Acrylamide forms when carbohydrate-rich foods are cooked above 212F until the surface dries and browns, so it turns up in chips, fries, bread crust, cereals and roasted coffee. Chicory-based coffee substitutes carry 2-3 times more of it than real coffee, Mercola writes.
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Food Safety
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Monsanto’s NK603 corn safety meets no consensus in Brazil
A press release from Brazilian researchers: the national biosafety commission CTNBio rejected Seralini's study linking NK603 maize and Roundup to more tumors in rats, but reached the decision by vote rather than consensus, and the contesting document repeats criticisms Seralini had already answered.
Chemical
Arsenic found high in rice, rice bran
A study in Environmental Science and Technology found rice bran holds 10 to 20 times more arsenic than bulk rice grains, with inorganic arsenic reaching 1 mg/kg. The writer calculates that heavy rice eaters could take in about 30 mcg a day, well above regulatory limits.
Chemical
Cancer causing arsenic found in chicken
Johns Hopkins researchers tested 258 chicken samples and found 78 above 10 ppb of arsenic by dry weight, with conventional birds carrying significantly more than antibiotic-free or organic ones. From one 82-gram serving a day they estimate 3.7 cancers per 100,000 people over a lifetime.
Chemical
Arsenic tainted drinking water can also cause type II diabetes mellitus
A case-control study drawn from the San Luis Valley Diabetes Study found each 15 ug/L increase in drinking-water arsenic was associated with 27 percent higher risk of type 2 diabetes, at levels below 100 ug/L. EPA caps arsenic in drinking water at 10 ppb; some apple juices tested above it.
Chemical
Dietary cholesterol promotes progression in hepatitis C
Among 608 hepatitis C patients with advanced fibrosis or compensated cirrhosis, each higher quartile of dietary cholesterol intake came with 46 percent greater odds of clinical or histologic progression, after adjustment for confounders including alcohol, smoking and body mass.
Chemical
Is Fluoride “Brain-Drain” Damaging Generations of Children
The New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation cites Philippe Grandjean's book placing fluoride among 213 known brain-toxic chemicals. Grandjean says fluorides cause brain toxicity in humans and that vested interests manufacture doubt, as they did for decades over lead.
Chemical
Fructose risk factor for metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus, and hypertension
Khitan and Kim argue in the Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism that fructose is broken down by fructokinase, which has no negative feedback, depleting phosphate and generating uric acid. They tie that uric acid to endothelial dysfunction, insulin resistance and hypertension.
Chemical
Is Your Food Artificially Dyed?
Farmed salmon get their pink from added astaxanthin and canthaxanthin; at high doses canthaxanthin has been linked in humans to retinal damage, partial vision loss and aplastic anemia. The piece also flags nitrites and nitrates in processed meat and arsenic permitted in poultry feed.
Chemical
Trans fat boosts type 2 diabetes mellitus risk
Harvard researchers followed 84,204 women for 14 years and found a 2 percent increase in energy from trans fat associated with a 39 percent higher risk of type 2 diabetes, while a 5 percent increase from polyunsaturated fat was linked to 37 percent lower risk.
Chemical
Bisphenol A exposure linked to childhood obesity
Analyzing NHANES data on children aged 6 to 18, a West Virginia University researcher found those in the highest quartile of urinary BPA were 155 percent more likely to be obese than those in the lowest, with a wider gap among boys and non-Hispanic white boys in particular.
GMO
Fish Frenzy: GM Salmon Breed with Trout, Threaten Wild Populations
A new report finds genetically modified Atlantic salmon can breed with wild brown trout, and the hybrids grow about 80 percent faster with larger appetites. Lead author Krista Oke says that if the advantage holds in the wild, escaped hybrids could harm wild salmon populations.
GMO
Will Detection of Unapproved GMO Wheat Decimate US Economy?
USDA announced on May 29 that an unapproved Roundup Ready wheat strain, field tested by Monsanto between 1998 and 2005, was growing on an Oregon farm. Japan and Korea suspended US wheat orders, the EU ordered testing, and Washington and Kansas farmers have sued Monsanto.
Chemical
Water fluoridation boosts cancer risk
K. Takahashi and colleagues at the University of Tokyo examined IARC data from nine US communities and report that "optimally" fluoridated drinking water was associated with raised incidence of 23 cancer types, among them digestive, lung, bladder, prostate and bone cancers.
Chemical
Sugar boosts endometrial cancer risk
Comparing 424 women with endometrial cancer to 398 without it, researchers found those in the highest quartile of added sugar intake had 84 percent higher risk. Body mass index and physical activity did not appear to modify the effect.
Chemical
Dietary trans fat bad for your skin
Mice fed fish oil, soybean oil or hydrogenated vegetable fat for three months were then exposed to UV rays on two days. Skin from the fish oil group resisted UV damage best and the trans fat group fared worst, a study in Lipids found.
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Older Americans, pregnant women face highest risk from Listeria food poisoning
A CDC Vital Signs report finds adults 65 and older are four times likelier than the general population to get a listeria infection, pregnant women 10 times and pregnant Hispanic women 24 times. Those groups, newborns and immunocompromised people make up at least 90 percent of cases.
Chemical
ALERT: Sulfuryl Fluoride Amendment Still Being Considered
A reader alert urging people to call their senators against a Farm Bill amendment that would exclude naturally occurring and dental fluoride from EPA's aggregate exposure calculation for the food fumigant sulfuryl fluoride, with talking points for the call.
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