Kate Winslet narrates a video, filmed secretly at foie gras facilities, showing geese in cramped cages force-fed through tubes. Mercola describes gavage, in which a tube 8 to 12 inches long goes down the bird’s esophagus, and names other celebrities opposing the practice.
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OBESITY CONSPIRACY: The U.S. Government Scandal that's Really Making You Fat
Dr. Mercola points to the split of US federal food subsidies, with 73.8 percent going to meat and dairy, 13.2 percent to grains and just 0.4 percent to fruits and vegetables, as a reason a salad often costs more than a Big Mac.
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Do You Know Where Your Fish Comes From?
More than 80 percent of the seafood Americans eat is imported, much of it from China, Vietnam and the Philippines, and ABC News reported contamination with banned chemicals, carcinogens and antibiotics. Mercola cites 2008 FDA testimony on compliance problems with Chinese food exports.
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Reducing Calories Alone is Not Enough
In a study of 18 female rhesus macaques, a 30% cut in calories produced no weight loss, and the monkeys' activity levels began dropping soon after the reduced diet started. A comparison group of three monkeys trained to walk on a treadmill an hour a day did lose weight.
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Avoid this Popular Beverage Until You Learn the Shocking Details
Scientists have dismissed the idea that milk raises phlegm, but a new report says earlier experiments overlooked differences between cows. Milk from certain breeds carries a protein, beta-CM-7, that can stimulate mucus glands, possibly more so in people with chronic lung conditions.
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Shocking Sugar Content of Common Food Products
A Summer Tomato list, reposted with Mercola's commentary, tallies sugar per serving in common foods: 10 grams in a Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut, 39 in a can of Coca-Cola, 58 in a grande vanilla frappuccino. Marion Nestle calls anything over 15 grams closer to dessert.
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From Deceptive Boardrooms to Closed-Mind Thinking, How The Fatally Flawed Medical System Killed More Americans with Just One Drug than the Entire Vietnam War (Part 2 of 4)
Dr. Mercola recounts how his 2000 reading of Barbara Starfield's JAMA paper produced his headline calling doctors the third leading cause of death, a conclusion he says Starfield told him she did not share, and restates his aim of exposing a medical system he calls corrupted.
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Healthier Men Want More Sex for More Years
A British Medical Journal study reports that healthier men of any age have sex more often and want it more than healthier women, and suggests a healthy sex life may mean a longer one. Mercola adds a 1997 study in which men reporting the most frequent orgasms had half the death rate.
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Soft Drink Firms Claim Sugary Sodas Cut in Schools
The American Beverage Association says shipments of full-calorie soft drinks to US schools have fallen 95 percent under voluntary guidelines adopted in 2006. Dr. Mercola calls that a step forward but notes what replaced them: diet sodas, flavored waters, juices and pasteurized milk.
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The Ominous Beef Cover Up: The Hidden Truth Behind the Meat on Your Plate
Cattle are blamed for climate change because their feed is energy-intensive and they emit methane, but Time reports grass-fed cows may do the opposite: rotational grazing spurs regrowth and works manure into the soil, so net emissions fall even though the animals produce more methane.
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Would You Eat or Kill a Rabbit for Dinner?
Readers wrote to the New York Times objecting to its piece on raising rabbits for the table, calling them gentle, sentient animals. The article continues the paper's run of stories on chefs and locavores slaughtering their own meat, a do-it-yourself turn also recounted by Michael Pollan and others.
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How to Win the Food Battle with Your Child
The American Academy of Pediatrics offers a 5-2-1-0 formula against childhood obesity: five servings of vegetables and fruit, two hours or less of screen time, one hour of activity, and zero sugar-sweetened drinks a day. Mercola adds a fructose cap.
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Drug Companies Shift Emphasis to Vaccines
Mercola reads GlaxoSmithKline's 4,000 job cuts, nearly half in research and development, as part of a wider pharmaceutical shift toward vaccines, over-the-counter products and emerging markets as blockbuster patents lapse — a move he says predates the recession.
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STOP! Read This Before Vaccinating for Anything
Barbara Loe Fisher sets out three points for parents weighing vaccination: informed consent is a human right, states have held authority to mandate vaccines since a 1905 Supreme Court ruling, and all 50 states allow medical exemptions, 48 religious ones and 18 personal-belief ones.
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Shocking Facts You Didn’t Realize About Your Food…
Between 1977 and 2002 the share of Americans eating three or more snacks a day rose from 11 percent to 42 percent, and packaged snack sales reached $68 billion in 2008. Mercola ties the shift to over-scheduled children and the death of the family dinner.
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“Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World,” You Can Finally View FREE Online
Mercola announces that Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, a documentary attacking the artificial sweetener aspartame, is now free online in full. He cites more than 10,000 FDA complaints and a Calorie Control Council survey finding 79 percent of adults still buy sugar-free products.
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Dairy Atrocities Provoke New Laws, Dumped Suppliers
An undercover video shot for Mercy For Animals at New York's largest dairy shows a worker gouging calves' eye sockets while burning off horn buds, and cows left to suffer without veterinary care. Leprino Foods dropped the farm as a supplier at one plant; a state ban on tail docking was proposed.
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After Awful Swine Flu Fiasco How Can You EVER Believe the Media About Health Again?
Dr. Mercola points to the UK government trying to unload a billion pounds of unwanted swine flu vaccine after the predicted epidemic never arrived, and argues the WHO-led warnings, including a forecast that 40 percent of Britons would fall ill, followed a familiar pattern of scares.
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