Toxins and Exitotoxins

BeverageDaily.com
Ajinomoto fights to 'stabilize profitability' in aspartame after 2012 losses ...
BeverageDaily.com
Nagamachi added: “Besides, we will stabilize the profitability of aspartame for our industrial business section – main actions for that include full contribution of the new technology introduced last year, further reduction in fixed costs at production ...

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9 Trans Fat-Laden Foods to Avoid
Huffington Post Canada
When it comes to foods that cause high cholesterol, saturated fats used to be seen as public enemy number one. We now know that trans fats — fats formed by adding hydrogen to liquid unsaturated fatty acids and resulting in a particular chemical ...

Gentle Dentistry: Knock me out until I'm well
DeSoto Times Today
Dentists are heaven-sent and God love 'em. But messin' wit de toofies is just a nightmare for some of us. If you can get over that gigantic needle he hides behind his back and sneaks into your mouth there's still a lot to face. And I can do the needle ...

Simple steps to a healthier heart
Ponte Vedra Recorder
"There are four key things to think about for heart health: keep your blood fat levels down, keep your blood pressure in check, promote healthy blood flow and circulation, and keep inflammation down." Here are five simple steps you can take to reduce ...

UPI.com
Nutrition group weighs in on aspartame in milk: It's not needed
Dairy Herd Management
The petition from the International Dairy Foods Association and the National Milk Producers Federation to allow aspartame and other “safe and suitable” sweeteners in milk and 17 other dairy products has left a sour taste in the mouth of consumers ...
Anger Erupts Over Request to Allow Artificial Sweeteners in DairyThe Daily meal
FDA urged to 'keep milk milk' and reject flavoured milk sweetener petitionDairyReporter.com

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Popular Science
Portland Voters Defeat Fluoridation Plan
Wall Street Journal
The measure, on Tuesday's primary-election ballot, asked voters to affirm or reject a 2012 decision by Portland's City Council to begin fluoridation in 2014. Portland has remained one of the biggest U.S. cities not to fluoridate its water. The city's ...
Fluoridation fails in Portland by 20-point marginWashington Post (blog)
Portland, Oregon rejects drinking water fluoridation by wide marginArs Technica
Portland fluoride: For the fourth time since 1956, Portland voters reject ...OregonLive.com
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At work: Photos from the archives
San Jose Mercury News media center
More than orchards and chips: South Bay industry from World War II to the start of the Space Age turned out everything from heavy iron to tubs of MSG. ... 14 of 37. 1953, International Minerals & Chemical Corp.'s Ac'cent division, San Jose: To ...

Yahoo! Canada Shine On
Reverse your health mistakes
Yahoo! Canada Shine On
Firstly, try to cut back on saturated fats (found in butter, cakes, biscuits and fatty meats), trans fats (found in foods such as cakes and deep fried foods), salt and sugar. Secondly, try to increase your intake of essential vitamins, minerals and ...

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Silver fillings – good or bad for your health?
WorlDental.org
The combination of silver and mercury is called amalgam, a popular choice among dental fillings. But some people think the mercury in amalgam can leak out of the fillings and cause health conditions like Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis. How ...

Templeton anti-fluoridation effort fails at town meeting
Worcester Telegram
Voters Monday night rejected three articles brought by citizens' petition concerning fluoridation. For the third year in a row, voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to stop fluoridating the town's drinking water. They also rejected an article that ...

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Barát vagy ellenség az ízfokozó?
Origo
Az idegsebész Excitotoxins, The Taste that Kills cím? könyvében feltételezte, hogy a nagy mennyiség? glutamát az agyba jutva túlstimulálja az idegsejteket, ezzel elpusztítva ?ket. Azóta dr. John Fernstrom, a Pittsburghi Egyetem pszichiátriai ...

Yahoo! Lifestyle UK
Reverse your health mistakes
Yahoo! Lifestyle UK
Firstly, try to cut back on saturated fats (found in butter, cakes, biscuits and fatty meats), trans fats (found in foods such as cakes and deep fried foods), salt and sugar. Secondly, try to increase your intake of essential vitamins, minerals and ...

Nonprofit's study critical of Phila. teacher policies
Philly.com
Its current hiring system - an amalgam of seniority-based placement and site selection, where principals and committees of teachers and others choose qualified candidates - is difficult to navigate, and too often drags into the summer, long after other ...

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ABC News
Portland, Ore., mayor concedes that residents have rejected water fluoridation
Washington Post
The mayor of Portland, Ore., has conceded defeat in an effort to add fluoride to the city's drinking water. With more than 80 percent of the expected ballots counted late Tuesday night, the Multnomah County election website showed the fluoride proposal ...
Water Fluoridation Vote: Portland, Ore., May Soon Become Largest US City ...Huffington Post
Portland fluoride: For the fourth time since 1956, Portland voters reject ...OregonLive.com
Portland Fluoridation Vote Reignites DebateYahoo! News
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Portland voters reject water fluoridation
Portland Tribune
Fluoridation opponents, with little money or professional political help, quickly gathered enough signatures to force a public referendum on Tuesday. "In 30 days, we put together an operation to gather 43,000 signatures," said Rick North, a member of ...

Portland, Ore., rejecting water fluoridation
Northwest News and Tribune
With more than 80 percent of the expected ballots counted late Tuesday night, the Multnomah County election website showed the fluoride proposal failing, 60 percent to 40 percent. Mayor Charlie Hales supported fluoridation and says "the measure lost ...

VIEW FROM AWAY: Worry about rise in food stamps, not junk food
Kennebec Journal
Diet soda has zero calories, but it also contains aspartame, sodium nitrite and artificial colors. Should poor kids be required to eat raisin bran instead of Cap'n Crunch? Margarine instead of butter? Are those Baked Lays chips OK or not? What about ...

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Portland, Ore., voting on water fluoridation
Yahoo! News
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oral health and politics collided Tuesday as Portlanders — proudly nonconformist and environmentally minded — decided whether their city remains the largest in the U.S. without public fluoridation. Voters had weeks to make ...

Group urges York's Dentsply to stop making dental amalgam
York Dispatch
A chemistry professor, nutritionist, farmer and Catholic nuns have at least one thing in common; they want Dentsply International to stop making amalgam. The silver-shaded substance used to fill cavities is 50 percent mercury, which is both a ...

Arab News
What about soda and energy drinks (Part 5)
Arab News
... exposing the deleterious effects of various soft drinks, fatty fast foods, processed meats, artificial sweeteners, additives (preservatives, flavors, colorants and taste enhancers such as monosodium glutamate), refined sugars and carbohydrates, and ...