Nonylphenol ethoxylates, surfactants used in textile manufacturing and in many detergents, wash into water that treatment plants cannot clear, then break down into nonylphenol, an endocrine disruptor that builds up in sediment and wildlife. Greenpeace has pressed clothing brands to drop them.
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Environment
The Hidden Trigger to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's That 75% of People Carry
Dr. Mercola promotes the documentary Mercury Undercover, which argues coal-fired power plants and dental amalgams, half mercury by weight, are the top sources of mercury pollution, and that mercury toxicity can drive inflammation and illnesses such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
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40 Women With Breast Cancer Had This "Cosmetic Ingredient" in Their Tissues
Paraben esters turned up in 99 percent of sampled breast cancer tissues, with all five esters present in 60 percent of cases. An editor's note cautions this does not show parabens cause breast cancer, though parabens are estrogenic and estrogen is involved in the disease.
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Preservative in consmetics may cause breast cancer
A Journal of Applied Toxicology study measured paraben esters in tissue from 40 mastectomies and found at least one in 158 of 160 samples. The authors note no causal link to breast cancer has been established, but parabens act like estrogen, which is known to promote breast carcinogenesis.
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Cell phone use in pregnancy may cause behavioral disorders in offspring (PR)
Yale researchers exposed pregnant mice to an active cell phone and found the offspring were more hyperactive and had reduced memory as adults. They attribute the changes to effects on neuron development in the prefrontal cortex.
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Corn insecticide linked to great die-off of beneficial honeybees (PR)
Andrea Tapparo and colleagues report in Environmental Science & Technology that every seed coating and planting method they tested killed honeybees flying through the emission cloud of pneumatic corn seeders. One machine fitted with a deflector still killed more than 200 foraging bees.
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Are silver nanoparticles harmful? (PR)
A Norwegian Institute of Public Health study found silver nanoparticles were toxic to testicular cells, suppressing growth and multiplication and causing cell death depending on concentration and exposure time. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles had a weaker effect.
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Studies show exposure to diesel exhaust may increase lung cancer mortality (PR)
Two Journal of the National Cancer Institute papers on the Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study, covering 12,315 workers at eight underground nonmetal mines, report a statistically significant rise in lung cancer risk as estimated exposure increased.
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Does Air Pollution Increase Risk of Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes?
Among black women in Los Angeles followed from 1995 to 2005, Boston University researchers found a 10-ug/m3 rise in fine particulate matter was associated with 48 percent higher hypertension risk and 63 percent higher diabetes risk, with smaller rises tied to nitrogen oxides.
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The most toxic chemicals on the planet
An advocacy appeal asking readers to press the EPA to finalize its long-delayed health report on dioxin, with step-by-step instructions and sample wording for posting messages to Administrator Lisa Jackson's Facebook page.
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Even Well Adjusted People Have These Secrets
A light catalogue of everyday embarrassments people rarely admit: the relatives they would drift away from, the $1,500 spent on a pet's surgery, the car men scrub obsessively, and the dental checkups skipped until something goes wrong.
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Cancer Alert: Beware of These 5 Home Appliances
Alasdair Philips of Power Watch tells Mercola that while the international safety standard for power fields is 1,000 milliGauss, more than 20 studies have linked childhood leukemia to just 4 milliGauss. He singles out electric heaters, stove rings, microwaves, blankets and hair dryers.
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Teenagers exposed to less secondhand smoking
A CDC analysis of the National Youth Tobacco Survey found nearly a third of middle and high school students rode in a car with a smoker in the past week. Researchers note only four states and Puerto Rico ban smoking in cars carrying children, and urge more to follow.
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Drowning related incidents on the decline
Yearly hospitalizations of children for drowning-related incidents have halved since the early 1990s, a Pediatrics study reports, with the South falling from seven to three per 100,000. Lead author Stephen Bowman notes about 1,000 children still die each year.
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Some Comets Like It Hot
A NASA video on Comet Lovejoy, spotted by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy last November: the sungrazer passed through the sun's atmosphere just 120,000 km above the surface on December 16 and survived, and is now receding with its mysteries unexplained.
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Radon Exposure and Lung Cancer
About 1 in 15 American homes has elevated radon, a colorless, odorless gas from decaying uranium in soil and water. It is the leading cause of lung cancer in nonsmokers and blamed for an estimated 20,000 US deaths a year. January is Radon Action Month.
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Warning: 50 Minutes with This Daily Gadget Can Alter Your Brain and DNA
Mercola reports that Health Canada is proposing precautionary limits on cell phone use, cites the 2011 WHO/IARC classification of radiofrequency fields as possibly carcinogenic, and points to an NIH study that found altered brain activity after 50 minutes of phone exposure.
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Wikipedia closed for the day to protest possible regulation of the Internet
Wikipedia blacked out its English edition for 24 hours from midnight on January 18 to protest SOPA and PIPA, arguing the anti-piracy bills would infringe free expression and harm the Internet, and pointing readers to their representatives.
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