A 2015 Advances in Nutrition paper reports that in mice prone to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis on a Western diet, the omega-3 fats DHA and EPA altered liver metabolism and reversed diet-induced oxidative stress and fibrosis, which the authors say may lower liver cancer risk.
Food Consumer
Alerts
Blue Bunny Hoppin’ Hollidoodle Ice Cream Voluntary Recall
Wells Enterprises is recalling two lots of Blue Bunny Hoppin' Holidoodle ice cream because the snickerdoodle cookie dough in it was recalled by supplier Aspen Hills over possible Listeria monocytogenes. The seasonal flavor went to six states; no illnesses have been reported.
Alerts
Outside Supplier Aspen Hills Expands Cookie Dough Recall; Blue Bell Recalls All Products Made With Aspen Hills Cookie Dough Due To Potential Health Risk
Blue Bell is recalling every product made with cookie dough from supplier Aspen Hills over possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. No illnesses have been reported; the company says its finished products tested negative and it acted out of caution after Aspen Hills sent new lot information.
Chemical
Chromium-6, the cancer-causing chemical
A new EWG report says chromium-6 contaminates water supplies serving more than 200 million Americans in all 50 states. The writer, who first investigated the chemical in 1991, asks readers to press the EPA to set a national safety limit.
Healthy Recipes from AICR
Healthy Recipes: Apple Cinnamon Fruit Leather
A recipe for apple, date and cinnamon fruit leather, simmered then baked low for two to three hours, making 12 servings at 45 calories each. The snacks supply fiber and quercetin, a flavonoid with anti-inflammatory properties. Pears and cardamom work as a variation.
Food
Wasabi may help colon cancer
The study reports that Wasabia japonica extract activates TNF-alpha, Fas-L, caspases, truncated Bid and cytochrome C, triggering apoptosis and autophagy in colon cancer cells, and slowed tumor growth in an animal test.
Books
Pandemic Rising: Physician’s Chilling New Novel Fictionalizes Reality of Antibiotic Resistance. Pathogens Have Declared War…
A press release promotes 'Pandemic Rising,' a novel by Dr. Linda Girgis set in 2025, where humanity fights drug-resistant pathogens after generations of indiscriminate antibiotic prescribing and waning vaccination. Girgis calls antibiotic resistance more urgent than most admit.
Food
Superfood cacao fruit brings delightful, new experience to cold-pressed beverages
Agro Innova is launching six Suavva Cacao Fruit Smoothies at Fresh Summit, cold-pressed from cacao pulp juice rather than the bean and sweetened with agave. The company says they supply theobromine, vitamins and antioxidants and are Non-GMO Project verified, kosher, gluten-free and vegan.
Food
CRUNCH PAK® New Website Connects with Consumers Through Storytelling
Crunch Pak launched a redesigned website aimed at consumers rather than the trade, using custom illustrations and lifestyle photography, along with a renamed blog, The Sliced Life, carrying orchard updates and recipes.
Food
Duda Farm Farm Fresh Foods tackles snacktime for football season
Duda Farm Fresh Foods is launching a limited edition Dandy Celery and Blue Cheese Snack Cup with Litehouse Foods for football season. Sold November through January, the cups carry a sweepstakes offering two tickets to the Big Game and a $1,000 gift card.
Politics
How to Win Your Campaign -- Don't Miss This Teleconference
The Fluoride Action Network invites campaigners to a free teleconference where Rick North will explain how fluoridation was voted down in Portland and Newport, Oregon, and share post-election polling on which arguments and audiences worked best.
Advisories
FDA: Protect Food and Water During Storms
The FDA lists steps for protecting food and water in storms: stock thermometers, ice, coolers and bottled water beforehand, throw out anything flood water touched, sanitize surfaces with a tablespoon of bleach per gallon, and boil or bleach-treat questionable water.
Food
Whole grains cut breast cancer risk
A case-control study of 250 breast cancer patients and 250 matched controls found women who ate whole grain products at least seven times a week were 50% less likely to have breast cancer than women who rarely or never ate them.
Drug
Chemotherapy may raise risk of leukemia, lymphoma
A 2016 report describes a patient who developed both secondary diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and leukemia after breast cancer chemotherapy, adding lymphoma to earlier suggestions that adjuvant chemotherapy for early stage breast cancer may raise leukemia risk.
Diet
Famine, malnutrition raise risk of breast cancer
A study in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment found that among breast cancer patients, women exposed to China's Great Famine of 1959-1961 were more likely to have ER-PR-, ER-PR+ or ER+PR- tumors than ER+PR+ tumors, particularly those exposed after a first birth.
Politics
Tell Congress: Repeal the DARK Act!
The Senate passed a bill on July 14 that nullified Vermont's GMO labeling law, and President Obama signed it on July 31. The Organic Consumers Association asks readers to back Senator Richard Blumenthal's effort to repeal it.
Politics
Advocates Criticize Changes to Safety Measures for Catfish Imports
Food & Water Watch wrote to USDA warning that new procedures for deciding which foreign facilities may export catfish to the U.S. could let exporters that fall short of American safety standards ship anyway, and asked the agency to open a public comment period.
Environment
Night work not linked to breast cancer?
A review of 10 studies funded partly by Cancer Research UK claims night shift work does not raise breast cancer risk. The piece argues that finding is surprising given earlier evidence, IARC's 2007 classification of shift work as a probable carcinogen, and melatonin's role in cancer protection.
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