The Best Way to Wash Fruit and Vegetables
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A Persistent Pesticide Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Risk
Advisories telling pregnant women to cut down on fish consumption may be too late for certain persistent pollutants. If you intentionally expose people to mercury by feeding them fish (like tuna) for 14 weeks, the level of mercury in their...
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The Food Safety Risk of Organic vs. Conventional
The stated principles of organic agriculture are “health, ecology, fairness, and care,” but if you...
Organic vs. Conventional: Which Has More Nutrients?
Are organic foods safer and healthier than conventional alternatives? Those are two separate questions. Some...
GMO Soy and Breast Cancer
In response to concerns raised about the toxicity of Monsanto’s roundup pesticide, which ends up...
Is Monsanto’s Roundup Pesticide Glyphosate Safe?
GMO soy has been found to be contaminated with pesticide residues (see Are GMOs Safe?...
GMO Soybeans Compared to Conventionally Grown and Organic Soy
As I discussed in the video, Are GMOs Safe? The Case of BT Corn, genes...
Is Insecticidal GMO Corn Safe?
Recently, the prominent science journal Nature editorialized that we are now swimming in information about...
Dioxins in U.S. Farm-Raised Catfish
Dioxins are highly toxic pollutants that accumulate in tissue fat. Almost all dioxins found in...
Why Would Eating Fish Increase Diabetes Risk?
In the past two years, six separate meta-analyses have been published on the relationship between...
Reducing Arsenic in Chicken and Rice
In 2013, Maryland became the first state to ban the feeding of an arsenic-containing drug...
How Contaminated Are Our Children?
In a study highlighted in my video, California Childen Are Contaminated, researchers analyzed the diets...
Viral Food Poisoning from Pesticides?
Although the most serious causes of food poisoning like Salmonella come largely from animal products...
A Low-Methionine Diet May Help Starve Cancer Cells
When designing an antibiotic, we can’t create a drug that destroys DNA because that’s something...
Male Fertility and Dietary Pollutants
Infertility affects 10–15 percent of couples attempting to conceive, and in about half the cases...
Avoiding Dairy to Prevent Parkinson’s
There are four things that may reduce our risk of developing Parkinson’s disease: increase exercise,...
Apple Peels Turn on Anticancer Genes
A new study calculated that if half the U.S. population ate just one more serving of conventional...
Countering Dietary Pollutants and Pesticides
We have so polluted our planet that eight different pesticides were recently found contaminating the...
Protecting Our Babies from Pollutants
For those of us starting new families, one of the myriad concerns that come up...
Pollutants in Californian Breast Tissue
Americans are walking chemical cocktails according to the latest report from the Centers for Disease Control...
How Chemically Contaminated Are We?
Every few years the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention measures the levels of...
Dr. Oz, Apple Juice, and Arsenic: Chicken May Have 10 Times More
Dr. Oz is right to be concerned about arsenic contamination in our food supply. According...
