Acrylamide, a neurotoxicant and probable carcinogen once known mainly from cigarette smoke and plastics, turned up in heat-processed starchy foods in 2002. New studies sharpen the picture of US exposure and ask whether differences in metabolism make it riskier for children and obese people.
Section archive
Page 25 of 28
Chemical
Chemical hazards: fluoride, pesticides, BPA and other contaminants.
- All desks
- Abortion
- Accutane
- Acetaminophen
- Acid Reflux
- Acidic Foods
- Acne
- Acrylamide
- Acupuncture
- Additives
- ADHD
- Adiposity
- Advisories
- Aerobic Exercise
- Aflatoxin
- Agave
- Agent Orange
- Aging
- Agriculture
- AIDS
- Air Pollution
- Airline Passengers
- Airport
- ALA
- Alcohol
- Alcoholic Beverage
- Alerts
- Allergy
- Alli
- Aloe Vera
- ALS
- Alternative Medicine
- Aluminum
- Alzheimer's
- Amalgam
- AMD
- Ampyra
- Amygdala
- Anal Cancer
- And
- Anemia
- Angiogenesis
- Animal Protein
- Animals
- Anorexia
- Anthocyanins
- Anthrax
- Anti-Angiogenesis
- Anti-Obesity
- Antibacterial
- Antibiotic
Chemical
You Did It!! We ARE Winning the War on Fructose!!
Mercola marks PepsiCo dropping high fructose corn syrup from Gatorade alongside Princeton research in which rats given HFCS gained significantly more weight than rats given table sugar at the same calorie intake, with more abdominal fat and higher triglycerides.
Chemical
Aluminum damages your brain
Mice given aluminum chloride in feed for 100 days showed raised malondialdehyde, lowered superoxide dismutase and dose-dependent nuclear DNA damage in brain cells, Chinese researchers report. They suspect oxidative stress, though the mechanism remains unclear.
Chemical
High Fructose Corn Syrup vs. Sugar: Are they Nutritionally Similar?
Princeton researchers found rats drinking high fructose corn syrup gained more weight than rats drinking table sugar and, over six months, showed signs of metabolic syndrome. This is an animal study, and the Corn Refiners Association maintains the two sweeteners are nutritionally the same.
Chemical
Dangers of Drinking Water from a Water Fountain
A nationwide investigation found school drinking water in 27 states contaminated with lead and other toxins from pipes soldered before 1985. Baltimore switched its schools to bottled water in 2007 after 10 of 84 sampled fountains exceeded the EPA's 20 parts-per-billion lead cutoff.
Chemical
The Killer Combination of Salt, Fat and Sugar
Higher sugar, fat and salt stimulate neurons that trigger the brain's reward system and release dopamine, making you want to eat more, the piece says, offering that as a better account of rising obesity than a fixed body "thermostat." Five tips follow, starting with planning meals.
Chemical
Denmark Uses Antibiotic-Free Animals
Denmark's 17,000 farmers have given antibiotics only to sick animals for 12 years, and the country's pork industry has grown 43 percent since. Mercola notes that about 70 percent of all antibiotics go to agriculture and calls this a driver of resistant infections.
Chemical
This Common Food Ingredient Is As Addictive as Cocaine?
Colorado nephrologist Richard Johnson says uric acid sits at the center of obesity, high blood pressure and kidney disease: newly diagnosed hypertensive adolescents had elevated levels 90 percent of the time, and lowering it normalized blood pressure in 87 percent. Fructose raises it potently.
Chemical
Salmonella-tainted flavor enhancer HVP contains neurotoxins
The FDA alerted consumers to recalls of processed foods made with salmonella-contaminated hydrolyzed vegetable protein from Basic Food Flavors of Las Vegas. Nine companies, McCormick among them, have pulled products. HVP acts much like MSG, which the writer calls an excitotoxin.
Chemical
How to tell which plastic containers are risky?
Drawing on EPA material, the piece explains the 1-to-7 recycling codes and reports that many websites rate plastics marked 3, 6 and 7 worst for toxic ingredients such as BPA, and 1, 2 and 4 safest, noting the riskier types often end up in containers that touch food and drink.
Chemical
Meat allergy more common than thought
A study of 60 patients with unexplained severe allergic reactions points to alpha-galactose, a sugar in meat and dairy, as the trigger, with 25 carrying IgE antibodies to it. Researchers say the reaction comes hours after eating, which had obscured the cause.
Chemical
Lactose Intolerance: What you need to know
Lactose intolerance follows from a shortage of lactase, the enzyme that splits milk sugar into glucose and galactose, and involves no immune response, unlike milk allergy. Primary deficiency builds after about age 2; secondary follows intestinal injury from illness, celiac disease or chemotherapy.
Chemical
Saturated Fat is NOT the Cause of Heart Disease
Mercola highlights an analysis in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition pooling 21 studies that found no clear evidence higher saturated fat intake led to higher risk of heart disease or stroke, and traces the case against saturated fat to Ancel Keys in 1953.
Chemical
Ajinomoto: Aspartame will be called AminoSweet
Ajinomoto is rebranding aspartame as AminoSweet, saying the name reflects the amino acids the sweetener is built from. NaturalNews calls the move a tactic to win over people who avoid aspartame; the FDA, which approved it for food in 1974, maintains the additive is safe.
Chemical
Eating peanuts helps cure peanut allergy
Cambridge researchers gave 23 peanut-allergic children escalating daily doses of peanut. After six weeks, 91 percent could eat five peanuts a day without reaction, and by six months 19 tolerated 32. An observer cautioned that people should not try this at home.
Chemical
Trans fats expand your waistline- Study
Among 1,136 Japanese female dietetics students, total trans fat intake tracked with larger waist circumference, higher triacylglycerol and higher glycated hemoglobin, but not with body mass index. No link showed for natural trans fat, whose intake may have been too low to judge.
Chemical
Exposure on Tap: Drinking Water as an Overlooked Source of Lead
Lead usually enters tap water after it leaves the treatment plant, when chemistry changes destabilize mineral scales and corrode solder, pipes, faucets and fixtures. Providence and Portland both have had recurring lead problems that critics say they downplayed as a route of exposure.
Chemical
Jimsonweed Poisoning Associated with a Homemade Stew --- Maryland, 2008
Six adults from one Maryland family reached a hospital emergency department with hallucinations, confusion, dilated pupils and racing hearts hours after sharing homemade stew. Investigators traced the poisoning to jimsonweed, a nightshade containing atropine and scopolamine.
495 stories