
Apple Peels Put to the Test for Chronic Joint Pain
Are the health benefits associated with apple consumption simply due to other healthy behaviors among apple-eaters?
Are the health benefits associated with apple consumption simply due to other healthy behaviors among apple-eaters?
Eating meat during breastfeeding is associated with an increased risk of type 1 diabetes, perhaps a consequence of meat glycotoxins or paratuberculosis bacteria that may be passed though breast milk.
Why does the United States appear to have the highest level of C. diff contamination of the meat supply?
The FDA’s suggestion that the meat industry voluntarily stop feeding antibiotics by the ton to farm animals to fatten them faster falls short of the changes needed to forestall the epidemic of antibiotic resistance.
Studies on more than a thousand children suggest that a viral infection may play a role in childhood obesity by increasing both the number and size of fat cells.
Used in about eight million pounds of meat every year in the United States, the “meat glue” enzyme, transglutaminase, has potential food safety and allergy implications.
The meat industry sued the federal government, winning the right to sell food known to be contaminated with food-poisoning bacteria.
Foster Farms chicken may have infected and sickened more than 10,000 people, due to contamination of the meat with fecal material.
Organic produce may present less of a food safety risk, given the potential contamination of pesticides with fecal pathogens.
The level of multidrug antibiotic-resistant bacteria contamination is compared between meat from animals raised conventionally, and certified organic meat from animals raised without being fed antibiotics.