Preservatives linked to high blood pressure and heart disease in new study
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by amanaplanacanal
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"This study has some limitations inherent to its observational design." They got that right, anyway.
by musicale
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But if you eat enough of them then you self-mummify, achieving a sort of Earthly persistence that used to be reserved for people like monks, saints, or ancient Egyptian nobility.
by metalman
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the issue is that the big lie is linguistic, there is no such thing as a "preservitive", it is only a type of biocide, and lo, it causes an inflamitory response in humans, which as it turns out has the potential to
acumulate and become cronic, leading to disease and death.
the basic fact of life is that the chemical similarities between the most distantly related species, far outwiegh the differances, hence biocides.
by stubish
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Interesting but still needs research. Correlation, not causation of course. And citric acid... surely the amount used as a preservative would be dwarfed by other sources. Might be worth taking with a pinch of salt (a preservative they did not link to any problems!)
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