A U.S. PIRG report, Apples to Twinkies, calculates that a year of farm subsidies per taxpayer would buy 19 Twinkies but less than a quarter of a red delicious apple. Dr. Mercola argues the subsidies protect agribusiness profits rather than public health.
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The Truth About Butterball Turkeys
An undercover employee at a Butterball turkey semen collection facility in Shannon, North Carolina documented birds with open sores, infected eyes and broken bones in late 2011, and workers kicking and dragging turkeys. Butterball blamed individual employees and cited a zero-tolerance policy.
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Could Steve Jobs live longer if he opted to have conventional treatments earlier? (comment)
Jobs told his biographer he regretted not having surgery and chemotherapy sooner after his 2003 pancreatic cancer diagnosis, opting for alternative treatments for months. The piece notes he lived about eight years, against a five-year survival rate of 4 percent, and says no one can know.
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Why the Breakfast Most Americans Will Eat Today Is a Corporate Scam
Dr. Mercola traces cereal, bagels and donuts as American breakfast staples to corporate marketing rather than nutrition, notes that earlier generations ate eggs and meats as the heaviest meal of the day, and argues today's versions are high in sugar and grains.
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Our Ancestors Didn't Die of Cancer ...
A Lancet study covering several hundred thousand people found 15 minutes of exercise a day added three years of life expectancy and cut all-cause mortality 14 percent, with inactive people at 17 percent higher risk. Mercola credits exercise with 20 percent of the benefit and nutrition with 80.
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The Great Cancer Hoax Part II: The Brilliant Cure the FDA Tried Their Best to Shut Down...
Dr. Mercola promotes the documentary Cut, Poison, Burn, which recounts the FDA's attempts to shut down Dr. Burzynski's antineoplaston cancer practice, and argues the war on cancer declared by Nixon in 1971 has been a massive failure.
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Two Charts that Prove the Government is Making You Sick (comment)
Mercola warns that an FDA draft guidance on dietary supplements, released quietly alongside a sunscreen rule, would treat supplements like drugs and could price them out of reach. The comment period runs to September 30, 2011.
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Why the Cost of Supplements Is Likely to Soar (Within the Next 12 Months)
Mercola argues that Senator Richard Durbin's Dietary Supplement Labeling Act of 2011, paired with new FDA rules redefining new dietary ingredients, would regulate vitamins like drugs, pull supplements off the market and raise prices. The FDA comment period ran to September 30, 2011.
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The Risks of Treating Diabetes with Drugs Are FAR Worse than the Disease
Dr. Mercola cites a meta-analysis of 13 trials in more than 33,000 people showing no mortality benefit from intensive glucose-lowering treatment, with a 19 percent rise in all-cause and 43 percent rise in cardiovascular death not ruled out. He also recounts Avandia's heart risks.
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This Procedure Ruins Your Body's Ability to Detoxify Itself
Mercola and Consumers for Dental Choice argue that dental amalgam keeps releasing mercury vapour after placement, and that mercury blocks production of glutathione, the amino acid the body uses to excrete it, so it accumulates. They name resin composite and glass ionomers as alternatives.
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The Key Most Arthritis Sufferers are Not Doing Enough of
Researchers who had more than 1,000 people with radiographic knee osteoarthritis wear accelerometers for a week found 56.5 percent of women and 40.1 percent of men never sustained 10 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous activity. Mercola argues exercise is crucial with osteoarthritis.
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What You Don't Know About Flavor Enhancers Can Harm You
Senomyx develops flavor enhancers using taste-receptor assays built from HEK293 cells, originally taken from an electively aborted fetus. The Weston A. Price Foundation says the additives appear only as 'artificial flavors' and, used in tiny amounts, skipped the FDA's usual additive review.
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The Forbidden Food You Should Never Stop Eating
Mercola argues the case against saturated fat rests on Ancel Keys's 1953 paper, which compared six countries while leaving out 16 whose data did not fit. He also traces Crisco from candle and soap stock to the first commercially marketed trans fat.
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Probably the Best Way to Enhance Your Baby's Gut and Brain Development
Dr. Mercola cites a study that found growth factors and cytokines in every breast milk sample tested, and that breast milk protein extracts raised the number of surviving enteric neurons, neurite outgrowth and glial cells — suggesting milk proteins aid the enteric nervous system.
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This Almost Perfect Natural Oil Could Slow Down Your Aging Clock
Mercola makes his case for krill over fish oil, arguing krill carries the same omega-3 fats but with astaxanthin protecting them from spoiling and phospholipids that raise absorption, and says research on krill has expanded sharply over the past two years.
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Mythbusters: Learn the Truth about Food Safety in Your Home
For National Food Safety Education Month, FDA's Howard Seltzer knocks down common myths: vegetarians can still get foodborne illness, produce needs rinsing under running water but never detergent or bleach, and freezing does not kill bacteria.
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Are You Fat Because You are Being Poisoned?
A study found blood plasma levels of the dioxin OCDD, PCBs and the pesticides HCB, TNK and DDE all positively related to fat mass. People in the top fifth for PCB 105 averaged more than 10 pounds more fat mass than those in the bottom fifth, after adjustment.
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Enormously Useful Allergy Treatment - With Virtually No Side Effects
Mercola reports a PNAS study led by the USDA's Lewis Ziska linking warming temperatures to a longer ragweed pollen season, now 27 days longer in the northernmost parts of North America, and notes that a record-wet spring has primed much of the US for a heavy allergy season.
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