Tag: Featured Living
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Baking With Splenda Releases Cancer-Causing Chemicals
The synthetic sweetener sucralose, which is sold under the brand name Splenda, releases cancer-causing dioxins in food when baked or heated, says a in-depth study review recently published in the journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. Cooking with sucralose at high temperatures was reported to generate chloropropanols, a potentially toxic class of chemicals that may be…
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Is There Lead in Your Latte?
by Kristina Chew An investigation by Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin has found that cleaners used in espresso machines can add a shot of lead to your latte. As reported in the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, a safety study found that high-end espresso-makers can release large amounts of lead into coffee for days after they are cleaned. The…
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4 Steps to Protect Your Kitchen Against E. Coli
The meat industry likes to say that factory farms are modern, efficient and produce cheap food. But in reality, factory farms increase the risk of pathogens like E. coli and salmonella that cause food-borne illness in people. You might be surprised to find out, in this quiz from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the high percentage of supermarket…
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Spike in Water Lead Levels Coincided with Rise in Miscarriages
Pregnant women in Washington, D.C. experienced an unusually high number of late-term miscarriages during the same time period that lead levels were dangerously high in the city’s drinking water and the public was unaware of the problem, a study has found. Authors of the study, scheduled to be published in the journal Environmental Science and…
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New Labels Show Where Your Meat Came From
You’ll soon be seeing some changes on meat packages at the grocery store. Federal rules went into effect in recent weeks requiring labels on unprocessed beef, chicken, pork, lamb or goat to state where the animal was born, raised and slaughtered. [caption id="attachment_314800" align="alignnone" width="500"] Photo credit: Shutterstock[/caption] The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S.…