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Aluminum More of a Threat Than Thought? German "Feds" Say: Stay Away From Antitranspirants and Beware of the Dozen of Other Aluminum Containing Junk in Your Life

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Cancer, Alzheimer's - The X* effect? *Most deodorants don't contain aluminum. I have to admit that I missed the original publication of the inconspicious statement of the Bundesintitut fĆ¼r Risikobewertung (BfR. 2014). I am not sure if there is a US or UK equivalent to the BfR, but if there was an US counterpart, those would be the guys that would tell the FDA what they should do, if the industry, the FDA is actually supposed to control had not already taken their job ;-) All (sadly true) jokes aside, basically the short paper is a re-evaluation of the safety of aluminum - not aluminum in general, but the amount of aluminum in our immediate surrounding. Sources like the particularly nasty Aluminum from antitranspirants Table 1: Overview of the "worst offenders" among foods and bakery products scientists from the University of Kentucky (Saiyed. 2005) Processed foods provide the toxic baseline: Antitranspirants are part of the problem, but as usual it'...
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Commercially Available Teas "Not Suitable For Human Consumption": Potentially Hazardous Amounts of Lead, Aluminum, Arsenic & Co in Every Cup

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Would all commercially available teas have to be labeled like this? I am usually not a fan of articles with titles like this one (see above) - they have what you call in Germany "Bildzeitungsniveau" (the German tabloid with news like "World about to disappear in a black hole, when CERN starts operating). It is however hard to resist the urge to use a headline like the one above, if the it fits the results of peer-reviewed scientific paper so well, as it is the case with the relatively recent paper from the University of Alberta and the LuleĆ¢ University of Technology in Sweden this SuppVersity article is (almost) all about. The corresponding experiment, the results of which were published in the peer-reviewed open-access Journal of Toxicology in October 2013, already, addresses the increasing concern about contamination of foodstuffs and natural health products. With the emphasis being on foodstuff and health, it's only logical that tea, or more precisely all...
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Science Round-Up Seconds: "Tomatorade(R)" or Why Tomato Juice is the Better Intra- & Postworkout Beverage. Up to 90% B12 Deficiency in Vegetarians & Vegans. Aluminum in Your Testes? Not With Vitamin E & Zinc.

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Can't find "Tomatorade(R)", at your local supplement store, yet (surprising, right ;-)? The guys over @ SimplyRecipes have an easy and tweakable recipe describing how you can make your own "Tomatorade" or however you want to call it (photo by SimplyRecipes). If you listened live to yesterday's installment of the SuppVersity Science Round-Up on Super Human Radio , you will probably have noticed that due to the technical problems and my teacherly tendency to talk for hours, Carl Lanore and I did not cover all the topics ( click here do download the podcast if you haven't already done so)... but hey, that leaves more stuff for today, doesn't it? I guess I will best package the newsitems into three servings, starting out with the one I like best, namely my Tomatorade(R) aka plain tomato juice news... but before I do so, I must thank Maxim Okhrimenko who corrected the statement I made about vodka in Russian babies' tea or other beverages. Nor...
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Complete Meals & GI (Non-)Sense, Glutamine & GLP-1, Low Thyroid & High Trigs, N-3 vs. N-6 Interactions, Optimal DHA Dosage in Kids W/ NAFLD, Selenium vs. Aluminum Toxicity

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While this is not the exact combination of chicken breast, mashed potatoes and salad in the first one of today's news items, it's more than likely that the predicted GI (and thus probably what you would find if you looked it up in a table) overestimates the postprandial glucose response to this meal by ~50% and says absolutely nothing about the insulin response. It looks like complex meals and over-simplified theories, don't mix well, at all ;-) 78% that's the SuppVersity Figure of the Week and actually part of the additional information I provided on one of today's On Short Notice items. It's the increase in coronary heart disease risk women with subclinical hypothyroidism have compared to their peers with spot on TSH levels of 0.5-1.5mU/L (Asvold. 2012). In conjunction with other more or less recent studies, such as Mitchel's, Hsu's and Sahai's paper confirming the previously often talked about but not well-established 2-fold increase in con...
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