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Dangerous Chemicals in Food Wrappers Likely Migrating to Humans

By Guest PostNovember 14, 2010Culture, Healthblood, chemical contamination, chemicals, fast food, food, human blood, human chemical exposure, humans, jessica d’eon, junk food wrappers, metabolism, microwave popcorn bags, pap concentrations, paps, perfluorinated carboxylic acids, perfluorooctanoic acid, pfcas, pfoa, polyfluoroalkyl phosphate esters, scott mabury

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U of T scientists have found that chemicals used to line junk food wrappers and microwave popcorn bags are migrating into food and being ingested by people where they are contributing to chemical contamination observed in blood.

Perfluorinated carboxylic acids or PFCAs are the breakdown products of chemicals used to make non-stick and water- and stain-repellant products ranging from kitchen pans to clothing to food packaging. PFCAs, the best known of which is perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), are found in humans all around the world.

“We suspected that a major source of human PFCA exposure may be the consumption and metabolism of polyfluoroalkyl phosphate esters or PAPs,” said Jessica D’eon, a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry. “PAPs are applied as greaseproofing agents to paper food contact packaging such as fast food wrappers and microwave popcorn bags.” (more…)

Fast Food Restaurants Dish Up Unhealthy Marketing to Youth; Researchers Release Unprecedented Report on Fast Food Nutrition and Marketing

By Guest PostNovember 8, 2010Culture, HealthAds, african american children, calories, children, denver, drinks, fast food, hispanic, internet, jennifer l harris, kelly brownell, mcdonalds, mobile applications, nutrition criteria, obesity, social media sites, sugar, yale rudd center

Children as young as age 2 are seeing more fast food ads than ever before, and restaurants rarely offer parents the healthy kids’ meal choices, according to a new study from Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. The new evaluation, the most comprehensive study of fast food nutrition and marketing ever conducted, shows that fast food marketers target children across a variety of media and in restaurants. In addition, the study finds that restaurants provide largely unhealthy defaults for the side dishes and drinks that come with kids’ meals. The detailed findings of this study will be presented in Denver today during the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting. (more…)

Fast Food!!… What’s the consequence?

By ShamsDecember 25, 20081 commentHealthalzheimar, disease, fast food, junk food, Karolinska Institute, mcdonald

Junk food, (in fact) fast food that is rich in sugar, fat and cholesterol can be a serious factor for developing Alzheimer’s. That’s what Swedish researcher from the Karolinska Institute suspects. Reuter’s reported about the findings a month earlier in November.

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Dangerous Chemicals in Food Wrappers Likely Migrating to Humans

Fast Food Restaurants Dish Up Unhealthy Marketing to Youth; Researchers Release Unprecedented Report on Fast Food Nutrition and Marketing

Fast Food!!… What’s the consequence?