The Environmental Working Group tested water from 201 municipal systems in 43 states and found chemicals considered probable human carcinogens in every one. Its report blames disinfection byproducts formed when chlorine meets organic matter, and asks government to clean up source water.
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Chemical hazards: fluoride, pesticides, BPA and other contaminants.
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The Fourth Phase of Water - What You Don’t Know About Water, and Really Should
Mercola interviews bioengineering professor Gerald Pollack on his book The Fourth Phase of Water, which proposes a negatively charged exclusion-zone water that stores and delivers energy like a battery, and asks why theories of muscle contraction leave water out.
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Surprising Source of Arsenic in Your Drinking Water—Will EPA Take Steps to Protect Your Health?
A petition before EPA asks that water fluoridation use pharmaceutical-grade sodium fluoride instead of fluorosilicic acid, which is often contaminated with arsenic. Petitioner William Hirzy, a chemist who spent 27 years at EPA, estimates the switch would cut arsenic contamination.
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Israel Will End Fluoridation in 2014, Citing Health Concerns
Israel's Supreme Court ruled on July 29, 2013 that new regulations end both mandatory and voluntary water fluoridation within a year, after a petition argued the practice is hazardous. Health Minister Yael German said it can harm the chronically ill.
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French fries may boost your cardiovascular disease risk
Rats drinking 5 mg of acrylamide per kg of body weight daily for 90 days ended up with higher serum homocysteine, citrulline and ADMA than unexposed animals, markers linked to cardiovascular disease. The authors suggest long-term exposure may raise atherosclerosis risk.
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Titanium dioxide nanoparticles may damage men's fertility
Chinese researchers fed male mice 2.5 to 10 mg/kg of titanium dioxide nanoparticles daily for 90 days and found the particles reached the testes, producing lesions, sperm malformations and altered sex hormone levels, with 142 genes changing expression.
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Eating fries, potato chips may increase risk of endometrial, ovarian cancer
Among 62,573 Dutch women followed 11.3 years, those with the highest acrylamide intake had 29 percent higher endometrial cancer risk and 78 percent higher ovarian cancer risk than those with the lowest. Breast cancer showed no association with acrylamide.
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Heat-Induced Acrylamide May Be a Primary Hazard of Processed Food
Acrylamide forms when carbohydrate-rich foods are cooked above 212F until the surface dries and browns, so it turns up in chips, fries, bread crust, cereals and roasted coffee. Chicory-based coffee substitutes carry 2-3 times more of it than real coffee, Mercola writes.
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Arsenic found high in rice, rice bran
A study in Environmental Science and Technology found rice bran holds 10 to 20 times more arsenic than bulk rice grains, with inorganic arsenic reaching 1 mg/kg. The writer calculates that heavy rice eaters could take in about 30 mcg a day, well above regulatory limits.
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Cancer causing arsenic found in chicken
Johns Hopkins researchers tested 258 chicken samples and found 78 above 10 ppb of arsenic by dry weight, with conventional birds carrying significantly more than antibiotic-free or organic ones. From one 82-gram serving a day they estimate 3.7 cancers per 100,000 people over a lifetime.
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Arsenic tainted drinking water can also cause type II diabetes mellitus
A case-control study drawn from the San Luis Valley Diabetes Study found each 15 ug/L increase in drinking-water arsenic was associated with 27 percent higher risk of type 2 diabetes, at levels below 100 ug/L. EPA caps arsenic in drinking water at 10 ppb; some apple juices tested above it.
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Dietary cholesterol promotes progression in hepatitis C
Among 608 hepatitis C patients with advanced fibrosis or compensated cirrhosis, each higher quartile of dietary cholesterol intake came with 46 percent greater odds of clinical or histologic progression, after adjustment for confounders including alcohol, smoking and body mass.
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Is Fluoride “Brain-Drain” Damaging Generations of Children
The New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation cites Philippe Grandjean's book placing fluoride among 213 known brain-toxic chemicals. Grandjean says fluorides cause brain toxicity in humans and that vested interests manufacture doubt, as they did for decades over lead.
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Fructose risk factor for metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension
Khitan and Kim argue in the Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism that fructose is broken down by fructokinase, which has no negative feedback, depleting phosphate and generating uric acid. They tie that uric acid to endothelial dysfunction, insulin resistance and hypertension.
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Is Your Food Artificially Dyed?
Farmed salmon get their pink from added astaxanthin and canthaxanthin; at high doses canthaxanthin has been linked in humans to retinal damage, partial vision loss and aplastic anemia. The piece also flags nitrites and nitrates in processed meat and arsenic permitted in poultry feed.
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Trans fat boosts type 2 diabetes mellitus risk
Harvard researchers followed 84,204 women for 14 years and found a 2 percent increase in energy from trans fat associated with a 39 percent higher risk of type 2 diabetes, while a 5 percent increase from polyunsaturated fat was linked to 37 percent lower risk.
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Bisphenol A exposure linked to childhood obesity
Analyzing NHANES data on children aged 6 to 18, a West Virginia University researcher found those in the highest quartile of urinary BPA were 155 percent more likely to be obese than those in the lowest, with a wider gap among boys and non-Hispanic white boys in particular.
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Water fluoridation boosts cancer risk
K. Takahashi and colleagues at the University of Tokyo examined IARC data from nine US communities and report that "optimally" fluoridated drinking water was associated with raised incidence of 23 cancer types, among them digestive, lung, bladder, prostate and bone cancers.
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