Brown rice syrup used in many organic foods as a substitute for the often - chastised high fructose corn sugar is causing problems of its own
with high arsenic levels.
Not exact matches
Arsenic at
levels higher than the EPA drinking water standard have also been found recently in juices popular
with children.
While consumers reach out for proteins derived for potatoes, peas, rice, brown rice, sprouted rice, lentils, and even coconut for their health benefits, consumers in California have to deal
with Proposition 65 warnings in some cases because of
higher levels of lead, cadmium, and
arsenic taken up from the environment through both natural and anthropogenic sources.
One Dartmouth scientist, epidemiologist Margaret Karagas, had already found that babies whose mothers relied on water from wells drilled in New Hampshire's
arsenic - rich bedrock —
with contamination measured at
levels as
high as 1 ppm (1,000 ppb)-- were disproportionately likely to have low birth weight and might also be more vulnerable to childhood infections.
Water from up to 10 percent of residential wells in Maine has
high arsenic levels,
with that number reaching 60 percent in some areas in the coastal «
arsenic belt.»
When compared
with a control group, the
arsenic - exposed mice exhibited
higher blood glucose
levels due to reduced insulin secretion during the early phases of a glucose tolerance test.
The
highest arsenic concentrations were found in infants who frequently ate baby rice cereal,
with levels more than three times that of babies who didn't eat rice, the study reports.
Levels of
arsenic in rice may not be as
high when compared
with other foods.
It is important to note that rice may not have as
high levels of
arsenic, compared
with other foods.
Participants
with type 2 diabetes had a 26 %
higher level of total
arsenic in their urine than those without the disease.
The study found that the
levels of cadmium were increased
with higher doses of calcium and zinc, while elevated
levels of
arsenic corresponded
with the
levels of iron and manganese in the product.
Women who consumed rice had
higher levels of total
arsenic and inorganic
arsenic in their urine, compared
with those who did not consume rice.
According to the FDA, «Long - term exposure to
high levels of
arsenic is associated
with higher rates of skin, bladder and lung cancers, as well as heart disease.»
A three - year study
with 350 participants was undertaken at a Russian metal foundry, where more than 20 natural detoxifiers were used to remove heavy metals from people who had been exposed at very
high levels to four main metals — mercury, lead, cadmium and
arsenic.
Because the relationship between consumption and body weight is
highest in infants and young children, the FDA has established
levels of inorganic
arsenic in infant rice cereal that are consistent
with the
levels set by EFSA for rice destined for the production of food for infants and young children, and half those established by EFSA and Codex for the population at large.
4:30 am (3rd)-- TCM — Four Daughters Something of a
high - B -
level programmer, Four Daughters tells the fairly routine story of four sisters and their love interests; there's more to it than meets the eye, though, and starlet Priscilla Lane (notably of
Arsenic and Old Lace) carries it well
with her two sisters Lola and Rosemary.
6:00 am — TCM — Four Daughters Something of a
high - B -
level programmer, Four Daughters tells the fairly routine story of four sisters and their love interests; there's more to it than meets the eye, though, and starlet Priscilla Lane (notably of
Arsenic and Old Lace) carries it well
with her two sisters Lola and Rosemary.
More on
Arsenic in the Food Supply
High Levels of
Arsenic Found in Children's Urine, You'll Never Guess Where it Came From Pfizer Halts Use of
Arsenic - Containing Poultry Drug Removing
Arsenic From Water
With... Plastic Bottles and Nutrition Supplements?!
One example of this is chicken manure, which provides
high levels of nitrogen and phosphorous, but can also be contaminated
with heavy metals as a result of conventional feed additives containing
arsenic.
Advocacy groups Empire State Consumer Project and Food & Water Watch sent a letter to the agency [PDF] today
with new data showing
levels of
arsenic in apple juice well above — in one juice sample, five times
higher — than what the EPA allows in drinking water.