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This crap has Carrageen in it
This crap has Carrageen in it.
Potential Carrageenan Dangers & Side Effects
Researchers and health advocates who insist that carrageenan is dangerous usually quote one of the many studies that supposed link the seaweed food additive to:
Large bowel ulceration (4, 5)
Ulcerative colitis (6)
Fetal toxicity & birth defects (7)
Colorectal cancer (8, 9, 10)
Glucose intolerance and insulin resistance (11)
Inflammation (12)
Liver cancer (13)
Immune suppression (14)
Promoting the growth of abnormal colon glands, which are precursors to polyps (15)
Independent carrageenan experts like Joanne Tobacman, MD, associate professor of clinical medicine at theUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, insists that carrageenan exposure clearly causes inflammation; the amount of carrageenan in food products is sufficient to cause inflammation; and degraded carrageenan and food-grade carrageenan are both harmful. (16)
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