Let's say you really need to find reliable information about the best diet for high blood

pressure or heart disease or diabetes.

Where do you go?

You go to a website sponsored by Big Pharma that wants to sell you pills to fix your problem

or do you want to treat the cause.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast with the latest peer reviewed research on the best

ways to eat healthy and live longer.

The average adult uses nine personal care products a day and each of these products can have

hundreds of chemical ingredients and don't get me started on mad cow disease and testants.

Here's our first story.

The Food and Drug Administration recently reopened comments about the policy of allowing some

intestines but not others into the US food supply.

In the first few cases of mad cow disease started popping up.

The FDA's gut reaction was to ban all guts from food and personal care products but in

2005 USDA and FDA amended their draft rule to permit the use of the entire small intestine

for human food if the last 80 unquilled inches going to the colon was removed.

Since then, those studies have shown that infectious mad cow preons can be found throughout

all parts of the intestine from the stomach down to the cow's colon raising the question

of whether all entrails should again be removed.

The North American Meat Association says no wanting to keep all cattle inside the food

supply.

Similar to what we heard from the CTFA, the Cosmetic Toiletry and Fragrance Association,

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