May 28, 2021 08:30AM
Four widely used artificial sweeteners—saccharine, sucralose, aspartame and acesulfame potassium—promote the transfer of antibiotic resistance genes in environmental and clinical settings.
Aug 31, 2020 08:30AM
Exposure to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS)—“forever chemicals” found in non-stick cookware, food packaging and contaminated water—may cause menopause to occur earlier in women.
Aug 15, 2019 11:21PM
Eating three to four eggs a week increases heart disease mortality by 6 percent and all-cause mortality by 8 percent, a new study found.
Jun 28, 2019 11:38AM
Strawberries head the latest list of the Environmental Working Group’s “Dirty Dozen” fruits and vegetables with high levels of pesticide residues; avocados top the clean list.
May 31, 2019 10:47AM
Consuming as few as seven to 13 alcoholic drinks a week increases the risk of high blood pressure, say researchers.
Mar 29, 2019 10:54AM
African-American adults that consumed the most sugar-sweetened drinks were 61 percent more likely to develop kidney disease within 13 years than those with the lowest consumption.
Testing of food additives in a Czech lab found that gut microbes with anti-inflammatory properties were easily harmed by additives, while microbes with pro-inflammatory properties were mostly resistant.
Dec 27, 2018 12:42PM
Israeli and Singapore researchers found six popular FDA-approved artificial sweeteners to be toxic to digestive gut microbes.
Nov 30, 2018 03:18PM
Virtually all beer and wine tested in two recent studies contained residues of glyphosate herbicides, which are neurotoxic, endocrine disruptive and damaging to the liver.
Jul 31, 2018 12:13PM
By drinking one or more sugary sodas a day, women are a quarter less likely to become pregnant and men are a third less likely to father a child.
May 31, 2018 10:41AM
Over half of teenagers that have consumed energy drinks report experiencing nausea, increased heartbeat and other negative health consequences.
British researchers have discovered why DNA mutation results from alcoholic consumption that’s linked to seven types of cancer.
Mar 30, 2018 11:56AM
Women undergoing fertility treatments were 18 percent less likely to become pregnant and 26 percent less likely to have a live birth if they were eating pesticide-laden produce.
Mar 30, 2018 11:17AM
Eating a high-fat diet increases the risk of multiple sclerosis relapse in children by as much as 56 percent, while each additional cup of weekly vegetables cuts the risk by 50 percent.
Feb 28, 2018 11:11AM
Eating red meat and poultry significantly increases the risk of Type 2 diabetes, Singapore scientists report.
Dec 29, 2017 12:38PM
Recent studies confirm a link between sugar-heavy diets and mental disorders, especially depression, with added sugars—not those found in fruits—identified as the culprit.
Oct 31, 2017 11:55AM
A Canadian meta-analysis of 45 studies found that former and occasional drinkers have a 45 percent greater risk of heart disease than non-drinkers.
Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide glyphosate, which harms both soil and human health, has been found in 10 of 10 California wines tested, including organic ones.
Sep 29, 2017 06:19PM
Heart attack hospital admissions declined in New York counties that banned trans fat food in restaurants.
Mar 31, 2017 09:20AM
To replace plastic consumer waste, innovators have created a food wrap made of milk casein and a six-pack ring made of barley and wheat.
Feb 28, 2017 11:25AM
Rutgers researchers found that food dropped on the floor for even one second can be contaminated with bacteria, and that carpet transferred fewer bacteria than tile and stainless steel.
Dec 28, 2016 12:43PM
To help consumers know which drinks and foods are still being sold in cans lined with endocrine-disrupting BPA, the Environmental working Group’s website lists 16,000 BPA-tainted products.
Nov 30, 2016 11:33AM
To protect its traditional seeds and agriculture, Venezuela has passed perhaps the toughest law in the world regulating the use and research of genetically modified organisms.
Aug 31, 2016 12:44PM
Faced with rising consumer resistance to High-Fructose Corn Syrup, the corn refiners industry has created the terms “fructose syrup” or just “fructose” to hide its intense use in processed foods.
Jun 30, 2016 10:14AM
Two cans of an energy drink per day produced abnormal heart rhythms and higher blood pressure in healthy adults.
Jun 30, 2016 10:13AM
The DuPont Teflon residues found in the blood of more than 99 percent of Americans is now linked to cancer, birth defects, heart disease and a weakened immune system.
Apr 29, 2016 10:01AM
A DNA sampling of 82 purchases found that 43 percent of the so-called “wild-caught” salmon was farmed.
Mar 31, 2016 09:48AM
Germany has followed Scotland’s lead in the European Union by blocking the use of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in agriculture.
Jan 29, 2016 10:07AM
People with a history of chronic bronchitis that routinely drank five or more high-fructose corn syrup sodas a week showed an 80 percent increase in bronchitis incidents.
Dec 29, 2015 05:25PM
Increasingly, physicians are urging labeling of GMO products and voicing concerns about their carcinogenic properties.
Dec 29, 2015 04:23PM
Citing research links to liver, nerve and heart disorders, more than 200 scientists have called for a halt to the production of the chemicals used to coat non-stick cookware.
Nov 30, 2015 09:48AM
Despite ambitious resolutions, a new study finds we tend to dramatically increase our intake of calorie-rich foods after winter holiday feasting—although we manage to work in more veggies too.
May 29, 2015 10:12AM
Having two drinks a day in one’s 50s and 60s increases the risk of stroke by a third and lowers the age at which it occurs, Swedish researchers have found.
