Mercola highlights a USDA report questioning whether federal inspectors can adequately screen meat for drug, pesticide and heavy metal residues, plus an AlterNet account of dying dairy cows rushed to slaughter. Mexico rejected a US beef shipment over copper in 2008.
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Comments
13 Plants That Could Kill You
A rundown of poisonous plants: apple seeds hold cyanogenic glycosides, rosary pea beads carry abrin, oleander can kill even as smoke, one castor bean holds enough ricin to kill an adult, and hemlock's coniine paralyzes the central nervous system.
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How a Phys Ed Program Transformed One School
At Naperville Central High School, students struggling with math or reading go to gym first, and classrooms hold exercise bikes and balls. Reading scores nearly doubled and math scores rose 20-fold. Cited research finds students solve problems up to 10 percent better after 30 minutes on a treadmill.
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Why You Want to Avoid Foie Gras
Kate Winslet narrates a video, filmed secretly at foie gras facilities, showing geese in cramped cages force-fed through tubes. Mercola describes gavage, in which a tube 8 to 12 inches long goes down the bird’s esophagus, and names other celebrities opposing the practice.
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OBESITY CONSPIRACY: The U.S. Government Scandal that's Really Making You Fat
Dr. Mercola points to the split of US federal food subsidies, with 73.8 percent going to meat and dairy, 13.2 percent to grains and just 0.4 percent to fruits and vegetables, as a reason a salad often costs more than a Big Mac.
Opinion
New Proof that Bread and Rice Increase Heart Disease
Women eating the most rapidly absorbed carbohydrates, such as white bread and rice, were twice as likely to develop heart disease in a study of about 48,000 people; complex carbohydrates showed no such link. Mercola blames insulin and triglycerides driven up by excess refined carbs.
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Do You Know Where Your Fish Comes From?
More than 80 percent of the seafood Americans eat is imported, much of it from China, Vietnam and the Philippines, and ABC News reported contamination with banned chemicals, carcinogens and antibiotics. Mercola cites 2008 FDA testimony on compliance problems with Chinese food exports.
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Reducing Calories Alone is Not Enough
In a study of 18 female rhesus macaques, a 30% cut in calories produced no weight loss, and the monkeys' activity levels began dropping soon after the reduced diet started. A comparison group of three monkeys trained to walk on a treadmill an hour a day did lose weight.
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Avoid this Popular Beverage Until You Learn the Shocking Details
Scientists have dismissed the idea that milk raises phlegm, but a new report says earlier experiments overlooked differences between cows. Milk from certain breeds carries a protein, beta-CM-7, that can stimulate mucus glands, possibly more so in people with chronic lung conditions.
Comments
Shocking Sugar Content of Common Food Products
A Summer Tomato list, reposted with Mercola's commentary, tallies sugar per serving in common foods: 10 grams in a Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut, 39 in a can of Coca-Cola, 58 in a grande vanilla frappuccino. Marion Nestle calls anything over 15 grams closer to dessert.
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From Deceptive Boardrooms to Closed-Mind Thinking, How The Fatally Flawed Medical System Killed More Americans with Just One Drug than the Entire Vietnam War (Part 2 of 4)
Dr. Mercola recounts how his 2000 reading of Barbara Starfield's JAMA paper produced his headline calling doctors the third leading cause of death, a conclusion he says Starfield told him she did not share, and restates his aim of exposing a medical system he calls corrupted.
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Healthier Men Want More Sex for More Years
A British Medical Journal study reports that healthier men of any age have sex more often and want it more than healthier women, and suggests a healthy sex life may mean a longer one. Mercola adds a 1997 study in which men reporting the most frequent orgasms had half the death rate.
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Soft Drink Firms Claim Sugary Sodas Cut in Schools
The American Beverage Association says shipments of full-calorie soft drinks to US schools have fallen 95 percent under voluntary guidelines adopted in 2006. Dr. Mercola calls that a step forward but notes what replaced them: diet sodas, flavored waters, juices and pasteurized milk.
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Vitamin D Council needs your help (PR)
The Vitamin D Council asks readers to have blood drawn twice on the same day, sending one 25-hydroxy-vitamin D sample to Quest and one to LabCorp so the Council can compare the two labs. It will reimburse up to $100 on receipt of both results.
Comments
The Ominous Beef Cover Up: The Hidden Truth Behind the Meat on Your Plate
Cattle are blamed for climate change because their feed is energy-intensive and they emit methane, but Time reports grass-fed cows may do the opposite: rotational grazing spurs regrowth and works manure into the soil, so net emissions fall even though the animals produce more methane.
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Would You Eat or Kill a Rabbit for Dinner?
Readers wrote to the New York Times objecting to its piece on raising rabbits for the table, calling them gentle, sentient animals. The article continues the paper's run of stories on chefs and locavores slaughtering their own meat, a do-it-yourself turn also recounted by Michael Pollan and others.
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How to Win the Food Battle with Your Child
The American Academy of Pediatrics offers a 5-2-1-0 formula against childhood obesity: five servings of vegetables and fruit, two hours or less of screen time, one hour of activity, and zero sugar-sweetened drinks a day. Mercola adds a fructose cap.
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Drug Companies Shift Emphasis to Vaccines
Mercola reads GlaxoSmithKline's 4,000 job cuts, nearly half in research and development, as part of a wider pharmaceutical shift toward vaccines, over-the-counter products and emerging markets as blockbuster patents lapse — a move he says predates the recession.
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