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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.'”
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Scientists 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.”
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Never Again Should There Be a 9/11
- GOOD FOR YOU by Claire Carter, Featured
- September 6, 2023
Remembering and honoring all those who died, all those who survived, and all those whose lives will never be the same. We came together then. Can we prevent a horrific act like this from happening again?
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Paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals more often than plastic straws do, study finds
- Health & Healing, Featured
- 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.
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Screen-time warning: Toddlers given tablets, phones to play with can suffer lasting brain damage
- Featured, Home & Family
- September 5, 2023
“Sitting toddlers down in front of a screen all day can do lasting damage to their brains, a new study warns. Scientists in Singapore add that the harm to screen-watching infants persists into late childhood, even beyond the age of eight.
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U.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).”
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Today’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.”
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Americans 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.”
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The Doctor’s Office Becomes an Assembly Line
- Health & Healing, Featured
- January 6, 2022
“Kathleen Blake, AMA’s vice president of healthcare quality, earlier this year cited studies showing that hospital acquisitions of private practices- which doubled from 2012 to 2018- have lead to ‘modestly worse patient experiences and no significant change in readmission or mortality rates.’ Flawed electronic health record systems in hospitals have resulted in deathly medical errors
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What Every Parent Should Know Before Introducing Their Young Child to Technology
- Featured, Home & Family
- April 21, 2021
You might want to think twice before handing your toddler your smartphone. Check out our Good for You Conversation with Dr. Gail Saltz on what you need to know about children, technology and how it impacts their development.
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Pick Up the Pace: Walking More Quickly May Improve Your Health
- Health & Healing, Featured
- 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.”
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Stress can make you sick. Take steps to reduce it.
- Featured
- 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.
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A lost girl’s diary: The hidden anguish of Alexandra Valoras
- Home & Family, Featured
- May 16, 2019
Beyond imagining, beyond understanding. How a 17-year-old high school honor student shocked her parents, friends and teachers by committing suicide. Alexandra Valoras wrote in her journal: “I’m not good enough, I’m worthless.”
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Weed-killing chemical linked to cancer found in some children’s breakfast foods
- Headlines & Highlights, Featured
- August 15, 2018
“I was shocked. We don’t know a lot about the effect of glyphosate on children. And essentially we’re just throwing it at them.”
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Hospitals know how to protect mothers. They just aren’t doing it.
- Home & Family, Featured
- July 30, 2018
“What we know about those deaths is that most of them were absolutely preventable. They were from causes that we could have done something about. We could have prevented it if we had recognized the emergency early on.”
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