Studies – Glyphosate in Food

Health Canada acknowledges “troubling allegations” regarding approval of Roundup herbicide

November 24, 2018 Ed Leave a comment

Gil Shochat of the CBC has written about Health Canada reviewing hundreds of studies used during the approval process for glyphosate. Health Canada says in light of “troubling allegations,” its scientists are reviewing hundreds of studies used during the approval process for glyphosate, the active ingredient in Canada’s most popular herbicide, Roundup. These have never been publicly available AND its […]

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More gluten consumption associated with a lower risk of heart disease

May 2, 2017 Ed Leave a comment

Interesting post on Gizmodo about a study from Andrew Chan from Harvard Medical School on health impacts of removing gluten from your diet. I cant find the study itself, but found some similar ones over at Eureka Science News. From the Gizmodo article: more gluten consumption was associated with a lower risk of heart disease—possibly because people weren’t getting the […]

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A walk through of the molecular activity in your body

April 26, 2017 Ed Leave a comment

The Nature of Things episode titled “it Takes Guts” about the gut biome is good science, but its a little “light”. Its a TV show, what do you expect? Some of Dr. Seneff’s previous experiments have been torn apart, but to a layperson like me, her video walking us through the molecular activity in your body seems legit. I would be […]

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“The findings of our study are very worrying…”

January 17, 2017 Ed Leave a comment

I think we have all seen the recent spate of articles about the study linking glyphosate to liver disease in rats. Yes, worrisome, but we have seen scary study results before. But this study is uniquely scary in a few ways. This Daily Mail article brought them to my attention. Consider these worrisome quotes from the article: Dr Robin Mesnage, […]

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