Los carcinógenos del pollo a la parrilla y al horno pueden aumentar el riesgo de cáncer de páncreas, mientras que la curcumina, el pigmento amarillo que se encuentra en la cúrcuma, puede llegar a ayudar incluso en estados avanzados de esta enfermedad.
El pienso para peces y pollos contaminado con toxinas del lodo de alcantarillados causa una exposición de dioxinas en personas a través del pollo, los huevos y el bagre.
The emergence of pathogens resistant to even our antibiotics of last resort has raised the specter of a “post-antibiotic age” in which drugs to fight infections may be useless. This has focused attention on the mass use of antibiotics in farm animal feed to promote growth and prevent infection in high density production.
The pharmaceutical industry is starting to shift away from designing single target drugs to trying to affect multiple pathways simultaneously, much like compounds made by plants, such as aspirin and curcumin—the pigment in the spice turmeric.
Arsenic-containing drugs intentionally added to poultry feed to reduce the parasite burden and pinken the meat are apparently converted by cooking into carcinogenic inorganic arsenic compounds.
The artificial food coloring Red No. 3 has yet to be banned—despite its purported role in causing thousands of cases of thyroid cancer.
The safety of food additives is determined not by the FDA, but by the manufacturers of the chemicals themselves.
El nivel de contaminación por bacterias multiresistentes a antibióticos es comparado entre la carne de animales criados tradicionalmente y la carne con certificado ecológico proveniente de animales criados sin darles antibióticos.
¿Cuántos meses hacen falta para limpiar el mercurio y otras toxinas industriales del cuerpo y que papel representa nuestra reserva grasa en acumular contaminantes solubles en grasa?
Un análisis de riesgo/beneficio de 33 especies de peces analiza los efectos del DHA para potenciar el cerebro y los compara con los efectos dañinos del mercurio, para determinar el efecto neto sobre la inteligencia (IC – Cociente Intelectual).
In response to definitive evidence showing artificial colors may increase inattentiveness, impulsivity, and hyperactivity among young children, a call has been made by consumer groups to ban food dyes.
The artificial butter flavoring diacetyl has been linked not only to deaths of workers handling the chemical, but also to serious lung disease in consumers of microwave popcorn.
En solo tres semanas, hombres que comían pistachos experimentaron una mejora significativa en el flujo de sangre en el pene, acompañado de erecciones más firmes. Tal vez esto sea debido al antioxidante presente en los pistachos, la arginina, y el contenido de fitosteroles.
Carrageenan is a food additive used as a thickener and fat substitute in a variety of dairy and nondairy products. Concerns about potential intestinal tract damage are placed in the context of dietary consequences.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization warns that we may be facing an end to modern medicine as we know it—thanks, in part, to the mass feeding of antibiotics to farm animals to accelerate growth.
Cientos de miles de estadounidenses son intoxicados cada año por la salmonella presente en las aves de corral, sin embargo, sigue siendo legal vender carne de aves, así esté contaminada.
The average number of bowel movements a week is compared between those eating prunes, those taking a fiber supplement, and those eating a strictly plant-based diet.
Meat industry public relations campaign to “crush” myths makes false claim about the millions of pounds of antibiotics fed to farm animals.
Do compounded bioidentical hormones for menopause carry the same risks as conventional hormone replacement drugs, such as Premarin?
La muerte en los EE. UU. es, en gran medida, una enfermedad alimentaria. El Dr. Greger, enfocándose en estudios publicados durante el año anterior, en revistas médicas revisadas por pares, ofrece recomendaciones prácticas sobre cómo alimentarnos nosotros mismos y a nuestras familias, para prevenir, tratar e incluso revertir muchas de las 15 principales causas de muerte en los Estados Unidos.
Bacteria-eating viruses (bacteriophages) have been approved as meat additives to reduce the risk of Listeria and Campylobacter found in processed meat and poultry products, but there’s a concern they could spread toxin genes between bacteria.
Employees in natural food stores have been caught giving advice that is not only scientifically baseless, but also risky and downright dangerous.
Are soybeans better than other types of beans for heart disease prevention—or does the soy industry just have more money and clout to tout?
Persin, a natural toxin found in avocados, appears so effective at killing breast cancer cells that it is being considered as a chemotherapy agent.
Los brotes de alfalfa crudos siguen asociándose con brotes de enfermedades transmitidas por alimentos.
Cuando se combina con ácido ascórbico en la Soda, el benzoato de sodio puede formar el potente carcinógeno benceno.
Los efectos potenciales para la salud de los colorantes como la cochinilla, un colorante alimentario derivado de insectos triturados.
Las bacterias fecales pueden contaminar los brotes de semillas de alfalfa y presentar un riesgo en la alimentación.
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