Choline: Little-known nutritional fact—according to a recent article in Science Daily, it’s estimated that more than 90% of Americans are not meeting the recommended daily intake of choline. We know that choline is a dietary precursor to acetylcholine, an essential neurotransmitter. In fact, certain dementia drugs are designed to amp up brain levels of acetylcholine. Read more.
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PFAS is Poison: Dupont Knew all Along
There’s only one practical solution to protect public health: ban PFAS. Action Alert! When DuPont agreed in 2017 to pay a $670 million settlement for releasing forever chemicals into water and soil near its plant along the West Virginia-Ohio border, the company knew for decades it was endangering public health and safety. Read more.
New U.S. Government Research is Finally Admitting that Glyphosate Weed Killer Causes Cancer
If you have already had something to eat today prior to reading this article, chances are very high that you have already ingested glyphosate, the active ingredient in herbicides such as RoundUp, the most widely used agrochemical in the world. Read more.
Are Nonstick Pans Bad for Your Health? Here’s the Truth
It’s about time to settle whether or not nonstick pans are indeed toxic, but for those of you with a kitchen full of nonstick items, there’s some bad news coming. The truth is that proper research shows that all nonstick kitchenware likely hurts more than helps; I know it saves you a few minutes during kitchen cleanup every night, but is that really worth risking your health over? Read more.
How Big Food Corporations Made Americans Overweight and Sick
James Li breaks down how corporations producing food have lied to the American people leading to increases in obesity and other illnesses. View here.
USDA Moves to Stop Organic Food Fraud, Finally
The USDA has finally finished a long-awaited rule that will help clean up fraud in the organic food sector. This rule, put together by the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), is urgently needed given widespread fraud that has been reported in the organics industry. The level of deception has reached epidemic proportions: a USDA study found that 40% of all organic food sold in the US tested positive for prohibited pesticides. Read more.
7 Ways to get Rid of Ants That You Probably Haven’t Tried Yet
Some pets are great and we can’t seem get enough of them, while other pests are reasonably unwanted and yet all the more common to find crawling around your house! With warm weather and lots of wonderful outdoor adventures, we’re sure to see our fair share of insect invasions, especially from ants (1)! Read more.
Microplastics: A Growing Worry for Our Farms and Food
We’ve known for years that microplastics have invaded our oceans, rivers and drinking water. It’s a challenge to take water samples anywhere, even Earth’s most remote places, without finding these small polymers. But scientists now believe microplastics may be just as widespread on farmland, where they can end up in food grown and raised there. Read more.
Organic Farmers Help Monarch Butterflies
Recently we announced in our Daily Digest some findings from yet another in a series of studies carried out by different groups of scientists over many years showing that the spread of GM glyphosate-tolerant crops is a major cause of the decline of monarch butterflies in the US. The glyphosate herbicide sprayed on these crops kills the milkweed that is the sole food for monarch larvae. Read more.
Just One Meal of Caught Fish Per Year is a Significant Dose of PFAS
People who eat just one U.S. freshwater fish a year are likely to show a significant increase of a cancer-causing chemical in their bloodstream, new research warns. An analysis of U.S. government data derived from more than 500 fish samples revealed that the majority of fish living in streams, rivers and lakes across the country are contaminated with per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at levels almost 300 times higher than found in fish from other sources, including ocean and farmed fish, according to the paper published recently in the journal Environmental Research. Read more.