chemicals

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Hidden Benefits to Homemade Preserves
The media has propelled estrogen-mimicking chemical bisphenol A (BPA) to the forefront of health news. It’s ubiquitous, and it’s likely in your body. The chemical, developed as an estrogen replacement, is commonly used to harden plastics such, most commonly polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins. It’s been linked to various cancers, diabetes, heart disease...
by Dr. Orna Izakson at December 16th, 2009 at 08:12 am
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Top 12 Foods to Choose Organic
All this talk about organic foods on twitter this week has done two things: 1. Sent me back into memory dreamland remembering eating wild cherries from the neighbor’s trees in France 2. Living in Bangkok today, made me realize how these organic foods are not within everyone’s reach. Either they’re too expensive or, depending on where you live, simply...
by Dr. Nishant Rao at August 3rd, 2009 at 12:08 am
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Cancer Causing Non-Stick Pans and Dead Canaries.
The ease of sliding a fried egg (runny yolk right!) out of a small non stick pan early in the morning while you’re still half asleep is a convenience that is not going to be easy to give up, but here’s why you have to throw them out. The slick surfaces of these pans contain a chemical called perflurooctanoic acid, or PFOA. In 2006 The United States EPA...
by Dr. Nishant Rao at May 2nd, 2009 at 01:05 pm