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Babies May Consume a Million Microplastic Particles Each Day From Bottles, Study Finds

Microplastics can now be found in almost every environment on Earth, but scientists know surprisingly little about how the products we use every day shed these tiny plastic particles. If you drink from a plastic water bottle or eat out of a microwaveable container today, there’s a good chance that you’re using polypropylene. Polypropylene is thought
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Plastic & Climate: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet

Amidst growing concern about the impacts of plastic on the oceans, ecosystems, and human health, there’s another largely hidden dimension of the plastic crisis: plastic’s contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. This report examines each of these stages of the plastic lifecycle to identify the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions, sources
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Stop Toxic GMO Wheat

Wheat is a staple of the American diet. The average American consumes 82.9 kg or approximately 183 lbs of wheat annually - more than any other grain. This amounts to about a half-pound of wheat per day, which comes from numerous types of food such as bread, pasta, cake and baked goods, breakfast foods such as bagels, pancakes and cereals, snacks, and desserts… not to mention certain grain alcohols and beer.

Chemicals Banned by EU but Used in US

The EU is banning food whitener titanium dioxide. It is the latest example of a chemical deemed unsafe in Europe that’s still used in the US Supported by Mikaela Conley Thu 23 Jun 2022 06.00 EDT There’s a hidden ingredient used as a whitener in an array of foods, from candies and pastries to cheeses and
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GMO Crops, Animal Food, and Beyond

Feed Your Mind Main Page en Español (Spanish) What GMO Crops Are Grown and Sold in the U.S.? PDF: 152KB Am I eating foods that come from GMO crops? It is very likely you are eating foods and food products that are made with ingredients that come from GMO crops. Many GMO crops are used
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Only seven percent of adults have good cardiometabolic health

NEWS RELEASE 4-JUL-2022 Tufts researchers have found that most U.S. adults rate poorly across five components of heart and metabolic health, with clear racial disparities Peer-Reviewed Publication TUFTS UNIVERSITY, HEALTH SCIENCES CAMPUS PrintEmail App Less than 7 percent of the U.S. adult population has good cardiometabolic health, a devastating health crisis requiring urgent action, according to research
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Alarming’ Levels of 29 Chemicals Affecting Human Fertility Found in Men’s Urine Samples

A study published last week in Environment International showed 29 endocrine disruptors — at levels more than 100-fold greater than acceptable exposure rates — in the urine samples of 98 Danish men. By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. Miss a day, miss a lot. Subscribe to The Defender’s Top News of the Day. It’s free. A study published last week in Environment
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Food Technology: What’s Coming Is Better Than Sliced Bread

By Debbie Koenig Note by Fitadelphia. We all know how processed sliced bread is for us, don’t we? June 2, 2022 – That tuna-on-whole-wheat you had for lunch is a technological marvel. A century ago, few people could’ve guessed how simple it would become to make. Sliced bread only hit the market in 1928. Canned tuna
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