nitrites

Nitrites are making news again (and again). A new 20-year study reports that men with the highest intake of nitrites had a 23% higher risk of colorectal cancer.

A number of you are now reading a really interesting article by Chuck "Chuckie" Dinerstein, our beloved director of medicine, about how beets might be useful in lowering your blood pressure.

“Cancer alert over rocket: Trendy salad leaves exceed safe levels of carcinogenic nitrates in one in EVERY ten samples.”

Some scares never go away no matter whether there is a remotely plausible basis for the scare (maybe asbestos in talc) or pure insanity (vaccines causing autism).

NPR just ran a