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Toxic Waters - Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering - Series

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Charles Duhigg - Sep. 13 (Investigative Report) - In the past five years, companies and workplaces have violated pollution laws more than 500,000 times. But the vast majority of polluters have escaped punishment.

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Expanding waistlines may cause shrinking brains

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Nora Schultz - Aug. 23 (Special Report) - Brain regions important for cognition are smaller in obese older people, making their brains look up to 16 years older than they are. As brain shrinkage is linked to dementia, this adds weight to the suspicion that piling on the pounds may up a person's risk of the brain condition.

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How to feel up in a downturn

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Oliver Burkeman - Aug. 15 (Special Report) - When Napoleon Hill set out to discover the secret principle underlying all human success, he brought an appropriate degree of diligence to the task. Over two decades, he interviewed the leading entrepreneurs of his era (Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell), the leading financiers (John D Rockefeller, Charles Schwab) and the leading politicians (Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson – and Joseph Stalin, which tells you something about the definition of "success" we're dealing with here). Hill, who had been born into poverty in America's Appalachian mountains in 1883, wanted to know what his interviewees had in common: how had they achieved such wealth, power, fame and, apparently, fulfilment?

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Health Care Reform: Time to Go All In

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

OurFuture.org - By Robert Borosage - Aug. 11 (Opinion) - It is time to go all in to support comprehensive health care reform. The stakes have gotten prohibitive. Republicans have essentially bet the House on it. Obama, for all intents and purposes, has wagered the White House agenda. The insurance and drug companies are pouring in dough. This month will be telling. The debate in congressional districts across the country in August will go far in determining what kind of reform we get -- or whether we get any reform at all.

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10 amazing truths you already suspected

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Mark Morford - Aug. 07 (Opinion) - 1) Let's start with, say, tanning beds. Turns out they cause cancer like a mofo. I mean, as bad as arsenic. As mustard gas. Smoking. Chimney sweeping. The Jonas Brothers. I mean, obviously. Like you didn't already know. Like you thought it was all healthy fun and games to strip yourself naked and lay on a bed of giant blue light bulbs and have ultraviolet rays blasted into every inch of your skin for hours per week and think, yeah, this can't be all bad, can it?

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China: Where Poisoning People Is Almost Free

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Vivian Wai-yin Kwok - Aug. 07 (Special Report) - In addition to its cheap labor costs, China has another comparative advantage as the world's factory: Companies often pay almost nothing to pollute China's air, water and soil and to poison its people.

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Rural well water linked to Parkinson’s; California study implicates farm pesticides

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

environmentalhealthnews.org - By Marla Cone - Aug. 05 (News) - Rural residents who drink water from private wells are much more likely to have Parkinson’s disease, a finding that bolsters theories that farm pesticides may be partially to blame, according to a new study. The risk to people in California's Central Valley was 90 percent higher for those who had private wells near fields sprayed with certain insecticides. People with the incurable neurological disease “were more likely to have consumed private well water, and had consumed it on average 4.3 years longer,” UCLA scientists reported. Unlike municipal water supplies, private wells are largely unregulated and are not monitored for contaminants.

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Common insect repellent affects nervous system: study

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Agence France-Presse - By Marlowe Hood - Aug. 05 (News Report) - experiments on insects, as well as on enzymes extracted from mice and human neurons, showed for the first time that it can interfere with the proper functioning of the nervous system. The researchers say further studies are "urgently needed" to assess deet's potential toxicity to humans, especially when combined with other chemical compounds. Their findings may also shed some light on the so-called "Gulf War Syndrome," the name given to a complex and variable mix of neurological symptoms reported by tens of thousands of US military veterans who served in the first Gulf War against Iraq in 1990-1991.

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Modified corn seeds sow doubts

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Globe and Mail - By Martin Mittelstaedt - Aug. 04 (News Report) - With so much crammed into one seed, the modified corn will be able to confer multiple benefits, such as resistance to corn borers and rootworms, two caterpillar-like pests that infest the valuable grain crop, as well as withstanding applications of glyphosate, a weed killer better known by its commercial name, Roundup. But a controversy has arisen over the new seeds, which were approved for use last month by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency: Health Canada hasn't assessed their safety.

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"The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite"

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By David Kessler, Amy Goodman, Anjali Kamat - Aug. 03 (Interview) - A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns that the direct medical costs of obesity total about $147 billion a year. That amounts to nine percent of all US medical costs. It's also over $50 billion more than the annual spending on cancer. In the midst of this national focus on obesity, today we'll speak to David Kessler, who has spent the last seven years trying to understand how the food industry has changed American eating habits, made certain foods difficult to resist, and helped create the country's number one public health issue. [includes rush transcript - partial]

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FDA concludes mercury in dental fillings not risky

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Lauran Neergaard - Jul. 29 (News Report) - The government declared Tuesday that silver dental fillings contain too little mercury to harm the millions who've had cavities filled with them - including young children - and that only people allergic to mercury need to avoid them.

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Tanning beds rated as top-tier cancer risk

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

healthzone.ca - By Megan Ogilvie - Jul. 29 (News Report) - Tanning beds are as deadly as mustard gas, arsenic, plutonium and other known carcinogens, international cancer experts have ruled.

