An Organic Consumers Association fundraising email citing a University of Virginia study that ties GMO soybean adoption to higher herbicide use and a massive negative impact on the environment, and previewing the October Monsanto Tribunal in The Hague.
Food Consumer
Politics
Two of the worst corporate criminals headed to the altar - Newsletter 091716 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter on the $66-billion Bayer-Monsanto deal, citing a Wall Street Journal report that biotech seed dominance is under threat as farmers such as Ohio's Joe Logan drop costly biotech seed to save money.
Drug
CT scan radiation increases cancer risk
People exposed to diagnostic CT scans had a 24 percent higher overall cancer risk over 9.5 years of follow-up than unexposed people, with higher doses tied to higher risk, a study reports. Exposure between ages one and four raised the risk 36 percent.
Nutrition
What keeps us busy - Newsletter 091616 from Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety says its legal team is preparing a federal lawsuit challenging the new federal GMO labeling law as unconstitutional, and lists recent wins including blocking 2,4-D-tolerant crops and passing a California law restricting antibiotics in livestock.
Food
OBRIGADO® Brings an Authentic Taste of Brazil to Expo East
A media advisory invites Expo East attendees to Booth 630 in Baltimore, September 22-24, to sample Obrigado coconut water from the company's farms in Bahia, Brazil, so far sold only in Southern California, and to join a yoga session it is hosting as a Platinum Sponsor.
Supplements
Food News: Ganeden Earns Non-GMO Project Verification on Probiotic Ingredient
Ganeden's probiotic ingredient BC30 earned Non-GMO Project Verification after third-party evaluation. The company says the strain is also certified kosher, halal, gluten free and allergen free, and was the first spore-forming probiotic to receive GRAS status from FDA.
Drug
Watchful waiting as good as other treatments for prostate cancer
In a British trial of 1,600 men aged 50 to 69 assigned to surgery, radiation or monitoring, 17 died of prostate cancer over 10 years. Monitored men were twice as likely to develop metastatic disease, 6 versus 3 percent, while treatment brought incontinence and sexual problems.
Supplements
Glucosamine, chondroitin protect colorectal cancer
Drawing on the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study, researchers report in the International Journal of Cancer that taking glucosamine or chondroitin was associated with about 23% lower colorectal cancer risk. How they might help is unclear.
Diet
DASH diet may cut risk of depression, metabolic syndrome
Following 14,051 people for eight years, researchers found good adherence to the DASH diet tracked with 24 to 37 percent lower depression risk, depending on how depression was defined. The association was inverse but not linear, and the authors call for more work.
Phytochemicals
Apigenin may be effective in treating many types of cancer
Studies reported over the past decades suggest apigenin, a flavonoid concentrated in parsley, celery, chamomile, red grapes and herbs such as rosemary and thyme, may work against cancers including pancreatic, lung, breast, prostate and skin cancer, as well as leukemia.
Food
Saturated fat, trans fat linked to breast cancer risk
In a case-cohort study within the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort, women with the highest serum phospholipid saturated fatty acids were 64% more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, while high dietary DPA intake was tied to up to 43% lower risk.
Chemical
Fluoride causes more than bone cancer
The piece reproduces a researchgate report's lists of harms attributed to fluoride, from neurological damage, lowered IQ and dental and skeletal fluorosis to respiratory, heart and digestive disorders, alongside a second list of conditions named in the NHMRC 2007 report.
Cancer
Insulin resistance linked to high liver cancer risk
Among Finnish male smokers, National Cancer Institute researchers found those in the top quartile of fasting glucose were 140 percent more likely to develop liver cancer than those in the bottom quartile, and men in the top quartile of serum insulin or HOMA-IR 241 and 272 percent more likely.
Diet
Ketogenic diet may not help fight cancer
One study found a calorie-restricted ketogenic diet slowed brain tumour growth, but a calorie-restricted ordinary diet did the same, pointing to the calorie cut rather than ketosis. Rats fed a ketogenic diet freely got no protection, and their gliomas oxidized ketone bodies.
Lifestyle
Cell phone radiation linked to more than brain cancer
The piece lists conditions that researcher L. Lloyd Morgan and a Truth About Cancer report link to cell phone radiation, from acoustic neuroma to sperm damage, and notes IARC classified radiofrequency radiation a possible human carcinogen in 2011. It suggests limiting phone use.
Healthy Recipes from AICR
Healthy Recipes: Summer Tomato and Olive Relish
A no-cook relish of peeled, seeded vine-ripe tomatoes, sweet onion and Kalamata olives, sharpened with Sriracha and chilled an hour before serving over fish or chicken or spread on sandwiches. Six servings at 53 calories each.
Chemical
Is your ice cream flavored with a poison banned in Europe?
A fundraising appeal from the Organic Consumers Association, which says Vermont dairy farmers applied more than 2.5 million pounds of metolachlor, atrazine and simazine to cornfields between 1999 and 2012, and asks for donations to fund testing of dairy products for those chemicals.
Food
Eating carbohydrates, fiber reduces prostate cancer risk
A pooled analysis of 15 cohort studies covering 842,149 men and 52,683 prostate cancer cases found men eating the most carbohydrate were 10 percent less likely to be diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer, and those eating the most fiber 12 percent less likely to develop fatal disease.
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