Mercola argues the USDA organic label has been diluted: a certified organic product can mix organic and conventional ingredients, and hops in "organic beer" may be non-organic. U.S. organic food and drink sales grew from $1 billion in 1990 to $24.8 billion in 2009.
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Comments
Why the Happy Meal is Already Illegal
A commentary on the backlash against the mother who put her name to the Center for Science in the Public Interest's class action seeking to stop McDonald's from using Happy Meal toys to market to children, set against the fight over the Let's Move campaign.
Comments
Cure Your Cravings by Ignoring This Widely Followed Conventional Advice
Ori Hofmekler argues humans are built to eat their main meal at night: a large meal shuts down the sympathetic nervous system that burns fat by day and switches on the parasympathetic system, which stores energy. He suggests light, fast-assimilating foods during the day.
Comments
Now the FDA is Going After Vitamin C!
Mercola reports that the FDA has notified at least one pharmacy it may no longer make or distribute injectable vitamin C, and may also be banning injectable magnesium chloride and B-complex, the other ingredients of the Myers Cocktail.
Comments
The "Calcium Lie" Every Woman Should Know About
Mercola cites Robert Thompson's book The Calcium Lie, which holds that bone is made of at least a dozen minerals and that focusing only on calcium supplements may worsen bone density. Thompson recommends unprocessed salt instead, and Mercola questions drugs such as Fosamax, Actonel and Boniva.
Letter to Editor
Comment: Tuna and mercury: New tests by Consumer Reports
A letter to the editors from David Martosko of the Center for Consumer Freedom disputing Consumer Reports' canned tuna tests and arguing that the methylmercury levels found are far too low to represent a health concern.
Comments
Please join a Non-GMO Action Group TODAY (PR)
Jeffrey Smith invites readers to join local and national Non-GMO Action Groups, citing meetings he helped start in Boulder and four California cities and nearly 200 trained non-GMO speakers. Each national group will run its own listserve, forum and teleconferences.
Comments
You may live over 100 years by eating raw foods
Bernando LaPallo, 109, credits his health to a mostly raw diet he has eaten for more than 104 years and to his father's advice to eat properly and keep the colon clean. The piece also lists Walter Breuning's daily foods: vegetables, fruit, beans, nuts, soup and cinnamon tea.
Comments
Liposuction Risks for the 40 year old
The piece argues liposuction carries added danger for patients around 40, who on average have weaker immunity, less elastic tissue and slower healing, and who suffer more infections and drug reactions. It says every risk should be accounted for before the procedure.
Comments
US Senate Passes The Food Safety Modernization Act: Importers Beware!
The Senate passed the Food Safety Modernization Act 73 to 25. Former FDA official Benjamin England warns the bill greatly expands FDA authority over food, and predicts higher prices, slower imports and a heavier compliance burden without a proportional gain in safety.
Comments
A Newly Discovered Reason to Avoid Fast Food and Popcorn
Perfluoroalkyl coatings that keep grease from soaking through fast food wrappers and microwave popcorn bags break down into compounds that turn up in human blood. Researchers combined rat data with observed blood concentrations to estimate human exposure to PFOA.
Comments
This Powerful Nutrient Improves Concentration by 60% and Fights ADHD
Children with ADHD improved on clinical scores and EEG patterns after 13 weeks of krill oil supplements, according to a study Mercola cites; a 2007 study of adults reported concentration gains averaging over 60 percent. The findings in children are not yet published.
Comments
The Worst Type of Fish You Can Eat
Mercola argues open-cage salmon farms damage wild stocks and public health, noting that producing one kilo of farmed salmon can take up to five kilos of wild fish and krill, and comparing the crowded pens to factory farms.
Comments
Vitamin D Announcement: Help prevent 1000 children from remaining vitamin D deficient
The Vitamin D Council asks readers to vote for GrassrootsHealth in the Pepsi Refresh Project, where a $250,000 grant would fund 3,000 free vitamin D tests for 1,000 uninsured San Diego children and their families. Four voting days remained.
Comments
CHEJ Newsletter: Tell Toys "R" Us to play it safe - phase out PVC
A CHEJ newsletter reports that testing found PVC in 72 percent of toys checked at Toys R Us, with only one labeled, and asks readers to demand a phase-out on the retailer's Facebook page. It links chemicals from PVC's lifecycle to childhood asthma, obesity and cancer.
Comments
Celebrating our National Non-GMO Movement - Newsletter from Jeffrey Smith
A Thanksgiving newsletter in which Jeffrey Smith recounts a decade campaigning against genetically modified food, including time with two Chicago-area doctors who prescribe non-GMO diets and patients who told him chronic symptoms eased after they changed what they ate.
Comments
The Label All Milk Drinkers Should Look Out For (Unless You Like Cancer)
An Ohio court let dairies keep rbGH-free labels provided they carry the FDA's disclaimer, and also struck down the FDA finding of no measurable compositional difference, citing higher IGF-1, a stretch of lower-quality milk in each lactation, and higher somatic cell counts in milk from treated cows.
Opinion
Conventional Cattle on Factory Dairies Producing "Organic" Milk (PR)
The Cornucopia Institute is filing a formal legal complaint to stop the USDA from letting factory dairies bring conventional replacement heifers onto farms producing organic milk, a practice the group says federal organic regulations explicitly prohibit.
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