Psychiatrist Omar Manejwala tells Martha Rosenberg that cravings for food, exercise or sex arise in brain regions similar to those behind drug and alcohol cravings and can wreck lives just as thoroughly, and that neither yields to willpower alone but to a new way of living.
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Letter to Editor
International Conference on Nutrition and the Brain: The Role of Foods and Lifestyle in Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Neurological Disorders
A letter from PCRM president Neal Barnard announcing a two-day conference for health professionals on nutrition, lifestyle and the brain, held July 19 and 20, 2013 in Washington, D.C. and jointly sponsored by PCRM and George Washington University.
Comments
Protecting Children’s Health: American Academy of Pediatrics Misses the Big Picture in Their Flawed ‘Organics’ Analysis
Charlotte Vallaeys argues the American Academy of Pediatrics' first statement on organic foods for children is flawed: it acknowledges many pesticides are neurotoxins and that residues have been correlated with ADHD, yet holds out for experimental proof of causation before recommending organic food.
Comments
Don’t Blame Peanut Butter for Salmonella Outbreak: It’s the Meat!
With 30 people in 19 states infected and Sunland's peanut butter blamed, the piece argues salmonella are intestinal bacteria that reach food through traces of animal feces, so a farm is the original source, and links heavy antibiotic use in livestock to resistant outbreaks.
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Salmonella Prompts Peanut Butter Recall, What Is Your Risk?
After a run of peanut butter recalls over possible salmonella, the writer argues the risk to healthy people is modest: fever, cramps and diarrhea usually start 12 to 72 hours after eating tainted food and clear in 4 to 7 days. People with weakened immunity face the real danger.
Letter to Editor
Reader's response to article "Common metal oxide nanoparticles damage and kill cells"
A reader's letter disputing a Food Consumer article on metal oxide nanoparticles, arguing that dose and test protocol determine toxicity and citing an FDA study that found nanoscale titanium dioxide was not genotoxic in the Ames test or Comet assay.
Letter to Editor
Letter to Editor: Greetings Anti-GMO Groups
A reader's letter urging anti-GMO campaigners to move past petitions and social networking and take up door-to-door literature drives, citing the California labelling ballot initiative as the model to imitate.
Comments
Watch Your Butts, Hot Dog Fans
PCRM erected a 'Hot Dogs Cause Butt Cancer' billboard outside Marlins Park after a survey found 39 percent of Americans did not know the colon is the large intestine. More than 140,000 Americans are diagnosed with colorectal cancer each year and more than 50,000 die of it.
Letter to Editor
Letter to Editor: Highly exposed to phthalates as fetuses, female mice have altered reproductive lives
A Brown University media pitch about a study in Reproductive Toxicology reporting that extremely high in utero phthalate doses were associated with a shortened reproductive lifespan and abnormal mammary cell growth in mice. The doses far exceed typical real-world exposure.
Comments
Husbands--Don't Commit These Valentine's Day Insults!
A humor piece cataloguing Valentine's Day gift mistakes husbands repeat: clothing bought in the wrong size, vague compliments about a new haircut or outfit, flattery delivered by a single candle, and dinners at restaurants with counter service and vibrating order beepers.
Comments
Why is the Government Buying You Twinkies?
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.
Comments
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.
Comments
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.
Comments
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.
Comments
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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