Cambridge researchers gave 23 peanut-allergic children escalating daily doses of peanut. After six weeks, 91 percent could eat five peanuts a day without reaction, and by six months 19 tolerated 32. An observer cautioned that people should not try this at home.
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Food Safety
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Chemical
Trans fats expand your waistline- Study
Among 1,136 Japanese female dietetics students, total trans fat intake tracked with larger waist circumference, higher triacylglycerol and higher glycated hemoglobin, but not with body mass index. No link showed for natural trans fat, whose intake may have been too low to judge.
Chemical
Exposure on Tap: Drinking Water as an Overlooked Source of Lead
Lead usually enters tap water after it leaves the treatment plant, when chemistry changes destabilize mineral scales and corrode solder, pipes, faucets and fixtures. Providence and Portland both have had recurring lead problems that critics say they downplayed as a route of exposure.
Biotech
10 Reasons Why No One Needs GM Foods
Dr. Mercola lists arguments against GM crops: a World Bank report blamed biofuels for the 2008 food price spike, GM has not raised yield potential and GM soy yields have fallen, U.S. data show pesticide use rose, and a UN/World Bank report found better alternatives available.
Chemical
Jimsonweed Poisoning Associated with a Homemade Stew --- Maryland, 2008
Six adults from one Maryland family reached a hospital emergency department with hallucinations, confusion, dilated pupils and racing hearts hours after sharing homemade stew. Investigators traced the poisoning to jimsonweed, a nightshade containing atropine and scopolamine.
Chemical
Top brands of tuna found high in mercury
University of Nevada-Las Vegas researchers found 55 percent of more than 300 canned tuna samples from the top three U.S. brands exceeded the EPA's 0.5 ppm mercury standard, and 5 percent topped the FDA's 1.0 ppm limit. One of the three brands was consistently high.
Biological
Fecal Bacteria Found in Nearly Half of Fast Food Soda Fountains
A study found coliform bacteria in 48 percent of fast food soda fountains and E. coli in 11 percent, along with other opportunistic microbes, most of them resistant to at least one of 11 antibiotics tested.
Biological
Salmonella Questions and Answers
USDA's food safety service answers common questions about salmonella, the most frequently reported cause of foodborne illness, noting the family holds more than 2,300 serotypes and that contaminated food usually looks, smells and tastes normal.
Chemical
This Common Food Ingredient Can Really Mess Up Your Metabolism (II)
The Corn Refiners Association is campaigning to present high fructose corn syrup as equal to table sugar, this installment argues, while the industry's newer crystalline fructose is 99.5% pure fructose and may carry arsenic, lead, chloride and heavy metals.
Chemical
This Common Food Ingredient Can Really Mess Up Your Metabolism (1)
Mercola argues that sugar, and fructose in particular, drives insulin resistance and weight gain along with raised blood pressure, triglycerides and LDL, gout, heart disease and liver damage, and notes Americans now eat far more calories than they did 25 years ago.
Chemical
Bisphenol A in Food Containers Unsafe for Infants, Young Children - FDA
The FDA said in January 2010 that it now shares the National Toxicology Program's concern about BPA's possible effects on the brain, behavior and prostate gland in fetuses, infants and young children, after years of dismissing higher exposure estimates.
Chemical
Why Haven't Fruit & Vegetable Eaters Been Told About This Toxic Waste Overload?
The U.S. government is encouraging farmers to spread coal plant scrubber waste, a synthetic gypsum that also contains mercury, arsenic and lead, on their fields. The EPA says the toxic metals occur in only tiny amounts; some environmentalists say the effects on crops and health are poorly known.
Chemical
Artificial Sweeteners Don't Fool Your Brain
Eight cyclists rinsed their mouths without swallowing during hour-long rides: glucose beat saccharin slightly, and saccharin plus maltodextrin beat saccharin alone. fMRI scans showed the caloric combination activated the striatum and anterior cingulate, which saccharin alone did not touch.
Chemical
Fungi May Hold Key to Reducing Grapefruit Juice Interactions with Medications
Agricultural Research Service scientists found the fungus Aspergillus niger either bound or enzymatically broke down the furanocoumarins in grapefruit juice that interfere with drug metabolism. Dried, pulverized morel, oyster and button mushrooms also removed them.
Biotech
Scientists Sequence Genome of the Woodland Strawberry
An international consortium including USDA Agricultural Research Service scientists sequenced the genome of the woodland strawberry, Fragaria vesca, a small, fast-cycling relative of peach, cherry and cultivated strawberry that serves as a model for the Rosaceae family.
GMO
The Health Hazards of GM Corn
Reanalysing the data Monsanto submitted to regulators, Gilles-Eric Seralini's team reports signs of toxicity from three GM corn varieties, saying the kidneys and liver showed problems in every case. Mercola argues independent researchers had to dig the finding out.
Biological
Soda fountains dispersing gastric distress
Researchers sampled 90 drinks from 30 soda fountain machines and found 48 percent carried coliform bacteria and 11 percent E. coli, many isolates resistant to at least one antibiotic. They say such drinks may contribute to gastric distress, more seriously in immunocompromised people.
GMO
GM Potatoes Damages Rats
An excerpt from Genetic Roulette: rats fed potatoes engineered to make their own insecticide developed potentially precancerous growth in the digestive tract, partial liver atrophy, enlarged pancreases and intestines, and immune damage. It blames the engineering, not the insecticide.
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