glycosides isolated from Prunus Persica seeds may help prevent some
Hepatitis A: What you need to know
What is hepatitis A? Hepatitis A is an acute infectious disease of the liver caused by hepatitis A virus, an RNA virus. People contract the disease ...Low-Carb Diet May Slow Alzheimer’s Disease
Editor's note: Publishing this article does not mean that foodconsumer.org endorses the opinions in this article. Food consumers should do their homework to decide which diet is best for them. The low-carb diet is essentially the high protein high fat diet, which is the typical Western diet, that lacks healthy carbohydrates. Such a diet provides a good taste, but also is associated with lots of Western diseases. It is advisable that simple sugars need to be excluded from your diet, but not other carbohydrates which include starches and dietary fibers along with many vitamins and minerals that can be found only in non-meat foods....