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Some interesting health articles today

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5 toxins that are everywhere: Protect yourself

August 30, 2010 / By | Posted in  Around The Web

CNN.com is where I found this story:

“A growing body of research is linking five chemicals — among the most common in the world — to a host of ailments, including cancer, sexual problems and behavioral issues.

We encounter them every day — in plastic bottles, storage containers, food wrap, cans, cookware, appliances, carpets, shower curtains, clothes, personal care products, furniture, television sets, electronics, bedding, cushions and mattresses. In short, every room in almost every house in the United States is likely to contain at least one of these chemicals, many of which did not exist a century ago.

They are bisphenol A, or BPA; phthalates; PFOA; formaldehyde; and polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PDBEs...

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22 disease-fighting superfoods

August 26, 2010 / By | Posted in  Around The Web

Some of these we agree with, some we don’t. What do you think?

Here’s the link to the full story (opens in a new window): 22 disease-fighting superfoods

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ADHD risk may be tied to pesticide exposure before birth

August 26, 2010 / By | Posted in  Around The Web

Linda Carrol of MSNBC posted this:

” Children whose mothers were exposed to widely-used pesticides such as malathion during pregnancy may be at increased risk of developing an attention disorder by age 5, a new study shows.

Researchers found that the risk of attention disorders rose with increasing levels of metabolites — substances created when pesticides break down — measured in a pregnant woman’s urine. For each tenfold increase in pesticide metabolites in a mom’s system, the risk of an attention disorder rose fivefold in her child, according to the report published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

The study results fall in line with a report published earlier this year by Harvard researchers who found that school-aged children exposed to organophosphates, one o...

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Antihistamine use linked to extra pounds

August 26, 2010 / By | Posted in  Around The Web

From Reuters Health:

“People who use prescription antihistamines to relieve allergy symptoms may be more likely than non-users to carry excess pounds, a new study suggests, although the significance of the connection is not yet clear.

In a study of 867 U.S. adults, researchers at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, found that prescription antihistamine users were more likely to be overweight or obese than non-users were.

Among the 268 antihistamine users, 45 percent were overweight, versus 30 percent of the 599 study participants not on the medications.”

Here’s the link: Link. Discussion of natural allergy treatments is welcome.

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Scientists create liver cells from patients’ skin

August 26, 2010 / By | Posted in  Around The Web

Reuters posted this. Here’s an excerpt followed by the link:

“Scientists have created liver cells in a lab for the first time using reprogrammed cells from human skin, paving the way for the potential development of new treatments for liver diseases that kill thousands each year.

Cambridge University scientists who reported their results in the Journal of Clinical Investigation on Wednesday, said they also found a way of avoiding the kind of intense political and ethical rows over embryonic stem cells which are currently hampering work in the United States.”

Here’s the link: Link. Any thoughts?

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