Action alert: Stop Congress from taking away your right to know what's in your foodThe House of Representatives will vote this week on a controversial "national food uniformity" labeling law that will take away local government and states' power to require food safety labels such as those required in California and other states on foods or beverages that are likely to cause cancer, birth defects, allergic reactions, or mercury poisoning. This bill would also prevent citizens in local municipalities and states from passing laws requiring that genetically engineered foods and in... (more)
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New Cancer Study Obligates FDA To Recall AspartameOPEN LETTER TO FDA - VIA CERTIFIED MAIL
DELANEY AMENDMENT: If a product causes cancer in animals it cannot be put in food!
The late FDA Toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross, testified to the Senate: "In view of all these indications that the cancer-causing potential of aspartame is a matter that had been established way beyond any reasonable doubt, one can ask: What is the reason for the apparent refusal by the FDA to invoke for this food additive the so-called Delaney ... (more)
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Cabbage could protect against cancerEating plenty of cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and broccoli may offer protection against cancer of the pancreas, a Swedish study cited in media on Friday said.
For the study, the eating habits of 40,000 women and 49,000 men were monitored over seven years.
Of the total, 135 were treated for cancer of the pancreas.
While researchers found no general link between frequency of the cancer and consumption of fruits and vegetables, those who ate pl... (more)
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A Modern-Day Copernicus: Peter H. Duesberg on AIDSNicolaus Copernicus (14731543), a mathematician and astronomer, questioned the long-held belief that the Earth sits at the center of the universe and the Sun and planets circle around it. Aristotle posited and Ptolemy (85165) codified this geocentric (Earth-centered) system. But in his On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, published in 1543, Copernicus said that they had it backwards. He concluded that the Sun is at the center of the cosmos, and the Earth and other planets revolve around... (more)
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Canadian Uni hot under the collar over Wi-Fi safetyA Canadian university has limited Wi-Fi networks on campus, not out of information security concerns, but because the long-term safety of the technology is "unproven".
Fred Gilbert, president of Canada's Lakehead University, made the order on the basis of possible health risk from the technology, especially to young people. Inconclusive studies into possible links between radio transmissions and leukemia and brain tumors from, among others, scientists for the California Public Uti... (more)
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French 'cure' for excess alcohol raises safety fearFrance's drinkers can now buy a potion which supposedly stops hangovers and makes alcohol disappear from the blood system up to six times faster than usual.
Made from a "secret recipe" based on plant extracts, Security Feel Better comes in tiny bottles and is recommended for use before, during or after a heavy lunch or party.
It is already on sale in a number of French supermarkets and is being exported to Korea, Germany and Switzerland with talks in progress to lau... (more)
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NM Calorie Council Condemns Citizens With AspartameScientific peer reviewed research on aspartame is multiplying including two studies, one linking diet drinks to obesity and on in Italy showing aspartame causes lymphoma, leukemia, cancer of the kidneys and cranial peripheral nerves. Only rats fed aspartame developed malignant brain tumors. The lead researcher, Dr. Soffritti, declared aspartame a multipotential carcinogen:
http://www.wnho.net/new_aspartame_studies.htm
Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., wrote parents should be ter... (more)
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Heroic NM Senator Fights Aspartame MachineI had the pleasure of meeting with Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino who sponsored the New Mexico Senate aspartame bill. No doubt the lobbyists with the morals of rapists preyed on his mind...and today he wrote this letter:
Aspartame Buys Time
By Senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino
2-19-6
Nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to the corrosive influence of money on our public policy. I'm not just talking about the shenanigans inside the beltway of our ... (more)
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FDA Is Urged to Ban Carbon-Monoxide-Treated MeatPicture two steaks on a grocer's shelf, each hermetically sealed in clear plastic wrap. One is bright pink, rimmed with a crescent of pearly white fat. The other is brown, its fat the color of a smoker's teeth.
Which do you reach for?
The meat industry knows the answer, which is why it has quietly begun to spike meat packages with carbon monoxide.
The gas, harmless to health at the levels being used, gives meat a bright pink color that lasts weeks. Th... (more)
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Retirement age 'should reach 85'The age of retirement should be raised to 85 by 2050 because of trends in life expectancy, a US biologist has said.
Shripad Tuljapurkar of Stanford University says anti-ageing advances could raise life expectancy by a year each year over the next two decades.
That will put a strain on economies around the world if current retirement ages are maintained, he warned.
He also told a science meeting in St Louis that 50-year or 75-year mortgages may not be ... (more)
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U.S. admits shipping banned beef to JapanThe United States took responsibility on Friday for shipping veal containing spinal material to Japan last month, violating a U.S.-Japan trade agreement.
In a report it hopes will persuade Japan to resume importing American beef, agriculture officials said a New York plant shipped prohibited veal because workers and inspectors didn't understand trade rules.
"This was not a situation where somebody was trying to hide something," said Agriculture Secretary Mike Johann... (more)
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Depriving children of loving environment damages intelligenceDepriving children of a loving family environment causes lasting damage to their intelligence, emotional wellbeing and even their physical stature, according to the most extensive study of social deprivation yet.
