Arsenic In Poultry Meat And Eggs

Another Cancer Connection And How To Remove Arsenic From The Body

Many laboratory tests have proved that arsenic causes cancer even at low levels currently found in our environment. Also, evidence suggests that arsenic contributes to other diseases, such as diabetes, heart, and decline of mental function. Humans are exposed to arsenic directly from its natural occurrence in the earth's crust but arsenic is mined and then used commercially. Drinking water, rice, and playground equipment are a few of the daily exposures to cancer-causing arsenic. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally lowered its long-outdated arsenic drinking-water standard by five-fold in 2001. Arsenic contaminates many of your favorite foods, including rice and chicken, intentionally. In this article, we focus on chicken meat and eggs. For many decades, chicken farmers have been feeding chickens arsenic to hasten and increase growth and conceal symptoms of disease at youthful stages of chicken development. Of the 8.7 billion American broiler chickens produced each year, at least 70 percent have been fed arsenic. Some of that arsenic remains in chicken meat; the following chart shows how much by brand and cut.

Removing bodily storages of arsenic may be accomplished by eating combinations of raw foods, such as 1/3 cup tomato, 2 tablespoons no-salt-added raw cheese and 5-7 leaves of cilantro, or 2-3 ounces raw coconut cream, 1/2 tablespoon unsalted raw butter, 1 tablespoon raw cream (dairy cream) and 1/2-3/4 cup of organically-grown dark berries (such as blackberries, blue berries and boysenberries).

Simply choosing a poultry that is not fed arsenic does not resolve every toxin-issue regarding poultry. See Soy Toxicity In Poultry Meat And Eggs.