<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/eb6c2a4f-6b4f-4578-a36f-f3ed4a4ba2ee/96F5F23D-F305-429F-A399-80D1D2447585/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://consumerist.com/consumer/coke/" href="http://consumerist.com/consumer/coke/" style="font-size: 11px;">consumerist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://consumerist.com/consumer/coke/">Sodium Benzoate Messes With Mitochondria?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://consumerist.com/consumer/coke/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/consumerist.com/img/D0BD60C8-8B0B-4449-8FBB-6FE933CC55FE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://consumerist.com/consumer/coke/"> A new study shows that a common ingredient in <A href="http://consumerist.com/consumer/soda/" title="Posts tagged as soda" class="tagautolink">soda</A> has the potential to mess up your mitochondria. No, it's not the plot of Parasite Eve. From the Independent: <BLOCKQUOTE>[An] expert in ageing at Sheffield University, who has been working on <A href="http://consumerist.com/consumer/sodium-benzoate/" title="Posts tagged as sodium benzoate" class="tagautolink">sodium benzoate</A> since publishing a research paper in 1999, has decided to speak out about another danger. Professor Peter Piper, a professor of molecular biology and biotechnology, tested the impact of sodium benzoate on living yeast cells in his laboratory. What he found alarmed him: the benzoate was damaging an important area of DNA in the "power station" of cells known as the mitochondria.</BLOCKQUOTE> Ok, we know its hard to take news seriously when it comes from a guy named Peter Piper, but sodium benzoate is no joke. It's in a lot of beverages. <A href="http://consumerist.com/consumer/coke/" title="Posts tagged as coke" class="tagautolink">Coke</A>, <A href="http://consumerist.com/consumer/pepsi/" title="Posts tagged as pepsi" class="tagautolink">Pepsi</A>, 7 Up, you name it. Constant readers will remember it as one half of the recent "sodium benzoate plus vitamin C = benzene = cancer" debacle</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/96F5F23D-F305-429F-A399-80D1D2447585/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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