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Chewing gum is one of the food products highest in E171 aka Titanium DiOxide (TiO2); and despite the fact that "regular" E171 is not all nano-sized there is a significant quantity of very small molecules even in "food-grade" Titanium dioxide. In a recent study in the Journal of Applied Toxicolology, researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China present disturbing evidence that titanium dioxide nano-particles that are commonly used in sunscreen and other cosmetics, and can occur in foods containing the common food additive E-171 can induce insulin resistance in previously healthy rodents. Despite the fact it has to be taken into consideration that the mice were exposed to low to high doses of TiO2 nanoparticles (0, 64 and 320 mg/kg body weight for 14 weeks), the effects the scientists observed appear to confirm previous disconcerting in-vitro data which suggests that E-171 may not be super safe. Avoiding food additives could be one of the  the...

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 für 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'...

Image 1 (msg-exposed.com): Is obesity the inevitable, unnatural metabolic long-term equivalent of the dreaded "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome"? Earlier today, I posted a blurb from a recently published epidemiological study on the effects of mono-sodium glutamate, aka MSG, an umami = all taste receptor activator that is commonly found in all sorts of ready made foods that would otherwise taste as lame as their individual fake ingredients, on the SuppVersity facebook wall (Insawang . 2012). The scientists had evaluated the data from 324 families (349 adult subjects, age 35–55 years) from a rural area of Thailand and found that the prevalence of metabolic syndrome was not just significantly higher in the tertile with the highest MSG intake, but that the "odds ratio", i.e. the chance that a certain parameter, in this case "obese, yes/no" would be found to be true, increased with every 1 g increase in total MSG intake irrespective of  the total energy inta...