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The latest bit of research about the chemicals used in non-stick cookware is connecting them to cholesterol in young people. Worse still is that the same chemicals found in Teflon style non-stick cookwares are also used in many different types of household fabrics. This new research was published this month in one of the JAMA […]
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Non-stick cookware has gained the reputation of being a possible source of chemical toxins amongst the general populous in recent years. What most people don’t know is that DuPont, the creators of the original non-stick material called Teflon, have known about its possible dangers for over fifty years. Studies by some of DuPont’s own scientists
A new study examining the differences between industrial and organic strawberry farming has just shown organic farming to be the all around best method. A paper by scientists at Washington State University was published in the online journal PLoS ONE yesterday. “Our findings have global implications and advance what we know about the sustainability benefits […]
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Scientists have discovered a critical new use for cranberry juice. The growing problem of fighting antibiotic resistant staph infections could end up being overcome simply by drinking cranberry juice. Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) presented their discovery at the American Chemical Society’s national meeting in Boston in August of this year. "Most of our
Chemicals used in fertilizers appear to be more harmful to the environment, especially to water born animals, than researchers had believed to be the case. A study by toxicologists from North Carolina State University was published by the journal PLoS One showing that water fleas take in nitrites and nitrites from fertilizer and then convert […]
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