Heavy Metals in Protein Powder Supplements
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2012-06-07

A Consumer Reports investigation into the safety of protein supplements found that more than half exceed the California prop 65 "Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act" action levels. 

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This is the second of a three-part series on some of the latest regarding the safety of dietary supplements. See yesterday's NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day Dietary Supplement Snake Oil (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dietary-supplement-snake-oil) for part one. Plant Protein Preferable (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-protein-preferable) explains why beans and other legumes are the best source of protein. What about gas? See Beans and Gas Clearing The Air (http://nutritionfacts.org/blog/2011/12/05/beans-and-gas-clearing-the-air). See my other videos on Lead (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/lead/), Mercury, (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/mercury) and Arsenic (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/arsenic) for other ways to avoid exposure. There are also more than a thousand other nutrition topics to choose from in our topics section (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/).

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