Mercola argues the soda industry borrows Big Tobacco's playbook, with front groups, funded research and donations to health organizations, and cites research linking frequent soft drink consumption to a 9-15% increase in aggressive behavior, alongside obesity and liver disease.
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Chemical hazards: fluoride, pesticides, BPA and other contaminants.
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It Can Destroy Your Immune System and is Like Eating an Insecticide
Mercola argues that regularly eating Splenda may cause or worsen inflammatory bowel disease by inactivating digestive enzymes and altering the gut barrier, citing earlier work that sucralose can destroy up to half of beneficial gut flora. He notes IBD rates in Alberta rose sharply by 2000.
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Practical Options to Store Your Food without Contaminating Them With Plastics
Mercola advises replacing plastic kitchenware with glass or ceramic, and stainless steel or high-heat nylon utensils, arguing additives such as PBDEs, phthalates and BPA leach into food and drink in amounts that vary with use, especially when containers are heated.
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Lead Poisoning Alert: This Widely Used Drink is Dangerous
Mercola argues declassified Manhattan Project files show fluoridation was promoted to shield the bomb and aluminum industries from liability, and that the hydrofluorosilicic acid now used carries arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury and raises blood lead.
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Making your home a plastic-free zone
A nutritionist describes clearing BPA-free plastics from her kitchen after reading of a study showing such products still release chemicals with estrogenic activity, in some cases stronger than BPA's. She links estrogenic chemicals to early puberty, reduced sperm counts and obesity.
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Fluoride is Dangerous, But This Toxin (in Your Water Supply) May be Far Worse
Environmental Working Group tested tap water from 35 US cities and detected chromium-6, which EPA classifies as likely carcinogenic to humans, in 31 of them. No legal limit exists for it in tap water; EPA responded with a plan to help local utilities assess the contaminant.
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Are You Eating This All-Time Favorite "Cancer-in-a-Can" Snack?
A 2005 analysis found every potato chip product tested exceeded the legal acrylamide limit by 39 to 910 times, with baked chips often higher than fried. Mercola counts more than 800 heat-induced compounds, 52 of them potential carcinogens, and urges eating at least a third of your food raw.
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Never Buy Meat, Potatoes or Herbs With This Label on it
Mercola argues irradiation forms furan, linked to liver toxicity, and 2-alkylcyclobutanones found only in irradiated food, which he says may promote tumor growth. Irradiated products must carry the radura symbol and a statement that they were treated with radiation.
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How Many More of these "Unavoidably Unsafe" Drugs Will Become Mandatory?
Mercola argues pharmaceutical and medical lobbyists are pushing toward mandatory vaccination, citing a jump in the private-office cost of the recommended childhood schedule from $80 in 1986 to $2,200 in 2011, 70 doses of 16 vaccines, and a Supreme Court ruling granting manufacturers immunity.
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Great Review of "The Case Against Fluoride"
Paul Connett, James Beck and H.S. Micklem's book, backed by 80 pages of citations, won a 2011 National Health Information Award. FAN points readers to Louisa Enright's three-part review, published on her blog and in Maine's Herald Gazette.
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More Victories - Have we reached the tipping point?
A correction to an earlier fluoridation bulletin. After fixing Calgary's population figure and adding New Plymouth, New Zealand, the group puts the number of people freed from water fluoridation in the past year at about 2,538,500, and lists the communities that stopped.
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Environmental toxin Bisphenol A can affect newborn brain
Uppsala University researchers report that animals exposed to bisphenol A during early brain development showed altered spontaneous behavior, adapted poorly to new environments and were hyperactive as young adults. The effect on the cholinergic signal system persisted into adulthood.
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ALERT: Food Toxins Found in Baby Formula
Mercola cites a study in which infants switched from breast milk to commercial formula within their first year saw their advanced glycation end products double, reaching levels found in people with diabetes. High-heat processed formula may hold 100 times more AGEs than breast milk.
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Exposure to chemical BPA before birth linked to behavioral, emotional difficulties in girls (PR)
Researchers led by Harvard School of Public Health report in Pediatrics that girls exposed to bisphenol A in the womb showed more behavioral and emotional problems. BPA turns up in canned food linings, polycarbonate plastics, dental sealants and some thermal-paper receipts.
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Bottled vs. Tap vs. Filtered Water
Victor Marchione weighs tap, bottled and filtered water, noting reports that bottled spring water is often no better than tap, and that tap water is EPA-regulated and tested several times a day, while questions remain over fluoride and chlorine.
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High Arsenic Found in Some Brands of Apple Juice
The Dr. Oz Show reported testing that found Nestle/Gerber apple juice with up to 36 parts per billion of arsenic, above the EPA's 10 ppb drinking-water limit. The FDA called releasing the results irresponsible and misleading, noting the figures covered total arsenic, organic and inorganic.
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National Hispanic Civil Rights Organization Opposes Fluoridation
The League of United Latin American Citizens, the largest and oldest Hispanic civil rights group in the US, adopted a resolution opposing water fluoridation at its July 2011 convention, demanding to know why health agencies are more protective of the policy than of public health.
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Foods that have too much brain-damaging aluminum salt
Studies linking aluminum to brain harm are gathered here: raised blood aluminum tied to dementia, worse symbol-digit coding scores among people who drank contaminated water, and occupational exposure linked to poor memory and depression. Aluminum in food ranges up to 27,000 mg per kilogram.
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