Plant-based diets appear to protect against renal cell carcinoma both directly and indirectly.
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I briefly address kidney health in Preventing Kidney Failure Through Diet ( and Treating Kidney Failure Through Diet ( but have a whole series of more in-depth videos like this one dealing with various kidney issues.
More on the fascinating nitrate/nitrite story in my 17-part series about improving athletic performance with nitrate-rich vegetables such as beets and arugula. Here are a few short highlights:
• Vegetables Rate by Nitrate (
• Is Bacon Good or Is Spinach Bad? (
• When Nitrites Go Bad (
• Bacon and Botulism (
• Prevention Is Better Than Cured Meat (
More on carcinogens caused by cooking meat in videos like:
• Meat Fumes: Dietary Secondhand Smoke (
• Estrogenic Cooked Meat Carcinogens (
• PhIP: The Three Strikes Beast Carcinogen (
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