Category Archives: Is it Safe | Food Drug Medicine Safety
Is McDonald’s Fruitizz Healthy or Calorie-Ridden?
Is Fruitizz a healthier alternative to Coke or Pepsi? Or is it the same-old same-old calorie-ridden drink that will make your kids fat? Listening to the sales pitch of McDonald’s execs about Fruitizz would make you think that the world’s biggest fast food chain has finally found an answer to criticisms that it is promoting [...]
Weight Loss Surgery Cuts Type 2 Diabetes
It’s been less than one month since two studies — conducted independently by researchers in the United States and Italy — concluded that bariatric surgery may be the best treatment for obese people who suffer from type 2 diabetes. Now a new study, conducted by yet another institution, also in Italy, comes to the same [...]
Does Your Tea Have Pesticides?
Greenpeace finds banned pesticides in major Chinese tea brands Is drinking tea good for you? Yes and no, depending on many factors.
FDA Rejects Call to Ban BPA from Food Packaging
In a resounding defeat, health advocates and environmentalists in the United States lost the fight to take the chemical bisphenol-A out of food packaging. On March 30, the Food and Drug Administration rejected their petition to ban the industrial chemical from all food and drink packaging, including plastic bottles and canned food. But the FDA [...]
Hidden Chemicals in Cigarettes: Uranium, Cyanide, Formaldehyde & More
FDA bares teeth, requires tobacco companies to list levels of 20 hazardous chemicals Uranium-235? Uranium-238? Vinyl acetate? Polonium-210? Mercury? Hydrogen cyanide? Coumarin? Formaldehyde? Did you even know that these chemicals exist in the cigarette you’re smoking? Yes, they do — along with 93 other chemicals that the United States Food and Drug Administration classifies as [...]
