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Food Safety
Contaminants, chemicals, genetically engineered food and what is really in the food supply.
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Chemical
Artificial Sweeteners May Be Worse than Sugar for Diabetics
Mercola gathers studies that cut against diet products: a 1986 study of nearly 80,000 women found artificial sweetener users more likely to gain weight regardless of starting weight, and the San Antonio Heart Study found diet-drink drinkers had higher BMIs seven to eight years later.
Chemical
Harvard Study Finds Fluoride Lowers IQ
Mercola reports on a Harvard review of brain studies finding that children in high-fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ than those in low-fluoride areas. The authors say the results support the possibility of an adverse effect on children's neurodevelopment.
GMO
Decade-Long Feeding Study Reveals Significant Health Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods
Mercola reports Norwegian feeding experiments run over 10 years in which rats, mice, pigs and salmon fed genetically engineered Bt corn ate more, got fatter and digested proteins less well, with changes to the micro-structure of their intestines and to immune function.
GMO
"Monsanto Rider" Snuck into 2012 Farm Bill Includes Big Giveaways and Reduces Oversight
The House Agriculture Committee's Farm Bill carries what critics call the Monsanto Rider, which would loosen rules on new genetically engineered crops, shorten USDA review and stop courts halting GMO sales during appeals. Rep. Peter DeFazio offered an amendment to kill it.
GMO
Doctors Prescribe Non-GMO Diets; Remarkable Recoveries Result
Jeffrey Smith reports that patients who followed doctors' advice to drop GMOs describe improvements in allergies, asthma, digestive disorders, arthritis and anxiety. Internist Emily Lindner says gut and mood symptoms lift within days, with full results in four to six weeks.
Chemical
New Benbrook data blow away claims of pesticide reduction due to GM crops
Charles Benbrook's analysis of USDA data for 1996-2011 found herbicide use on Roundup Ready soy acres rose from 0.89 to 1.68 pounds per acre while use on non-GM soy fell from 1.19 to 0.96, challenging claims that GM crops reduce pesticide use.
Biological
New Resource to Help Protect Consumers from Pathogen Risks in Food and Water
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service and the EPA released a jointly developed Microbial Risk Assessment Guideline meant to improve the quality and consistency of the data federal agencies use when assessing pathogen risks in food and water.
Chemical
Fluoridation boosts risk of fluorosis - new study
A study in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry followed 588 Australian children and found more very mild to mild fluorosis in fluoridated areas, where mixing infant formula with tap water raised the risk further. Children in those areas also had less tooth decay.
GMO
This "Invisible Food" Contains Hidden Allergens (And Can Sabotage Your Health)
Dr. Mercola summarises Seeds of Freedom, a film about seed patenting, arguing that patented genetically engineered seeds stop farmers saving and trading seed and that GE crops have not delivered the higher yields or reduced herbicide use promised.
Chemical
Harvard Study Finds Fluoride in Water Lowers IQ – Published in Federal Gov’t Journal
A Harvard review of fluoride studies, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, concluded the results support the possibility of adverse effects on children's neurodevelopment, finding significantly lower IQ in high-fluoride areas. The studies reviewed used high water fluoride levels.
Chemical
Folate fortification may boost breast cancer risk
Among 34,388 postmenopausal Iowa women, folate intake alone showed no link to breast cancer. But among women taking 400 ug of folate a day, those with the highest nitrate intake carried 40% higher risk; no such link appeared in women with low folate intake.
Chemical
Cadmium causes both liver cancer, type 2 diabetes
A review in Current Drug Metabolism argues cadmium, a food contaminant and cigarette smoke constituent, may be a shared risk factor behind rising liver cancer and type 2 diabetes. Animal work has established a causal link to liver cancer; urinary cadmium tracked with diabetes in NHANES III.
Chemical
Industry finds alternative to Bisphenol A, but is it safe?
The federal government has barred BPA from baby bottles and sippy cups, acting on a request from the American Chemistry Council after manufacturers had already dropped the chemical. The FDA still backs BPA in food packaging, which some researchers dispute on animal evidence.
GMO
Known to Kill Cows, Castrate Wildlife, Induce Spontaneous Abortion in Lab Rats... And it's Likely in Your Water
A German farmer whose 65 cows died after eating Syngenta's Bt 176 corn has filed criminal charges, alleging the company withheld a feeding trial in which four cows died in two days and never registered the results. He puts his losses above 500,000 euros.
Chemical
Genotocity of metal nanoparticles: Animal studies
Reviewing animal studies for Arh Hig Rada Toksikol, Austrian researchers report some nanoparticles cause DNA strand breaks and chromosomal damage, with genotoxicity depending on particle size, surface modification, exposure route and duration. They urge caution, saying the evidence is limited.
Chemical
Chemicals in personal care products linked to type 2 diabetes
Researchers measured urinary phthalate levels in 2,350 women from a national survey and found those with the highest concentrations of several phthalates were up to twice as likely to have type 2 diabetes. The lead author calls it a first step in exploring the connection.
Chemical
Common metal oxide nanoparticles damage and kill cells
Testing 20-nanometre particles on human fetal lung fibroblasts, Chinese researchers found silicon dioxide, zinc oxide, titanium dioxide and aluminium oxide all caused mitochondrial dysfunction and cell death at 0.25 to 1.50 mg/mL, with zinc oxide the most toxic.
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