Diana Jalal's team studied 4,528 adults without diagnosed hypertension and found those consuming more than 74 grams of fructose a day, roughly 2.5 sugary soft drinks, faced higher blood pressure independent of other factors.
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Food Safety
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GMO
Potential Health Dangers from GM Foods: Q&A
A question-and-answer piece drawn from Jeffrey Smith's Genetic Roulette argues GM foods may cause new diseases, allergies and antibiotic resistance. It says only one human study exists, that no one monitors human health effects, and cites animal research reporting organ and immune damage.
GMO
Vilsack Earns Boos for Pushing GM Food
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack drew moans, hisses and boos at the Community Food Security Coalition conference after answering a GMO question by citing the need to feed a growing world population. Mercola says GM foods have been linked to organ and immune damage.
GMO
Everything You HAVE TO KNOW about Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods
Dr. Mercola introduces a Jeffrey Smith video arguing that genetically modified foods are dangerous, citing studies linking GMOs to toxins, allergies and infertility, fired whistleblowers, and an estimate that 75 percent of US grocery foods contain unlabeled GM ingredients.
Chemical
Fructose Tied to Higher Blood Pressure
Two studies offered the first evidence that a diet high in fructose raises blood pressure in men, and one suggested people eating junk food and sweetened drinks at night may gain weight faster. Mercola disputes the claim that fructose is no worse than other sugars.
GMO
US Consumers Given False Sense of Security About Food Safety
The piece argues the FDA sets no safety testing requirements for genetically modified foods and leans on industry research, citing 44,000 internal agency documents released by a lawsuit in which FDA scientists warned GM crops could bring unpredictable allergens, toxins and nutritional problems.
Chemical
Artificial Sweeteners -- More Dangerous than You Ever Imagined
Mercola argues that aspartame-sweetened products are neither safe nor a healthier alternative to sugar, and blames marketing by food companies, regulators and politicians for the sense of security consumers feel about artificial sweeteners.
Chemical
Most Vegetables and Fruits Have 'Unacceptable' Levels of Pesticides
Tests of more than 4,000 food and drink samples by the European Pesticide Residues Committee found residues above EU limits on some apples, peas and grapes -- one in seven podded beans, one in five yams, one in 70 apples and pears. Mercola notes that allowed levels are not the same as safe levels.
Biological
Should we worry about food poisonings?
The Center for Science in the Public Interest puts leafy greens, eggs and tuna at the top of its ten riskiest foods, tied to more than 1,500 outbreaks and 50,000 reported illnesses. CSPI says the list is not meant to scare people away from these foods.
Chemical
Are the fruit and vegetables you eat safe? (PR)
An editor's note on a UK Pesticide Residues Committee report argues the problem is not Britain's alone. It points to Environmental Working Group rankings putting potatoes and apples highest in pesticide residues and bananas and kiwi lowest, and notes approval does not mean safety.
Chemical
Fructose linked to high risk of high blood pressure
Richard Johnson and colleagues gave 74 men 200 grams of fructose a day for two weeks; systolic pressure rose about six millimeters and diastolic about three. Men who also took the gout drug allopurinol saw no rise, and most readings returned to normal within two months.
Chemical
Culprit Compounds That Block Beans' Healthful Iron Probed
ARS physiologist Raymond Glahn and Cornell colleagues have moved from cultured human digestive cells to poultry tests on kaempferol, a polyphenol they earlier singled out as a likely reason the iron in red and pinto beans is hard to absorb. Polyphenols are also antioxidants.
Chemical
Low-Level Fluoride Linked to Sperm Damage in Animals
Two 2007 animal studies tested water fluoride at 1 to 10 ppm, low levels for rodents. Reddy's team linked 4.5 ppm to reduced sperm count, viability and testicular enzyme activity; Dvorakova-Hortova's found 10 ppm impaired sperm capacitation, with no effect at 1 ppm unless aluminum was added.
Biotech
Everything You HAVE TO KNOW about Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods (press release)
A promotional message for a Jeffrey Smith keynote video on genetically modified food, claiming audiences shift from low to high vigilance about avoiding GM brands after the presentation, and urging readers to share the video or buy DVDs.
Chemical
Nutrition Notes:Trans Fat Traps
Karen Collins of the American Institute for Cancer Research writes that industrial trans fats supply 2 to 3 percent of adult calories, and that a 2 percent rise is linked to at least a 23 percent increase in heart disease. Cookies, crackers and cakes supply 40 percent of U.S. intake.
Chemical
Bottled water better than tap water?
After an 18-month survey, the Environmental Working Group found only two bottled waters disclose their source and treatment and post recent quality tests, and just 18 percent publish contaminant results. Municipal systems must disclose water safety data; bottlers need not.
Biotech
Chickens Not Fooled by GM Crops
Dr. Mercola relays a report that Strilli Oppenheimer's chickens refused the maize in their feed, and testing confirmed it had been engineered to produce proteins toxic to insects and weeds. He cites earlier claims that animals avoid GM feed and an Austrian study of mice fed GM corn.
Biotech
GMOs in foods
A primer on genetic engineering: how genes are moved between unrelated species in ways conventional breeding cannot achieve, and what combinations have been tried, from spider genes in goats to fish genes meant to give tomatoes and strawberries frost tolerance.
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