Lowering Dietary Antibiotic Intake
What a few days eating vegetarian can do to the levels of antibiotics and phthalates...
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Friday Favorites: How Much Licorice Is Safe?
Eating licorice or drinking licorice tea can cause the loss of body fat by blocking the effects of a stress hormone, but at what cost?
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The Wrong Way to Detox
The reason birth order is a predictor of pollutant levels in the bodies of children...
The Best Baby Formula
Exclusive breastfeeding for a full six months may, ironically, improve our children's taste for vegetables—whereas...
Plants vs. Pesticides
Phytonutrients found in certain foods may protect against the toxic effects of industrial pollutants such...
Food Sources of Perfluorochemicals
Where do DDT, hexachlorobenzene, PCBs, and perfluorochemicals (linked to thyroid disease) concentrate in the food...
How Fast Can Children Detoxify from PCBs?
Based on the half-life of industrial pollutants children may be exposed to in the womb...
DDT in Umbilical Cord Blood
Are pregnant women who eat fish, other meat, and dairy still passing along the pesticide...
Food Sources of Flame-Retardant Chemicals
Other than pet food and fish (which may be most contaminated), how do fire-retardant chemicals...
Pollutants in Californian Breast Tissue
Levels of flame-retardant chemical pollutants (PBDEs) in the tissues of women from around the world...
BPA Plastic and Male Sexual Dysfunction
Canned foods and sliced turkey were found to be contaminated with the plastics chemical BPA,...
Pesticides in Chinese Bamboo Shoots
Cans of bamboo shoots imported from China may have concerning levels of pesticide contamination.
President’s Cancer Panel Report on Environmental Risk
The official National Cancer Institute report on the "unacceptable" burden of cancer stemming from industrial...
