Tests of more than 4,000 food and drink samples by the European Pesticide Residues Committee found residues above EU limits on some apples, peas and grapes -- one in seven podded beans, one in five yams, one in 70 apples and pears. Mercola notes that allowed levels are not the same as safe levels.
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Are the fruit and vegetables you eat safe? (PR)
An editor's note on a UK Pesticide Residues Committee report argues the problem is not Britain's alone. It points to Environmental Working Group rankings putting potatoes and apples highest in pesticide residues and bananas and kiwi lowest, and notes approval does not mean safety.
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Fructose linked to high risk of high blood pressure
Richard Johnson and colleagues gave 74 men 200 grams of fructose a day for two weeks; systolic pressure rose about six millimeters and diastolic about three. Men who also took the gout drug allopurinol saw no rise, and most readings returned to normal within two months.
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Culprit Compounds That Block Beans' Healthful Iron Probed
ARS physiologist Raymond Glahn and Cornell colleagues have moved from cultured human digestive cells to poultry tests on kaempferol, a polyphenol they earlier singled out as a likely reason the iron in red and pinto beans is hard to absorb. Polyphenols are also antioxidants.
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Low-Level Fluoride Linked to Sperm Damage in Animals
Two 2007 animal studies tested water fluoride at 1 to 10 ppm, low levels for rodents. Reddy's team linked 4.5 ppm to reduced sperm count, viability and testicular enzyme activity; Dvorakova-Hortova's found 10 ppm impaired sperm capacitation, with no effect at 1 ppm unless aluminum was added.
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Nutrition Notes:Trans Fat Traps
Karen Collins of the American Institute for Cancer Research writes that industrial trans fats supply 2 to 3 percent of adult calories, and that a 2 percent rise is linked to at least a 23 percent increase in heart disease. Cookies, crackers and cakes supply 40 percent of U.S. intake.
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Bottled water better than tap water?
After an 18-month survey, the Environmental Working Group found only two bottled waters disclose their source and treatment and post recent quality tests, and just 18 percent publish contaminant results. Municipal systems must disclose water safety data; bottlers need not.
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MSU research supports calls to study health benefits of nitrate, nitrite (press release)
Michigan State's Norman Hord challenges health standards that treat nitrates and nitrites in food as harmful, arguing that as they occur in plants they may benefit cardiovascular health. Between 70 and 80 percent of nitrates in most diets come from vegetables.
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Is bottled water healthier?
The Environmental Working Group says fewer than 2 percent of bottlers disclose their water's source, purification and pollutants, and a congressional report found the FDA has little authority over the industry. The NRDC says a quarter of bottled water starts as tap water.
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Picnic food safety greater concern in hot weather (PR)
Texas AgriLife Extension's Rebecca Dittmar warns that heat speeds growth of bacteria you cannot see, smell or taste, and that picnic foods get handled a lot. Her guidelines are clean, separate, cook and chill: wash hands and surfaces, pack sanitizer, and keep raw meat away from produce.
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Studies: BPA may cause heart problems in women
Scott Belcher of the University of Cincinnati exposed rat and mouse heart cells to BPA or estrogen and saw abnormal activity, including more frequent arrhythmias, in female cells but not male ones. Other work presented at ENDO 09 found more BPA in the urine of people with cardiovascular disease.
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BPA hazards ringing alarm bells
The FDA has still issued no verdict on BPA in food containers, a spokeswoman said, even as cities, states and countries ban it and studies link it to cancers, diabetes and heart disease. Regulators in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan call current exposure no immediate risk.
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Arsenic in well water higher than thought
A US Geological Survey sampling of 2,100 private wells in 48 states found more than 20 percent held at least one contaminant of potential health concern, most often radon or arsenic. Private wells supply about 43 million Americans and are not federally regulated.
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Hexane ignites soy controversy
An investigation by Cornucopia and Natural News reports that soybeans are bathed in hexane, a volatile gasoline by-product, during processing, leaving residues never tested for toxicity. Two processing plant hexane accidents injured 11 people and killed two workers.
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Tips to avoid BPA exposure
Fetuses and babies take the most intense BPA doses, and tests have found BPA leaching from metal cans into every brand of liquid formula, so EWG recommends powdered formula where a baby tolerates it. Adults should avoid canned foods and skip polycarbonate plastic for warm food and drinks.
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Fluoride fuss alive and well
CDC ranks water fluoridation among the 20th century's top 10 public health achievements, while the Fluoride Action Network and more than 2,000 signatories call EPA's 4 parts per million standard unsafe, citing a 2006 National Research Council review of possible adverse effects.
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MSG: Its history, effects and what you can do to avoid it.
MSG, identified by Kikunae Ikeda in 1908 and declared generally recognized as safe in 1959, stimulates the umami receptor; the FDA calls “MSG Symptom Complex” a short-term reaction causing headaches and nausea. The editor notes toxicity depends on dose and that glutamic acid occurs in all protein.
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Food Dye linked to ADHD
Nineteen toxicologists, pediatricians and other professionals asked Congress to ban certain synthetic dyes, citing a 2007 UK Food Standards Agency study that found they exacerbate some hyperactive behaviors and European labeling rules that warn parents.
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