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How toxins are making us fat and diabetic

November 5, 2010 in Diabesity, Toxins | 6 comments

Each year the toxic burden in our air, food and water - and thus our bodies - grows higher than ever before. Companies manufacture 6.5 trillion pounds of 9,000 different chemicals each year. That's about 3.25 billion tons - enough to fill an ocean supertanker. And the same companies release over 7 billion pounds of 650+ different pollutants into the atmosphere and water. A recent study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found the ...
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Warning: drinking bottled water could make you fat!

April 19, 2010 in Fertility, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Toxins | 18 comments

I came across some interesting research the other day concerning the potential role of Bisphenol-A (BPA) in regulating weight. BPA is a chemical that is found in several plastics and plastic additives. It's in the water bottles folks carry to gyms and in the baby bottles moms use to feed their infants. And it's in almost all of our bodies. A CDC study in 2007 found that 92% of 2,500 subjects ...
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The water myth?

April 22, 2008 in Myths & Truths | 5 comments

New research has just been published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology that questions the long-held popular belief that drinking eight glasses of water a day benefits our health. According to Dr. Stanley Goldfarb and Dr. Dan Negoianu of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, there are four prevalent myths about water intake: Leads to more toxin excretion Improves skin tone Makes one less hungry Reduces headache frequency Dr. Goldfarb and Dr. Negoianu reviewed all of the published studies ...
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