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Scientists may have found meat link to colon cancer |
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Scientists may have found meat link to colon cancer
Wed Feb 1, 2006 12:38 AM ET
By Patricia Reaney LONDON
(Reuters) - Scientists said on Tuesday they may have found a reason why
eating too much red meat increases the risk of colorectal cancer. By
studying cells from volunteers eating different diets, they discovered
that red meat raises levels of compounds in the large bowel which can
alter DNA and increase the likelihood of cancer. "It is the first
definite link between red meat and the very first stage in cancer,"
said Professor Sheila Bingham, of the Medical Research Council Dunn
Nutrition Unit in Cambridge, England. In earlier research,
Bingham and her team showed there was a strong correlation between
eating red and processed meat and the risk of colon cancer. |
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Death by Medicine,783,936 people in the United States die every year |
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Statistics prove prescription drugs are 16,400% more deadly than terrorists
America was rudely awakened to a new kind
of danger on September 11, 2001: Terrorism. The attacks that day left
2,996 people dead, including the passengers on the four commercial
airliners that were used as weapons. Many feel it was the most tragic
day in U.S. history.
Four commercial jets crashed that day.
But what if six jumbo jets crashed every day in the United States,
claiming the lives of 783,936 people every year? That would certainly
qualify as a massive tragedy, wouldn't it?
Well, forget "what if." The tragedy is happening right now. Over 750,000 people actually do die in the United States
every year, although not from plane crashes. They die from something
far more common and rarely perceived by the public as dangerous: modern medicine.
According to the groundbreaking 2003 medical report Death by Medicine,
by Drs. Gary Null, Carolyn Dean, Martin Feldman, Debora Rasio and
Dorothy Smith, 783,936 people in the United States die every year from conventional medicine
mistakes. That's the equivalent of six jumbo jet crashes a day for an
entire year. But where is the media attention for this tragedy? Where
is the government support for stopping these medical mistakes before
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Unapproved GM corn found in US food chain |
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Unapproved GM corn found in US food chain
13:04 23 March 2005
NewScientist.com news service
Kurt Kleiner
A Swiss company accidentally sold unapproved genetically modified
seed corn in the US for four years. The mistake resulted in about 133
million kilograms of the corn making its way into the food chain.
Officials
for the company, Syngenta, and the US Environmental Protection Agency
insist there is no danger to human health. But the EPA and the US
Department of Agriculture are investigating to see if any laws or
regulations were broken. The EPA confirmed the investigation was
underway in a statement to the journal Nature. |
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