Mercola questions the TSA's safety claims for backscatter airport scanners, noting bills in both houses of Congress demanding independent testing and EPIC's litigation, which won a 2011 ruling that the agency skipped required public rulemaking.
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Environment
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Environment
Breast Cancer News: Phthalates Promote Breast Cancer Development - study
In a FASEB Journal study, estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer cells exposed to the phthalates BBP and DBP showed more than three times the proliferation plus higher migration, invasion and tumor formation. The authors trace a non-estrogen pathway via the aryl hydrocarbon receptor.
Environment
Ultraviolet rays induce mutation and skin cancer
Afaq and Katiyar review how solar UV drives skin cancer, through antioxidant depletion, inflammation, DNA damage, disturbed apoptosis and immunosuppression, and argue for plant compounds such as green tea polyphenols, resveratrol, curcumin and lycopene to block those steps.
Environment
Heavy Metal Toxicity Raises Your Risk of Electromagnetic Sensitivity
Mercola relays Dr. Thomas Rau's estimate that 3 to 8 percent of people in developed countries have serious electrohypersensitivity symptoms, and cites Yoshiaki Omura's research suggesting heavy metals in the body act as antennas that concentrate EMF radiation.
Environment
Pregnancy Alters Resident Gut Microbes
Mercola reports that a woman's gut microbes shift with each trimester of pregnancy: diversity falls, beneficial bacteria decline and disease-related bacteria rise. Changes that would otherwise bring weight gain and inflammation instead push energy into fat tissue so the fetus can grow.
Environment
Cell phones damage testes, vitamin C and E may counter the effect
Rats exposed to a cell phone's electromagnetic field for 15 to 60 minutes a day for two weeks showed enlarged seminiferous tubules, interrupted sperm cycles and markers of oxidative stress. Vitamin C or E added to their diet eased that stress and helped restore the testes.
Environment
Job insecurity boosts risks of myocardial infarction, heart failure, death
Swedish researchers followed 676 people for 8.5 years after a first heart attack and found job insecurity linked to 50, 69 and 62 percent higher risks of cardiac death or non-fatal infarction, total mortality and heart failure, plus a 46 percent higher stroke risk.
Environment
Harvard Study Confirms Fluoride Reduces Children’s IQ
An NIH-funded Harvard meta-analysis of 27 studies published over 22 years, many from rural China, reports an inverse association between high fluoride in drinking water and children's IQ. The authors say fluoride may be a developmental neurotoxicant at exposures far below adult toxicity levels.
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Drugs, foods, nutrients linked to gun violence
Case reports and trials tie nutrition and drugs to violent behavior: a Harvard team described a dementia patient with B12 deficiency who shot his wife, and a Welsh researcher found vitamin and mineral supplementation cut anti-social behavior in trials.
Agriculture
Pioneer in Sustainable Agriculture Shares his Vision of the Future of Food
Mercola interviews Joel Salatin at his Polyface farm about two competing models of food production: a large-scale mechanistic one and a local, sustainable one. Salatin contrasts asking how to grow a pig faster and cheaper with asking how to make it more expressive of its pigness.
Environment
Unplug! Too Much Light at Night May Lead to Depression
Hamsters kept in chronic dim light at night showed signs of depression within a few weeks, along with hippocampal changes resembling those seen in depressed people, in an Ohio State study. Researchers point to disrupted melatonin production as a possible link.
Environment
Recent Trends in US Coverage of Tobacco
The CDC's Tobacco News Media Tracking System examined US coverage from 2004 to 2010 across 10 newspapers, major newswires and seven networks: about three tobacco stories a day in papers and four on wires, but roughly one a day on television, which covered secondhand smoke and policy less.
Environment
Video: Heather talks toxic chemicals
An EWG Action Fund message noting that the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works passed the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011 out of committee. The bill would make industry test its chemicals and prove they are safe, updating the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act.
Environment
Radiation a major risk factor for breast cancer?
An Institute of Medicine report says women can cut breast cancer risk by avoiding unnecessary medical radiation and estrogen-progestin hormone therapy, limiting alcohol, exercising and not smoking. A committee member likened the radiation from three abdominal CT scans to atomic bomb exposure levels.
Environment
Factory Fed Fish: Monsanto's and Cargill's Plans for the Ocean
Monsanto and Cargill want soy to become the standard feed for farmed fish, a shift they label sustainable. A Food & Water Watch report argues it would damage oceans and human health, and notes the Illinois Soybean Association expects soy fish feed to earn a reported $201 million a year.
Environment
Dozens of Genetically Modified Babies Already Born - How Will They Alter Human Species?
Mercola revisits a Daily Mail report that 30 healthy babies were born after fertility experiments inserting donor genes into women's eggs, work published in 2001. Tests on two of the children confirmed DNA from three adults. He raises the implications rather than answering them.
Environment
When Treatment is Poison
Mercola opens with a 1994 Florida spill of 4,500 gallons of fluorosilicic acid that sent 47 people to hospital and forced 2,300 evacuations, then argues the same chemical goes into about two-thirds of US drinking water and that fluoridation rests on a PR campaign.
Environment
Radiation ups risk of death from heart disease/stroke
National Cancer Institute researchers reviewing studies published since 1990 report that even low doses of ionizing radiation are associated with circulatory disease deaths. Their meta-analysis put excess population risk at 2.5% per Sv for France and 8.5% for Russia.
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