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Dierbergs Markets is recalling their Premium Home-Style Mashed Potatoes in16-ounce packages with a Sell By Date of January 9, 2025. These mashed potatoes contain undeclared wheat creating a risk for those with wheat allergies, gluten sensitivities, and celiac disease.

These mashed potatoes were sold at Dierbergs Markets in Missouri and Illinois.

Stop using the product and return unopened packages to the place of purchase for a full refund. For more info, contact Dierbergs Markets at 1-636-532-8884.

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/dierbregs-markets-issues-allergy-alert-undeclared-wheat-product

#dierbergs #mashedpotatoes #wheat #allergy #recall

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Lifestyle Evolution now recalls NuGo Dark Chocolate Chip Nutrition Bars and NuGo Dark Pretzel Nutrition Bars, Best By dates of December 14-23, 2025. Specific lots contain undeclared milk, a risk for those with milk allergies.

These bars were sold nationwide at retail locations and online by Amazon, Costco, Wegmans, Giant Eagle, and other outlets.

Immediately stop using these recalled products and return them to the place of purchase for a full refund. For additional information or assistance, contact Lifestyle Evolution at 1-888-421-2032 or email the company at contact@nugonutrition.com.

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/lifestyle-evolution-voluntarily-recalls-nugo-dark-chocolate-chip-and-nugo-dark-pretzel-due

#nugo #nutrition #bars #milk #allergy #recall

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The Mochi Ice Cream Company LLC is recalling My Mochi Peach Mango Sorbet, lots 337-24 and 341-24. This sorbet contains undeclared pasteurized cooked egg white, a risk for those with egg allergies.

About 1,350 cases of the affected sorbet were sold nationwide.

If you have any of this My Mochi Peach Mango Sorbet in your freezer, immediately stop consuming the product and return it to the place of purchase for a full refund. For questions or concerns about this recall, contact The Mochi Ice Cream Company at 1-844-696-6244.

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/mochi-ice-cream-company-llc-issues-allergy-alert-undeclared-egg-peach-mango-sorbet

#mymochi #peachmango #sorbet #egg #allergy #recall

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Sig Sauer is recalling its SIG SAUER ROMEO5 Red Dot Sights, Models SOR52001 and 7400579, and those bundled with Model SORJ53101. These products violate federal safety regulations for button cell batteries. The batteries included with the sights are not in child-resistant packaging, lack required warnings, and can be easily accessed, posing a serious ingestion hazard to children.

About 230,000 units were sold nationwide at stores including Bass Pro Shops, Cabela’s, Sportsman’s Warehouse, Academy Sports, Scheels, and other local firearms and equipment retailers. The signs were sold online at Sigsauer.com, Amazon.com, Opticsplanet.com, and other websites. All sales occurred from February 2023 through December 2024.

Don’t unpack the recalled sights and contact SIG SAUER for a free recall kit with a child-safe new battery compartment cap, proper labeling, and an updated instruction manual. For additional information, contact SIG SAUER at 1-603-610-3000 or email the company at ROMEO5Recall@sigsauer.com.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/SIG-SAUER-Recalls-ROMEO5-Red-Dot-Firearm-Sights-Due-to-Ingestion-Hazard-Violations-of-Reeses-Law-Federal-Safety-Regulations-for-Consumer-Products-with-Button-Cell-Batteries-and-Child-Resistant-Button-Cell-Battery-Packaging

#sigsauer #sight #buttonbattery #packaging #children #ingestion #recall

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Wemfg now recalls Wemfg Children’s Multi-Purpose Bike Helmets, Model MD-710-S. These helmets fail to meet federal safety regulations for positional stability, impact labeling, and certification.

About 6,500 units were sold exclusively on Amazon.com between April and July 2024.

Immediately stop allowing your children to wear these helmets. Contact Wemfg to arrange a full refund by cutting off the straps, taking a photo of the detached straps, and email the image along with your Amazon order number to 961837339@qq.com. Dispose of the helmet after submitting proof of destruction. For more information, email Wemfg at 961837339@qq.com or visit the Wemfg Storefront on Amazon.com.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2025/Multi-Purpose-Childrens-Helmets-Recalled-Due-to-Risk-of-Head-Injury-Violation-of-Federal-Regulations-for-Bicycle-Helmets-Sold-Exclusively-on-Amazon-com-Imported-by-Wemfg

#wemfg #childrens #bicycle #helmets #unsafe #recall

Your Food May Be Aging You

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Ultra-processed foods, UPFs, yes those sugary drinks, colorful cereals, cookies, instant noodles, and cakes, pound on your body’s cells to the extent that it makes your body older than your actual chronologic age. Nutritionists from Australia’s Monash University studied 16,055 subjects 20 to 79 years of age. Tabulating their biological age markers and diet, they found that every 10% increase in ultra processed food drove a 2 month increase in cellular aging.

