Phoenix Mercury star Diana Taurasi and New Orleans Hornets phenom Chris Paul will introduce a nationwide youth fitness initiative at the 2009 All-Star Jam Session and unveil their new “got milk?” ads.
The ads will hit publications in March.
The Get Fit By Finals program from the NBA and the “got milk?” Body By Milk Campaign, challenges teens to make a personal fitness goal and provides a plan to achieve it.
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“We’ve known for years that mercury is toxic to the brain and other organs in varying amounts depending on the individual’s status. For FDA to suddenly change the equation to say that benefits outweigh risks is like once again declaring the earth is flat after discovering it was round,” concluded Jane M. Hightower, M.D., an internal medicine physician in San Francisco, CA, who published a landmark study that brought the issue of mercury in seafood Read the rest of this entry »

Quantities of mercury have been found in high fructose corn syrup, the ingredient that has replaced sugar in many of our processed foods. Reports have also come out that the
about traces of the toxic substance in food, and sat on the information. This news comes out just as we’ve learned that the peanut butter factory responsible for the salmonella outbreak has a
. What a week for food safety.
Mercury in high fructose corn syrup affects many Read the rest of this entry »

Life seems to be imitating art for Jeremy Piven.
In a move deserving of its own “Entourage” episode, Piven pulled out of his starring role in David Mamet’s Broadway play “Speed-the-Plow” Wednesday, citing doctors’ diagnosis that he’s suffering from a high mercury count, according to Variety.
“We have been advised by Jeremy Piven’s medical representatives that he is seriously ill and is unable to fulfill his contractual obligation to Speed-the-Plow. Read the rest of this entry »

, the FDA’s position would reverse the government’s current policy that certain groups — women of childbearing years, pregnant women, nursing mothers, infants and children — can be harmed by the mercury in fish and should limit their consumption.
, who in internal memos criticized them as “scientifically flawed and inadequate” and said they fell short of the “scientific rigor routinely demonstrated by EPA.”
The FDA sent its draft report, a copy Read the rest of this entry »

Re: your Jan. 4 editorial, “FDA action smells fishy”:
This editorial was excellent, but I have to disagree with your conclusion that “the fish industry is not doing itself any favors lobbying to reverse health advisories.”
The fish industry has done nothing but help itself over the past 30 years by influencing the Food and Drug Administration to de-emphasize the significance of mercury levels in U.S. fish sales.
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(IATP), the actor may well have been sickened by soda or candy or anything that contains high fructose corn syrup, which, if you eat processed food in this country means, well, just about anything.
Foodies and nutritionists alike have been griping about high fructose corn syrup for years, and the industry has responded with an
).
Of course, I wouldn’t want to show my hand either, if the making of my product could be described as the undertaking Read the rest of this entry »

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left a Broadway production in late December due to a diagnosis of mercury poisoning. We could only speculate that a diet heavy on fish was the root cause — and now the actor himself has confirmed as such.
“And the truth is, Piven could not have gotten out of the play without a real diagnosis for insurance purposes. He says that years of being a fish eating vegetarian was enough to do the trick and act as a catalyst.”
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, the FDA’s position would reverse the government’s current policy that certain groups — women of childbearing years, pregnant women, nursing mothers, infants and children — can be harmed by the mercury in fish and should limit their consumption.
, who in internal memos criticized them as “scientifically flawed and inadequate” and said they fell short of the “scientific rigor routinely demonstrated by EPA.”
The FDA sent its draft report, a copy Read the rest of this entry »