Why is the field of nutrition often more about marketing products than educating people about the fundamentals of healthy eating?

Flashback Friday: Why Is Nutrition So Commercialized?

Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM, founder of NutritionFacts.org and New York Times best-selling author of How Not to Die, How Not to Diet, and the just-released How Not to Age, brings you the latest in evidence-based nutrition research, delivered in easy to understand video segments. NutritionFacts.org is a non-profit and non-commercial public health organization, and more than 2,000 videos on virtually every aspect of healthy eating are available on our website. New videos and blogs are uploaded every day–always without any sponsors, ads, brand partnerships, or paid subscriptions.

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How did the medical and dental community react to U.S. regulators’ total 180 over water fluoridation, going from presumptively safe to presumptively dangerous?

Medicine’s Response to the Changing Science on Fluoride Safety

Based on new research, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Toxicology Program reached a draft conclusion that fluoride should be “presumed to be a cognitive neurodevelopmental hazard to humans."

Why I Changed My Mind on Water Fluoridation

Is heme just an innocent bystander in the link between meat intake and breast cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure? Let’s take a look at heme’s carcinogenic effects.

Friday Favorites: Heme Iron in Impossible Burgers and Cancer Risk

There have been more than 50 studies showing an association between higher fluoride exposure and lower IQ, but is it cause-and-effect?

Is Water Fluoridation Safe?

According to the CDC, about a third of American children now have some form of cosmetic defects in their tooth enamel due to fluoride exposure, known as dental ﬂuorosis.

Flashback Friday: Why Is Nutrition So Commercialized?

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