Disturbing food concerns made a lot of headlines this week. From mercury found in high-fructose corn syrup to the peanut plant knowingly shipping tainted products that led to the nationwide salmonella outbreak, FatFighterTV has a look at this week's diet and fitness stories making news this week.
Peanut plant knowingly shipped tainted products, recall grows
It looks like the salmonella/peanut butter outbreak could have been easily avoided. The Food and Drug Administration says the company linked to a nationwide outbreak of salmonella knowingly shipped tainted peanut products. The Peanut Corporation of America’s plant in Blakely, Georgia is now recalling every peanut product it has made in the past two years - peanut paste, peanut butter, dry and roasted peanuts, and everything else.
Cured meats linked to childhood leukemia risk
Children who regularly eat cured meats like bacon and hot dogs may be more at risk for leukemia, says a new study in the online journal BMC Cancer. When researchers looked at 515 Taiwanese children and teenagers with and without acute leukemia, they found those who ate cured meats and fish more than once a week had a 74 percent higher risk of leukemia than those who rarely ate them. But kids who often ate vegetables and soy products had about half the leukemia risk as those who avoided them.
Mercury found in popular foods with HFCS
As if we haven’t had enough problems with our food lately with the salmonella/peanut butter outbreak. Now, two new studies find mercury - a metal that is toxic to humans - in nearly half of the samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) they tested. It was also in about a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverages where HFCS is the first or second highest ingredient listed on the label.
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