Archive for the 'Health' Category
Diet Sodas Contribute to Obesity
July 3rd, 2011This has been common knowledge in alternative health circles for years, but anyway… Via: CBS News: Sorry, soda lovers – even diet drinks can make you fat. That’s the word from authors of two new studies, presented Sunday at a meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San Diego. “Data from this and other prospective […]
Toshiso Kosako: Come the Harvest Season in the Fall, There Will Be Chaos
July 2nd, 2011You probably know that rice has semi religious significance throughout Asia, but you may not know that Japanese are particularly weird about their rice. To Japanese, it’s not really rice unless it’s rice from Japan. In order to avoid international trade sanctions, Japan imports rice, but the rice is generally not consumed in Japan. Most […]
Methane Contamination of Drinking Water Accompanying Gas-Well Drilling and Hydraulic Fracturing
June 29th, 2011Via: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Directional drilling and hydraulic-fracturing technologies are dramatically increasing natural-gas extraction. In aquifers overlying the Marcellus and Utica shale formations of northeastern Pennsylvania and upstate New York, we document systematic evidence for methane contamination of drinking water associated with shale-gas extraction. In active gas-extraction areas (one or more […]
FOIA’d Documents Raise New Questions About Airport Body Scanner Radiation Risks
June 27th, 2011Cancer clusters… Via: Electronic Privacy Information Center: In a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, EPIC has just obtained documents concerning the radiation risks of TSA’s airport body scanner program. The documents include agency emails, radiation studies, memoranda of agreement concerning radiation testing programs, and results of some radiation tests. One document set […]
Fukushima Residents’ Urine Now Radioactive
June 27th, 2011Via: Japan Times: More than 3 millisieverts of radiation has been measured in the urine of 15 Fukushima residents of the village of Iitate and the town of Kawamata, confirming internal radiation exposure, it was learned Sunday. Both are about 30 to 40 km from the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, which has been releasing […]
Taiwan: Companies Manufacturing Food Products Containing Toxic Diethylhexyl Phthalate
June 23rd, 2011Profits. Via: Herald Sun: CHINA and South Korea have both banned imports of certain food and drinks from Taiwan in a fast-expanding regional scare over contamination with a chemical usually used in plastics. The Philippines and Hong Kong have also limited imports or sales of foodstuffs from the export-dependent island after the alarm was raised […]
Infant Mortality Rates and Vaccine Doses Tend to Increase Together
June 22nd, 2011If you are a university faculty member who would like to comment on this piece, email me your comment from your university email account. I will publish your comment here. Know that your comment will appear in full, along with your name. Via: Human & Experimental Toxicology: These findings demonstrate a counter-intuitive relationship: nations that […]
Krokodil: The Drug that Eats Junkies
June 22nd, 2011Via: Independent: The home-made drug that Oleg and Sasha inject is known as krokodil, or “crocodile”. It is desomorphine, a synthetic opiate many times more powerful than heroin that is created from a complex chain of mixing and chemical reactions, which the addicts perform from memory several times a day. While heroin costs from £20 […]
Radioactive Tritium Has Leaked from Three-Quarters of U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Sites, Often Into Groundwater
June 21st, 2011Via: AP: Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping, an Associated Press investigation shows. The number and severity of the leaks has been escalating, even as federal regulators extend the licenses of more and more reactors across the nation. Tritium, which is a […]
N.C. Man Allegedly Robs Bank of $1 to Get Health Care in Jail
June 21st, 2011Via: ABC News: A 59-year-old man has been jailed in Gastonia, N.C., on charges of larceny after allegedly robbing an RBC Bank for $1 so he could get health care in prison. Richard James Verone handed a female teller a note demanding the money and claiming that he had a gun, according to the police […]
