Dec 29, 2017
Recent studies confirm a link between sugar-heavy diets and mental disorders, especially depression, with added sugars—not those found in fruits—identified as the culprit.
Oct 31, 2017
A Canadian meta-analysis of 45 studies found that former and occasional drinkers have a 45 percent greater risk of heart disease than non-drinkers.
Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide glyphosate, which harms both soil and human health, has been found in 10 of 10 California wines tested, including organic ones.
Sep 29, 2017
Heart attack hospital admissions declined in New York counties that banned trans fat food in restaurants.
Mar 31, 2017
To replace plastic consumer waste, innovators have created a food wrap made of milk casein and a six-pack ring made of barley and wheat.
Feb 28, 2017
Rutgers researchers found that food dropped on the floor for even one second can be contaminated with bacteria, and that carpet transferred fewer bacteria than tile and stainless steel.
Dec 28, 2016
To help consumers know which drinks and foods are still being sold in cans lined with endocrine-disrupting BPA, the Environmental working Group’s website lists 16,000 BPA-tainted products.
Nov 30, 2016
To protect its traditional seeds and agriculture, Venezuela has passed perhaps the toughest law in the world regulating the use and research of genetically modified organisms.
Aug 31, 2016
Faced with rising consumer resistance to High-Fructose Corn Syrup, the corn refiners industry has created the terms “fructose syrup” or just “fructose” to hide its intense use in processed foods.
Jun 30, 2016
Two cans of an energy drink per day produced abnormal heart rhythms and higher blood pressure in healthy adults.
The DuPont Teflon residues found in the blood of more than 99 percent of Americans is now linked to cancer, birth defects, heart disease and a weakened immune system.
Apr 29, 2016
A DNA sampling of 82 purchases found that 43 percent of the so-called “wild-caught” salmon was farmed.
Mar 31, 2016
Germany has followed Scotland’s lead in the European Union by blocking the use of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in agriculture.
Jan 29, 2016
People with a history of chronic bronchitis that routinely drank five or more high-fructose corn syrup sodas a week showed an 80 percent increase in bronchitis incidents.
Dec 29, 2015
Increasingly, physicians are urging labeling of GMO products and voicing concerns about their carcinogenic properties.
