Mercola argues the soda industry borrows Big Tobacco's playbook, with front groups, funded research and donations to health organizations, and cites research linking frequent soft drink consumption to a 9-15% increase in aggressive behavior, alongside obesity and liver disease.
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Food Safety
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Chemical
It Can Destroy Your Immune System and is Like Eating an Insecticide
Mercola argues that regularly eating Splenda may cause or worsen inflammatory bowel disease by inactivating digestive enzymes and altering the gut barrier, citing earlier work that sucralose can destroy up to half of beneficial gut flora. He notes IBD rates in Alberta rose sharply by 2000.
Chemical
Practical Options to Store Your Food without Contaminating Them With Plastics
Mercola advises replacing plastic kitchenware with glass or ceramic, and stainless steel or high-heat nylon utensils, arguing additives such as PBDEs, phthalates and BPA leach into food and drink in amounts that vary with use, especially when containers are heated.
Chemical
Lead Poisoning Alert: This Widely Used Drink is Dangerous
Mercola argues declassified Manhattan Project files show fluoridation was promoted to shield the bomb and aluminum industries from liability, and that the hydrofluorosilicic acid now used carries arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury and raises blood lead.
Chemical
Making your home a plastic-free zone
A nutritionist describes clearing BPA-free plastics from her kitchen after reading of a study showing such products still release chemicals with estrogenic activity, in some cases stronger than BPA's. She links estrogenic chemicals to early puberty, reduced sperm counts and obesity.
Biological
Turkey FUNdamentals: Planning for Thanksgiving
USDA food safety staff answer the turkey questions the Meat and Poultry Hotline hears every November. Buy about a pound per person, buy a fresh bird only one to two days ahead, and thaw in the refrigerator for 24 hours per four to five pounds.
Biological
Turkey FUNdamentals: Top Questions for Cooking a Turkey
USDA's Meat and Poultry Hotline answers recurring holiday questions: cooking time follows one bird's weight, not the combined weight of two; add 10 minutes per pound above 24 pounds and skip stuffing; and check for 165°F with a food thermometer.
Chemical
Fluoride is Dangerous, But This Toxin (in Your Water Supply) May be Far Worse
Environmental Working Group tested tap water from 35 US cities and detected chromium-6, which EPA classifies as likely carcinogenic to humans, in 31 of them. No legal limit exists for it in tap water; EPA responded with a plan to help local utilities assess the contaminant.
Chemical
Are You Eating This All-Time Favorite "Cancer-in-a-Can" Snack?
A 2005 analysis found every potato chip product tested exceeded the legal acrylamide limit by 39 to 910 times, with baked chips often higher than fried. Mercola counts more than 800 heat-induced compounds, 52 of them potential carcinogens, and urges eating at least a third of your food raw.
Chemical
Never Buy Meat, Potatoes or Herbs With This Label on it
Mercola argues irradiation forms furan, linked to liver toxicity, and 2-alkylcyclobutanones found only in irradiated food, which he says may promote tumor growth. Irradiated products must carry the radura symbol and a statement that they were treated with radiation.
Chemical
How Many More of these "Unavoidably Unsafe" Drugs Will Become Mandatory?
Mercola argues pharmaceutical and medical lobbyists are pushing toward mandatory vaccination, citing a jump in the private-office cost of the recommended childhood schedule from $80 in 1986 to $2,200 in 2011, 70 doses of 16 vaccines, and a Supreme Court ruling granting manufacturers immunity.
Chemical
Great Review of "The Case Against Fluoride"
Paul Connett, James Beck and H.S. Micklem's book, backed by 80 pages of citations, won a 2011 National Health Information Award. FAN points readers to Louisa Enright's three-part review, published on her blog and in Maine's Herald Gazette.
Chemical
More Victories - Have we reached the tipping point?
A correction to an earlier fluoridation bulletin. After fixing Calgary's population figure and adding New Plymouth, New Zealand, the group puts the number of people freed from water fluoridation in the past year at about 2,538,500, and lists the communities that stopped.
Chemical
Environmental toxin Bisphenol A can affect newborn brain
Uppsala University researchers report that animals exposed to bisphenol A during early brain development showed altered spontaneous behavior, adapted poorly to new environments and were hyperactive as young adults. The effect on the cholinergic signal system persisted into adulthood.
Chemical
ALERT: Food Toxins Found in Baby Formula
Mercola cites a study in which infants switched from breast milk to commercial formula within their first year saw their advanced glycation end products double, reaching levels found in people with diabetes. High-heat processed formula may hold 100 times more AGEs than breast milk.
Chemical
Exposure to chemical BPA before birth linked to behavioral, emotional difficulties in girls (PR)
Researchers led by Harvard School of Public Health report in Pediatrics that girls exposed to bisphenol A in the womb showed more behavioral and emotional problems. BPA turns up in canned food linings, polycarbonate plastics, dental sealants and some thermal-paper receipts.
Biological
How to Prevent Listeriosis Outbreaks
An FDA educator explains Listeria monocytogenes during the cantaloupe outbreak: it lives in soil, water and animal intestines, causes fever and muscle aches, and can be fatal for older adults, pregnant women and people with weakened immunity. Unlike most bacteria, it grows at fridge temperatures.
GMO
Hundreds Rally in Washington; Monsanto's Bt Corn Failing; It's Raining Roundup!
Hundreds ended a 504-km march from the UN to the White House by demanding mandatory GM labeling. The newsletter also reports western rootworm beetles resistant to Monsanto's Bt corn in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and South Dakota, with the company's shares down nearly 4 percent.
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