Sunday, March 25, 2012

Dietary Cadmium From Contaminated Crops Linked to Breast Cancer

dbaron/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Dietary cadmium can occur in low concentrations in nature, but the authors of a new study published in the journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, are more concerned about cadmium that’s turning up in our food system because of farmland contaminated with heavy metals.Cadmium is a toxic metal that has been known to do damage to the lungs, bones, and kidneys and is now being linked to an

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