Andreas Moritz
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 The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal environmental health Perspectives (EHP), the most widely-read environmental science journal in the world. It confirms the results of a previous study by the Ramazzini Foundation documenting the cancer-causing effects of aspartame in animals.
The European Food Commission is particularly concerned about the overconsumption of sweeteners by children. In the mid 1990s, the British government announced that 2.5 mg/kg of body weight was the acceptable (safe) daily intake (ADI) of saccharin. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 These, in turn will have to be integrated into a system of evaluation that places clinical, observational, and other research findings into an appropriate environmental health context, both to expose those disease relationships with greater biological plausibility and significance and to minimize the risk of overlooking subtler relationships of substantial importance to public health. |
| Support for this work was also provided by grants from the National Institutes of Health to the University of North Carolina Clinical Nutrition Research Unit (DK56350), the University of North Carolina General Clinical Research Center (RR00046), and the Center for environmental health and Susceptibility (ES10126).
References
1. Gordon, N. (1997). Nutrition and cognitive function. Brain Dev. 19, 165-170.
2. Guesry, P. (1998). The role of nutrition in brain development. Prev. Med. 27, 189-194.
3. Mattson, M. P. (2003). Gene-diet interactions in brain aging and neurodegenerative disorders. |
Melody Petersen
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 Marsha Black, a professor of environmental health at the University of Georgia, has studied in the laboratory what happens when fish and frogs swim in waters tainted with antidepressants. She found that mosquito fish, small and hardy creatures, became uncoordinated and lethargic when they swam in waters infused with low levels of Prozac. In another study she and her colleagues found that tadpoles took longer to turn into frogs when they lived in water tainted with small amounts of the antidepressant. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Archives of environmental health 51 (1996): 214-220.
Van der Does, A. J. "The Effects of Tryptophan Depletion on Mood and Psychiatric Symptoms." Journal of Affective Disorders 64 (2001): 107-119.
Useful Books
Richard Ash, DHEA: Unlocking the Secrets to the Fountain of Youth (contributor), Detroit Lakes: BL Publications, 1997.
Sidney M. Baker, The Circadian Prescription (with Karen Baar), New York: Penguin Putnam, 2000.
-Detoxification and Healing: The Key to Optimal Health, New Canaan: Keats,
1997. |
| Funding of relevant NIH departments: Child Health, Mental Health,
?Environmental Health, Neurological Disorders
?LESS THAN $ 100 million* Portion of the $5 billion allocation that directly or indirectly impacts autism research.
•This represents 0.3% of total NIH funding. MUCH MORE FUNDING is needed.
HOW DOES FUNDING FOR AUTISM COMPARE TO OTHER CHILDHOOD DISORDERS & DISEASES?
?Leukemia 1 in 25,000 Funding: $300 million
?Muscular Dystrophy 1 in 20,000 Funding: $160 million
?Cystic Fibrosis 1 in 5,000 Funding: $75 million ¦Juvenile Diabetes 1 in 500 Funding: $140 million
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Andreas Moritz
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| Caution: AVOID non-stick pans: The chemical perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) used in non-stick pans (fast-food containers, carpets, furniture and a host of other everyday household products) accumulates in the umbilical cords of babies and is retarding their growth and brain development, according to two new studies published in the prestigious journal environmental health Perspectives (August 2007). Babies whose umbilical cords had the highest concentrations of PFOA were born lighter, thinner and with smaller head circumferences than others. |
David Steinman
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 Curl and colleagues in 2003 in environmental health Perspectives}1
"Significantly higher" concentrations of organophosphate metabolites were found in the urine of the children eating the conventional foods than children eating the organic foods. In fact, the concentration of organophosphate pesticide metabolites was six to nine times higher for children with conventional diets than for children with organic diets.
Eating organic fruits, vegetables, and juice can reduce children's exposure levels "from above to below the U.S. |
| Hayes's study has gotten a cold reception from agricultural interests. environmental health News reports: "The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency last fall canceled Hayes' keynote speech on atrazine scheduled for a conference this month. The agency asked Hayes to downplay the word atrazine and he refused. |
Bill Sardi
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 Journal Toxicology environmental health 50: 307-64, 1997] In the past few years the level of nicotine in cigarettes has risen about 10 percent, making it more difficult to quit and easier to develop addiction. Only three states in the U.S. require tobacco companies to submit information on nicotine content in cigarettes. [British Medical Journal 333:566, 2006]
Why do most smokers never develop lung cancer?
