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Drinking a Few Cups of Coffee a Day Lowers Cancer Risk in Women. So Should You Fill Up On Caffeine Free or Full Strength?

Shane at Environmental Health-Wellness-Beauty,LLC — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:18:00 +0000

Image via Wikipedia A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health, which was backed by the National Institutes of Health, says drinking a few cups of coffee a day lowers the rate of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website f...

BPA-Free? Not Exactly.

Healthy Child Healthy World — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:43:24 +0000

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World The Bisphenol A story just gets bigger and bigger. Today, the Associated Press reported that the American Chemistry Council has asked federal regulators to phase out rules which allow BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups. Sounds good, right? But this request may “head off [...]

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Shane at Environmental Health-Wellness-Beauty,LLC — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:21:00 +0000

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The Sad Truth About Kids and Cancer

Healthy Child Healthy World — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:15:59 +0000

by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO, Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org “Kiwi had only been sick once; never on any sort of medication, not even Tylenol. All of that changed on Friday, July 31st, 2010 when we found ourselves in the Emergency Room because Kiwi’s left hand had begun to spasm periodically all that day. [...]

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Shane at Environmental Health-Wellness-Beauty,LLC — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:08:00 +0000

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Over Half of Child Car Seats Contains Toxic Chemicals

TreeHugger — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:24:25 +0000

Photo: Healthy Stuff/Press photos Healthy Stuff has released their test results for 2011 on child car seats. The organization has been testing car safety seats since 2008. The bad news in 2011: over half of child car seats still have elements detecte...

Toxics: The Long Term, Low Dose Question

Steve Savage — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:00:49 +0000

Each year, the USDA generates an extensive set of data which demonstrates that modern American consumers face no real threat from toxic pesticide residues on their food. This is particularly true in terms of “acute toxicity,” or short-term poisoning. Someone would have to eat thousands to millions times their own body weight to kill themselves... Read More...

A Rational Analysis of the USDA Pesticide Residue Data

Steve Savage — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:15:24 +0000

When the Environmental Working Group (EWG) makes its annual “Dirty Dozen List” of fruits and vegetables with pesticide residues, it does so without paying any attention to which chemicals were found or what level was detected. This is why it is so misleading. To do the analysis properly does take a lot more... Read More...

Cancer Now Leading Cause of Death in China

Earth Policy Institute — Wed, 25 May 2011 16:59:14 +0000

By Janet Larsen Cancer is now the leading cause of death in China. Chinese Ministry of Health data implicate cancer in close to a quarter of all deaths countrywide. As is common with many countries as they industrialize, the usual plagues of poverty — infectious diseases and high infant mortality — have given way to... Read More...

Susan Freinkel on Our Toxic Plastic Love Affair (Podcast)

TreeHugger — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:22:00 +0000

It clogs our oceans and tampers with our bodies, yet without it, all modern life would skid to a stop. Susan Freinkel's new book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, explores the rise of plastic into ubiquity, hails it for its life-saving wonders, and explor...