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10 Ways to Reduce Cancer Risks

Shane at Environmental Health-Wellness-Beauty,LLC — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:26:00 +0000

Click on the picture above to learn more about the components of cancer prevention. Apparently the American Institute for Cancer Research has kindly pulled all of their research together on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ...

High Levels Of BPA Found In Cash Register Receipts, What You Can Do To Protect Yourself

TreeHugger — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:13:00 +0000

Image Source: red5standingby Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, DC, has discovered that many cash register receipts contain levels of Bisphenol-A (BPA) hundreds of times higher than those found i...

Safer Cosmetics on the Regulatory Horizon

TreeHugger — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:24:24 +0000

Image: Zooboing, via Flickr Industry associations state their desire to "ensure that existing FDA regulatory oversight is enhanced." Advocate groups for safer cosmetics have started a full push to get the public support for cosmetic safety reform. So...

California May Defrock Its Rock Because It Contains Asbestos

TreeHugger — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:15:21 +0000

photo: backyardnature.net About half of states in the U.S. have official rocks. West Virginia has coal. And California has serpentine .... for now. State Senator, Democrat Gloria Romero of East L.A. has proposed dropping serpentine as the state's of...

McDonald’s TBHQ Laced Nuggets Sold in the U.S. but not in Europe? I’m Lovin’ It…NOT!

Shane at Environmental Health-Wellness-Beauty,LLC — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:30:00 +0000

Unless you live under a rock (which these days seems like a great way to get off of the grid, shield yourself from the coming end of the world and decrease the general stress related to living in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...

CNN & EWG: Do Sunscreens Cause Cancer?

Jennifer Lance — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:27:14 +0000

Damned if you do; damned if you don’t. Americans have been scared by the prospect of skin cancer into slathering sunscreen on their bodies anytime they leave the house. Unfortunately, many of the ingredients in sunscreens are even more dangerous than overexposure to the sun itself, and some of them, even though natural, may cause [...]

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Exclusive Premier Event: The Rally for Kids with Cancer Scavenger Cup

Laura Lutarewych — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:00:00 +0000

Last Week's Blog > "A Lesson Learned From My Father: The Three Cs" Two months ago, I was contacted by Comer Children's Hospital at The University of Chicago (U of C) asking if Atia could attend an upcoming hospital benefit.  The...

The "Largest Mass Poisoning in History": Arsenic in Bangladesh

TreeHugger — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:15:57 +0000

Image: Asia Arsenic Network Mass poisonings due to arsenic contaminated water in Bangladesh are the tragic unintended consequence of humanitarian efforts to alleviate disease in Bangladesh by building many deep tube wells to produce water for drinking and irrigation. On Saturday, the results of a ten year, large population study of the link between arsenic contamination and diseases or death in Bangladesh were published in <a href="http://www.thelan...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Seventh Generation CIP Jeffrey Hollender Speaks Out on Chemical Reform

TreeHugger — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:00:19 +0000

Image: Jason O'Halloran, Flickr Bills have been introduced in the U.S. House and Senate to reform the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Although it is barely on the radar of most news media and public awareness, this may be bigger than the gulf oil spill, health care, or even global climate change. In the words of Jeffrey Hollender, Chief Inspired Protagonist (CIP) of Seventh Generation, "this is probably the most important piec...Read the full story on TreeHugger

A "Foxy" Weekend: Flair TV Interviews Pam Grier

Duo Files — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:00:08 +0000

We got to start our weekend off just right! This past Friday was a special one for us. We had the chance to interview and meet the most iconic actress in African American culture....Miss Pam Grier. We had the honor...