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      Two Slices of Bacon a Day is a Prescription for Cancer

      January 16, 2012 /

      Cancer risk is raised by consuming 2 strips of bacon a day.

      Unless you don’t want to raise your risk of cancer by a fifth, then consider cutting back.

      New research by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm found that eating 1.8 ounces (50 grams) of processed meat a day can increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 19 percent.
      For people consuming 3.5 ounces (100 grams) of processed meat, the increased risk jumps to 38 percent and 57 percent for those eating 5.3 ounces (150 grams) a day.

      Processed foods should be avoided in a healthy diet.

      Nutrition, Quality Control, Research, Wellness

      Death By Soda?

      January 16, 2012 /

      Could more than 2,600 deaths a year be prevented by taxing soda?

      Some analysts think, yes.

      In general, they assume that if the price of soda rises, people will buy less of it. “We assume that 40 percent of the calories saved by forgoing a sugary drink are replaced with other calories,” she says, meaning either calories from drinks such as milk or fruit juice or from food. “So for every 100 calories in soda avoided, only 60 calories are actually lost in the diet.”

      This is not the first study to predict that a soda tax would be effective in reducing consumption. Yale University researchers concluded in this report that taxing sugary drinks would lead to economic benefits as well.

      Using the funds that come from taxing unhealthy foods could be the answer to a host of health cost issues.

      Nutrition, Quality Control, Resources, Wellness

      FDA to Test Imported Orange Juice for Fungicide

      January 15, 2012 /

      The FDA will begin testing imported orange juice for trace of illegal pesticides.

      The substance in question, carbendazim is an illegal pesticide chemical which is used outside of the U.S.

      If the residue is found in shipments they will be turned away by the FDA.

      The FDA said it will examine all container shipments of orange juice that arrive at U.S. ports. The agency will sample contents from multiple parts of each shipment; the subsequent testing could take between five and ten business days.
      Shipments that test negative for “detectable levels” of carbendazim will be allowed to enter the country.

      Quality Control

      Murder is No Longer a Leading Cause of Death in The U.S.

      January 15, 2012 /

      A respiratory illness called pneumonitis which is seen mainly in people 75 and older, has supplanted homicide as a leading cause of death in the U.S.

      Death rates increased for Alzheimer’s disease, which is the nation’s sixth-leading killer.

      Also increased are, Kidney disease (No. 8), chronic liver disease and cirrhosis (No. 12), Parkinson’s disease (No. 14) and pneumonitis.

      U.S. life expectancy for a child born in 2010 was about 78 years and 8 months, up about a little more than one month from life expectancy for 2009.

      Heart disease and cancer remain the top killers, accounting for nearly half the nation’s more than 2.4 million deaths in 2010. But the death rates from them continued to decline.

      Deaths rates for five other leading causes of death also dropped in 2010, including stroke, chronic lower respiratory diseases, accidents, flu/pneumonia and blood infections.

      Quality Control, Research

      Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Found in India

      January 14, 2012 /

      TB that resists antibiotic treatment is causing problems in India.

      Over crowded living conditions, poor hygiene, ill-informed medical staff are and over use of antibiotics are fueling the already rampant problem.

      The risk of drug resistant disease becoming pandemic is one of the Greatest concerns of the World Health Organization.

      The problem of evolving TB drug resistance has been brewing for years. In the early 1990s, multidrug-resistant TB began spreading in New York City, abetted by homelessness, prison outbreaks and HIV. Aggressive identification and treatment of these cases, including the direct observation of patients taking their pills, snuffed out that epidemic.

      In 2005, extensively drug-resistant TB — strains untreatable with the three first-line drugs and several second-choice medications — cropped up in the South African province of Kwazulu-Natal, again abetted by HIV, which devastates immune defenses.

      Quality Control, Resources, Wellness

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