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CHEJ Newsletter: Tell Toys "R" Us to play it safe - phase out PVC
A CHEJ newsletter reports that testing found PVC in 72 percent of toys checked at Toys R Us, with only one labeled, and asks readers to demand a phase-out on the retailer's Facebook page. It links chemicals from PVC's lifecycle to childhood asthma, obesity and cancer.
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Celebrating our National Non-GMO Movement - Newsletter from Jeffrey Smith
A Thanksgiving newsletter in which Jeffrey Smith recounts a decade campaigning against genetically modified food, including time with two Chicago-area doctors who prescribe non-GMO diets and patients who told him chronic symptoms eased after they changed what they ate.
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The Label All Milk Drinkers Should Look Out For (Unless You Like Cancer)
An Ohio court let dairies keep rbGH-free labels provided they carry the FDA's disclaimer, and also struck down the FDA finding of no measurable compositional difference, citing higher IGF-1, a stretch of lower-quality milk in each lactation, and higher somatic cell counts in milk from treated cows.
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Newsletter from ResponsibleTechnology.org - Thank You for a Great Year!
A year-end letter from ResponsibleTechnology.org thanking supporters: Mercola.com emailed its GMO articles to more than 1.5 million homes during Non-GMO Month, NaturalNews pledged to match up to $10,000 in donations, and nearly 200 people will finish its speaker training by year's end.
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The Chicken Which Should be Banned
Only about half of a McDonald's Chicken McNugget is chicken, with the rest corn derivatives, sugars, leavening agents and synthetic ingredients including the antifoaming agent dimethylpolysiloxane and the preservative TBHQ. Organic Authority transcribed the full ingredient list.
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Letter from EWG: BPA regulation
An Environmental Working Group appeal urging readers to press their senators to back the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act and Senator Feinstein's amendment banning BPA from sippy cups, baby bottles and formula containers.
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Media Finally Starts to Catch on to Gluten Free
A Today Show report describes rising demand for gluten-free catering, with one San Francisco caterer going from roughly one request a month to one a week. Mercola notes gluten damages the small intestine in celiac disease, which affects about 1 in 133 Americans.
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Is Drinking Too Much Funny? This Humorist Said Yes
Cartoonist John Callahan, an alcoholic and quadriplegic, died last week at 59. The piece recalls how his 1989 autobiography and his cartoons made jokes of wheelchair users, 12-step groups and much else the culture was then handling gingerly.
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The Despicable Reason Behind Raw Milk Bans
Dr. Mercola and author David Gumpert argue that crackdowns on raw milk, including proposed Massachusetts rules banning off-farm sales, are about protecting dairy markets rather than safety. They note three 2007 Listeriosis deaths there from pasteurized milk and none from raw milk.
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Vitamin D Council's future at risk — please help
An editor's note and appeal: the Vitamin D Council, the nonprofit founded by Dr. John Cannell, says donations have fallen sharply enough to put its existence at risk. Foodconsumer.org, which is not affiliated with the group, reprints Cannell's message and asks readers to donate.
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How To Wean Yourself Off Processed Foods in 7 Steps
Dr. Mercola relays the seven steps in Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough's Real Food Has Curves: seek genuine flavors, read labels, slow down at meals, cut added salt, fat and sugar, give your palate time to change, buy less-processed products, and stop skipping meals.
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Monsanto’s Deadly Gift for Earthquake-Stricken Haiti…
Monsanto offered earthquake-hit Haiti 475 metric tons of seed plus fertilizer and pesticides. The agriculture ministry refused the engineered seed but accepted hybrid corn and vegetable varieties that cannot be saved for replanting. Farm leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste pledged to burn them.
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Comments for Dietary Guidelines 2010 for Americans (1)
Foodconsumer.org reprints public comments filed with USDA on the 2010 Dietary Guidelines, including John McDougall’s case for a starch-based diet and another writer’s argument that humans are microbial “superorganisms.” The site does not endorse the views.
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How Corrupted Drug Companies Deceive and Manipulate Your Doctor
Mercola presents Dr. Beatrice Golomb's case that conflicts of interest have debased published medical science, beginning with unwanted trial results going unpublished and with every major statin study funded by the drug industry.
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Why US Meats Are Horrendous: The Vulgar Truth About What You Eat with that Steak or Burger
Mercola highlights a USDA report questioning whether federal inspectors can adequately screen meat for drug, pesticide and heavy metal residues, plus an AlterNet account of dying dairy cows rushed to slaughter. Mexico rejected a US beef shipment over copper in 2008.
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13 Plants That Could Kill You
A rundown of poisonous plants: apple seeds hold cyanogenic glycosides, rosary pea beads carry abrin, oleander can kill even as smoke, one castor bean holds enough ricin to kill an adult, and hemlock's coniine paralyzes the central nervous system.
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How a Phys Ed Program Transformed One School
At Naperville Central High School, students struggling with math or reading go to gym first, and classrooms hold exercise bikes and balls. Reading scores nearly doubled and math scores rose 20-fold. Cited research finds students solve problems up to 10 percent better after 30 minutes on a treadmill.
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