WHAT IS PROTEIN?

Proteins provide nutrients that are essential for the building and repair of the body’s tissues.
They help to produce the enzymes, hormones, and other substances the body uses for good, healthy functioning, in the transport of nutrients, and in keeping our muscles in good working order.
Proteins can help to keep the body healthy by [...]

The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Adipose Tissue Survey, performed back in 1982, indicated that 20 xenobiotic compounds (substances foreign to the body) were found in greater than 75% of all tissue samples evaluated, and of those, 75% had toxic compounds in concentrations of greater than 25,000 nanograms per gram of tissue sampled. [...]

“Cancer is largely a preventable disease; the incidence of cancer can be substantially reduced by means of diet.”
This quotation begins a chapter in Food, Nutrition, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective (1). This 650-page report was written by expert scientists and published as a joint effort of the World Cancer Research Fund and [...]