Those eating the most UPFs had bodies a year older than their chronological ages.

You won’t wonder why when you read the long list of unnatural ingredients in these products. The emulsifiers, hydrogenated oils, and unmentionable preservatives drown out any real nutrients that manage to find their way into the packaging.

Aging isn’t the only negative triggered by ultraprocessed foods. The Harvard Nurses Health and Health Professionals Studies, analyzing some 3.6 million subjects, showed that high intake of ultra processed foods boosted your risk of coronary heart disease, often a heart attack, by 16%.

Ultra-processed foods play a huge role in our current obesity epidemic. They also deposit fat where you least want it. UC-San Francisco radiologists now report an MR imaging study that links these foods to increased fat deposition in thigh muscles. Ugly indeed.

These ultra-processed goodies are tasty and tantalizing. If you want to age more gracefully and avoid life-threatening illness, though, you should only ingest them as treats and, even then, once in a blue moon.

https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article/53/12/afae268/7918804

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667193X24001868

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/12/241204145421.htm

#ultraprocessed #aging #heartattack #coronaryarterydisease #thighfat #obesity

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Grapefruit interacts with various enzymes and transporters in the body. When it does, it tends to make some prescription medications either less or more effective. An excellent article on health.com lists all of the prescription drugs that grapefruit effects. Let’s run through them so you’re in the know.

• Statins: Used to lower cholesterol; grapefruit can elevate their levels and increases a risk of muscle damage.

• Calcium Channel Blockers: high blood pressure medications; grapefruit may enhance their effects and may crash your blood pressure.

• Estrogen-containing Medications: Most common are birth control pills; grapefruit raises estrogen levels with a greater risk of side effects.

• Immunosuppressants: Taken to prevent transplanted organ rejection; grapefruit increases drug levels with a risk of kidney toxicity.

• Benzodiazepines: Anti-anxiety drugs; grapefruit boosts their sedative effects producing excess drowsiness.

• Corticosteroids: Anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive medication; grapefruit elevates steroid levels which can trigger or worsen diabetes.

• Anti-Arrhythmics: given to suppress irregular heart rhythms; grapefruit can enhance the effect and precipitate dangerous heart rhythms.

• Diabetes Medications: prescribed for type 2 diabetes; grapefruit can raise drug levels with more side effects including dangerous depression of blood sugar levels.

• Antihistamines: taken for allergies; grapefruit can reduce the effectiveness of certain antihistamines, particularly the non-sedating ones.

• Blood Thinners: including clopidogrel; grapefruit can increase bleeding risk by elevating drug levels.

• Cancer Medications: Grapefruit increases drug levels increasing toxicity.

• Antibiotics: Grapefruit elevates drug levels and side effects.

• Opioids: Grapefruit increases drug levels leading to respiratory suppression.

• Erectile Dysfunction Drugs: Grapefruit increases levels with dangerous blood pressure suppression.

A good tip is always to check for interactions between the prescription and over-the-counter medications you take as well as between them and foods you consume. Your medical team including your pharmacist can do this for you. You can easily do this yourself on the website WebMD

https://www.health.com/how-grapefruit-can-affect-your-medications-8744002

https://www.webmd.com/interaction-checker/default.htm

#grapefruit #medications #interactions

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The US Environmental Protection Agency now bans trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (Perc). TCE damages the immune as well as the nervous system and has been implicated in liver and kidney cancers as well as non-hodgekins lymphoma. Perc is associated with liver, kidney, brain, and testicular cancers.

TCE is a common ingredient in carpet cleaners, spot removers, glues and adhesives, paint removers and strippers, auto brake cleaners and engine degreasers. Perc is found in dry cleaning chemicals, spot and stain removers, degreasers, aerosol shoe polishes and lubricants, engine degreasers and brake cleaners, and paint/varnish removers.

Check your shelves at home and work for these products and check the ingredient lists. If you must work around these chemicals, do so with adequate ventilation and high filtration masks.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-12-epa-solvents-linked-cancer.html

#epa #trichloroethylene #perchloroethylene #cancer