Posts Tagged ‘Food’
Health Focus: Toxic Pesticides
A growing concern is the presence of residual pesticides in our food. With rapid technological developments in farming, most farmers use chemical pesticides to yield greater crop output and prevent insect damage, fungal attacks and the growth of weeds, all of which can be lethal to the crop. Unfortunately, these pesticides pose a greater risk ...
In the News: Food Preparation May Play A Big Role In Chronic Disease
ScienceDaily (Apr. 25, 2007) — How your food is cooked may be as important to your health as the food itself. Researchers now know more about a new class of toxins that might soon become as important a risk factor for heart disease and metabolic disorders as trans fats. This class of toxins, called advanced glycation ...
In the News: High-quality Food Helps Reduce Toxins In The Food Chain
ScienceDaily (Apr. 24, 2007) — Research led by Dartmouth scientists found that animals fed nutritious, high-quality food end up with much lower concentrations of toxic methylmercury in their tissues. The result suggests ways in which methylmercury–a neurotoxin that can accumulate to hazardous levels–can be slowed in its passage up the food chain to fish. “This research ...
