According to the research, animals fed on three strains of genetically modified maize created by the U.S. biotech firm Monsanto suffered signs of organ damage after just three months.
Daily Mail | David Derbyshire | Fresh fears were raised over GM crops yesterday after a study showed they can cause liver and kidney damage.
Current recommended intake for vitamin D during winter months needs to be increased by five, says a new study.
Nutra | Stephen Daniells | "Recommended intakes for people with darker skins should be increased to a whopping 2100 to 3100 International Units per day all year-round, up from the current adequate intakes set at 5 micrograms per day (200 International Units).
Raj Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced.
OCA | Raj Patel | "Opening with Oscar Wilde's observation that "nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing," Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced. He reveals the hidden ecological and social costs of a hamburger (as much as $200), and asks how we came to have markets in the first place. Both the corporate capture of government and our current financial crisis, Patel argues, are a result of our democratically bankrupt political system."
Sales of many natural ingredients for anxiety and depression posted upswings over the past year, even as consumers pinched pennies
BHNC | The worst recession in 70 years has meant soaring unemployment rates and plummeting moods. "Anxiety and depression seem to be a little more common in terms of what I've seen in the past six to 12 months," says Michael Smith, ND, a naturopathic physician at Carolinas Natural Health Center in Matthews, N.C. "It's easy enough to equate it with what's happening in the economy."
To what extent are we poisoned from Bisphenol-A in household products to the toxins in our urine that are created by run-of-the-mill shampoos and toothpaste.
BHN | Bisphenol-A (BPA) builds up in the body faster than you'd think. The interesting thing that authors Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie did in the coure of writing their book, was to use themselves as human guinia pigs. Over a two week period, they microwaved food in plastic containers, drank from plastic cups made for children and ate a lot of canned food. The result? BPA levels in their blood had increased over seven times what it had been before they started!
Industry says FDA goes to far in warning; consumer groups say BPA should be banned
CNN | Caleb Hellerman | Parents should take precautions to minimize infants' exposure to the chemical Bisphenol-A, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday in an announcement that stopped short of saying there is a definite health risk from the chemical.
In guidelines published on its Web site, the FDA said it has "some concern" about the safety of BPA, and supports efforts by industry to remove BPA from infant bottles and feeding cups.
A New York City public health service announcement warns that soda's excess calories can quickly lead to extra pounds.
YouTube | M.E. Pegs | A new public service announcement is raising some eyebrows in New York these days. On the cusp of creating a "soda-tax", this video spot is airing, and is creating some controversy... mainly because of it's fairly digusting visuals.
New York City Health Commisionner believes that its the only way to grab people's attention in an ever jaded population, and he's pleased with the results.
The drink has three components -- uridine, choline, and the omega-3 fatty acid DHA -- that, working together, help restore synapses.
CNN | Elizabeth Landau | Doctors are already good at diagnosing Alzheimer's disease in a patient with obvious symptoms, which include memory loss, vision problems and confusion. But the cutting-edge research is looking for the brain mechanisms of the condition at its earliest stages, maximizing the potential for intervention.
Two studies published this week that may help pave the way for better treatments for people with Alzheimer's, which affects as many as 5.3 million Americans, according to the Alzheimer's Association. One is a drink that you may one day be able to pick up at the pharmacy; the other is a detection method.
Low doses of melatonin may help children with autism get a better night’s rest, researchers report.
The Autism News | Charlene Laino | Low doses of melatonin may help children with autism get a better night’s rest, researchers report.
Eleven youngsters with autism ages 4 to 10 fell asleep more quickly and slept longer when given low-dose supplements of melatonin, says Beth Malow, MD, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.
If you're in the beef business, what do you do with all the extra cow parts and trimmings that have traditionally been sold off for use in pet food? You scrape them together into a pink mass, inject them with a chemical to kill the e.coli, and sell them to fast food restaurants to make into hamburgers.
That's what's been happening all across the USA with beef sold to McDonald's, Burger King, school lunches and other fast food restaurants, according to a New York Times article. The beef is injected with ammonia, a chemical commonly used in glass cleaning and window cleaning products.
A new study has found that Pycnogenol, an extract from French Maritime Bark, may help with vision health in diabetics.
Nutrition for Optimal Wellness | Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS | According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 24 million Americans have diabetes and it now costs our healthcare system more than $174 billion per year (1). Of the many health complications, such as nerve damage in the hands and feet (called diabetic neuropathy) and heart disease, that face diabetics, one of the most debilitating is diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy occurs when high blood sugar levels cause a breakdown of blood vessels in the eye that result in swelling (macula edema) and a loss of vision.
In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers have linked organ damage with consumption of Monsanto’s GM maize.
All three varieties of GM corn, Mon 810, Mon 863 and NK 603, were approved for consumption by US, European and several other national food safety authorities. Made public by European authorities in 2005, Monsanto’s confidential raw data of its 2002 feeding trials on rats that these researchers analyzed is the same data, ironically, that was used to approve them in different parts of the world.
How corporate consolidation affects many areas of our food supply, what that means for us.
Common Dreams | Jill Richardson | Have you ever played Monopoly? You know how it goes. It’s pretty fun for a while, until one player puts hotels and Boardwalk and Park Place and then amasses crazy amounts of money while the other play goes broke. Often in our house this would end with one player walking away from the game (or worse, turning the game board upside down in anger). This is no coincidence.
