Study: US health costs related to chemicals in plastics reached $250 billion in 2018
- Featured, Health & Healing
- January 15, 2024
“Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in plastics pose a serious threat to public health and cost the U.S. an estimated $250 billion in increased health care costs in 2018, according to new research published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. The paper is titled ‘Chemicals Used in Plastic Materials: An Estimate of the Attributable Disease Burden and Costs in the US.'”
READ MOREScientists find about a quarter-million invisible nanoplastic particles in a liter of bottled water
- Featured, Health & Healing
- January 11, 2024
NBC News: “The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers.”
READ MOREInactivity and screen time among children linked to heart damage by young adulthood
- Home & Family, Health & Healing
- September 5, 2023
Study Finds: “Allowing children to consistently watch TV for extended periods can lead to heart-related issues years later, a new study warns. Researchers discovered that being inactive from childhood through young adulthood displays a link to heart damage, independent of factors like weight and blood pressure.”
READ MOREPaper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals more often than plastic straws do, study finds
- Health & Healing
- September 5, 2023
NBC News: Some paper and bamboo straws contain so-called “forever chemicals” that could make them a less-than-ideal alternative to plastic, researchers have found.
READ MOREZero-calorie sweetener linked to heart attack and stroke, study finds
- Health & Healing
- September 5, 2023
CNN: “A sugar replacement called erythritol – used to add bulk or sweeten stevia, monkfruit and keto reduced-sugar products – has been linked to blood clotting, stroke, heart attack and death, according to a new study.”
READ MORENew study warns of health risks from 5G microwave radiation
- Health & Healing
- September 5, 2023
“If 5G is not halted, we will probably see more people suffering from microwave syndrome, i.e. deprived sleep, headache, tinnitus, dizziness, fatigue, heart problems, as well as a range of chronic diseases among them, including more cancers and degenerative diseases.”
READ MORECannabis use in adolescent years may create reproductive complications in women, according to new study
- Health & Healing
- September 5, 2023
“In a new study, University of California, Irvine researchers found that exposure to the compound tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, a component of cannabis) at a young age could lead to depleted ovarian follicles and matured eggs in adulthood by nearly 50 percent.”
READ MOREU.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is “almost certainly” making them sick
- Featured, Health & Healing
- September 5, 2023
CBS News: “Europe is famous for its bread. But there’s one ingredient conspicuously missing: Potassium bromate. It’s a suspected carcinogen that’s banned for human consumption in Europe, China and India, but not in the United States…It’s not just potassium bromate. A range of other chemicals and substances banned in Europe over health concerns are also permitted in the U.S., including Titanium dioxide (also known as E171); Brominated vegetable oil (BVO) (E443); Potassium bromate (E924); Azodicarbonamide (E927a) and Propylparaben (E217).”
READ MORENew Pfizer data kills the case for universal child Covid vaccines
- Health & Healing
- March 16, 2022
For the younger kids, it dropped from 65% in the first two weeks to negative efficacy: -41% a month later. In other words, the vaccinated young kids were actually more likely to be infected than unvaccinated kids a month and a half after vaccination.
READ MOREToday’s elderly at greater risk of dementia, delirium from being prescribed too many unnecessary drugs
- Featured, Health & Healing
- March 16, 2022
“Taking six medications or more contributes to challenges with adherence, since more complicated medication regimens require more time and attention, and increase the potential for making mistakes and inadvertent misuse.”
READ MOREAmericans Are Addicted to ‘Ultra-Processed’ Foods, and It’s Killing Us
- Featured, Health & Healing
- January 6, 2022
“Our food, in other words, is literally killing us. Food companies have tricked our brains into making us complicit, and our elected officials are complicit, too. What’s needed is a better understanding of exactly how processed foods make us sick and a public reckoning with Big Food’s role in the nation’s health crisis.”
READ MOREThe class of 2000 ‘Could have been anything.’ Until opioids hit
- Headlines & Highlights, Health & Healing
- December 4, 2019
A must read NY Times story: “In all of the interviews, one thing was clear: Opioids have spared relatively no one in Scioto County; everyone appears to know someone whose life has been affected by addiction.”
READ MOREPick Up the Pace: Walking More Quickly May Improve Your Health
- Health & Healing
- October 16, 2019
“Since childhood brain health already at the age of 3 years was associated with walking speed at midlife, it looks like the early life function of the brain could affect the long-term function of the body and thus the walking speed.”
READ MOREStress can make you sick. Take steps to reduce it.
- Featured, Health & Healing
- October 16, 2019
“One of the reasons I wrote this book was to give stress the air time that it deserves. The public needs to be more aware of how prevalent and damaging it is, and doctors need to be aware of some simple things to help people.” That’s what Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, author of “The Stress Solution,” told the New York Times.
READ MORENot exercising worse for your health than smoking, diabetes and heart disease, study reveals
- Headlines & Highlights, Health & Healing
- October 22, 2018
“Cardiorespiratory fitness is a modifiable indicator of long term mortality and healthcare professionals should encourage patients to achieve and maintain high levels of fitness.”
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