Dr. Mercola cites a meta-analysis of 13 trials in more than 33,000 people showing no mortality benefit from intensive glucose-lowering treatment, with a 19 percent rise in all-cause and 43 percent rise in cardiovascular death not ruled out. He also recounts Avandia's heart risks.
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This Procedure Ruins Your Body's Ability to Detoxify Itself
Mercola and Consumers for Dental Choice argue that dental amalgam keeps releasing mercury vapour after placement, and that mercury blocks production of glutathione, the amino acid the body uses to excrete it, so it accumulates. They name resin composite and glass ionomers as alternatives.
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The Key Most Arthritis Sufferers are Not Doing Enough of
Researchers who had more than 1,000 people with radiographic knee osteoarthritis wear accelerometers for a week found 56.5 percent of women and 40.1 percent of men never sustained 10 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous activity. Mercola argues exercise is crucial with osteoarthritis.
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What You Don't Know About Flavor Enhancers Can Harm You
Senomyx develops flavor enhancers using taste-receptor assays built from HEK293 cells, originally taken from an electively aborted fetus. The Weston A. Price Foundation says the additives appear only as 'artificial flavors' and, used in tiny amounts, skipped the FDA's usual additive review.
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The Forbidden Food You Should Never Stop Eating
Mercola argues the case against saturated fat rests on Ancel Keys's 1953 paper, which compared six countries while leaving out 16 whose data did not fit. He also traces Crisco from candle and soap stock to the first commercially marketed trans fat.
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Probably the Best Way to Enhance Your Baby's Gut and Brain Development
Dr. Mercola cites a study that found growth factors and cytokines in every breast milk sample tested, and that breast milk protein extracts raised the number of surviving enteric neurons, neurite outgrowth and glial cells — suggesting milk proteins aid the enteric nervous system.
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This Almost Perfect Natural Oil Could Slow Down Your Aging Clock
Mercola makes his case for krill over fish oil, arguing krill carries the same omega-3 fats but with astaxanthin protecting them from spoiling and phospholipids that raise absorption, and says research on krill has expanded sharply over the past two years.
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Mythbusters: Learn the Truth about Food Safety in Your Home
For National Food Safety Education Month, FDA's Howard Seltzer knocks down common myths: vegetarians can still get foodborne illness, produce needs rinsing under running water but never detergent or bleach, and freezing does not kill bacteria.
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Are You Fat Because You are Being Poisoned?
A study found blood plasma levels of the dioxin OCDD, PCBs and the pesticides HCB, TNK and DDE all positively related to fat mass. People in the top fifth for PCB 105 averaged more than 10 pounds more fat mass than those in the bottom fifth, after adjustment.
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Enormously Useful Allergy Treatment - With Virtually No Side Effects
Mercola reports a PNAS study led by the USDA's Lewis Ziska linking warming temperatures to a longer ragweed pollen season, now 27 days longer in the northernmost parts of North America, and notes that a record-wet spring has primed much of the US for a heavy allergy season.
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Avoid This Before Bed if You Want a Good Night's Sleep
A trial gave 100 postmenopausal women with insomnia either 530 mg of concentrated valerian extract or placebo twice daily for four weeks. Sleep quality improved in 30 percent of the valerian group against 4 percent on placebo, a statistically significant difference.
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Why are They Raising a Fuss Over Raw Milk When these Infections are FAR Worse?
Mercola sets the FDA's campaign against raw milk, tied to more than 800 illnesses since 1998, or about 61 a year, against Cargill's recall of 36 million pounds of salmonella-contaminated ground turkey, which infected nearly 80 people in 26 states and killed one.
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The Shocking Truth About Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice
Industrially produced orange juice sits in deoxygenated holding tanks for up to a year, which keeps it from spoiling but strips its flavor, so companies add engineered 'flavor packs' to restore it. Because those packs derive from orange essence and oil, they need not appear on the label.
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This Popular Supplement Can Spike Your Heart Attack Risk by 30%...
An analysis reported in the British Medical Journal found a 30 percent higher risk of myocardial infarction among people taking 500 mg or more of elemental calcium, leading its authors to call for a reassessment of calcium supplements in osteoporosis management.
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Eating Fat Won't Make You Fat but These 10 Things Will
Mercola passes on Yahoo Health's list of habits that add weight, among them eating “low-fat” foods, drinking one or two sodas a day including diet, eating too fast or after 8 PM, sleeping too little or too much, using larger plates and taking big bites.
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The 9 Foods the U.S. Government is Paying You to Eat
The federal government paid US farmers $12.3 billion in 2009. Mercola cites The Atlantic's list of the most heavily subsidized products, led by corn at over $77 billion from 1995 to 2010, and argues the subsidies let junk food undersell nutritious food.
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The Case Against Drinking 6-8 Glasses of Water a Day
Scottish GP Margaret McCartney calls the advice to drink six to eight cups of water daily “thoroughly debunked nonsense” pushed by bottled water firms. Other experts told the Los Angeles Times the answer varies by person and that most people do well drinking when thirsty.
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Another Reason to Ditch Your Non-Stick Cookware
Blood samples from California women in the 1960s, 1980s and 2009 showed PFOS at the highest concentration in every period, and roughly a tenfold rise in PFOA from the 1960s to the 1980s. Longer-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids built up continuously through 2009.
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