How to Eat: Digesting the New Dietary Guidelines - How much do you know about food? That's the question at the heart of understanding the recommendations contained in the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans. It's a laudable and worthwhile report, but since it's such a sizable document we thought we'd break it down to help you understand it better. Read more
Body Mass History May Weigh In on Mortality Risk - Although we know that obesity is associated with an increased risk of numerous ills, it hasn't been clear that it's also linked to an increased risk of death. A new study suggests that the way the BMI data has been examined may account for that dissonance, and that body weight history may also weigh in on mortality risk. Read more
Treating Liver Cirrhosis Focuses on New Target - A protein involved in pathological angiogenesis can serve as a new therapeutic target in the treatment of chronic liver disease, which claims nearly 50,000 lives annually. In vivo tests involving knock-out mice has shown promising results. Read more
Revisiting Chemical Dumping to Call Again for TSCA ‘Reform’ - PFOA, a chemical used to make non-stick substances, was dumped into the Ohio River between the 1950s and 1990s. A NY Times Magazine article serves as an expose of this practice, targeting DuPont as a bad actor. The newspaper uses this as an excuse to call for revision of federal government legislation. Read more
3 Reasons Campbell Soup is Smart for Using GMO Labels - Is the Campbell Soup Co. crazy for putting GMO labels on its food, the very thing it recently said was an unnecessary scare tactic by Big Organic? Not at all, and here are several compelling reasons why that's the case. Read more
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