A lack of care and attention left children with stunted growth, substantially lower IQs and more behavioural and psychological problems than children who had been better cared for, according to the report at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting ... (more)
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Record Sales of Sleeping Pills Are Causing WorriesAmericans are taking sleeping pills like never before, fueled by frenetic workdays that do not go gently into a great night's sleep, and lulled by a surge of consumer advertising that promises safe slumber with minimal side effects.
About 42 million sleeping pill prescriptions were filled last year, according to the research company IMS Health, up nearly 60 percent since 2000.
But some experts worry that the drugs are being oversubscribed without enough regard to kn... (more)
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The Lowdown on Sweet?WHEN Dr. Morando Soffritti, a cancer researcher in Bologna, Italy, saw the results of his team's seven-year study on aspartame, he knew he was about to be injected into a bitter controversy over this sweetener, one of the most contentiously debated substances ever added to foods and beverages.
Aspartame is sold under the brand names Nutra-Sweet and Equal and is found in such popular products as Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, Diet Snapple and Sugar Free Kool-Aid. Hundreds of millions of pe... (more)
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The cure for your allergy: a hookwormA team of British scientists investigating whether a tiny tropical hookworm could provide a cure for asthma and hay fever have committed the ultimate act of bravery by infecting themselves with the parasite to observe the effects.
The experts wanted to see if there would be any unpleasant or dangerous side effects from the worm, Ancylostoma duodenale, so they made the bold decision to allow their own bodies to be infected. Each scientist had to stick some of the tiny hookworm larv... (more)
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NM Ban Aspartame Bill Advances In State SenateThe New Mexico Senate Bill SB 654, to ban aspartame/methanol/formaldehyde, the neurotoxic artificial sweetener found in 6000 food products. including a $100,000 appropriation to the Attorney General for enforcement [read it on the new mexico legislature website] passed a major hurdle in clearing the committee's committee as germane, so it can proceed without the governor's message. This means that the Legislative Branch of the New Mexico Legislature is alive and well, and is willing to move New ... (more)
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There is no evidence that Tamiflu works against bird fluBeijing (AsiaNews/Agencies) There is no credible evidence that Tamiflu works against the H5N1virus, but donors conference raises US$ 1.9 billion to fight the outbreak.
In an article published in The Lancet medical journal today, researchers from the Cochrane Vaccines Field in Rome and the University of Queensland in Australia warn against over-reliance on Tamiflu. Focus should be on implementing quarantine measures and improving personal hygiene.
The researchers ... (more)
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Study: Cardiac Drug Doubles Risk of Kidney FailureAprotinin -- a drug approved by the FDA, marketed internationally for the last 13 years, and given to an estimated one million surgery patients to limit bleeding -- has now been proven to double a patient's risk of kidney failure, and increase the risk of heart attack, heart failure, and stroke.
The results, published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, are based on an independent, non-commercial, observational study conducted by The Ischemia Research and Education Fou... (more)
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DuPont to try to reduce chemical in teflonFoodconsumer.org's Editor note: DuPont agrees to voluntarily phase out use of a toxic chemical named C8 by 2015. C8 is the ingredient used for teflon, which is used everywhere.
In the meantime, consumers better minimize use of C8 based consumer products. The compound is toxic no matter it causes cancer or not. Once you get it into your system, it may stay with you forever. We will try to publish more later.
January 26, 2006
Associated Press /New York T... (more)
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Liquorice 'good for teeth'LIQUORICE Allsorts may be better at fighting tooth decay than toothpaste, scientists said yesterday.
Chemicals found in liquorice root used to make the sweets destroy bacteria that cause tooth cavities.
Experts say the discovery could revolutionise the toothpaste industry.
Dr Qing-Yi Lu, of the University of California, said liquorice used in the Bertie Bassett sweets appeared to be at least as powerful at fighting cavities as some dental product... (more)
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Zero guilt?: Not on your life. 'No trans fat' doesn't mean low-fat. It might even mean more fat.BITING into an Oreo is a different kind of exercise than tucking into a robust tofu stew or getting one's jaws around a crunchy spinach salad more pure indulgence than something you do with the body's daily requirement for selenium or roughage in mind.
But today the sinful treat is a tad less sinful. Spurred by government-mandated changes to food labels that went into effect Jan. 1, Oreo's maker, Kraft, has dropped an unhealthful fat trans fat from the cookie's ingredient li... (more)
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If your suntan oil can change the sex of fish, what can do it to you?: The stuff is not only on our skin: it's in our tap water and lunches tooSpare a thought for the male hornyhead turbot. For despite its name, it is changing gender. And the sunscreens that symbolise bronzed sex appeal may be partly to blame.
Scientists have found that male hornyhead turbot and English sole, feeding near sewage outfalls on the Californian coast, are being feminised - and a chemical found in sunscreens is the likely culprit.
Meanwhile, Swiss researchers have found other suspected gender-bender chemicals from sun creams and... (more)
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New Mexico Begins Legislative Process To Ban AspartameA senate bill to rid New Mexico of what has been called "Rumsfeld's Disease" was introduced Thursday by Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, as 15 other senators from both sides of isle also signed on, supporting legislation to ban the deadly artificial sweetener, aspartame.
Linked to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his efforts in the 1970s for putting the sweetener on the market, New Mexico is the first state to consider banning the artificial additive linked to numerou... (more)
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