| That trade deficit, predicts Mike Wilson, the environmental health scientist at University of California-Berkeley's School of Public Health, will increase as the market for U.S.-produced "basic chemicals"—a menu of substances that has changed little in thirty years—diminishes under the public glare offered by REACH and as consumers' sensitivity to environmental consequences increases. "The Europeans are already gaining an advantage over us in clean technology," said Wilson. "As the market shifts, that will put them into an advantageous situation. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 The organization Common Ground says, "The Canadian GM regulatory process is a ruse, claiming to safeguard human and environmental health, but actually intended to facilitate commercialization of GM crops."225 A review of some GM crop approvals demonstrates the dangers of assumption-based regulations.226
Monsanto Canada's insect resistant corn, MON 810
As part of this variety's 1997 approval, documents from Health Canada state:
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| Sofie Richard, et al, environmental health Perspectives
1. Certain chemicals may disrupt endocrine function at extremely low concentrations.
2. Research on Roundup suggests it may be such a chemical, disrupting endocrine activity related to human sex hormone production, but more research on this and other herbicides is needed.
3. The increased use of Liberty and Roundup, due to GM crops, may expose the population through food and water to these low-dose effects. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 In 1983, the journal Archives of environmental health published findings among twenty-eight victims exposed when chlorine gas leaking from an outside tank was sucked up into the ventilation system of a school dormitory in Lebanon.69
These large- and medium-scale exposures to chlorine are more dramatic and better publicized than routine gas releases in industrial paper mills or even households, which generally affect one or two persons at a time. The net effect is the same, however. Worldwide, thousands of people are exposed each year, one way or another. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Possible Neurologic Effects of Aspartame, a Widely Used Food Additive." environmental health Perspectives 75 (1987): 53-57. http://ehp.mehs .nih.gov/members/1987/075/75010.PDF.
Marlatt, G. Alan, and Judith R. Gordon, eds. Relapse Prevention: Maintenance Strategies in the Treatment of Addictive Behaviors. New York: Guilford Press, 1985.
Mars, Brigitte. Addiction-Free Naturally: Liberating Yourself from Sugar, Caffeine, Food Addictions, Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription Drugs. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 2001.
Maudlin, R. K. "FDA Approves Sucralose for Expanded Use. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| While the EPA continued to consider the matter, Ethyl promoted a series of studies that have come out in academic publications such as the Journal of Toxicology and environmental health, the American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal, and the all-encompassing Science of the Total Environment. The thrust of these reports has been: Since most of the population's exposure to manganese is in the diet, not in the air, why worry? Admittedly, an Ethyl-sponsored study of monkeys inhaling high levels of MMT did show "a slight vacuolation of some types of brain tissue" (i.e. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: Public and environmental health is being severely threatened through the institution of animal factory farming, which pollutes our water, air, soil and even our bodies with harmful chemicals and pollutants. Corporations now have taken over the practice of family farming and have developed cost-saving mass-production strategies that are not only dangerous to public health, but are also cruel to the animals being processed. |
Devra Davis
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 Until he was fired in November 1989, Meyron Mehlman served at Mobil Oil as director of toxicology and manager of its environmental health and science laboratory, responsible for the international firm's testing of chemicals. (He was later awarded $7 million under New Jersey's Conscientious Employee Protection Act for his wrongful termination, an act that the trial judge branded "outrageous.") Mehlman's records reveal that Mobil and other oil companies hid what they knew about the dangers of benzene. |
| Many of Kehoe's students at Kettering would go on to distinguished careers in industrial hygiene, including Eula Bingham, who became director of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1976, and Paul Kotin, who became the first director of the National Institutes of environmental health Sciences in 1968 and later worked for the asbestos industry. The impressive new facilities at the University of Cincinnati became a major center for studies requested by industry, providing private advice to companies and never releasing results unless given permission to do so. |
| As the director of toxicology and manager of Mobil Oil's environmental health and Science Laboratories from 1978 to 1989, Mehlman directed the work of dozens of top ranked industry researchers in epidemiology and toxicology, in the United States, Japan and globally.
