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KurtNYC

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42. "We" didn't see the increase in obesity, diabetes and cancer?
Fri Jul 11, 2014, 05:29 PM
Jul 2014

"We" didn't see the increase in kidney failure?

Maybe we didn't look very hard:

Obesity in the United States has been increasingly cited as a major health issue in recent decades. While many industrialized countries have experienced similar increases, obesity rates in the United States are among the highest in the world


http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTXT3DK#a=1

During 1995–2010, the age-adjusted prevalence of diagnosed diabetes among U.S. adults increased in all geographic areas, with the median prevalence for all states, DC, and Puerto Rico increasing from 4.5% to 8.2%


http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6145a4.htm

About 300 of every 100,000 Americans develop cancer each year, which means the U.S. has the seventh highest cancer rate in the world.


http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20110123/us-has-7th-highest-cancer-rate-in-the-world

An analysis of federal health data published last November in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that 13 percent of American adults — about 26 million people — have chronic kidney disease, up from 10 percent, or about 20 million people, a decade earlier.

“We’ve had a marked increase in chronic kidney disease in the last 10 years, and that continues with the baby boomers coming into retirement age,” said Dr. Frederick J. Kaskel, director of pediatric nephrology at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx. “The burden on the health care system is enormous, and it’s going to get worse.

“We won’t have enough units to dialyze these patients.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/health/18kidneydisease.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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That study is STILL garbage mathematic Jul 2014 #1
ROFL... SidDithers Jul 2014 #2
Is it just me or is "Alternet" getting worse and worse? snooper2 Jul 2014 #3
Sadly, science reporting on the left is almost as bad as it is on the right...nt SidDithers Jul 2014 #4
On this I must agree. MohRokTah Jul 2014 #26
I've never trusted their content Bonx Jul 2014 #16
wow G_j Jul 2014 #5
No, we've just seen this garbage posted several times already...nt SidDithers Jul 2014 #6
ROFL G_j Jul 2014 #8
You're the one characterizing this as a major study... SidDithers Jul 2014 #9
If one guys can pay so much then wisechoice Jul 2014 #38
I think it's partly that "where's our jetpacks? their absence means SOMEBODY is to blame!" MisterP Jul 2014 #13
gawd I wish this nonsense would die permanently.... mike_c Jul 2014 #7
It won't... SidDithers Jul 2014 #10
You have a point. Since GMO corn is used so widely, Damansarajaya Jul 2014 #35
"We" didn't see the increase in obesity, diabetes and cancer? KurtNYC Jul 2014 #42
Hmmm . . . good data. I'm not a GMO fan. Damansarajaya Jul 2014 #45
Soda is GMO corn (HFCS) which is designed to be loaded with most easily absorbed sugar -- fructose KurtNYC Jul 2014 #47
Post removed Post removed Jul 2014 #15
I thought I had read the rats were predisposed to tumors! MohRokTah Jul 2014 #27
Alan McHughen frustrated_lefty Jul 2014 #31
Yay! More crappy science!! jeff47 Jul 2014 #11
Nailed it... SidDithers Jul 2014 #12
Do critics of this publication have evidence that current testing standards are optimal? Faryn Balyncd Jul 2014 #14
Do you have evidence that they aren't? jeff47 Jul 2014 #19
Any study showing long term effects of wisechoice Jul 2014 #39
Yes. It's called everyone around you. jeff47 Jul 2014 #46
It appears you have not read either the article or the study: Faryn Balyncd Jul 2014 #50
The study's sample size was too small to make heads or tails out of the data. Avalux Jul 2014 #17
They should redo the study... SidDithers Jul 2014 #18
How about wisechoice Jul 2014 #43
But . . . how does that herbicide affect humans? Petrushka Jul 2014 #20
It affects them poorly. Pesticides also affect humans poorly. jeff47 Jul 2014 #21
Wow, what excellent advice for systemic pesticides! /sarcasm appal_jack Jul 2014 #23
That sounds serious Babel_17 Jul 2014 #25
Here is one on neonics & bird declines: appal_jack Jul 2014 #28
Here's some discussion of problems from using RoundUp to dry down wheat: appal_jack Jul 2014 #29
RoundUp Ready GMO's contributing to Monarch decline: appal_jack Jul 2014 #30
RoundUp & its adjuvants killing amphibians: appal_jack Jul 2014 #32
Neonic pesticides implicated in bat die-offs: appal_jack Jul 2014 #33
Extinction is indeed serious. appal_jack Jul 2014 #34
I only buy non-Monsanto altered products Babel_17 Jul 2014 #36
I agree about rational choice vs. intrinsic opposition. appal_jack Jul 2014 #49
So change the subject, and then attack the strawman for changing the subject. jeff47 Jul 2014 #44
Good Luck with your Monarchs coming back, appal jack! Thanks for your posts not promoting Cha Jul 2014 #48
serious buisiness.. G_j Jul 2014 #22
The truth: Seralini is the Andrew Wakefield of biology. alp227 Jul 2014 #24
Tracing back the source it goes to this...http://www.elsevier.com/ Rex Jul 2014 #37
The Seralini study was originallyh published in the Elsevier journal Food and Chemical Toxicology... SidDithers Jul 2014 #40
Okay thanks, yeah they wouldn't retract anything factual or I wouldn't think so. Rex Jul 2014 #41
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