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Thursday, April 19, 2007 Our Free Newsletter just keeps growing. I want to thank all of you for referring it to your friends and forwarding it to others. The comments I have received have been very informative. More features have been added to the members area at www.agplus.net so make sure and take advantage of our free 7 day trial if you haven’t already. veggies, fruits cut cancer risk By LUKE TIMMERMAN
Bloomberg News Service
Eating your broccoli, as well as other vegetables and fruits, may reduce the risk of multiple types of cancer, according to studies presented at the American Association for Cancer Research. A diet high in flavonols — chemicals found in broccoli, onions, apples and berries — cut the risk of pancreatic cancer by 23 percent compared with people who ate the least, said a study of 183,500 people living in California and Hawai'i presented Sunday at the Los Angeles meeting. Smoking is known to increase risk of pancreatic cancer, according to the study's lead author, Ute Nothlings, a researcher at the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam- Rehbruecke. To see which foods may be protective, people filled out questionnaires, then were followed an average of eight years. Pancreatic cancer kills about 32,000 people a year, according to the American Cancer Society Click link to read complete story Imported Food Rarely Inspected By ANDREW BRIDGES
Associated Press Writer
April 15, 2007 WASHINGTON — Just 1.3 percent of imported fish, vegetables, fruit and other foods are inspected _ yet those government inspections regularly reveal food unfit for human consumption.Frozen catfish from China, beans from Belgium, jalapenos from Peru, blackberries from Guatemala, baked goods from Canada, India and the Philippines _ the list of tainted food detained at the border by the Food and Drug Administration stretches on. Add to that the contaminated Chinese wheat gluten that poisoned cats and dogs nationwide and led to a massive pet food recall, and you've got a real international pickle. Does the United States have the wherewithal to ensure the food it imports is safe? Food safety experts say no. With only a minuscule percentage of shipments inspected, they say the nation is vulnerable to harm from abroad, where rules and regulations governing food production are often more lax than they are at home."FDA doesn't have enough resources or control over this situation presently," said Mike Doyle, director of the University of Georgia's Center for Food Safety, which works with industry to improve safety. Click link to read complete story
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