About 10 percent of US sodas contain brominated vegetable oil, banned in food in Europe and Japan and first patented as a flame retardant. Mercola writes that bromine competes with iodine, depresses the central nervous system and can trigger paranoia and psychosis.
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New Study on Fluoride Shows No Benefits and Major Safety Issues
Mercola reports on a review of 11 trials in more than 7,000 children that could not determine whether fluoride supplements benefit primary teeth. Ten trials carried unclear risk of bias and one high risk, which the reviewers called weak evidence.
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A Moral Obligation to Tell the Truth
A Fluoride Action Network newsletter reporting its largest fundraiser yet, $74,168 from 512 donors, extending a coffee mug offer through January 7, and introducing media director Carol Kopf, who describes how a college journalism assignment started her work on fluoridation.
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Fluoride Science is Tobacco Science
A Fluoride Action Network fundraising letter introduces science director Chris Neurath, who recounts his work on fluoride and osteosarcoma and, quoting Christopher Bryson, calls fluoride science tobacco science. The appeal reports $67,708 raised from 446 donors.
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Fluoride fighting frog produces giant leap
A Fluoride Action Network fundraising bulletin reporting $48,178 raised from 281 donors toward a $100,000 goal by December 31, announcing a match on the next $500 donated, and profiling volunteer video editor Jack Cook.
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An ambitious campaign against an unacceptable reality
Paul Connett updates readers on a fundraiser that has brought in $16,621 from 191 donors toward a $100,000 goal, and describes how his Zero Waste work and 15 years of fluoridation campaigning led to the book The Case Against Fluoride.
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Good News, Bad News about Fluoridation
A fundraising letter from the Fluoride Action Network reporting $8,008 raised from 65 donors against a $100,000 year-end goal, and arguing that ending fluoridation takes political will built by informing and organizing people.
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2011 Science Bulletin- Evidence suggests fluoridation may not be a good idea
A Fluoride Action Network bulletin introducing Tara Blank, a biologist who joined as its science and health liaison, and her argument that children are already overexposed to fluoride through dental products, foods and beverages before any is added to drinking water.
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Arsenic exposure linked to hypertension
A meta-analysis of 11 studies found people with the highest arsenic exposure had a 27% higher risk of hypertension than the least exposed. EPA caps arsenic in drinking water at 10 ppb; an FDA study reported 50 ppb in chicken meat in 2011.
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New York State may Waste Medicaid Dollars on Fluoridation
The NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation says the state health department wants to spend Medicaid funds on fluoridation equipment and staff, while New York City already spends $25 million a year and decay stays high among low-income residents. It says Pew is lobbying to bypass local votes.
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Fluoride Action Network Wants Your Donations
The Fluoride Action Network's year-end appeal reports $1,818 raised from 21 donors toward a $100,000 goal. It cites dental fluorosis in 41% of adolescents, up from 22% in 1986, and a 25th study linking fluoride in drinking water to lower IQ.
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25 Studies Prove This Reduces Your IQ
Dr. Mercola interviews Paul Connett of the Fluoride Action Network, reporting that 31 communities in Canada, New Zealand and the US voted to stop fluoridating in 13 months, and citing 25 studies associating fluoride with lower IQ at levels as low as 0.3 to 3 ppm.
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FAN's most ambitious and most important fundraiser ever!
A fundraising appeal from the Fluoride Action Network seeking $100,000 from 500 donors to replenish accounts drawn down to hire two staff members, citing more than 30 communities that have ended fluoridation since October 2010.
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New report links cancer-causing arsenic and fruit juice
Consumer Reports found 10 percent of apple and grape juice samples from five brands exceeded federal drinking-water standards for total arsenic, the inorganic form being a known carcinogen, and one in four topped the FDA's 5 ppb bottled-water lead limit. No federal limit covers juice.
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Food additives commonly used in foods - FDA
An FDA reference table of common food ingredient types, including preservatives, sweeteners and color additives, explaining what each does, which foods use them, and the names to look for on product labels.
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Plastic Fantastic (not!)
A columnist describes throwing out plastic bowls, spatulas, chopping boards and an electric kettle for stainless steel and bamboo, after a study linked canned soup to higher BPA levels. She concedes plastics rank below smoking or obesity as a risk, but calls them avoidable.
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Eating canned food can get you toxic bisphenol A
People who ate a serving of canned soup daily for five days had urinary BPA of 22 micrograms per liter, against 1 to 2 in those who did not - a rise of more than 1,200 percent. BPA lines metal cans and has been linked to cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity.
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Arsenic, Antibiotics and Asthma Drugs in Your Turkey? Yes!
A rough year for turkey producers: studies found turkey carried two to three times the antibiotic-resistant staph of other meats, Pfizer kept its arsenic-containing Histostat for turkeys after dropping the chicken version, and Cargill recalled 36 million pounds over salmonella.
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