Crystal deodorant stones and sprays sold as natural are made from alum, most often potassium aluminum sulfate, so they contain the aluminum buyers are trying to avoid. Mercola notes aluminum salts can account for a quarter of the volume of some antiperspirants.
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Environment
Copper Pipes in Your Home May Cause Heart Disease and Alzheimer's
Scientists quoted in the Telegraph urge people to remove old copper pipes or fit filters, saying the metal builds up in the body and, they argue, leads to Alzheimer's, heart disease and diabetes. Mercola adds that copper pipe typically lasts about 20 years, less in acidic water.
Environment
Nanosilver Migrates from Treated Fabric During Washing
Scientists washed fabrics treated with silver nanoparticles under simulated machine conditions. Detergent alone mostly left the silver in place, but once steel balls added mechanical stress, four of seven fabrics lost roughly 20 to 35 percent of their silver in the first wash.
Environment
Aluminum sulfate found in deodorant stones and sprays
Potassium alum, or potassium aluminum sulfate, turns up in crystal deodorant stones and sprays. The claimed Alzheimer's link rests on one incident: a 1988 spill of 20 tons of aluminum sulfate into a town's drinking water, followed two decades later by high Alzheimer's incidence there.
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Reduced fertility linked to flame retardant exposure
Among 223 Mexican women, each tenfold rise in blood levels of four polybrominated diphenyl ethers came with a 30 percent drop in the monthly chance of conceiving. Lead author Kim Harley calls it the first study to tie these flame retardants to reduced fertility in women.
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New Study Confirms Electrical Pollution from Cell Phones and WiFi is Hazardous
Mercola relays claims that high-frequency voltage transients from energy-efficient appliances raise melanoma, thyroid and uterine cancer risk, citing a 2007 BioInitiative report of more than 2,000 studies and Swedish research suggesting teenage cell phone users face five times the brain cancer risk.
Environment
Do You Know the Real Reason Cell Phone Use is Banned on Airlines?
Researchers have found almost no evidence that phones or other devices interfere with aircraft systems; the FCC's 1991 ban cited interference with ground cell networks instead. Dr. Mercola adds that a plane's metal shell can bounce the devices' EMF radiation around the cabin.
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Cancer News: Early radiation exposure raises breast cancer risk
Women given thymic irradiation as infants between 1926 and 1957 were 200 percent more likely to develop breast cancer than untreated women, University of Rochester researchers report, with higher doses tied to higher risk and rates still elevated more than 50 years after exposure.
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Pesticides Linked to Prostate Cancer
Xiaohui Xu of the University of Florida analysed 1999-2004 NHANES data and found serum levels of beta-HCH, trans-nonachlor and dieldrin were significantly associated with prevalent prostate cancer after adjustment. No association turned up for breast cancer.
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Cell Phone Usage May Reduce Alzheimer's Risk
University of South Florida researchers exposed 96 mice, some bred to develop Alzheimer's, to cell-phone-level radiation two hours a day for seven to nine months. Mice not yet impaired were protected, older symptomatic mice improved, and even normal mice showed better memory.
Environment
Want to Increase Your Chance of Being Happy? Live in These States
A CDC survey of 1.3 million people ranked Louisiana, Hawaii, Florida, Tennessee and Arizona the happiest states and New York the least happy. Researchers found high-scoring states also rate well on climate, crime rates, air quality and schools. Mercola credits sun exposure too.
Environment
Six Risky Chemicals You're Carrying in Your Body
The CDC's biomonitoring study measured 212 chemicals in 8,000 Americans. The article picks out six that are both widespread and potentially harmful, including flame retardants, BPA found in over 90 percent of those tested, PFOA and acrylamide, and how hard they are to avoid.
Environment
The Surprising Dangers of Flying through Clouds
Using computer models built on satellite and ground observations, researchers estimate that lightning discharges and terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, which occur at airliner altitudes, could expose passengers nearby to radiation equal to 400 chest X-rays, a level they call biologically significant.
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Insecticide Exposure May Increase Childhood Brain Tumor Risk
A study of 201 children in California and Washington with brain, cranial nerve or meningeal tumours and 285 controls adds evidence that home insecticide exposure paired with particular variants of the PON1 metabolism gene may raise the risk of childhood brain tumours.
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Cheap 'dipstick' test detects pesticides in foods in minutes
Canadian scientists led by John Brennan report in Analytical Chemistry that their paper-based test strip detects minute amounts of pesticides in food and drink in under five minutes, as a cheap alternative to instruments that can take hours.
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Brain cancer and cell phone use unproven
Legislators in Maine and San Francisco's mayor want warning labels on cell phones, but the American Cancer Society says the radio-frequency waves phones emit are non-ionizing and lack the energy to damage DNA directly. The FCC caps absorption at 1.6 watts per kilogram.
Environment
Why are Millions in the US Drinking Filthy Water
More than 20 percent of US water treatment systems have broken key Safe Drinking Water Act provisions over five years, and water serving over 49 million people has carried illegal levels of arsenic, uranium or sewage bacteria since 2004. Just 6 percent of violations were enforced.
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Warning! This Cell Phone Safety ‘Spin’ Could Make You Dizzy
Mercola argues that headlines calling cell phones safe rest on Scandinavian brain tumor trends through 2003 that were never tied to actual phone use. The small, steady rise in tumors began in 1974, and the authors concede latency may run longer than the follow-up covered.
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