Here's a warning for all you soup lovers out there. Researchers at Harvard say eating canned soup could increase your exposure to a potentially dangerous chemical. They studied people who ate canned soup for five days straight and people who ate fresh soup for the same amount of time.
Those who ate the canned soup had Bisphenol-A-- or B-P-A-- levels 13 times higher than people who ate non-canned soup. Some studies have linked B-P-A to higher risks of cancer and heart disease. It's used in the interior lining of most canned soups and vegetables.
Hamburgers linked to cancer?
If you're a fan of red meat... you may want to pay attention. A new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco shows eating hamburger meat could be linked to aggressive prostate cancer in men. The study looked at a thousand men. About half had been recently diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer. The other half were cancer-free.
Researchers found the men who ate about two servings of hamburger or meat loaf per week were more than twice as likely to have aggressive prostate cancer as the men who ate none. The risk was higher if the meat was grilled or well-done.
Four medications risky to elderly?
Of the elderly Americans who go to the emergency room for drug reactions, the majority are admitted for only four types of medications. They are blood thinning and diabetes drugs.
A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine says that's because it is easy to overdose on these prescriptions. About 100-thousand people in the U-S over the age of 65 go to the hospital with a bad reaction to medication.