If you care for a real exercise in label reading, just take a peek at a standard supermarket ice cream. You would think that the list of ingredients should be pretty short. After all, traditional...
Just mention 鈥淜ool Aid鈥� and my memories flop back to summer camp. That was the beverage we were served with every meal. And it was the same with my kids. They used to tell me about the "bug juice"...
I don鈥檛 think I would want to work in a rubber processing plant. Too many nitrosamines in the air, and it鈥檚 better not to inhale them. Nitrosamines after all are known carcinogens, first identified...
The British Journal of Urology reports a rash of penis-crush injuries associated with a trend towards installing heavy wooden and ornamental toilet seats. The problem is that when toddlers are...
The term 鈥淪uperfood鈥� has become part of our vocabulary. Such foods are the supposed antitheses of 鈥渏unk foods鈥� with the implication that if we gorge on them we can delay our earthly departure. The...
John Wayne did not die with forty pounds of fecal matter impacted in his colon. Where does such a preposterous notion come from? Generally one of two sources. The nonsense stems either from people...
Oh, those analytical chemists. They do cause problems don鈥檛 they? With their ability to find the presence of chemicals at parts per trillion, they can not only find the needle in the proverbial...
According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-profit, environmental advocacy group, we should all be wary of retinyl palmitate. This compound is commonly added to a range of skin care...
鈥淏ath salts,鈥� 鈥渧acuum fresheners鈥� and 鈥減lant food鈥� seem innocuous enough. You can pick then up at some gas stations, convenience stores, some garden supply shops, or order them on the Internet....
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