Arsenic in Infant Rice Cereal
When it comes to rice and rice-based products, pediatric nutrition authorities have recommended that arsenic...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
When it comes to rice and rice-based products, pediatric nutrition authorities have recommended that arsenic intake should be as low as possible. “The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been monitoring the arsenic content in foods” for decades, yet...
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Why You Don’t Want “Normal” Blood Lead Levels
“By the 1950s, lead—a dangerous neurotoxin that was once buried deep in the ground, far...
How the Lead Paint and Gas Industries Got Away with It
We have known for thousands of years that lead can be toxic and for more...
Vegans Should Consider Taking DHA Supplements
We are all fatheads. Indeed, about half the dry weight of our brain is fat....
How to Lower Phthalate Exposure Through Diet
Phthalates are hormone-disrupting plastics chemicals linked to a number of adverse health effects, such as...
The Purported Benefits of Eating Fish
In the landmark Global Burden of Disease study, researchers compiled the top 20 causes of...
Do Flaxseeds Offer Sufficient Omega-3’s for Our Heart?
According to two of perhaps the most credible nutrition authorities, the World Health Organization and...
The Risks of Fish Oil Supplements
It’s been a bad few years for fish oil, as I discuss in my video,...
Fish Consumption and Suicide
Depression is a serious and common mental disorder responsible for the majority of suicides. As...
How to Reduce Exposure to Alkylphenols Through Your Diet
Alkylphenols are industrial chemicals that are found in hair products, spermicides, cleaning products and detergents. They...
How Long to Avoid Fish Before Conception?
Mothers’ increased consumption of fish before and during pregnancy leads to increased exposure to both...
How Seafood Can Impact Brain Development
In my video Fish Intake Associated With Brain Shrinkage, I discussed evidence suggesting that mercury...
Handling Poultry Tied to Liver/Pancreatic Cancers
Thousands of Americans continue to die from asbestos exposure decades after many uses were banned...
Should Carrageenan Be Avoided?
Six hundred years ago, people living along the coast of Carragheen County Ireland started using...
Mercury Testing Recommended Before Pregnancy
Recent testing of mercury concentrations in three national brands of canned tuna found that “55%...
EPA dioxin limit has National Chicken Council worried products could be declared “unfit for consumption”
Dioxin, industrial pollutant of Agent Orange infamy, has been called “the most toxic compound synthesized...
