Comparing 424 women with endometrial cancer to 398 without it, researchers found those in the highest quartile of added sugar intake had 84 percent higher risk. Body mass index and physical activity did not appear to modify the effect.
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Chemical hazards: fluoride, pesticides, BPA and other contaminants.
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Dietary trans fat bad for your skin
Mice fed fish oil, soybean oil or hydrogenated vegetable fat for three months were then exposed to UV rays on two days. Skin from the fish oil group resisted UV damage best and the trans fat group fared worst, a study in Lipids found.
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ALERT: Sulfuryl Fluoride Amendment Still Being Considered
A reader alert urging people to call their senators against a Farm Bill amendment that would exclude naturally occurring and dental fluoride from EPA's aggregate exposure calculation for the food fumigant sulfuryl fluoride, with talking points for the call.
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Major Victory as Portland, Oregon Votes NO on Water Fluoridation
Mercola welcomes Portland's vote against fluoridating its Bull Run water supply, says he helped fund the campaign and was attacked in the media for selling a fluoride-free toothpaste, and repeats his view that fluoride accumulates in tissues and should never be swallowed deliberately.
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Oops! Fluoride damages men's fertility - study
Rats exposed to fluoride in drinking water from before conception through puberty showed oxidative stress, testicular inflammation and increased germ cell death, researchers at Tongji Medical College report. The work examined molecular mechanisms behind fluoride's reproductive toxicity.
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Trans fat kills - new study
Among 18,513 participants in the REGARDS study followed for seven years, those in the highest quintile of trans fat intake were 25 percent more likely to die of any cause than those in the lowest. The authors put the population attributable risk at 7 percent.
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Sugar linked to obesity, metabolic syndrome, fatty liver
Reviewing the evidence in Pediatric Obesity, G.A. Bray and B.M. Popkin tie sugar-sweetened drinks to obesity, metabolic syndrome and fatty liver, and report that cutting intake reduces weight gain in adults and children. Two such drinks daily for six months produced those symptoms.
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Silica nanoparticles may cause cardiovascular disease
A Biomaterials study found silica nanoparticles, common in processed foods and supplements, caused pericardial toxicity and slowed the heart rate in zebra fish, and inhibited angiogenesis and heart development. The authors call the exposure a possible cardiovascular risk factor.
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Silicon dioxide causes fragmentation of DNA in all tissues of fish
R. Ramesh's team exposed zebra fish to 2.5 and 5 mg per liter of silicon dioxide nanoparticles for seven days. DNA from control tissues stayed intact while treated liver, muscle and gill tissue came back fragmented, with antioxidant enzymes altered.
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Fluoride can cause infertility, anemia - breaking news
Chinese researchers report in Food and Chemical Toxicology that female rats given sodium fluoride in drinking water for six months had lower pregnancy rates, lower reproductive hormone levels, damaged endometrium and fewer ovarian follicles. The work was done in rats, not people.
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Major victory in Portland Oregon - Residents say no to fluoridation
Portland voters rejected adding fluoridation chemicals to the city's water 61% to 39%. Clean Water Portland, formed in 2012, gathered more than 40,000 signatures in under 30 days to force the referendum after the City Council mandated fluoridation with little public input.
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Nitroso compounds linked to gastric cancer and esophageal cancer
Analyzing the Netherlands Cohort Study, researchers found each 0.1 ug/day of N-nitrosodimethylamine was linked to 15% higher risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and 6% higher risk of gastric noncardia adenocarcinoma. They saw no clear association among women.
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Industrial-grade Fluoridation Chemicals Cost Society $Billions in Arsenic-induced Cancers
Research in Environmental Science & Policy by former EPA scientists estimates that switching from industrial-grade hydrofluosilicic acid, which contains arsenic, to low-arsenic pharmaceutical-grade fluoride would save $1 billion to $14 billion a year in arsenic-induced cancers.
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Nanoparticles used in foods/dietary supplements found highly toxic
In tests on three bacteria, aluminum oxide, silicon dioxide and zinc oxide nanoparticles proved far more toxic than their micro-scaled counterparts; titanium dioxide was the exception. Zinc oxide solutions killed all three species. These particles are used in foods, supplements and sunscreens.
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US Chicken Industry Defends Arsenic Levels in Food
A study in Environmental Health Perspectives detected arsenic in supermarket chicken from 10 US cities, including organic birds, and its authors estimate over 100 US deaths from arsenic-related cancers if the drug were fed to all chickens. The National Chicken Council called the levels very low.
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Is aspartame toxic?
Rycerz and Jaworska-Adamu report in Folia Neuropathology that aspartame breaks down into phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methanol, all of which can be toxic, and note its metabolite diketopiperazine can cause central nervous system cancers.
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A Second Celebrity Video Opposing Fluoridation
A Fluoride Action Network newsletter announcing a second celebrity spot, with actor Ed Asner arguing fluoride should be a choice rather than a mandate, plus a Paul Connett talk in Lafayette, Colorado and news of Irish campaigner Robert Pocock's death.
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Stinging: EPA Wants to Approve Yet Another Bee-Killing Pesticide
The European Commission has moved to ban neonicotinoid pesticides tied to honeybee losses while the EPA weighs approving Dow's sulfoxaflor, which the agency itself calls very highly toxic to bees. Beekeepers say approval would end commercial beekeeping by 2018.
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