From where he stood, Mehlman was watching an epidemic in slow motion. He had a simple idea about benzene. From inside Mobil, he argued that gasoline, which could contain benzene and hundreds of other known and suspected carcinogens, should be labeled as a carcinogen. |
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The debate over electromagnetic fields and cell phones takes place on a playing field that is not at all level. Much of the research funding is provided by the telecommunications industry just as much of the research funding on more general electromagnetic field research was provided by the electric power industry. It may not surprise you to learn that the highly publicized Danish Cancer Society study that exonerated cell phones and the yet-to-be completed IARC study are directly funded by the industry. |
| Some will argue that creating aTRC-like institution to accept information on environmental health hazards would only allow people to get away with past activities that have injured or killed people. The tort system exists to redress wrongs and to exact financial penalties from those who have harmed others. Such people cannot be absolved by a new institution.
The harder we try to exact vengeance against those who have caused harm, the more incentive they have to conceal information, and the more harm will be done in the future. |
| It sums up how we should think about environmental health challenges today. A group of workers has been given a big, complicated job to do. They complain. "We do not have the right tools. The task is enormous. We will never be able to get it done."
The rabbi replies, "It is not for you to complete the task. But you must begin. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Nepomnaschy, PhD, postdoctoral fellow, National Institute of environmental health Sciences, National Institutes of Health.
Mary Stephenson, MD, MSc, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and director, Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Program, University of Chicago.
Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
Pregnant women who are stressed in the first three weeks after conception are nearly three times as likely to miscarry as those who are not stressed, according to a new study. |
| Nepomnaschy, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of environmental health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, says the testing was done very early in the pregnancy because "most pregnancy losses take place in the first three to four weeks after conception."
The women studied were all residents of a rural area of Guatemala. "This population is more alike than any population in the United States," Nepomnaschy says. |
| For produce, choose organic varieties if you're buying one of the items found by the Environmental Working Group (a nonprofit group of researchers who investigate environmental health threats) to be among the most contaminated (see chart on page 293).
If you must buy nonorganic, choose produce that is least likely to be contaminated. Wash the nonorganic produce vigorously under running water to remove as much potentially harmful residue as possible. (Organic produce also should be washed. |
| Church, PhD, professor of environmental health sciences, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis.
Stephen Shibata, MD, director, gastrointestinal program, City of Hope Cancer Center, Duarte, CA.
Robert A. Smith, PhD, director of cancer screening, American Cancer Society.
The Journal of the American Medical Association.
For people who are younger than 80 years, the benefits of a colonoscopy might last more than 10 years—the period of time currently recommended before the procedure is repeated. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| Few outside the discipline of occupational and environmental health are familiar with it. In concept the term is meant to unite under one heading metal fume fever, mill fever, and organic dust toxic syndrome, along with a growing number of other outbreaks of odd, flulike reactions triggered by differing industrial processes.
In the early 1950s, for example, a new class of synthetic chemicals was commercially introduced, derived from fluorine conjoined to carbon singly or in molecular chains. Technically known as fluorocarbon monomers or polymers, this chemical family includes freon and Teflon. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 United States National Library of Medicine, environmental health and Toxicology http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro.html
The Right-to-Know Network, which provides free access to numerous databases and resources on the environment www.rtknet.org/rtkdata.php
Skin Deep, a cosmetic safety database by
Environmental Working Group www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics www.safecosmetics.org
Oceans Alive, for list of safe seafood choices www.oceansalive.org
PAN (Pesticide Action Network) Pesticides Database, for current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides www. |
Bill Sardi
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 Reed, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry, Director, environmental health Sciences Center, of the Linus Pauling Institute, "ATP carries chemical energy in cells. In diseased mitochondria ATP energy is not put to useful work but is released instead as heat. Examples of adverse heat production in biological systems are inflammation associated with arthritis and fever stimulated by infection. Antioxidants such as vitamin C, vitamin E, lipoic acid, carnitine and coenzyme Q10 work inside the mitochondria to help maintain its proper function. |
Mark Sircus
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 Role of Chelating Agents for Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment of Exposures to Toxic Metals. environmental health Perspectives Volume 103, Number 11, November 1995
