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I Don’t Know RFK, but I Trust Him to Take Poison out of Our Foods
Alison Canavan has stuck to her guns on backing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, as the Irish wellness coach claims that “people are being murdered” by the American food system and water supply.
The former model left her native Dublin for the U.S. in 2019, and has settled down in Texas with her 14-year-old son, James. “The food we consume is making us really sick. 66% of Americans are on medication, over 40% have some sort of chronic disease, and 50% of American teenagers are obese. Something needs to be done to turn this around,” she said.
“We are in a world where we’re literally being murdered by our food system and our water supply — and how you could let some crazy feelings about politics stand in the way of a healthier future for our kids, to me, is mind-blowing.”
‘Hungry for This Kind of Food.’ Raw Milk Use Surging in Florida Despite Law Banning Sales for Human Consumption
The customers came from far and wide on a sunny November morning. They strolled past raw buffalo ice cream, raw chocolate milk and camel milk, grabbed raw cottage cheese, raw butter, raw lemon yogurt, all labeled “not for human consumption” or “for pet consumption only.” Some requested raw milk in their coffee orders at the truck next door.
They were gym rats, granola moms, young couples, Donald Trump supporters, single men trying to be healthier, and immigrants from countries where raw milk is a way of life, not a forbidden fruit. Some were trying raw dairy for their first time. Others came prepared, speeding out of the store with giant coolers so that the milk would not rapidly spoil when exposed to the warm South Florida air. One man wore a hat that said “in raw we trust.”
Unhealthy Diets Are Driving Digestive Diseases, Research Suggests
Against the backdrop of an alarming increase in the number of people under 50 being diagnosed with bowel cancer, researchers are urging people to bump up their fiber intake and improve their eating habits if they want to reduce their risk of deadly digestive cancers.
Two studies by Flinders University expand on existing evidence that a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish, legumes and dairy may protect against the risk of gastrointestinal (GI) cancers — including bowel — and improve the outcomes of these diseases.
“We’ve identified many direct links between poor diet choices and digestive cancers,” says senior author Dr. Yohannes Melaku from Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI). The article, “Association of dietary patterns derived by reduced-rank regression with colorectal cancer risk and mortality” by Zegeye Abebe, Molla Mesele Wassie, Phuc D Nguyen, Amy C Reynolds, Yohannes Adama Melaku was published in the European Journal of Nutrition.
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Cucumber Recall: Feds Investigating Salmonella Outbreak; Recalled Items Sent to Over Half of States
Federal officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak linked to cucumbers that has sickened 68 people in 19 states, while cucumbers distributed to more than half of states have been recalled. Arizona company SunFed Produce has recalled cucumbers sold Oct. 12-Nov. 26 in more than two dozen states — including at some Walmart, Wegmans and Albertsons stores — and in parts of Canada because they may be contaminated with salmonella. Of the 33 people sickened who have been interviewed by state and local health officials, 27 (82%) reported eating cucumbers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. No deaths have been reported.
Epidemiologic and traceback data show that cucumbers grown by the produce company Agrotato, S.A. de C.V. in Sonora, Mexico, including recalled cucumbers from SunFed Produce, may be contaminated with salmonella and may be making people sick, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Nov 29.
Ultra-Processed Foods May Trigger, Worsen Psoriasis Flare-Ups
Consuming ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) is strongly associated with flareups of psoriasis, according to a new research letter. The research letter, which depended on self-reported dietary and psoriasis symptoms data, found that high consumption of ultra-processed foods, or UPF, corresponded closely to having active cases of psoriasis.
The researchers drew their conclusions from a cross-sectional study of data from the NutriNet-Santé cohort study conducted between 2021 and 2022 in France. There were 18,528 participants in the study, ages 62–70. Of these, 74% were women and 26% were men.
After the letter’s authors adjusted their findings to account for confounders such as body mass index, age, alcohol consumption and comorbidities, the association between UPF and active psoriasis remained strong in the self-reports.
Environmental Groups Demand EPA to Start Monitoring Microplastics in Water
A new legal petition filed by more than 170 top environmental groups demands that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) begin monitoring for microplastics in drinking water, an essential first step to reining in pollution viewed as one of the nation’s most pressing public health threats.
The scale of microplastic water pollution, the extent to which the substance is lodged throughout human bodies, and the many health implications have come into sharp focus in recent years, but the EPA still has not taken meaningful action, public health advocates say.
The petition pushes the agency to begin monitoring microplastics as an emerging contaminant under the Safe Drinking Water Act in 2026. “The EPA has been thinking about it, but they have not been acting, and the goal here is to get them to act,” said Erin Doran, a senior attorney at Food & Water Watch, one of the petitioners.
