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Environment
Government advises airlines to spray pesticides on passengers
Citing NaturalHealth365, the piece says the International Civil Aviation Organization and WHO acknowledge that aircraft cabins are sprayed with a fast-acting insecticide while passengers are aboard before takeoff, and that some airlines instead apply a residual-insecticide aerosol before boarding.
Food
Food News: Annie B’s Handmade Caramels, Apple Kit, And Caramel Baking Block
A product announcement for Annie B's fall lineup: handmade caramels in apple, pumpkin, maple and cinnamon flavors sold in $5 bags and $8 boxes, a $35 canister of 60 assorted caramels, and a $6 Apple Kit, all slow cooked in copper pots.
Cancer
Amygdalin fights triple negative breast cancer
A study finds amygdalin, from apricot, peach, apple, cherry and plum seeds, promotes apoptosis and inhibits adhesion in triple negative breast cancer cells, suggesting it may also limit spread. The authors say clinical trials are needed; a 1982 NCI-sponsored trial found it ineffective.
Food
Eating too much fries raises endometrial, ovarian cancer
A Dutch study followed 62,573 women aged 55 to 69 for 11.3 years and found non-smokers with the highest acrylamide intake were 29 percent likelier to develop endometrial cancer and 78 percent likelier to develop ovarian cancer. It is observational and proves no cause.
Environment
Dental x-ray linked to thyroid cancer
A Kuwaiti case-control study published in Acta Oncologica in 2010 found dental x-ray exposure associated with 110 percent higher thyroid cancer risk, with higher doses linked to higher risk and no variation by age, gender, education or parity.
Food
Eating fruits prevents hypertension
In 128 adults aged 65 to 80, eating added sugar was associated with higher mean arterial and systolic blood pressure, while eating solid fruit, though not fruit juice, was associated with lower mean arterial, systolic and diastolic pressure.
Politics
This Company Wouldn't Lie to You, Would It? - newsletter 081216 from Organic Consumers Association
An Organic Consumers Association newsletter: Martha Rosenberg's essay says most U.S. shrimp is imported from Southeast Asia and raised with chemicals not approved here, with labels revealing little. An action alert accuses Tom's of Maine of wrongly calling its toothpaste organic.
Food
Foods and blood pressure
A survey of 876 residents of an island county in China found salt and meat consumption rose in step with both systolic and diastolic blood pressure, while eating marine products was inversely associated with systolic pressure.
Food
Buckwheat fights hypertension
Rats fed a diet with 8 percent salt developed higher blood pressure, but adding Tartary or common buckwheat largely prevented the rise, reduced oxidative damage and improved Na+/K+-ATPase activity. The salt level used far exceeds what people normally eat.
Politics
Catch the Rock Against the TPP Tour in Portland and Seattle!
The Organic Consumers Association promotes free Rock Against the TPP concerts in Seattle on August 19 and Portland on August 20, where Fair World Project director Dana Geffner will speak, and asks readers to tell Congress they oppose the trade deal.
Food
Dietary factors and cancer
An overview of dietary mutagens and antimutagens, advising less processed meat and meat cooked hot and long, no moldy peanuts, corn or grain, less saturated, omega-6 and trans fat, less alcohol and added sugar, and more foods that detoxify carcinogens.
Food
New Food: Gluten-free Organic Superseed Crunch from Absolutely Gluten Free
Absolutely Gluten Free announced Organic Superseed Crunch, a snack built on whole sesame, golden flax and chia seeds that the company says supplies 2,000 mg of omega-3 ALA per serving. It reaches stores in August 2016 in Original, Toasted Coconut and Cinnamon.
Drug
Ozone kills cancer
A 1980 paper in Science reported that exposing human lung, breast and uterine cancer cells to air containing 0.3 to 0.8 ppm ozone for eight days inhibited their growth by 40% to 90%, dose-dependently, while control lung fibroblasts were inhibited by less than 50%.
Food
Tea Board of India Partners with World Tea Coffee Expo Mumbai
The Tea Board of India has booked a pavilion twice the size of its 2015 one at the World Tea and Coffee Expo in Mumbai, held October 20-22, 2016, as part of its push to promote domestic and global tea trade.
Alerts
FSIS Catfish Inspection Program Stops Another Unsafe Shipment from Vietnam
Food & Water Watch's Wenonah Hauter says FSIS blocked over 40,000 pounds of Vietnamese catfish that tested positive for malachite green, a banned and potentially carcinogenic veterinary drug. She lists other rejections and recalls since FSIS took over inspection in April 2016.
Supplements
Omega 3 fatty acids fight breast cancer
In a 1993 study, mice carrying human breast cancer cells ate diets with rising proportions of menhaden fish oil in place of corn oil. Tumors grew fastest and spread to the lungs most on the highest corn oil diet, suggesting omega-3s may suppress growth and spread while omega-6s promote it.
Diet
High salt, high sugar diet easy to induce hypertension
Rats fed 4% salt plus 20% fructose saw systolic pressure climb from 125 to 140 mmHg within a week, while rats on high salt or high fructose alone stayed near 122. The combination diet also raised urinary 8-isoprostane, a marker of oxidative stress, and increased salt retention.
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