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Dying for a Cookie: Seemingly Harmless Foods That Aren’t

March 11, 2010

palm oil orangutan poster Michael Pollan’s first food rule is simple: Eat Food, which he considers to be a different thing than what he calls edible foodlike substances, or “highly processed concoctions designed by food scientists, consisting mostly of ingredients derived from corn and soy that no normal person keeps in the pantry, and contain chemical additives with which the human body has not been long acquainted.”

1. Palm Oil

Many of those substances are bad for our health, bad for our planet and show up in really surprising places. One of the most blatant examples is palm oil, which is now found in just about everything; alm…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Forget the Oscars, The Toxies Are Much More Exciting

March 5, 2010

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I am so embarrassed that we missed our walk down the red carpet for the Toxies on Wednesday night at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theater. Established by Californians for a Healthy and Green Economy (Change), it recognizes those chemicals that have so affected our lives.

GreenBiz lists some of the winners, starting with a Star on TreeHugger:

Worst Breakthrough Performance and Viewer’s Choice Award for Worst Chemical of 2009: Bisphenol A (BPA), an estrogen impersonator found in polycarbonate p…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bisphenol A, It’s the New Asbestos and It’s Everywhere

February 11, 2010

Why it matters:
“Endocrine disruptor” and “synthetic estrogen”… that’s why.
Recap:
Unless you’ve been living under a rock– an unfairly stigmatized exercise of strength, endurance, and will-power, but sadly also a impediment to education and worldly awareness– you’ve heard all the bad news [...]

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