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Can You Overdose on Folic Acid?

20 Mar 2017

Vitamins have a great public image. Even the term itself derives from the Latin 鈥渧ita,鈥 meaning life. And indeed vitamins are essential to life. Our bodies cannot make these nutrients, so we must...

Can walnuts reduce the risk of heart disease?

20 Mar 2017

Want to reduce your risk of heart disease? The California Walnut Commission makes it simple. Eat Walnuts. And the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agrees. Sort of. The following claim is allowed...

Maple Syrup as a Cancer Fighter?

20 Mar 2017

Maple syrup as a cancer fighter? That鈥檚 what a press release from the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers claims. 鈥淩ecent studies have shown Canadian maple syrup to contain more than twenty...

Formaldehyde in Baby Shampoo - Crunch the Numbers, Crunch the Scare

20 Mar 2017

It is a very small molehill. But to the folks at the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics (CSC) it seems more like Mount Everest. This organization鈥檚 recently released report features a cute baby smothered...

What are Prions?

20 Mar 2017

Imagine your brain literally turning to sponge. That鈥檚 just what happens in a family of diseases known as the 鈥渟pongiform encephalopathies鈥 which leave the brain riddled with holes. In humans,...

The 鈥淩isk鈥 of Caramel Colouring

20 Mar 2017

Colas derive their colour from caramel, which basically is a complex mixture of compounds produced when various carbohydrates such as sucrose, fructose, glucose or starches are heated to a high...

Frying and Cooking Fumes

20 Mar 2017

One wouldn鈥檛 expect that frying a steak exposes the cook to the same chemical that is used in mothballs, but it does. Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology were...

Can hazelwood or amber necklaces help with the pain of babies' teething?

20 Mar 2017

Why are some mothers buying hazelwood or amber necklaces for their babies? It isn鈥檛 a new-fangled fashion statement. It鈥檚 actually old fashioned nonsense. These necklaces are being promoted as the...

What makes a fish 鈥渙rganic?鈥

20 Mar 2017

The use of the label "organic" is regulated by a strict set of guidelines. As it applies to farmed fish, it implies following a number of rules with respect to water recycling, disposal of waste...

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