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Cell Phone Exposure And Your Health
The connection between cell phone usage and brain cancer has been on the minds of doctors and activists for the last years. The cell phone industry has consistently retorted that there is no evidence that cell phone radiation can affect the brain, let alone cause cancer. According to a recent study from the Journal of the American Medical Association, a cell phones electromagnetic field can in fact cause changes in brain activity. Regions closest to the antenna show higher rates of energy consumption. This does not demonstrate that cell phone use can lead to cancer. The study revealed only that there were changes in brain activity occurring as a result of cell phone radiation. It is not clear whether the changes were good, bad or neutral. However, this is the first study that definitively demonstrates that cell phone radiation does something to the brain, even in short durations of time. Exactly what it does is still unclear. Fortunately, there are easy ways to cut back on your cell phone radiation exposure without having to stop using your cell phone altogether. Use A Wired Headset The easiest and most effective way to keep radiation away from your head is to use a wired ...- Bookmark :
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The Quality Of Your Drinking Water
The drinking water of a large number of cities in the United States contains an unhealthy amount of contaminants and chemicals. Some organizations and state environmental agencies that analyze water data claim that the level of chemicals in some drinking water is higher than the recommended health guidelines and the pollutants found in the water are higher than the limitations set by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Unknown to most Americans, a surprising number of U.S. cities have drinking water with unhealthy levels of chemicals and contaminants. 24/7 Wall St, a website that took a cold hard look at the quality of water supplies in big cities, utilized data from the Environmental Working Group that was collected for a five year period that ended in 2009. While some cities failed to submit the necessary information for the database including Salt Lake City, Washington D.C. and Detroit, cities in other states provided inadequate data to be included in the database including cities in Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Kansas and Louisiana. The test results from the national database reported 316 contaminants in water that is supplied to 256 million Americans in 48,000 communities in 45 states. The data suggests that there were 202 ...- Bookmark :
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The Low Down On BPA In Canned Goods
The National Workgroup for Safe Markets is a coalition of public and environmental health advocacy groups. They published a report that revealed that cans of food expose people to dangerous levels of bisphenol A (BPA), which is a hormone-disrupting chemical that has been connected to aggression in children, heart disease and obesity. The report examines the levels of BPA in canned food products in addition to how much BPA the average person would consume from eating the foods that are packaged in those cans. 50 samples of canned foods were gathered from home cupboards in 19 states and 1 Canadian province. The samples were tested by an independent lab, which measured the BPA levels in the cans. The lab found BPA in 92% of the canned foods. The research found that people, who ate their meals throughout the day from canned goods, had high levels of BPA in their system. Even someone who had only a can of veggies at dinner and a can of soda had a high amount of BPA in their system. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that a low exposure level of BPA per day is safe, however low levels of BPA have been connected to aggressive ...- Bookmark :
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The Food Movement
The environmental movement is facing some challenges. Supporters of the movement are starting to accept that the chance of both national and international action on climate change has become an afterthought. Republicans in Congress are attacking the Environmental Protection Agency, arguing against putting more money toward environmental protection since the country is in so much debt. The environmental movement has been challenged to maintain its importance in a rough political climate that isn’t always rooting for the environment. The food movement is on the rise and it is bringing together producers, consumers, politicians and the media. The food movement’s growth might be able to start a social and political transformation that the environmentalists have been striving for in recent years. The food movement strives to change the way Americans eat, the way they farm, and moving them away from cheap calories and industrialized food production and toward smaller scale organic food production. The food movement is a series of organized smaller mobilizations, rather than a single national movement. A producer for the documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, explained that routine family dinners improve both eating habits and schoolwork and positive behavior for families. All around the country, activists are speaking about a ...- Bookmark :
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Cutting Down On Toxic Pollution Is Getting Cheaper
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced that it would make it less expensive for companies to cut down on toxic air pollution from industrial boilers and incinerators. The EPA explains that they have found ways to control pollution at over 200,000 industrial boilers, incinerators and heaters around the country at a 50% cost savings to the institutions and companies that run them. These savings would amount to $1.8 billion while still preventing numerous heart attacks and asthma cases annually. These new ways come after pressure from Congress and a court ordered deadline, which resulted in majorly overhauled regulation from the EPA. The new rules established by the EPA set forth regulations for public health safeguards while keeping costs lower than what was originally estimated. The original cost was set at $3.9 billion. The agency also completed an updated job analysis that reveals that the changes made will yield 2,200 jobs, which doesn't yet include employment stemming from purchases of pollution-control technology. The major discount for polluting industries lets Congress know that public health benefits can be reached more economically, and that the administration is serious about President Obama's executive order to review regulations that had a negative impact on job ...- Bookmark :
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