Mercola reports that chicken operations routinely feed birds the arsenic compound roxarsone. Researchers estimate 11 to 12 metric tons of arsenic reach farmland on the Delmarva Peninsula each year through poultry waste, and a 2006 IATP test found detectable arsenic in 55% of chicken samples.
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Is This the World's Most Effortless Way to Slim Your Waistline?
Mercola points to conjugated linoleic acid, found mainly in beef and dairy and richest in grass-fed and raw sources, as linked to long-term weight management. He cites animal work on tumors and insulin action; grass-fed beef is about 3 percent of US production.
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New Report Shows How You Get Addicted to Diet Soda
Mercola relays a CNN report that diet-drink users average more than 26 ounces a day and can become psychologically and physically dependent, and that artificial sweeteners may prompt more drinking because they satisfy less. Habitual use has been linked to low bone density, diabetes and stroke.
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Why Aren't GMO Foods Labeled?
The USDA approved genetically engineered alfalfa, a corn variety and sugar beets, and neither USDA nor FDA will require labels, though over 95 percent of people polled say GM foods should carry them. Mercola also relays Don Huber's warning about an organism tied to GM crops.
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Eating a Pig With a Wooden Leg
An essay that opens on the old joke about a pig too heroic to eat all at once, then argues meat eating persists despite vegan bestsellers like Veganist and Skinny Bitch, whose authors also warn readers about the hormones in dairy products.
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Sugar and its Effects: Not All Sweet
Isaac Eliaz writes that sugar in any form weakens immunity, causes inflammation and raises the risk of metabolic syndrome, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. He favours unrefined sweeteners such as raw honey, maple syrup and stevia, still used sparingly.
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When Organic Isn't Really Organic - - How You're Being Duped
Mercola argues the USDA organic label has been diluted: a certified organic product can mix organic and conventional ingredients, and hops in "organic beer" may be non-organic. U.S. organic food and drink sales grew from $1 billion in 1990 to $24.8 billion in 2009.
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Why the Happy Meal is Already Illegal
A commentary on the backlash against the mother who put her name to the Center for Science in the Public Interest's class action seeking to stop McDonald's from using Happy Meal toys to market to children, set against the fight over the Let's Move campaign.
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Cure Your Cravings by Ignoring This Widely Followed Conventional Advice
Ori Hofmekler argues humans are built to eat their main meal at night: a large meal shuts down the sympathetic nervous system that burns fat by day and switches on the parasympathetic system, which stores energy. He suggests light, fast-assimilating foods during the day.
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Now the FDA is Going After Vitamin C!
Mercola reports that the FDA has notified at least one pharmacy it may no longer make or distribute injectable vitamin C, and may also be banning injectable magnesium chloride and B-complex, the other ingredients of the Myers Cocktail.
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The "Calcium Lie" Every Woman Should Know About
Mercola cites Robert Thompson's book The Calcium Lie, which holds that bone is made of at least a dozen minerals and that focusing only on calcium supplements may worsen bone density. Thompson recommends unprocessed salt instead, and Mercola questions drugs such as Fosamax, Actonel and Boniva.
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Please join a Non-GMO Action Group TODAY (PR)
Jeffrey Smith invites readers to join local and national Non-GMO Action Groups, citing meetings he helped start in Boulder and four California cities and nearly 200 trained non-GMO speakers. Each national group will run its own listserve, forum and teleconferences.
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You may live over 100 years by eating raw foods
Bernando LaPallo, 109, credits his health to a mostly raw diet he has eaten for more than 104 years and to his father's advice to eat properly and keep the colon clean. The piece also lists Walter Breuning's daily foods: vegetables, fruit, beans, nuts, soup and cinnamon tea.
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Liposuction Risks for the 40 year old
The piece argues liposuction carries added danger for patients around 40, who on average have weaker immunity, less elastic tissue and slower healing, and who suffer more infections and drug reactions. It says every risk should be accounted for before the procedure.
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US Senate Passes The Food Safety Modernization Act: Importers Beware!
The Senate passed the Food Safety Modernization Act 73 to 25. Former FDA official Benjamin England warns the bill greatly expands FDA authority over food, and predicts higher prices, slower imports and a heavier compliance burden without a proportional gain in safety.
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A Newly Discovered Reason to Avoid Fast Food and Popcorn
Perfluoroalkyl coatings that keep grease from soaking through fast food wrappers and microwave popcorn bags break down into compounds that turn up in human blood. Researchers combined rat data with observed blood concentrations to estimate human exposure to PFOA.
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This Powerful Nutrient Improves Concentration by 60% and Fights ADHD
Children with ADHD improved on clinical scores and EEG patterns after 13 weeks of krill oil supplements, according to a study Mercola cites; a 2007 study of adults reported concentration gains averaging over 60 percent. The findings in children are not yet published.
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The Worst Type of Fish You Can Eat
Mercola argues open-cage salmon farms damage wild stocks and public health, noting that producing one kilo of farmed salmon can take up to five kilos of wild fish and krill, and comparing the crowded pens to factory farms.
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