A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
How can we avoid the breakdown products of pesticides that may increase the risk of...
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
How can we avoid the breakdown products of pesticides that may increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease as much as if you carried APOE e4, the so-called Alzheimer’s gene? Although there is a growing list of Alzheimer’s disease susceptibility genes,...
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How Big Is the Cancer Risk from Processed Meat?
I quantify the risks of colon and rectal cancers from eating bacon, ham, hot dogs,...
The Backlash to IARC’s Report that Meat Probably Causes Cancer
How did the meat industry, government, and cancer organizations respond to the confirmation that processed...
NDMA: A Cancer-Causing Contaminant in Meds and Meat
Billion-dollar drugs have been pulled from the market for less carcinogenic contamination than is found...
Eating Organic: Can It Lower Your Cancer Risk?
Does choosing organic over conventional foods protect against cancer? What are the effects of pesticides...
Chemical Safety, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health
More than 95 percent of human exposure to industrial pollutants like dioxins and PCBs comes...
Heme Iron and Cancer
Laboratory models suggest that extreme doses of heme iron may be detrimental, but what about...
How Heavy Is Your Food’s Carbon Footprint?
How much greenhouse gas does the production of different foods cause, measured in miles driven...
Circadian Rhythms and Our Health and Weight
Given the power of chronotherapy—how the same dose of the same drugs taken at a...
Is It Safe to Take Weight-Loss Pills?
Why don’t more people take the weight-loss medications currently on the market? Despite the myriad...
Say No to Fish for Five Years Before Pregnancy
Advisories telling pregnant women to cut down on fish consumption may be too late for...
Cannabis and Pesticides
The biggest barrier to reducing toxic pesticides in cannabis is, not surprisingly, the cannabis industry...
Which Rice Has the Least Amount of Arsenic: Black, Brown, Red, White, or Wild?
Brown rice contains more arsenic than white rice, but the arsenic in brown rice is...
Cancer Risk from Arsenic in Rice and Seaweed
A daily half-cup of cooked rice may carry a hundred times the acceptable cancer risk...
Where Does the Arsenic in Rice, Mushrooms, and Wine Come From?
What happens when our crops are grown in soil contaminated with arsenic-based pesticides and arsenic...
Why Was Chicken the Primary Source of Arsenic Exposure in Children?
What was the National Chicken Council’s response to public health authorities calling for the industry...
Contaminants Found in 90% of Herbal Supplements Tested
The majority of dietary supplement facilities tested were found noncompliant with good manufacturing practices...
The Foods with the Highest Aspirin Content
The results of a recent aspirin meta-analyses suggesting a reduction of cancer mortality by about...
Is Milk Lowering Uric Acid a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?
Parkinson’s disease, the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer’s, is characterized by a slowness...
Why Some Dairy Products Are More Closely Linked to Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s. Each year in the United...
The Role of Pesticides in Parkinson’s Disease
In the original description of Parkinson’s disease by none other than Dr. James Parkinson himself,...
Where to Buy Tea Low in Lead
China burns about half of the world’s coal, spewing heavy metals such as mercury and...
Are the Benefits of Organic Food Underrated or Overrated?
Pesticides have been classified as probable carcinogens for 25 years. Different pesticides have been associated...
What Are the Benefits of Organic?
The medical literature has been historically hostile to organic foods, blaming in part erroneous information supplied...