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Red Meat & Dairy Linked to Cancer

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

care2.com - By Melissa Breyer - Jul. 28 (Special Report) - In a recent study published in the internationally acclaimed Journal of the National Cancer Institute, researchers examined the association between the intake of red meat and dairy products and pancreatic cancer by analyzing a cohort of over 500,000 people from the National Institutes of Health–AARP Diet and Health Study. Participants completed a food frequency questionnaire in 1995 and 1996 and were followed prospectively for an average of 6 years to track a variety of health outcomes, including pancreatic cancer. Men and women who consumed high amounts of total fats had 53 percent and 23 percent higher relative rates of pancreatic cancer, respectively,

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Gargantuan helpings of fast food surge in popularity

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Kansas City Star - By Joyce Smith - Jun. 14 (News Report) - Restaurants across the land, feeding a trend begun several years ago with the introduction of Hardee’s Thickburger, are offering ever-larger burgers, sandwiches and rich dishes. In this economy, restaurateurs say, they want to give more value for the money. And stressed consumers seem to have a taste for such comfort food. For some diners, words like low fat, diet, organic or healthy are just not on the menu.

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Drinking from Plastic Bottles 'Increases Exposure to Gender-Bending Chemical'

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Murray Wardrop - May. 22 (News Report) - Scientists have demonstrated for the first time that polycarbonate containers release the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) into liquid stored in them. BPA has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been linked with cardiovascular disease and diabetes in humans.

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Ministry of Defence admits to further radioactive leaks from submarines

Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Rob Edwards - May. 18 (News Report) - Radioactive waste has leaked from Britain's nuclear submarines nine times in the past 12 years, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has admitted. Two of the leaks – including one at Devonport near Plymouth two months ago – had not been revealed until today.

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Pesticide in pools far above safe limit

Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Australian - By Matthew Denholm - May. 18 (News Report) - Australia's pesticides regulator told The Australian it would review the use of the herbicide simazine, a common ingredient in swimming pool anti-algae treatments and suburban weed killers.

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Britain's farmers still restricted by Chernobyl nuclear fallout

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Terry Macalister, Helen Carter - May. 12 (Special Report) - Nearly 370 farms in Britain are still restricted in the way they use land and rear sheep because of radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear power station accident 23 years ago, the government has admitted.

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H1N1 Flu Public Health Alert

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ncsl.org - By William T. Pound - May. 05 (News Analysis) - The National Conference of State Legislatures will provide the most up-to-date and relevant information on the H1N1 flu (swine flu) outbreak. These resources will help state legislators and legislative staff stay abreast of the federal and state responses to this public health alert. The information can help state officials plan and prepare for a potential H1N1 flu (swine flu) outbreak.

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Earlier Puberty in European Girls

Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Tara Parker-Pope - May. 04 (Opinion) - A 15-year study of young girls in Denmark found that the average age of breast development has fallen by a full year compared to girls studied in the early 1990s. The findings, published this month in the journal Pediatrics, add to a growing body of evidence that the timing of puberty is changing, possibly related to environmental exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals that mimic estrogen in the body.

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GOP Stripped Flu Pandemic Preparedness From Stimulus

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins - Apr. 27 (News Report) - Maine Senator Collins, the supposedly moderate Republican who demanded cuts in health care spending in exchange for her support of a watered-down version of the stimulus, fumed about the pandemic funding: "Does it belong in this bill? Should we have $870 million in this bill No, we should not." Even now, Collins continues to use her official website to highlight the fact that she led the fight to strip the pandemic preparedness money out of the Senate's version of the stimulus measure.

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EPA restores stricter reporting of toxic pollution

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

seattlepi.com - By Dina Cappiello - Apr. 22 (News Report) - The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it was reversing a decision by the Bush administration in 2006 that reduced reporting of toxic pollution for more than 3,500 facilities nationwide. The Bush rules allowed facilities storing or releasing smaller amounts of toxic chemicals to submit less-detailed information to the government.

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Radiation Exposure from 50 Years of Uranium Mining Continues to Affect Spokane Indian Reservation

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Twa-le Abrahamson - Apr. 21 (Special Report) - The Spokane Reservation is about forty-five miles northwest of the city of Spokane. And when the mines opened, the workforce was largely tribal people, and a lot of women worked in the mines at that time. And so, we’ve heard a lot of stories of women that worked there that were placed in certain positions because they were over childbearing age. And we’ve lost a lot of our people to illnesses related to—which we feel are related to the mine and the contaminants at the mine.

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Potomac Fish Study Turns Up No Exact Cause of Abnormalities

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David A. Fahrenthold - Apr. 21 (Special Report) - More than 80 percent of the male smallmouth bass in the Potomac River are growing eggs, but after six years of searching, scientists still have not pinned down the pollutants that are causing the abnormality, according to research unveiled yesterday. Federal officials released the results of the largest-ever investigation into "intersex" fish in the Potomac watershed.

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Public Transit Users More Likely to Reach Physical Activity Targets

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

obesitypanacea.blogspot.com - By Travis Saunders - Apr. 17 (Interview) - By building activity into your daily routine, you can ensure that you’re getting at least some physical activity on even the busiest days. . . . Although taking public transit may not seem like the most obvious way to increase your physical activity levels, a recent study by Ugo Lachapelle and Larry Frank at the University of British Columbia suggests that this might be the case.

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