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Cadmium Issues

20 Mar 2017

Shrek the friendly ogre delighted audiences in the 2010 movie hit 鈥淪hrek Forever After.鈥 But for fast food giant McDonald鈥檚, Shrek turned out to be a nightmare. As a cross promotional feature, the...

Taking a Bite out of Crocodile Hype

20 Mar 2017

You鈥檝e got to give it to the quacks. They are often clever people. And very adept at making mountains out of molehills. One of the latest miracles out there is, believe it or not, crocodile blood....

Is it true that hantavirus infection can be acquired from rodent excrement?

20 Mar 2017

In 1993, a young Navajo woman arrived at an emergency room in New Mexico suffering from flu-like symptoms and shortness of breath. Despite such 鈥渕inor鈥 symptoms, she soon passed away. Ironically,...

The end of the trans fat debates?

20 Mar 2017

The bloggers are abuzz about a paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine that after reviewing 72 major studies found no relationship between saturated fat intake and heart disease. The reaction was...

Weighing the benefits of tea

20 Mar 2017

鈥淕et in here and sit your ass down!鈥...

Worms in Balogna?

20 Mar 2017

Absolutely not. But here is the question I got:聽"A friend told me that that ground up earthworms are being used as fillers in many meat products like wieners and bologna. The name on the package is...

Dr. Oz and the Fast Metabolism Diet

20 Mar 2017

So.. Dr. Oz is at it again. This time he was fawning over Haylie Pomroy's "Fast Metabolism Diet." Haylie's qualifications are not clear but she is described as a "lifestyle counsellor." Hmmm....

How about some Snail Cream?

20 Mar 2017

No, you don鈥檛 eat it. Neither is it meant to limber up the arthritic joints of snails. You massage it into your face to improve complexion, reduce wrinkles and improve scar lines. At least that鈥檚...

Alkaline Food Bunk

20 Mar 2017

There is lots of bluster on the Internet about "acidic" and "alkaline" foods usually based on some story that cancer cells can only survive in an acid environment and it is therefore advisable to...

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