The hidden dangers in fruit juices

By: Ross Chainey, MSN UK HEALTH
Wed Aug 06, 2008

Fruit juices:

Britons consume more than two billion litres of fruit juice every year; that’s 36 litres each.

And we all enjoy fruit juice under the impression that, as one of our ‘five-a-day’, it’s doing us a world of good.

But the journal Diabetes Care found, after monitoring the eating habits of more than 70,000 nurses of an 18-year period, a glass of orange juice a day raised the risk of developing type-2 diabetes by 24%.

Eating whole pieces of fruit, however, can reduce the risk by as much as 18%.

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The hidden dangers in organic vegetables

By: Ross Chainey, MSN UK HEALTH
Wed Aug 06, 2008

Think because you’re buying organic your food is chemical free?

Think again.

Under Soil Association regulations, a select number of sprays are still permitted to be used, and thousands of tons of organic vegetables sold in this country every year are produced using toxic pesticides, despite shoppers paying extra for natural produce.

For example, figures show that a third of UK organic potato farmers last year sprayed their crops with fungicides made with copper, a heavy metal that can cause liver disease.

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