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Be VERY Careful About Purchasing Food Products from Asia

China has banned more than 800 imported Taiwanese products, including beverages, foods and additives, over contamination with DEHP, a phthalate used in plastics that can disrupt hormones. Taiwan arrested a company owner who used DEHP in place of costlier palm oil.

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Please - Don’t Make These Mistakes with Governments New “Food Pyramid”

The USDA replaced the food pyramid with MyPlate, giving fruits and vegetables half the plate and demoting grains. Mercola pairs that with USDA testing that found 34 pesticide residues on a batch of conventional cilantro, two of them above federal limits.

Jun 23, 2011

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The Popular Food that Turns Your Gut into a Pesticide Factory

Robyn O'Brien turned real-food activist after her youngest child reacted acutely to a typical breakfast. Mercola's piece cites peanut allergies doubling between 1997 and 2002, a 265 percent rise in allergy-related hospitalisations, and one in 17 children now affected.

Jun 14, 2011

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7 'Healthy' Foods That Are Making You Fat (comment)

Dr. Mercola comments on an MSNBC list of foods marketed as healthy that may not be, including artificial sweeteners, diet soda, which researchers tied to a 41 percent higher overweight risk per can consumed, and veggie chips made mostly of corn or potato flour.

Jun 8, 2011

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Be Aware: this "Food" Radically Increases Your Risk of Cancer...(Comment)

Tom Philpott's aspartame article drew a rebuttal from blogger Adam Ozimek, who defended the sweetener and the FDA's approval process. Philpott points to studies tying aspartame to cancer, stroke and type 2 diabetes, and to an administration he says defers to business interests.

Jun 8, 2011

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Can Coffee Lower the Risk from this Deadly Cancer?

A study that followed nearly 50,000 male health professionals for more than two decades found men who drank six or more cups of coffee a day had about a 60 percent lower risk of lethal prostate cancer, and those drinking three cups a day a 30 percent lower risk.

Jun 2, 2011

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Save Hundreds if Not Thousands of Dollars on Food This Year…

An FAO report finds 30 percent of the world's food, about 1.3 billion tons, is lost or wasted each year. Europeans and North Americans waste 95 to 115 kilograms a head, against 6 to 11 kilograms in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Jun 1, 2011

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Study Found Toxin from GM Crops is Showing up in Human Blood

Testing 69 Canadian women, researchers detected Cry1Ab, a Bt toxin from GM crops, in 93 percent of maternal blood samples, 80 percent of fetal samples and 69 percent of samples from non-pregnant women, undercutting the claim that the protein breaks down in the human gut.

May 31, 2011

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I Strongly Recommend Avoiding These 7 Foods

Mercola relays Food Matters' survey of seven experts on the foods they avoid: canned tomatoes, because the can lining contains BPA, plus grain-fed beef, microwave popcorn bags lined with PFOA, conventional potatoes, farmed salmon, conventional milk and conventional apples.

May 30, 2011

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Is it Time to Boycott This 'Anti' Cancer Charity?

Mercola points readers to a 130-page report by Dr. Samuel Epstein arguing the American Cancer Society is more interested in accumulating wealth than saving lives, citing ties to the mammography, cancer drug and pesticide industries and a focus on diagnosis and treatment over prevention.

May 24, 2011

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Eating Mistakes that Age You

Mercola works through a Yahoo Shine list of four eating mistakes blamed for symptoms people put down to ageing: avoiding all animal protein and its B12, missing manganese and copper, avoiding omega-3 fats, and favouring packaged food low in potassium. He adds his own quarrels.

May 23, 2011

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Two Dangerous "Experts" You Should Never EVER Believe...

Mercola covers two names in vaccine research: Danish scientist Poul Thorsen, charged with 13 counts of wire fraud and nine of money laundering over autism research funds, and Dr. Paul Offit, whose statements about a CBS reporter drew a retraction from the Orange County Register.

May 22, 2011

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This Should be Banned: Found in 80% of Supermarket Foods

Under a two-year USDA pilot, biotech companies may run their own environmental assessments of new GMO crops, or hire contractors, with the agency keeping final say on safety. Mercola notes GM ingredients have reached roughly 80 percent of US grocery store items.

May 20, 2011

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How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis

Mercola relays a Foreign Policy argument that the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index, plus the 1999 deregulation of futures markets, let banks buy grain futures without limit, so speculators now outnumber genuine hedgers four to one and pull food prices upward.

May 19, 2011

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Lunchroom cameras watch what students eat

Five Texas elementary schools will use USDA-funded lunchroom cameras to record what children choose, eat and leave behind, research meant to improve eating habits. USDA has also raised nutrition standards for school meals for the first time in fifteen years.

May 13, 2011

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Are You Addicted to Starbucks?

Martha Rosenberg's satirical take on Starbucks culture: baristas who find espresso drunks worse than bar patrons, cup sizes where 'grande' means an actual pint, and 300 mg caffeine drinks arriving alongside road rage.

May 12, 2011

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The Meat You Should Never, Ever Eat...

An Australian television expose shows how transglutaminase, or meat glue, binds scraps too small to sell into what looks like a prime cut, with seams so fine even expert butchers can be fooled. Mercola says the practice sharply raises the odds of food poisoning.

May 4, 2011

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Would This Video Make You Stop Eating Beef? Futures Traders Think So

Martha Rosenberg describes a Mercy For Animals investigation at the 10,000-calf E-6 Cattle Company in Hart, Texas, where video showed sick and injured calves killed with hammers and denied care. Owner Kirt Espenson both denies condoning the abuse and defends withholding medicine.

Apr 22, 2011

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