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What America Allows That Europe Has Banned— and why regulators in thirty countries said no

The United States has banned fewer than fifteen ingredients from food and personal care products. The European Union has banned over thirteen hundred.

We are eating and applying to our bodies things that thirty countries have looked at carefully and decided are too dangerous to allow. We are doing it every day, often multiple times a day, without knowing it because the labels do not tell you what these ingredients actually are or where they come from or what the research says about what they do inside a human body.

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The rise of colon cancer in America

In the past month three friends have been diagnosed with intestinal blockages requiring surgery. Three people, similar age group, all of them dealing with a colon that has simply stopped working the way it was designed to work. I am perplexed. Why is this happening?

The research on colorectal health and the modern food supply in America is so clear and so consistent that it is impossible to look at what is happening to my friends and not connect it directly to what we have been eating.

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