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Bone, Joint, Connective Tissue, and Rheumatic Disease

Gout

Overview and Risk Factors   Gout is a metabolic disease characterized by hyperuricemia and precipitation and tissue deposition of urate crystals, resulting in inflammation and tissue injury.  Clinical manifestations include recurrent bouts of acute, often monoarticular...
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Gastrointestinal Disorders

Alcoholic and Toxic Liver Disease

Overview and Risk Factors The liver is responsible for concentrating and metabolizing most drugs and toxins. Because of this function, hepatotoxicity is common. Drug- or alcohol-related hepatotoxicity is the most common cause of fulminant liver failure. Alcohol-related liver disease alone accounts...
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Infectious Diseases

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

Overview and Risk Factors Worldwide, more than 40 million people are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). About 40,000 new infections occur yearly in the United States. HIV is a retrovirus that infects and destroys cells containing the CD4+ antigen, particularly CD4+ T-helper cells....
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Gynecology and Obstetrics

Vasomotor Symptoms of Menopause

Overview and Risk Factors At menopause, a woman's ovaries stop producing eggs, her body produces less estrogen and progesterone, and menstrual periods become less frequent, eventually stopping altogether. The mean age of menopause in normal women in the United States is 51. Menopause that occurs...
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Oncology, Oncology

A Disastrous Marriage: Tobacco and Poor Diet

To achieve clarity on the issue of tobacco, we must always remember to look into the nature of relationships-whether it is between competing presidential agendas, between competing causes of the same disease, between competing funding agencies, or whatever. When we enter into the realm of tobacco...
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Bone, Joint, Connective Tissue, and Rheumatic Disease

Osteoporosis

Overview and Risk Factors Osteoporosis is a metabolic disease characterized by progressive thinning of the bone matrix and cortex. Fractures may result from decreased bone strength, and hip fractures are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality for aging adults. Primary osteoporosis...
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How Does Animal Protein Affect Bone Mass?

The effect of animal protein on loss of bone calcium and its consequences for osteoporosis has been extensively shown for more than 2 decades. Animal protein intake as strongly associated with bone fracture rate for different countries [Abelow, B. et al. Calcif. Tissue Int., 50: 14-18, 1992] and...
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Gastrointestinal Disorders

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Overview and Risk Factors Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) comprises a spectrum of conditions characterized by hepatic fat accumulation in the absence of alcohol abuse, with fat making up at least 10% of the liver tissue (steatosis). Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), in which fat...
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by T. Colin Campbell, PhD

For almost 50 years, I have designed and directed large research projects in the areas of nutrition and health.  As a result of this experience, I have come to realize that most nutrition and health information is very misleading. It is no coincidence that we now have a health care crisis which is very expensive and which compromises the quality of life for millions of Americans and others living on a Western-style diet. . . READ FULL STATEMENT >>

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Sometimes the most elegant solution is the most simple. Why plant-based nutrition? Why not? Why develop heart disease? Cancer? Diabetes? The epidemic of chronic, degenerative disease that is sweeping the western world can not only be stopped, it can be reversed. The power lies in the hands of the consumer, in the choices we make about what to put on our plates.