USDA creates new government certification for GMO-free (Update)
The Agriculture Department has developed a new government certification and labeling for foods that are free of genetically modified ingredients.
May 14, 2015
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The Agriculture Department has developed a new government certification and labeling for foods that are free of genetically modified ingredients.
May 14, 2015
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Beverages sweetened with low, medium and high amounts of high-fructose corn syrup significantly increase risk factors for cardiovascular disease, even when consumed for just two weeks by young, healthy men and women, reports ...
Apr 22, 2015
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Sugars tastes good and for a little while, it may make us feel better until the crash comes and we are left feeling tired and lifeless. It is estimated that Americans consume 130 pounds of sugar per person a year which is ...
Apr 13, 2015
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It seems like it's in just about every product on grocery store shelves: high-fructose corn syrup. What is it, and how is it different from regular old sugar? And how did it become such a popular but controversial ingredient?
Mar 31, 2015
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In a new study, researchers report progress toward perfecting a radical new method of producing vaccines using genetically modified corn. The approach could lead to an oral hepatitis B vaccine that requires no refrigeration ...
Mar 30, 2015
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Health officials say people should eat less sugar. But that's easier said than done.
Mar 4, 2015
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Two thirds of Americans support labeling of genetically modified ingredients on food packages, even if they may not read them, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.
Jan 13, 2015
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When University of Utah biologists fed mice sugar in doses proportional to what many people eat, the fructose-glucose mixture found in high-fructose corn syrup was more toxic than sucrose or table sugar, reducing both the ...
Jan 5, 2015
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Fast-food chains have a New Year's resolution: Drop the junk.
Jan 2, 2015
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Seventeenth-century Oxford scholar Robert Burton's lifework, The Anatomy of Melancholy, weighs in at a door-stopping 1,400 pages. But his cure for the "Black Choler" of depression came down to just six words: "Be not solitary, ...
Oct 29, 2014
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