BACKGROUND Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Dietary factors account for at least 30% of all cancers in Western countries. As people do not consume individual foods but rather combinations of them, the assessment of dietary patterns may offer valuable information when determining associations between diet and cancer risk. METHODS We examined the association bet...

Numerous animal rights and animal liberation theorists have concluded that nonhuman animals have moral standing and noninterference rights. Therefore, they say that humans are morally obligated to stop using animals for food, fiber, labor, and research. I disagree with that conclusion for at least 2 reasons. First, it has been suggested that food production models are possible using large herbi...

The salivary microbiota has been linked to both oral and non-oral diseases. Scant knowledge is available on the effect of environmental factors such as long-term dietary choices on the salivary microbiota and metabolome. This study analyzed the microbial diversity and metabolomic profiles of the saliva of 161 healthy individuals who followed an omnivore or ovo-lacto-vegetarian or vegan diet. A ...

More than one third of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) can be attributed to our food system. Limiting warming 1.5° or 2 °C will not possible without reducing GHG from the Dietary change at meal level is great importance as day-to-day consumption patterns drive production The aim this paper was assess life cycle environmental impact a sample meals different cuisines (chilli, lasagne, curry...