Mercola describes PBDE flame retardants leaching out of furniture foam, electronics and fabrics into homes, and cites a UC Berkeley study finding both in utero and childhood exposure associated with poorer attention, fine motor coordination and cognition in school-age children.
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Environment
Alzheimer's disease may be linked to flame retardant chemicals
University of Birmingham researchers tested three common brominated flame retardants on human neuroblastoma cells and found all toxic at low micromolar concentrations, killing cells, raising calcium and reactive oxygen species and prompting beta-amyloid release. The work was in vitro.
Environment
For Best Toilet Health: Squat or Sit?
Mercola argues the sit-down toilet forces straining that briefly disrupts cardiac flow, while squatting moves the knees toward the torso and shifts the intestinal organs to ease defecation. He cites an Israel Journal of Medical Science report comparing bowel disease rates across populations.
Agriculture
Organic: Food Justice for the 99%
The Cornucopia Institute accuses the agrochemical industry of a media campaign against organic food, pointing to recent Time and New York Times pieces, and counters with research finding more beneficial fats in pastured milk and more antioxidants in organic strawberries.
Environment
Flame retardant may boost ovarian cancer risk
Emory's D.J. Jamieson and colleagues studied Michigan women who ate poultry, beef and dairy contaminated with the flame retardant PBB in the early 1970s. Those with the highest serum PBB were 23 percent more likely to report an abnormal Pap test than women with undetectable levels.
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Flame retardant linked to cryptorchidism in newborn boys
In a Danish-Finnish study of 95 boys with undescended testes and 185 without, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, PBDE flame retardant levels in mothers' breast milk were significantly higher among the affected boys. Placental levels were lower and often undetectable.
Environment
Some Residents Worry about Chloramine’s Usage and Safety
More than one in five Americans drink tap water disinfected with chloramine, a longer-lasting mix of chlorine and ammonia. Mercola warns that disinfection byproducts formed with organic matter, including carcinogenic trihalomethanes, may be the worst contaminants in treated water.
Environment
Job strain makes high blood pressure worse in men
Among 122 workers with high blood pressure, men reporting high job strain had sleep systolic pressure 5.4 mm Hg higher and dipped less at night than men with low strain, a pattern tied to cardiovascular risk. Women showed no such effect.
Environment
Public Health Group Adopts Contradictory Positions on Mercury
Mercola criticizes the American Public Health Association over a preliminary vote endorsing continued use of dental amalgam, noting the group has long warned about mercury releases yet now calls amalgam's contribution to environmental mercury minimal.
Agriculture
Exposure to Animal Agriculture Increases Prevalence of Nerve Damage
An analysis of 16,340 Agricultural Health Study participants found beef and dairy farmers reported numbness and weakness, signs of peripheral neuropathy, more often than farmers who do not work with animals. The authors hypothesise exposure to Campylobacter jejuni is behind it.
Environment
VICTORY IN WICHITA
The Fluoride Action Network reports that Wichita, Kansas voters rejected water fluoridation 60 percent to 40 percent, as they also did in 1968 and 1978. FAN says the result saves taxpayers over $2.3 million this year and keeps 600,000 residents on fluoride-free water.
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Cell Phone Gave Man a Tumor, According to Major Court Ruling
Italy's supreme court ruled that a business executive's trigeminal nerve tumour was linked to his heavy cell phone use, five to six hours a day for 12 years. The court weighed studies by Lennart Hardell above the industry-funded Interphone study.
Environment
Daylight savings time 2012
Since 2007 US daylight time has run from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, set by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Hawaii and most of Arizona skip it. The page lists start and end dates from 2006 through 2015 and traces the practice back to the 1918 Standard Time Act.
Environment
BPA Damages Chromosomes, Disrupts Egg Development
Rhesus monkeys exposed to single daily doses or continuous low-level doses of BPA showed disrupted egg development, and the chemical appeared to damage chromosomes. BPA, detected in more than 90 percent of Americans tested, mimics and interferes with the body's own hormones.
Environment
Suicide Overtakes Car Accidents as Leading Cause of Injury-Related Death
A report finds suicide has passed traffic accidents as the leading US cause of injury-related death, partly because crashes are down. Suicide rose 15% from 2000 to 2009 and poisoning deaths 128%; the author believes suicides are badly undercounted, perhaps by 20% or more.
Environment
Mercury, lead exposure linked to ADHD
Among 279 children averaging 11.3 years old, cord blood mercury levels went with higher teacher-rated scores for attention problems and disruptive behavior, and current blood lead levels with more externalizing and hyperactive-impulsive ADHD symptoms.
Environment
Dr. Mercola Interviews Devra Davis on the Dangers of Cell phones
Mercola interviews Devra Davis, a founding director of the National Academy of Sciences board on environmental studies and toxicology, who says she assumed cell phones were safe, owning three in 2004, until her work on the history of tobacco and asbestos prompted her to look into it.
Environment
BPA may boost risk of men's infertility and sexual dysfunction
Among 218 Chinese men, those with detectable urinary BPA had more than three times the risk of low sperm concentration and over four times the risk of low sperm count, Kaiser Permanente researchers report. BPA levels were not linked to semen volume or abnormal sperm shape.
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