Julia Helms is an editorial intern at Forks Over Knives. She is a student at New York University earning her degree in Global Public Health and Communications. After being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, she transferred from the Fashion Institute of Technology to NYU to pursue a career in public health, concentrating on plant-based nutrition as a proactive form of disease prevention.
All Contributions from Julia Helms (6)
In the NutritionFacts.org video below, Dr. Michael Greger explores the link between obesity and the cancer-causing agent IGF-1* (insulin-like growth factor) produced…
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How is it possible that the drastic spike in human population is not the biggest problem for the environment? Human population has…
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For most people, dieting means counting calories and eating less food. It turns out that eating more can lead to weight loss—if…
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Rice has been a staple food for 5,000 years, yet some new studies and news headlines suggest that each additional daily serving of…
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David Foster was a new father and only 57 years old when his doctor told him he needed a heart transplant. He…
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If physicians know of a treatment that could prevent and reverse disease, then it seems like that treatment should be the first-line…
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