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Surprising Health Hazards Associated with an All-Fruit Diet. By Dr.

Surprising Health Hazards Associated with an All-Fruit Diet

Mercola Fruits are loaded with healthy antioxidants, vitamins and minerals, which is why eating them in moderation is fine for healthy people. However, many benefit by restricting their fruit intake. Fructose, a simple sugar found in fruit, is preferentially metabolized to fat in your liver, and eating large amounts has been linked to negative metabolic and endocrine effects. So eating very large amounts – or worse, nothing but fruit – can logically increase your risk of a number of health conditions, from insulin and leptin resistance to cancer. Kutcher Lands in Hospital After Adopting All-Fruit Diet Actor Ashton Kutcher recently disclosed health issues brought on by following an all-fruit diet,1 adopted in preparation to play the character of Steve Jobs in the upcoming film “Jobs,” due out April 19.

"First of all, the fruitarian diet can lead to like severe issues. Why Large Amounts of Fruit May Not Be Healthy. 9 Foods You Should Never Attempt to Eat. By Dr.

9 Foods You Should Never Attempt to Eat

Mercola Many foods have been heavily promoted as being healthy when they are nothing more than pernicious junk foods. In the featured article, Clean Plates1 founder Jared Koch shared his list of nine staple foods that are far less "good for you" than you've been led to believe. Here, I expand on the selections that are mentioned in the featured article. 1. Many leading brands of canned foods contain BPA -- a toxic chemical linked to reproductive abnormalities, neurological effects, heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, heart disease and other serious health problems. U.S. Congress Says Pizza is a Vegetable. By Dr.

U.S. Congress Says Pizza is a Vegetable

U.S. Foods Full of Banned Ingredients. If You Are Serious About Your Health, You Need to Know What You Are Eating! - The Natural Health Society of Australia. FDA to Allow Unlabeled Use of Aspartame in Dairy Products. By Dr.

FDA to Allow Unlabeled Use of Aspartame in Dairy Products

Mercola The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) have filed a petition with the FDA1 requesting the agency “amend the standard of identity” for milk and 17 other dairy products. Coca-Cola Rolls Out New Misinformation Campaign. By Dr.

Coca-Cola Rolls Out New Misinformation Campaign

Mercola A new Coca-Cola ad campaign that encourages people to come together to fight obesity is drawing fire from consumer advocates and obesity experts.1, 2 Coke says it’s trying to make consumers more aware of the healthy choice beverages Coke makes; critics say Coke is simply doing damage control. There can be no doubt that soda is one of the primary beverages responsible for skyrocketing obesity rates.

As Dr. Irradiated Foods Exposed to Gamma Radiation. Irradiated herbs, seasonings and spices are exposed to HALF A BILLION chest X-ray's worth of gamma radiation.

Irradiated Foods Exposed to Gamma Radiation

This information is clearly publicized by the USDA and FDA. The FDA presently supports the use of Cobalt-60 culled from nuclear reactors on all domestically produced conventional food. The level of gamma-radiation used starts at 1 KiloGray -- equivalent to 16,700,000 chest x-rays -- and goes all the way up to 30KiloGray (500,000,000 chest x-rays or 10,000 times a human lethal dose). Boycott Pepsi Over Use of Aborted Fetuses? Oklahoma lawmaker wants to stop Pepsi from using aborted fetus cells in soda flavoring research.

Dangerous Carcinogen In Fast-Food Grilled Chicken. Two Latest GE-Related Health Threats. By Dr.

Two Latest GE-Related Health Threats

Mercola Fish — and salmon in particular — has always been an ideal source for the animal-based omega-3 fats EPA and DHA, but as levels of pollution have increased, fish in general have become less viable as a primary source of healthful fats. Beware of This Hazardous "Edible" Coating on Your Vegetables. UPDATE February 21, 2012 First off, many of the comments to this article seem to have missed the second sentence which states: Let me preface this article by saying that I do not have the answer, but I will present a couple of theories here.

Beware of This Hazardous "Edible" Coating on Your Vegetables

That said, one of the benefits of the forum discussion after each of our articles is that it allows the collective knowledge of the community to provide broader global wisdom. Monsanto's Roundup: Good or Bad? By Dr.

Monsanto's Roundup: Good or Bad?

Mercola An Illinois beekeeper whose bee hives were stolen and allegedly destroyed by the Illinois Department of Agriculture has stirred up a hornet's nest with his questions on why the state did this, and most importantly, what they did with his bees.The state claims the bees were destroyed because they were infected with a disease called foulbrood. But when the 58-year apiary keeper had his hearing—three weeks after the removal of his bees without his knowledge—the state's "evidence" had disappeared, leaving more questions than answers about the raid on the beekeeper's hives. Some people, including the beekeeper, Terrence Ingram, suspect the raid has more to do with Ingram's 15 years of research on Monsanto's Roundup and his documented evidence that Roundup kills bees, than it does about any concerns about his hives. Interestingly, the state's theft targeted the queen bee and hive he'd been using to conduct the research.

The Ingram Case.