While over 80% of lung cancers are attributed to smoking, 85% of heavy smokers never develop lung cancer. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Unfortunately, clinicians on average receive fewer than four hours of training in the important field of occupational and environmental health. Although some health workers may be familiar with the management of acute pesticide poisoning, chronic effects of pesticide exposure are often overlooked. Acute dermatitis is the second most common occupational disease for all industrial sectors. The rates of dermatitis in the agricultural industry are the highest in any industrial sector. |
Bill Sardi
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| J Toxicology environmental health B Critical Review 7:351-84, 2004].
A study in Britain now shows there is a relationship of some sort between childhood cancer and proximity of home address at birth to high voltage power lines. [British Medical Journal 330:1290, 2005] But this may only be an association, not a causal relationship as EMFs lose their strength with increasing distance from their source, in this case, distant power lines. Childhood exposure to EMFs is near zero from power lines. |
| Journal Toxicology environmental health 20: 199-208, 1987] It does indeed induce a process called cellular apoptosis. [Molecular Cancer Therapies 3: 933-40, 2004] It also has antiseptic properties. [Journal Canadian Dental Association 5: 7-12, 1990]
Dermatologists report that this escharotic (caustic) paste is a traditional remedy for abnormal skin growths that works in a manner similar to zinc chloride. |
| Devar Lee Davis, Calum Muir, environmental health Perspectives, November, 1995
A worldwide study estimates, of the 7 million deaths from cancer worldwide (2001 figures), 35 percent were attributed to preventable factors. Smoking, tobacco, over-consumption of alcohol, diet, obesity, infection, are all modifiable factors. |
| Journal Toxicology environmental health 60: 17-26, 2000]
Q Boron and prostate cancer
Boron is an overlooked mineral that is often used as a dietary supplement to promote bone hardness. Supplemental boron has also been reported to allay symptoms of arthritis. More recently, an animal study reveals that supplemental boron inhibits growth factors and prostate specific antigen (PSA) by 86-88% and reduces the size of tumors in animals by 25-38%. This may be a promising treatment for males with prostate cancer. |
David Steinman
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| In a critical piece of scientific sleuthing, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley's Center for Children's environmental health research say babies born in the United States to mothers who have emigrated from Mexico demonstrate significant mental and physical impairment due to exposure to pesticides derived from petrochemicals.24
Scientists measured levels of DDT in 360 pregnant women now living in the Salinas Valley, but almost all of whom had come to the United States from Mexico in the last five years. |
Alex Steffen
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 Some chemicals are simply blacklisted for reasons of human and environmental health. Herman Miller, a company that helped pioneer ways to use Cradle to Cradle principles in design, applies this thinking to every product it makes. It simply won't do business with material suppliers who won't provide their recipes for proprietary chemicals.
The protocol is an unusual private certification, so CzC maintains control over its high standards. But it would take years or decades for most companies to duplicate McDonough and Braungart's research. |
KC Craichy
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 A recent study in environmental health Perspectives concluded that some styrene compounds leaching from food containers are estrogenic (meaning they can disrupt normal hormonal functioning). Styrene is also considered a possible human carcinogen by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer.
#7 Other (usually polycarbonate): used in five-gallon water bottles, some baby bottles, some metal can linings. Polycarbonate can release its primary building block, bisphenol A, another suspected hormone disruptor, into liquids and foods. |
Alex Steffen
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| In the remediation of contaminated land, the relics of destructive forces on human and environmental health can be a profound example of how far we've come, and how far we have to go.
In Duisburg, Germany, the well-known landscape park Duisburg-Nord stands upon a former brownfield. The park was designed to embrace rather than eradicate the industrial history of the site by incorporating artifacts of its past, such as blast furnaces, gas tanks, and storage bunkers. |
Paula Begoun
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 Sources: Science of the Total Environment, May 1994, pages 55-70; environmental health Perspectives, "Lead Acetate and Lead Phosphate," http:// ehp.niehs.nih.gov/; Hazardous Substances Data Bank, National Library of Medicine, "Lead Acetate," June 12, 2000; and National Toxicology Program, "10th Report on Carcinogens, Reasonably Anticipated to be a Human Carcinogen," http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/ NewHomeRoc/AboutRoC.html. |
| Some early epidemiological research in the 1990s showed a relation between hair dyes and bladder cancer, myeloma, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (Sources: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1994, volume 86, pages 941-943; and environmental health Perspectives, June-July 1994, pages 6-7).
