A recent study on diet and bone health spawned a slew of misleading headlines claiming that vegans are at significantly greater risk of bone fracture than nonvegans. A closer look READ ON

By Ashley Capps | Categories Health and Nutrition
A recent study on diet and bone health spawned a slew of misleading headlines claiming that vegans are at significantly greater risk of bone fracture than nonvegans. A closer look READ ON
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By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Health and Nutrition
Please join us in demanding that the Committee take action to ensure the improved health of all Americans by removing dairy as a food group from the upcoming dietary guidelines. READ ON
By Mic The Vegan | | Categories Health and Nutrition
By Virginia Messina, MPH, RD | | Categories Health and Nutrition
As a dietitian working in the area of vegan nutrition, RD Messina sees no shortage of outrageous claims about vegan diets. They come from both sides of the debate. Advocates READ ON
By Karen Davis PhD | | Categories Health and Nutrition
With the recent WHO designation of processed meat as a carcinogen in the same class as tobacco, asbestos and diesel fumes, the news about meat is getting worse all the READ ON
By Holly Wilson MD | | Categories Health and Nutrition
Today’s Paleo Diet promotes eating grass-fed animals, but it’s important to remember that the animals our Paleolithic ancestors ate have been hunted to extinction or have vanished due to climate READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Health and Nutrition
In supplemental vitamin B12, we have something very like a magic pill against the unspeakable suffering and unnecessary execution of billions of animals every year. Yet because B12 is not READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Health and Nutrition
“Strength must build up, not destroy. It should outdo itself, not others who are weaker. Used without responsibility, it causes nothing but harm and death. I can lift the heaviest READ ON
By Holly Wilson MD | Categories Health and Nutrition, Resources
Soy has long been recognized as a nutrient-dense food and as an excellent source of protein by respected dietitians and clinical nutritionists. The soybean contains all of the essential amino READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Health and Nutrition
Vegan bodybuilder Frank Medrano joins a growing number of athletes and bodybuilders whose phenomenal fitness and peak physical performance are powered exclusively by plants. As the general public is increasingly READ ON
By Holly Wilson MD | Categories Health and Nutrition, Resources
Nearly all of what I treat in the Emergency Department is diet related. We have eaten ourselves into a state of sickness, and it is fueled by misinformation. This is READ ON
By Ashley Capps | | Categories Featured Articles, Health and Nutrition, Photo Galleries
For many people, ditching dairy is only moderately difficult; for others, it isn’t hard at all. But for some it’s a real obstacle; one of the most consistent objections to READ ON
By Ashley Capps | Categories Featured Articles, Health and Nutrition
In the newly revised Australian Dietary Guidelines, Australia’s top health experts now agree with leading health advisory boards in the U.S. and Canada that well-planned vegan diets are a safe, READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Health and Nutrition
First, a few disclaimers. I am not a nutritionist. I am not gluten-intolerant. I am not, according to the University of Chicago Hospital, part of the roughly 1% of the READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Health and Nutrition
This video from Dr. John McDougall provides a clear explanation of how and why dairy products are thought to trigger type 1 diabetes in children and young adults, in addition READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Health and Nutrition
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (the oldest and foremost authority on diet and nutrition in the U.S.) and the American Academy of Pediatrics both endorse vegan diets for children READ ON
By Robert Grillo | | Categories Health and Nutrition, Veganism
“Casein, one of the proteins in milk, crosses the blood-brain barrier and becomes something called casomorphins. Yes’m, that sounds a lot like morphine—because casomorphin is also an opiod. Nature designed READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Health and Nutrition
A new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers has found that red meat consumption is associated with an increased risk of total, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality. The READ ON
By Free From Harm Staff Writers | | Categories Animal Products and Culture, Health and Nutrition, Veganism
The thing about humans is that we are highly evolved omnivores. We have adapted to survive according to whatever foods are available. When fruits, nuts, and plants are plentiful, we READ ON