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Baby Products Found to Contain Two Carcinogens
Chemicals found in personal care products have been under scrutiny for years, so it comes as no surprise that more than half of the baby products on the market today contain carcinogens. What is surprising are the two toxins being pinpointed by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics: formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane, chemicals that don't appear at all on labels or ingredients lists.
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Consumers Seek Peanut Butter Alternatives as Recall Grows
As the recall of salmonella-tainted peanut products continues, customers are becoming more and more wary of any product whose ingredients include peanuts, peanut paste, or peanut butter.
Food industry experts predict that the peanut and peanut butter industry could lose as much as a billion dollars in profits because of the peanut recall. The recall has so far affected cookies, crackers, protein and snack bars, ice cream, dog treats, and a host of other packaged products that contain peanuts and peanut paste.
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Six Major Manufacturers Pull Toxic BPA from Baby Bottles
Six major U.S. manufacturers of baby bottles have responded to consumer fears about bisphenol A by removing it from all of their baby bottles to be sold in the United States.
After pressure from the attorney generals of several states, six of the eleven largest companies producing baby bottles in the U.S. have agreed to voluntarily remove all BPA from baby products. The companies that will no longer make the potentially dangerous baby bottles include Avent, Gerber, Evenflo, Platex, Dr. Brown, and Disney First Years.
What is BPA?
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Study Links Sugar and Acne
A 2007 study by four dermatologists has finally given science a conclusive link between the sugar content of foods and their ability to affect skin and facial acne.
For years, doctors have dismissed the idea that foods such as chocolate and sugar could have an impact on skin's appearance, acne, and breakouts. But the last laugh may be on them, now that research has begun to demonstrate that the glycemic index of food – the speed at which sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream – does have a notable impact on acne and skin health.
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Health Improvements Easier With A Health Buddy
It's been shown over and over again: People are more willing to commit to plans that will improve their health, and more likely to stick to them, if they have a friend who will act as a "diet buddy" or sober second thought in the quest for weight loss or better health.
It isn't easy to change lifelong habits. Even habits that are just easy, reliable grooves to fall into – like ordering fries when you're out for dinner with your new boyfriend because he always does – are hardly easy to break.
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Who Should Do A Fasting Cleanse?
Fasting is part of many spiritual traditions and it's a valuable way to give your digestive system a break and cleanse the body of toxins, but fasting isn't for everyone. If you're interested in fasting for better health, please consider the following people who should never do an intense fast:
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Learning New Health Habits One Piece at a Time
Replacing bad habits with good ones is a lifelong process, so it only makes sense that these things need to be done one step at a time. The easiest way to stop eating something that is harmful to you, or to start a new exercise program, learn a new language, or go on a diet is one step at a time.
"How do you eat an elephant?" the old joke goes. "One bite at a time." Just so, the only way to get lasting results from a new habit is to start slowly, "one bite at a time."
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Fighting Food Cravings With Healthy Sweets
Anyone who's ever done a fast, cleanse or diet can tell you how hard it is to eliminate sugar from your daily routine. Sugar is tasty, addictive, and it is insidious – it's in almost everything! Yet if there's one simple trick that can help eliminate sugar cravings, it's to eat foods that are healthy and naturally sweet, like ripe, fresh fruit.
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Ash Wednesday Marks The Start of Fasting for Millions
Today is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, a time when millions of Christians around the world begin a season of repentance and introspection. In honor of the season, many will fast or give up foods like meat, alcohol and sweets for part or all of the next forty days.
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Outsourcing Drug Tests Abroad Raises Questions
Like many other businesses, it seems science has been globalized. A report published today in the New England Journal of Medicine by Duke University researchers highlights an increasing trend toward FDA-approved research being conducted, not in the United States, but in other countries around the world.
Business as usual? The report's authors contend that this development presents a risk to those participating in such studies as well as to Americans who may one day receive these drugs.
Outsourced Studies Are Cheaper, Less Closely Regulated
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