Subsequent research noted problems with the results from those earlier findings (Sources: European Journal of Cancer Prevention, February 1995, pages 31-43). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Hollender: We are giving 100 percent of the profits from the book to the Children's environmental health Coalition, CHEC, that is launching something called the Blue Butterfly Campaign to help people keep their homes safe -- particularly for children.
Mike: Now is this a public education program?
Hollender: Yes. It's a public education campaign that CHEC is launching in May, and the Blue Butterfly Campaign will focus on five tips that are the most important things you could do in your home. |
Committee on Comparative Toxicity of Naturally Occurring Carcinogens
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 PCBs, PCDDs and PCDFs in Breast Milk: Assessment of Health Risks. environmental health Series 29. Europe, Copenhagen: WHO, Regional Office.
WHO (World Health Organization. 1991. Lindane. environmental health Criteria 124. Geneva: WHO International Programme on Chemical Safety.
WHO (World Health Organization. 1993. Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Terphenyls (Second Edition). environmental health Criteria 140. Geneva: WHO, International Programme on Chemical Safety.
Willett, W.C., M.J. Stampfer, G.A. Colditz, B.A. Rosner, and F.E.
Speizer. 1990. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 Environmental Health
Asthma is intimately tied to environmental health factors. One recent study at the Harvard School of Public Health examined the effect of daily ambient air pollution on asthmatic children residing in eight urban areas of the United States, using data from the National Cooperative Inner-City Asthma Study. Daily air pollution concentrations were extracted from the Aerometric Information Retrieval System database from the Environment Protection Agency. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Identification of phthalate esters in the serum of young Puerto Rican girls with premature breast development. environmental health Perspectives 2000 Sep;108(9).
9. Legler JM, et al. Brain and other central nervous system cancers: Recent trends in incidence and mortality. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 199;.91 (16): 1382-90.
10. BuckleyJD, et al. Pesticide exposures in children with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Cancer 2000;89(11).
11. Anon. Child's exposure to pesticides hikes lymphoma risk. UniSci 2000 Nov 30.
12. Guillette EA, et al. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 Alternative and Complementary Treatments
There are now many specialist centers that successfully use the above methods to treat disease, such as the environmental health Center in Dallas, or the Unit for Integrative Medicine at the Sloane-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. These and other centers use a combination of the following methods to treat cancer: diet (more raw, uncooked foods), nutritional supplements, herbal and plant extracts with anticancer properties (like lycopene and soy products and fungi), counseling, relaxation techniques, exercise, and other methods. |
| Fumes from new decorating products like paint, carpets, and vinyl or pressed wood contribute to indoor air pollution, which is ranked among the top four environmental health risks by the EPA. As you renovate, microscopic particles and invisible gases can accumulate undetected in your home until they result in ill-effects such as burning of the eyes, nose, and throat, headaches, dizziness, fatigue, asthma attacks, and cold or hay-fever symptoms. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Researchers at the National
Institute of environmental health Sciences (NIEHS) have reported that, while it is a possibility, it is not likely. Q Since women have been having Pap smears, the mortality rate for cervical cancer has dropped by about 70 percent. However, Pap smears are not always accurate—5 to 10 percent of the results can show a false-negative reading. The most common cause of false-negative results is sampling error. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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| Indeed, when one scientist, Professor William Rea, MD, founder of the environmental health Center in Dallas, tried to determine the extent to which environmental factors play a role in the current epidemic, he found that they figured in an astonishing 95 percent of cases. Not surprisingly, chemicals feature highly on this group of environmental factors.
Although the exact mechanisms for chemicals' role in promoting breast cancer are as yet unknown, one way could be via the ability to generally increase levels of cancer-inducing free radicals, while another could be by damaging DNA proteins. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 A study published in the journal environmental health Perspectives, however, suggests that when mice are exposed to low levels of BPA for several days, they develop insulin resistance.204 What is so alarming about this discovery is that the levels of BPA used in the experiment would be considered safe for humans by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We don't know whether BPA is contributing to the ever-increasing incidence of type 2 diabetes, but we sure wish scientists would find out before it's too late. |
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