Testing 69 Canadian women, researchers detected Cry1Ab, a Bt toxin from GM crops, in 93 percent of maternal blood samples, 80 percent of fetal samples and 69 percent of samples from non-pregnant women, undercutting the claim that the protein breaks down in the human gut.
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I Strongly Recommend Avoiding These 7 Foods
Mercola relays Food Matters' survey of seven experts on the foods they avoid: canned tomatoes, because the can lining contains BPA, plus grain-fed beef, microwave popcorn bags lined with PFOA, conventional potatoes, farmed salmon, conventional milk and conventional apples.
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Want to Look Younger? Take This Simple Supplement Every Day for 2 Weeks
Mercola promotes astaxanthin, a carotenoid he calls the most potent antioxidant nature offers, citing clinical studies that he says suggest it protects skin from the sun and reduces visible signs of aging without a high price or side effects.
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Is it Time to Boycott This 'Anti' Cancer Charity?
Mercola points readers to a 130-page report by Dr. Samuel Epstein arguing the American Cancer Society is more interested in accumulating wealth than saving lives, citing ties to the mammography, cancer drug and pesticide industries and a focus on diagnosis and treatment over prevention.
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Eating Mistakes that Age You
Mercola works through a Yahoo Shine list of four eating mistakes blamed for symptoms people put down to ageing: avoiding all animal protein and its B12, missing manganese and copper, avoiding omega-3 fats, and favouring packaged food low in potassium. He adds his own quarrels.
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Two Dangerous "Experts" You Should Never EVER Believe...
Mercola covers two names in vaccine research: Danish scientist Poul Thorsen, charged with 13 counts of wire fraud and nine of money laundering over autism research funds, and Dr. Paul Offit, whose statements about a CBS reporter drew a retraction from the Orange County Register.
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This Should be Banned: Found in 80% of Supermarket Foods
Under a two-year USDA pilot, biotech companies may run their own environmental assessments of new GMO crops, or hire contractors, with the agency keeping final say on safety. Mercola notes GM ingredients have reached roughly 80 percent of US grocery store items.
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How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis
Mercola relays a Foreign Policy argument that the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index, plus the 1999 deregulation of futures markets, let banks buy grain futures without limit, so speculators now outnumber genuine hedgers four to one and pull food prices upward.
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Lunchroom cameras watch what students eat
Five Texas elementary schools will use USDA-funded lunchroom cameras to record what children choose, eat and leave behind, research meant to improve eating habits. USDA has also raised nutrition standards for school meals for the first time in fifteen years.
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Are You Addicted to Starbucks?
Martha Rosenberg's satirical take on Starbucks culture: baristas who find espresso drunks worse than bar patrons, cup sizes where 'grande' means an actual pint, and 300 mg caffeine drinks arriving alongside road rage.
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The Meat You Should Never, Ever Eat...
An Australian television expose shows how transglutaminase, or meat glue, binds scraps too small to sell into what looks like a prime cut, with seams so fine even expert butchers can be fooled. Mercola says the practice sharply raises the odds of food poisoning.
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Would This Video Make You Stop Eating Beef? Futures Traders Think So
Martha Rosenberg describes a Mercy For Animals investigation at the 10,000-calf E-6 Cattle Company in Hart, Texas, where video showed sick and injured calves killed with hammers and denied care. Owner Kirt Espenson both denies condoning the abuse and defends withholding medicine.
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What to Know if You Ever Want to Eat Chicken Again…
Mercola reports that chicken operations routinely feed birds the arsenic compound roxarsone. Researchers estimate 11 to 12 metric tons of arsenic reach farmland on the Delmarva Peninsula each year through poultry waste, and a 2006 IATP test found detectable arsenic in 55% of chicken samples.
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Is This the World's Most Effortless Way to Slim Your Waistline?
Mercola points to conjugated linoleic acid, found mainly in beef and dairy and richest in grass-fed and raw sources, as linked to long-term weight management. He cites animal work on tumors and insulin action; grass-fed beef is about 3 percent of US production.
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New Report Shows How You Get Addicted to Diet Soda
Mercola relays a CNN report that diet-drink users average more than 26 ounces a day and can become psychologically and physically dependent, and that artificial sweeteners may prompt more drinking because they satisfy less. Habitual use has been linked to low bone density, diabetes and stroke.
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Why Aren't GMO Foods Labeled?
The USDA approved genetically engineered alfalfa, a corn variety and sugar beets, and neither USDA nor FDA will require labels, though over 95 percent of people polled say GM foods should carry them. Mercola also relays Don Huber's warning about an organism tied to GM crops.
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Eating a Pig With a Wooden Leg
An essay that opens on the old joke about a pig too heroic to eat all at once, then argues meat eating persists despite vegan bestsellers like Veganist and Skinny Bitch, whose authors also warn readers about the hormones in dairy products.
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Sugar and its Effects: Not All Sweet
Isaac Eliaz writes that sugar in any form weakens immunity, causes inflammation and raises the risk of metabolic syndrome, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. He favours unrefined sweeteners such as raw honey, maple syrup and stevia, still used sparingly.
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