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Commentary, columns and letters to the editor.

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The Studies You Should Never, Ever Believe

Two reports published days apart reach opposite conclusions on whether microwave radiation harms health. Mercola notes the one finding no brain tumor link came from authors funded by mobile industry groups and holding telecom shares, who still declared no conflict of interest.

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This Substance Fools Your Metabolism - and Tricks Your Body into Gaining Pounds

Fooducate's read of the annual Trust for America's Health obesity report: adult obesity rose in 16 states over the past year and fell in none, twelve states now exceed 30 percent, Mississippi leads at 34.4 percent, and only Colorado stayed below 20 percent.

Jul 26, 2011

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Who Knew this Cocktail of up to 20 Chemicals Was in Your Glass of Milk?

Spanish and Moroccan researchers using a sensitive test found traces of as many as 20 drugs and hormones in samples of cow, goat and human breast milk, the most in cow's milk. Among them were the anti-inflammatories niflumic acid, mefenamic acid and ketoprofen, and 17-beta-estradiol.

Jul 26, 2011

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Pesticides in Your Toothpaste and Other Legal Dangers

The piece reports that triclosan, the antibacterial in Colgate Total toothpaste, breaks down into chloroform in tap water and dioxin in the environment, impairs thyroid function and shows up in human breast milk, urine and blood, and it questions drug and pesticide residues in meat.

Jul 25, 2011

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When It Comes to Fruits and Vegetables, Which Color Is Healthiest? The Winner Is...

Dutch researchers tracked the diets of 20,069 healthy people for 10 years and found deep orange produce carried the biggest benefit: the highest consumers had 26 percent lower heart disease risk, with carrots especially powerful. Published in the British Journal of Nutrition.

Jul 19, 2011

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New Vegan Diets 101 Course (Health Professionals Earn Credit!)

PCRM has posted Vegan Diets 101, an hour-long video by nutrition education director Susan Levin followed by a test at NutritionCME.org. It covers how a vegan diet relates to heart disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer, and is worth one contact hour for nurses, dietitians and physicians.

Jul 11, 2011

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What State Uses More Antibiotics on Livestock Than Entire U.S. on Humans?

Mercola cites a New York Times column noting North Carolina feeds more antibiotics to livestock than the entire U.S. uses for people, and calling for a ban on antibiotics in healthy animals, after Germany's E. coli O104:H4 sprout outbreak.

Jul 9, 2011

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Hidden Documents Reveal CDC Fluoride Support Controlled by Dentists

Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show that since the 1970s the CDC's Oral Health Division alone has shaped the agency's support for water fluoridation, with no input from its toxicologists, minority health professionals or diabetes experts.

Jul 9, 2011

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Simple Way to Shed Pounds and Decrease Tiredness - Stop Eating This

In 1911 low-quality bread made up 40 percent of the diet of Britain's poor and was blamed for widespread ill health, and refined white flour still holds almost no natural vitamins or minerals. Mercola notes white bread is now more than 50 percent of what Britons buy.

Jun 30, 2011

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New Study: Fluoride Can Damage the Brain – Avoid Use in Children (pr)

A press release from the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation cites a Neurologia review concluding that prolonged fluoride ingestion may significantly damage health and the nervous system, and urging people to avoid fluoride toothpaste, especially in children.

Jun 23, 2011

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Be VERY Careful About Purchasing Food Products from Asia

China has banned more than 800 imported Taiwanese products, including beverages, foods and additives, over contamination with DEHP, a phthalate used in plastics that can disrupt hormones. Taiwan arrested a company owner who used DEHP in place of costlier palm oil.

Jun 23, 2011

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Please - Don’t Make These Mistakes with Governments New “Food Pyramid”

The USDA replaced the food pyramid with MyPlate, giving fruits and vegetables half the plate and demoting grains. Mercola pairs that with USDA testing that found 34 pesticide residues on a batch of conventional cilantro, two of them above federal limits.

Jun 23, 2011

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The Popular Food that Turns Your Gut into a Pesticide Factory

Robyn O'Brien turned real-food activist after her youngest child reacted acutely to a typical breakfast. Mercola's piece cites peanut allergies doubling between 1997 and 2002, a 265 percent rise in allergy-related hospitalisations, and one in 17 children now affected.

Jun 14, 2011

Letter to Editor

To the editor: Dr. Mercola’s recent comments on sweeteners have been unbalanced and not helpful to readers

A letter to the editor from registered dietitian Rima Kleiner, a consultant to the food and beverage industry including The Coca-Cola Company, arguing that Dr. Mercola's comments on sweeteners are unbalanced and citing research that low-calorie sweeteners can aid weight management.

Jun 10, 2011

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7 'Healthy' Foods That Are Making You Fat (comment)

Dr. Mercola comments on an MSNBC list of foods marketed as healthy that may not be, including artificial sweeteners, diet soda, which researchers tied to a 41 percent higher overweight risk per can consumed, and veggie chips made mostly of corn or potato flour.

Jun 8, 2011

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Be Aware: this "Food" Radically Increases Your Risk of Cancer...(Comment)

Tom Philpott's aspartame article drew a rebuttal from blogger Adam Ozimek, who defended the sweetener and the FDA's approval process. Philpott points to studies tying aspartame to cancer, stroke and type 2 diabetes, and to an administration he says defers to business interests.

Jun 8, 2011

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Can Coffee Lower the Risk from this Deadly Cancer?

A study that followed nearly 50,000 male health professionals for more than two decades found men who drank six or more cups of coffee a day had about a 60 percent lower risk of lethal prostate cancer, and those drinking three cups a day a 30 percent lower risk.

Jun 2, 2011

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Save Hundreds if Not Thousands of Dollars on Food This Year…

An FAO report finds 30 percent of the world's food, about 1.3 billion tons, is lost or wasted each year. Europeans and North Americans waste 95 to 115 kilograms a head, against 6 to 11 kilograms in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Jun 1, 2011

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