Isn't it crazy to think of all the different kinds of foods so many of us eat

every day? Chips, cookies, burgers, fries, our bodies doodifully process whatever

it is we choose to swell regardless of whether or not what we eat could

actually harm us or shorten our lives. Our bodies are amazing as they try to

pull out nutrients we'll talk to protect us from all the garbage so maybe just

maybe we should try and give our bodies a break. I'm Dr. Michael Greger and

you're listening to the Nutrition Facts podcast. I'm here to tell you that

nutrition matters. We could choose a diet proven to not only prevent and

treat but reverse our number one killer heart disease along with other deadly

diseases such as type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure but many of us don't

make that choice. Our goal today is to help you make that choice and present you

with results of the latest and peer-reviewed nutrition and health research

presented in a way that's easy to understand. So your phone rings and you think as

much as I'd like to talk to Aunt Julie is worth getting brain cancer. Well as

it turns out there is new research that links cell phones and cancer. If you

don't use cell phones your lifetime risk of developing a brain tumor is about

one in 167. If you do use cell phones your lifetime risk is still really small

but may go up from one in 167 to one in 128. Whenever there's a trillion dollar

industry involved whether it's big food big tobacco big pharma or big telecom

there's so much money involved that the science can get manipulated. Here's the

story. When it comes to the potential human health effects of cell phone use

sure if you text excessively you might end up with a crick in your neck or even a

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