Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception, argues in this interview that genetically modified foods cause health problems and that the FDA, government and GMO industry have covered it up. He points to the only published human feeding study, in which seven volunteers ate Roundup-ready soybeans.
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Food Safety
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Chemical
You Did It!! We ARE Winning the War on Fructose!!
Mercola marks PepsiCo dropping high fructose corn syrup from Gatorade alongside Princeton research in which rats given HFCS gained significantly more weight than rats given table sugar at the same calorie intake, with more abdominal fat and higher triglycerides.
Chemical
Aluminum damages your brain
Mice given aluminum chloride in feed for 100 days showed raised malondialdehyde, lowered superoxide dismutase and dose-dependent nuclear DNA damage in brain cells, Chinese researchers report. They suspect oxidative stress, though the mechanism remains unclear.
Chemical
High Fructose Corn Syrup vs. Sugar: Are they Nutritionally Similar?
Princeton researchers found rats drinking high fructose corn syrup gained more weight than rats drinking table sugar and, over six months, showed signs of metabolic syndrome. This is an animal study, and the Corn Refiners Association maintains the two sweeteners are nutritionally the same.
Chemical
Dangers of Drinking Water from a Water Fountain
A nationwide investigation found school drinking water in 27 states contaminated with lead and other toxins from pipes soldered before 1985. Baltimore switched its schools to bottled water in 2007 after 10 of 84 sampled fountains exceeded the EPA's 20 parts-per-billion lead cutoff.
Biological
Risk of Human Salmonella Infections from Live Baby Poultry
The CDC warns that chicks, ducklings, goslings and baby turkeys often carry Salmonella without appearing sick, and that children who hold, cuddle or kiss the birds, or touch their cages and feed bowls, can be infected. Wash hands after any contact.
Chemical
The Killer Combination of Salt, Fat and Sugar
Higher sugar, fat and salt stimulate neurons that trigger the brain's reward system and release dopamine, making you want to eat more, the piece says, offering that as a better account of rising obesity than a fixed body "thermostat." Five tips follow, starting with planning meals.
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Denmark Uses Antibiotic-Free Animals
Denmark's 17,000 farmers have given antibiotics only to sick animals for 12 years, and the country's pork industry has grown 43 percent since. Mercola notes that about 70 percent of all antibiotics go to agriculture and calls this a driver of resistant infections.
Chemical
This Common Food Ingredient Is As Addictive as Cocaine?
Colorado nephrologist Richard Johnson says uric acid sits at the center of obesity, high blood pressure and kidney disease: newly diagnosed hypertensive adolescents had elevated levels 90 percent of the time, and lowering it normalized blood pressure in 87 percent. Fructose raises it potently.
Chemical
Salmonella-tainted flavor enhancer HVP contains neurotoxins
The FDA alerted consumers to recalls of processed foods made with salmonella-contaminated hydrolyzed vegetable protein from Basic Food Flavors of Las Vegas. Nine companies, McCormick among them, have pulled products. HVP acts much like MSG, which the writer calls an excitotoxin.
Biological
Food labels with microbial data could help manage physical, possibly mental health (PR)
Texas A&M food microbiologist Suresh Pillai expects food labels one day to carry a microbial profile beside the nutrition facts, arguing that what bacteria and fungi a food holds matters as research links microbes to human physical and mental health.
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How to tell which plastic containers are risky?
Drawing on EPA material, the piece explains the 1-to-7 recycling codes and reports that many websites rate plastics marked 3, 6 and 7 worst for toxic ingredients such as BPA, and 1, 2 and 4 safest, noting the riskier types often end up in containers that touch food and drink.
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GM Foods Are More Dangerous For Children Than Adults
Excerpted from Jeffrey Smith's Genetic Roulette, this argues children face more risk from GM foods because nutrition changes hit fast-growing bodies harder, and because children are three to four times more prone to allergies than adults, with gut and immune barriers still maturing.
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Meat allergy more common than thought
A study of 60 patients with unexplained severe allergic reactions points to alpha-galactose, a sugar in meat and dairy, as the trigger, with 25 carrying IgE antibodies to it. Researchers say the reaction comes hours after eating, which had obscured the cause.
GMO
If You Find Problems with Genetically Modified Foods: Watch Out!
Dr. Mercola recounts how biologist Arpad Pusztai, hired to design the UK's GMO safety testing protocols, found rats fed GM potatoes developed potentially pre-cancerous cell growth, smaller organs and damaged immune systems. Days after he said so on TV he was fired and his team dismantled.
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Lactose Intolerance: What you need to know
Lactose intolerance follows from a shortage of lactase, the enzyme that splits milk sugar into glucose and galactose, and involves no immune response, unlike milk allergy. Primary deficiency builds after about age 2; secondary follows intestinal injury from illness, celiac disease or chemotherapy.
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Saturated Fat is NOT the Cause of Heart Disease
Mercola highlights an analysis in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition pooling 21 studies that found no clear evidence higher saturated fat intake led to higher risk of heart disease or stroke, and traces the case against saturated fat to Ancel Keys in 1953.
Chemical
Ajinomoto: Aspartame will be called AminoSweet
Ajinomoto is rebranding aspartame as AminoSweet, saying the name reflects the amino acids the sweetener is built from. NaturalNews calls the move a tactic to win over people who avoid aspartame; the FDA, which approved it for food in 1974, maintains the additive is safe.
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