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Check out this article from CNN from the mother of a boy with allergies to milk, wheat, peanuts and eggs. Every trip out of the house is a potential minefield, every relative who says “just one bite won’t hurt” is setting her child up for the possibility of death. This child’s allergies are so severe…
A researcher at Cornell University says that air, water, and soil pollution can be blamed for 40 percent of deaths worldwide. Pollution is a big contributor to disease in people, David Pimentel says, and the increasing world population makes disease even worse. Pimentel and colleagues studied 120 published reports on pollution, malnutrition, population growth and…
A very interesting study published in the British Food Journal watched two-income Los Angeles families for four days and looked at what they ate for dinner. The study found that 70 percent of the dinners were home-cooked, but convenience foods dominated. Most families used some kind of pre-prepared items such as frozen entrees, vegetables, frozen…
More and more people are choosing organic foods all the time, but this trend leaves a lot of people wondering if the extra expense is really worth it. Many organic foods cost up to twice as much as their conventional counterparts, but experts say there are some organic foods that are worth the money. The…
The Federal Trade Commission has said the National Dairy Council will stop running advertisements saying that consuming three dairy products a day can help people lose weight. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that supports a vegan diet, had complained about the advertisements in 2005, saying the claims that dairy products helped people…
Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration announced approval of Neupro, a skin patch designed to treat the early symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. The patches include the drug rotigotine, which mimics the chemical dopamine. In Parkinson’s patients, brain cells that produce dopamine die, leading to the physical symptoms of shaking, stiffness, slow movement and impaired balance….
The energy drink Cocaine is being pulled from stores shelves after the company failed to reply to a complaint from the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said the company was marketing the drink as an alternative to illegal drugs with phrases like “Liquid Cocaine” and “Speed in a Can” on its website. The company…
A new study from Indiana suggests that the time of year a child is conceived could affect the child’s future academic performance. Children in the study who were conceived in the summer months scored lower on the state’s standardized tests for math and reading than children conceived at other times of year did. Researchers said…
There are so many wonderful reasons to breast-feed your children. Breast milk helps build up the baby’s immune system and breast feeding can actually help a new mom lose weight? But are brest-fed babies smarter than bottle-fed babies? New research suggests they are not. The subject has been studied since 1929 and there are still…
After the recent E.coli outbreak, which has now possibly killed three people and sickened more than 100, officials are talking about labelling spinach with its area of origin in case of future outbreaks. That way, the whole store wouldn’t have to be cleared of spinach if it was known the outbreak came from California spinach,…
