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Popular breakfast cereals found to contain low levels of toxic heavy metals; Natural News Labs publishes results

Tuesday, January 21, 2014
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
Tags: breakfast cereals, heavy metals, lab test results

Breakfast cereals

(NaturalNews) A scientific study conducted at the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (www.ConsumerWellness.org) has found that popular breakfast cereals such as Corn Flakes, Kix, Uncle Sam, Raisin Bran and Honey Bunches of Oats are relatively free of toxic heavy metals. These cereal products are made by companies like Kellogg's, General Mills, Post and Nature's Path. Conducted by food scientist and lab director Mike Adams, the study was based on atomic spectroscopy analysis using ICP-MS instrumentation to test for aluminum, mercury, arsenic, lead and cadmium. The announcement is posted at ConsumerWellness.org

A chart summarizing the results is available at:
http://labs.naturalnews.com/Heavy-Metals-Pop...

A video explanation of the findings has been posted at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrOJLQs1-ao

The study is part of a joint effort between the Consumer Wellness Center and Natural News (www.NaturalNews.com) to openly publish heavy metals test results for popular foods, groceries, herbs and dietary supplements.

"These findings indicate that popular cereals tested demonstrate remarkably low levels of toxic heavy metals in their composition," explained lead scientist Mike Adams. "The concentration of metals detected in these cereals was consistently lower than what we are finding in herbs, superfoods or even many types of fresh produce."

Here's the full chart:


Low heavy metals does not mean low pesticides, GMOs or other chemicals

Adams is quick to caution that an absence of heavy metals does not necessarily mean these cereals are more nutritive or that they contain no other contaminants. Conventionally-produced cereals may contain traces of pesticides and herbicides. Some cereals are made from genetically modified organisms, and the cereals with the lowest heavy metals composition tend to be the most highly-processed or refined cereals which tend to lack nutritive minerals such as zinc and selenium.

"The more refined a cereal's raw ingredients, the lower the levels of heavy metals we found," explained Adams, who still recommends consuming more holistic, minimally-processed cereals based on organic ingredients (even though they may contain slightly higher levels of heavy metals).

At high enough concentrations, heavy metals are toxic to many organs in the body, including the kidneys and brain. Lead is linked to lowered IQs in children, cadmium is linked to kidney damage, and arsenic is known to increase the risk of cancer.

To see all heavy metals testing results for the cereals tested, visit:

http://labs.naturalnews.com/Category-Foods.h...
http://labs.naturalnews.com/Category-Junk-Fo...


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About the author:Mike Adams (aka the "Health Ranger") is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com) and a globally recognized scientific researcher in clean foods. He serves as the founding editor of NaturalNews.com and the lab science director of an internationally accredited (ISO 17025) analytical laboratory known as CWC Labs. There, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for achieving extremely high accuracy in the analysis of toxic elements in unknown water samples using ICP-MS instrumentation. Adams is also highly proficient in running liquid chromatography, ion chromatography and mass spectrometry time-of-flight analytical instrumentation.

Adams is a person of color whose ancestors include Africans and Native American Indians. He's also of Native American heritage, which he credits as inspiring his "Health Ranger" passion for protecting life and nature against the destruction caused by chemicals, heavy metals and other forms of pollution.

Adams is the founder and publisher of the open source science journal Natural Science Journal, the author of numerous peer-reviewed science papers published by the journal, and the author of the world's first book that published ICP-MS heavy metals analysis results for foods, dietary supplements, pet food, spices and fast food. The book is entitled Food Forensics and is published by BenBella Books.

In his laboratory research, Adams has made numerous food safety breakthroughs such as revealing rice protein products imported from Asia to be contaminated with toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium and tungsten. Adams was the first food science researcher to document high levels of tungsten in superfoods. He also discovered over 11 ppm lead in imported mangosteen powder, and led an industry-wide voluntary agreement to limit heavy metals in rice protein products.

In addition to his lab work, Adams is also the (non-paid) executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (CWC), an organization that redirects 100% of its donations receipts to grant programs that teach children and women how to grow their own food or vastly improve their nutrition. Through the non-profit CWC, Adams also launched Nutrition Rescue, a program that donates essential vitamins to people in need. Click here to see some of the CWC success stories.

With a background in science and software technology, Adams is the original founder of the email newsletter technology company known as Arial Software. Using his technical experience combined with his love for natural health, Adams developed and deployed the content management system currently driving NaturalNews.com. He also engineered the high-level statistical algorithms that power SCIENCE.naturalnews.com, a massive research resource featuring over 10 million scientific studies.

Adams is well known for his incredibly popular consumer activism video blowing the lid on fake blueberries used throughout the food supply. He has also exposed "strange fibers" found in Chicken McNuggets, fake academic credentials of so-called health "gurus," dangerous "detox" products imported as battery acid and sold for oral consumption, fake acai berry scams, the California raw milk raids, the vaccine research fraud revealed by industry whistleblowers and many other topics.

Adams has also helped defend the rights of home gardeners and protect the medical freedom rights of parents. Adams is widely recognized to have made a remarkable global impact on issues like GMOs, vaccines, nutrition therapies, human consciousness.

In addition to his activism, Adams is an accomplished musician who has released over a dozen popular songs covering a variety of activism topics.

Click here to read a more detailed bio on Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, at HealthRanger.com.

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