Weekend Update January 21, 2012

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Here are some interesting reads from last week.

A large position paper: Pesticides and Health, myths vs. realities

EDIT: See comments about the group who wrote this paper

Another lab shows beetroot juice (dietary nitrate) benefits on endurance (cycling) performance Nitrate Supplementation’s Impro… [Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab. 2012] – PubMed – NCBI
Emily Willingham published a great piece about the shoddy Atlantic article mentioned last week Genetically modified foods: Ari Laux’s alarmism in the Atlantic – Slate Magazine
Another study finds microRNA in breast milk Immune-related MicroRNAs are Abundant in Breast Milk Exosomes [Int J Biol Sci. 2012] – PubMed – NCBI (older one here)
More information on the resveratrol research fraud Red Wine and Lies – Percolator – The Chronicle of Higher Education
13.8% of Americans (NHANES sample) had antinuclear antibodies and they are lower in overweight/obese- wonder what that means Prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of antinuclear antibodies in the United States – Satoh – Arthritis & Rheumatism – Wiley Online Library
Yoni has a rational take on Paula Deen: Paula Deen has diabetes and takes Victoza, so what?

HM

Cody, I have enjoyed your posts, but I think you may have missed something in posting the American Council on Science and Health’s paper on Pesticides myths and realities. The Council appears to be an industry advocacy group masquerading as a public interest organization. This is a position paper, if that is what it should be called, that seeks to downplay the uncertainties remaining in the toxicology community about the safety of these pesticides. It would be easier to resolve the questions if oppositional research was not so heavily funded by vested interests.
- http://www.nutsci.org Colby
  
  Fair enough, I will defer to your expertise on this one (assuming you are who I think you are). I’ve updated the post with an addendum to see your comment.
  
  -Colby (aka Cody )