A year-end letter from ResponsibleTechnology.org thanking supporters: Mercola.com emailed its GMO articles to more than 1.5 million homes during Non-GMO Month, NaturalNews pledged to match up to $10,000 in donations, and nearly 200 people will finish its speaker training by year's end.
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Letter to Editor
Letter to Editor: Sugar-added soft drinks not the cause for gout
A letter from the American Beverage Association disputing the site's report on sugary drinks and gout, arguing the beverages studied contain no purines, that much of their sweetener is glucose rather than fructose, and that family history is the strongest risk factor.
Comments
The Chicken Which Should be Banned
Only about half of a McDonald's Chicken McNugget is chicken, with the rest corn derivatives, sugars, leavening agents and synthetic ingredients including the antifoaming agent dimethylpolysiloxane and the preservative TBHQ. Organic Authority transcribed the full ingredient list.
Comments
Letter from EWG: BPA regulation
An Environmental Working Group appeal urging readers to press their senators to back the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act and Senator Feinstein's amendment banning BPA from sippy cups, baby bottles and formula containers.
Comments
Media Finally Starts to Catch on to Gluten Free
A Today Show report describes rising demand for gluten-free catering, with one San Francisco caterer going from roughly one request a month to one a week. Mercola notes gluten damages the small intestine in celiac disease, which affects about 1 in 133 Americans.
Comments
Is Drinking Too Much Funny? This Humorist Said Yes
Cartoonist John Callahan, an alcoholic and quadriplegic, died last week at 59. The piece recalls how his 1989 autobiography and his cartoons made jokes of wheelchair users, 12-step groups and much else the culture was then handling gingerly.
Opinion
Without review or approval - Newsletter from EWG
Congress introduced the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010, which would let the FDA prohibit dangerous ingredients in cosmetics. EWG, which asks readers to pledge support, says 22 percent of personal care products may contain the carcinogen 1,4-dioxane and 60 percent of sunscreens contain oxybenzone.
Comments
The Despicable Reason Behind Raw Milk Bans
Dr. Mercola and author David Gumpert argue that crackdowns on raw milk, including proposed Massachusetts rules banning off-farm sales, are about protecting dairy markets rather than safety. They note three 2007 Listeriosis deaths there from pasteurized milk and none from raw milk.
Comments
Vitamin D Council's future at risk — please help
An editor's note and appeal: the Vitamin D Council, the nonprofit founded by Dr. John Cannell, says donations have fallen sharply enough to put its existence at risk. Foodconsumer.org, which is not affiliated with the group, reprints Cannell's message and asks readers to donate.
Comments
How To Wean Yourself Off Processed Foods in 7 Steps
Dr. Mercola relays the seven steps in Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough's Real Food Has Curves: seek genuine flavors, read labels, slow down at meals, cut added salt, fat and sugar, give your palate time to change, buy less-processed products, and stop skipping meals.
Comments
Monsanto’s Deadly Gift for Earthquake-Stricken Haiti…
Monsanto offered earthquake-hit Haiti 475 metric tons of seed plus fertilizer and pesticides. The agriculture ministry refused the engineered seed but accepted hybrid corn and vegetable varieties that cannot be saved for replanting. Farm leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste pledged to burn them.
Letter to Editor
Toxic America - Letter from EWG
A letter from EWG Action Fund president Ken Cook urging supporters to watch CNN's two-part Toxic America report on June 2 and 3, in which he debates the head of an industry-funded group, and to sign a petition on chemicals policy.
Comments
Comments for Dietary Guidelines 2010 for Americans (1)
Foodconsumer.org reprints public comments filed with USDA on the 2010 Dietary Guidelines, including John McDougall’s case for a starch-based diet and another writer’s argument that humans are microbial “superorganisms.” The site does not endorse the views.
Letter to Editor
Autism Professor Needs Help
An appeal for research volunteers: Professor Gene Stubbs of the University of Oregon is recruiting pregnant women who already have a child with autism to take 5,000 IU of vitamin D3 a day, and says families can now take part without travelling to the university.
Letter to Editor
Vitamin D boosts physical performance
The Vitamin D Council's John Cannell writes that Chicago Blackhawks team physicians began diagnosing and treating vitamin D deficiency in all players about 18 months ago, most on 5,000 IU a day. His sources credit better performance plus fewer and milder colds and repetitive-use injuries.
Letter to Editor
What's that smell?
Testing of 17 name-brand fragrances by EWG and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics turned up 38 chemicals absent from labels, an average of 14 per product, some tied to hormone disruption and allergic reactions. A 1973 labeling law exempts fragrance from ingredient lists.
Letter to Editor
Who's supplying the great chefs of Texas? (PR)
Thirty-seven Texas restaurateurs, chefs and others toured farms, a bakery, a winery, an olive orchard and a brewery on a Chef's Farm Tour run by the Texas Department of Agriculture and Texas AgriLife Extension to show them how local products are grown.
Comments
How Corrupted Drug Companies Deceive and Manipulate Your Doctor
Mercola presents Dr. Beatrice Golomb's case that conflicts of interest have debased published medical science, beginning with unwanted trial results going unpublished and with every major statin study funded by the drug industry.
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