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Sugar as a toxin: Experts differ on its health effects
2013-09-12 07:49:27| Sugar Industry News
American eaters love a good villain. Diets that focus on one clear bad guy have gotten traction even as the bad guy has changed: fat, carbohydrates, animal products, cooked food, gluten. And now Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California at San Francisco, is adding sugar to the list. His book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease makes the case that sugar is almost single-handedly responsible for Americans' excess weight and the illnesses that go with it. Sugar is the biggest perpetrator of our current health crisis, says Lustig, blaming it for not just obesity and diabetes but also for insulin resistance, cardiovascular disease, stroke, even cancer. Sugar is a toxin, he says. Pure and simple.
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Drilling to check toxin flow
2013-08-28 19:48:25| Waste Management - Topix.net
Representatives of the Roche Co. offered apologies to the Nutley community last week for not being as forthcoming as they might have been in drilling test wells outside their property in residential areas.
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Burkburnett: Residents Warned About Toxin in Drinking Water
2013-07-13 06:08:47| Waste Management - Topix.net
High nitrate levels in this area are not uncommon. However, the T.C.E.Q. took the sample June 26th and didn't notify the city until July 11th of the problem.
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Grain handlers wary of toxin lingering in '12 US corn harvest
2013-04-20 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Problems with the toxic residue of a mold that attacked the 2012 drought-hit U.S. corn crop may worsen this summer and autumn as Midwest farmers blend off tainted supplies held in storage, grain experts say. The substance, aflatoxin, is a chronic problem in dry, hot southern states like Texas where stressed crops are vulnerable to the mold. But in 2012, the worst U.S. drought in more than half a century extended the aflatoxin threat moved northward into the heart of the Midwest, resulting in the...
Researchers use nanosponges to mop up MRSA toxin, venom from the bloodstream
2013-04-18 17:11:07| Extremetech
Researchers at UCSD have come up with a way to combat the effects of alpha-haemolysin, the often lethal component of drug-resistant bacteria. By soaking it up with a polymer nanosponge wrapped in red blood cell membranes, animals by be cured from am otherwise lethal injection of the bacterial toxin.
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