A 1990 New York State Department of Health study warned that fluoride can harm kidney patients, diabetics and people with fluoride hypersensitivity even at 'optimal' levels, but the recommended follow-up research was never done. The department's website now says the water poses no known risks.
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Environment
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Environment
Why 95% of Japanese May Not Suffer from Radioactive Iodine Exposure
Citing the Washington Post, Mercola relays experts' view that after Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, stress, anxiety and fear became the largest long-term health effects, with PTSD and depression rates roughly doubling. He adds that radioactive exposure is still clearly dangerous.
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Rear-facing car seats put safety first
The American Academy of Pediatrics now advises keeping toddlers rear-facing until age 2 or until they outgrow their seat's height and weight limits, up from 12 months and 20 pounds, and recommends booster seats until a child reaches 4 feet 9 inches, usually between ages 8 and 12.
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Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Genetically Engineered Alfalfa Approval
The Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice sued the USDA, arguing its unrestricted approval of Roundup Ready alfalfa was unlawful. USDA data show 93 percent of US alfalfa is grown without herbicides, and the agency estimates up to 23 million more pounds a year.
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The First Thing to Do When You Stay in a Hotel Room
Microbiologist Philip Tierno packs impervious mattress and pillow covers and removes the bedspread first thing, since comforters are not laundered with the sheets. Hotel mattresses collect skin cells, hair, secretions, fungi, bacteria, dust mites and more.
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You Wouldn't Give Your Child A Cigarette -- This May be Far Worse
Dr. Magda Havas argues in the video that microwave radiation from cell phones and wireless technology will likely kill far more people than smoking and asbestos combined if its dangers go unaddressed, and points to growing recognition of electromagnetic hypersensitivity in Sweden and the UK.
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ARKANSAS: Mandatory fluoridation imminent
Senate Bill 359 would require Arkansas water systems serving 5,000 or more people to fluoridate. It has cleared a Senate committee, the full Senate and a House committee, and Delta Dental's CEO pledged $500,000, or more if needed, to cover start-up costs in the 32 affected communities.
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Are parents ensuring crib safety to prevent falls and head injuries?
An estimated 181,654 children under 2 were treated in US emergency departments for injuries involving cribs, playpens and bassinets from 1990 through 2008, about 9,561 a year. Falls accounted for 66 percent, and the head or neck was the most commonly injured region.
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New Warning About the "Healthy" Habit That Can Damage Your Brain
Calgary's city council voted 10-3 on February 8, 2011 to end 20 years of water fluoridation. Mercola urges readers to sign a message to US health officials before a February 14 deadline and to join the campaign against fluoridation in New York City.
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99 Percent of Pregnant Women in U.S. Test Positive for Multiple Chemicals -- Including Banned Ones
A study in Environmental Health Perspectives screened data on 163 chemicals and detected PCBs, organochlorine pesticides, PFCs, phenols, PBDEs, phthalates, PAHs and perchlorate in 99 to 100% of pregnant US women, including compounds banned decades ago such as DDT.
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Want Smarter Kids? Then Make Sure They Avoid This Widely Regarded Preventive...
US health officials plan to lower the recommended fluoride level in drinking water for the first time in nearly 50 years, citing dental fluorosis in children. One of two new EPA reviews found that prolonged, high fluoride intake can raise the risk of brittle bones, fractures and bone abnormalities.
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Be Prepared: Staying Safe and Healthy in Winter Weather
Winterize the house with weather stripping, insulation and storm windows, have the heating system serviced and vented, install smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, keep grills and generators outdoors and generators at least 25 feet away, and stock food, water and battery-powered devices for outages.
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Cigarette smoking boosts breast cancer risk
In the Nurses' Health Study, women who ever smoked were 6 percent more likely to be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, and 20 pack-years before a first birth came with 18 percent higher risk. Postmenopausal smoking and passive smoking showed no increase.
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Can common bugs spread superbugs?
Researchers at Kansas and North Carolina State universities found house flies and German cockroaches caught on a pig farm carried the same bacteria as the pigs' feces, with high rates of antibiotic resistance, raising the prospect that the insects carry them into homes.
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Your noisy workplace could make it harder to sleep
Israeli researchers tested hearing and sleep in 298 workers exposed to harmful noise, 199 of whom heard normally. Among those with hearing loss, 51% named tinnitus as the main disruptor of their sleep, against 14% of the rest.
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The Drug Store in Your Tap Water
The Associated Press found trenbolone at four times other levels in water near a Nebraska feedlot, plus pain pills, antibiotics and psychiatric, cholesterol and heart drugs in drinking water. Merck's Mary Buzby acknowledged pharmaceuticals are being detected in the environment.
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Lower temps, lower obesity rates?
Research in Obesity Reviews suggests warm indoor temperatures may add to winter weight gain by shrinking brown fat and cutting the energy the body spends staying warm. The authors say cooler winter buildings might help tackle obesity while reducing carbon emissions.
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Unrecognized Dangers Of Formaldehyde (PR)
The Cancer Prevention Coalition's Samuel Epstein faults a New York Times article on formaldehyde in wrinkle-free clothing for overlooking longstanding evidence of the chemical's carcinogenicity, detailed in five National Toxicology Program reports and linked to nasal and breast cancer.
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