{"id":1886,"date":"2013-08-10T02:44:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T06:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=1886"},"modified":"2013-08-10T02:44:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T06:44:08","slug":"is-carrageenan-safe-ask-dr-weil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/10\/is-carrageenan-safe-ask-dr-weil\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Carrageenan Safe? &#8211; Ask Dr. Weil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Dr Andrew Weil has addressed the question of carrageenan, a &#8220;natural&#8221; food additive in many foods. There now appears to be alot of evidence that it is NOT harmless. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\">So READ YOUR LABELS: so many of those processed &#8220;milks&#8221; nut milk, soy milk rice milk etc have carrageenan (and\/or guar gum) in them&#8230; and also yoghurt, ice cream cottage cheese&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\">A few quotes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the years Dr. Tobacman has published 18 peer-reviewed studies that address the biological effects of carrageenan and is convinced that it is harmful to human health [ malignancies and stomach problems]<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tobacman also told the board that in the past, drug investigators actually used carrageenan to cause inflammation in tissues in order to test the anti-inflammatory properties of new drugs. And she reported further that when laboratory mice are exposed to low concentrations of carrageenan for 18 days, they develop &#8220;profound&#8221; glucose intolerance and impaired insulin action, both of which can lead to diabetes.&#8221; &#8211; Dr Andrew Weil<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Here is the whole article:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drweil.com\/drw\/u\/QAA401181\/Is-Carrageenan-Safe.html\">Is Carrageenan Safe? &#8211; Ask Dr. Weil<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Andrew Weil has addressed the question of carrageenan, a &#8220;natural&#8221; food additive in many foods. There now appears to be alot of evidence that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[97,257,258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}