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Heavy Metals

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Freaking out about heavy metals in your food? Here's what you should know

Heavy metals aren’t just something to avoid if you don’t like Black Sabbath. But while you’ve probably heard of this group of elements (and the dangers associated with ingesting them), you might not know why they’re such a worry to health experts.

This is all especially relevant given how many products we’re finding heavy metals in. Baby food is just the latest. Consumer Reports tested a variety of the top brands and found every product has measurable levels of at least one heavy metal, and two-thirds had worrisome levels. You should read their full report, but even the basic outline of their findings raises some questions. How much is a ‘worrisome’ amount? Where do these metals…

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 Freaking out about heavy metals in your food? Here's what you should know

Heavy metals aren’t just something to avoid if you don’t like Black Sabbath. But while you’ve probably heard of this group of elements (and the dangers associated with ingesting them), you might not know why they’re such a worry to health experts.

4 Top Ways You Can Be Exposed To Three Dangerous Heavy Metals

Surprising as it may seem, your body contains various metals and metal-like elements. For example, metals like mercury, arsenic, and cadmium – which are known as “heavy metals” – can accumulate in the body through different routes of exposure. Unlike many chemical elements – such as iodine – these 3 metals (mercury, arsenic, and cadmium) offer no benefit to the body. Instead, these heavy metals can be very toxic – disrupting, for instance, many important systems in the body (like the nervous system).

6 Foods for Natural Heavy Metal Chelation

Heavy metals can do significant damage to the body. Historically, they’ve been used as “an instrument of murder” (in the case of arsenic) and instruments of war. But most people who are exposed to heavy metals in today’s times are through their food, water, vaccines, or the air around them. The good news is that there are natural ways to chelate heavy metals from your body.

6 ways parents can reduce heavy metals in the food they give their babies

The study conducted by the Healthy Babies Bright Futures organization tested 168 baby foods from 61 brands and nearly all of them contained some amount of lead, arsenic, mercury or cadmium. It isn't the first time a study has discovered this. A report released last year by Consumer Reports found the same metals in baby foods labeled "organic," something parents didn't expect out of those products.

Ten Percent of China is a Steaming Toxic Metal Land Dump

If you live in China, the ground beneath your feet is probably polluted with heavy metal. We don’t mean the stuff that’s leaking out of Beijing’s awful rock bars.

Dartmouth Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program

Our research group is investigating the ways arsenic and other toxic metals in the environment affect ecosystems and human health.

Lenntech

Heavy metals are natural components of the Earth's crust. They cannot be degraded or destroyed. To a small extent they enter our bodies via food, drinking water and air.

NaturalNews.com

Heavy metals news, articles and information.

U.S. Department of Labor

Toxic metals, including "heavy metals," are individual metals and metal compounds that negatively affect people's health.

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