11 Jones MM, Cherian MG. The search for chelate antagonists for chronic cadmium intoxication. Toxicology 1990;62:1-25.
12 Korkina, L.G., et al. Antioxidant therapy in children affected by irradiation from the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Biochem. Soc. Trans., Vol. 21, 1993, p. 314S
13 Gray AM, Flatt PR. Insulin-releasing and insulin-like activity of the traditional anti- diabetic plant Coriandrum sativum (coriander). |
| University of Rochester environmental health Sciences Center, Clarkson (See www-apps.niehs.nih.gov/centers/public/res-core/ctrl082-4386.htm)
8 Seelig, MS. Athletic stress, performance and magnesium in consequences of magnesium deficiency on the enhancement of stress reactions; preventive and therapeutic implications:a review. J Am Coll Nutr, Vol.13, No. 5, pp. 429-446, 1994
9 Durlach, J. Magnesium in Clinical Practice, Libbey, London, 1988.
10 Fehlinger, R. Therapy with magnesium slats in neurological diseases. Magnes Bull, Vol. 12, pp. |
| The study, published in environmental health Perspectives clearly shows that pesticide-free food leads to pesticide-free kids. United Press International, Christine DelPAmore, 22 Feb 2006
I was lucky enough to be found by www.bulknuts4you.com who are a good source of foods high in magnesium. I seriously recommend the purchase of brazil nuts and toasted sesame seeds (very high in magnesium and calcium) and in general use organic whole grain foods, all of which you will find at this site. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Work to improve the environmental health of your local and the global community.
•Expose your mind to challenging situations.
?Reduce stress.
•Maintain a strong sense of purpose.
•Protect your body and especially your head from injuries and accidents.
•Maintain your social networks.
But also remember that prevention means looking out for others. Addressing poverty and equity issues in your community is also part of prevention. Every individual mountain is part of a wider range. And every mountain range is rooted to the same earth. |
David Steinman
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 In a 2005 study reported in environmental health Perspectives, several of the same researchers from the Science study added this further caveat: "Consumption of farmed salmon at relatively low frequencies results in elevated exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like compounds with commensurate elevation in estimates of health risk. |
Mark Sircus
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"Arsenic acts as a growth stimulant in chickens—develops the meat faster—and since then, the poultry industry has gone wild using this ingredient," says Donald Herman, a Mississippi agricultural consultant and former Environmental Protection Agency researcher who has studied this use of arsenic for a decade. Doctors also are on notice that many drugs have toxic effects that can participate as well in destroying insulin creation and cell receptivity to it.
Wistar rats were made diabetic with a single injection of Alloxan. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Archives of environmental health 48 (1993): 105-113.
Aschner, M. and Kimelberg, M., eds. The Role of Glia in Neurotoxicity. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1996.
Bailey, A.J.; Sargent, J.D.; Goodman, D.C.; Freeman, J. and Brown, M.J. "Poisoned Landscapes: The Epidemiology of Environmental Lead Exposure in Massachusetts Children 1990-1991." Social Science Medicine 39 (1994): 757-776.
Bellinger D. et al. "Pre- and Postnatal Lead Exposure and Behavior Problems in School-Aged Children." Environmental Research 66, no. 1 Quly 1994): 12-30.
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David Steinman
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| Puerto Rico has the highest known incidence of premature thelarche (breast development) ever reported, according to a report in environmental health Perspectives.2^1 Since 1979, pediatric endocrinologists in Puerto Rico have detected an alarming increase in the number of patients with premature thelarche. Among the hypotheses proposed to explain the observed premature sexual development, the most controversial theory associated thelarche with the subject's diet. Some scientists have suggested that dairy and meat products were contaminated with anabolic estrogenic chemicals. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| Both strive to use the power of communal information to contribute to and protect public and environmental health.
In 2000 EWG and Commonweal began the Human Toxome Project (HTP) to analyze human tissues for industrial chemicals that enter the body as pollution via food, air, and water, or from exposures to ingredients in everyday consumer products. Utilizing the latest technology, the project thus far includes a collection of seven studies involving 75 participants ranging in age from newborn to the elderly. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The study, entitled "Lifespan Exposure to Low Doses of Aspartame Beginning During Prenatal Life Increases Cancer Effects in Rats" has been accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed journal environmental health Perspectives (EHP), the most widely-read environmental science journal in the world.
This is the second study conducted by the Ramizzini Foundation documenting the cancer-causing effects of aspartame in animals. Most sane people, when faced with such evidence, would ask the obvious questions: Could aspartame also cause cancer in humans? |
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