Category Archives for Health Hazards

A new free app called ‘Buycott’ allows you to use your Android or iPhone to analyze products and determine if you’re supporting Monsanto’s GMOs, Big Food companies who are damaging your health, or simply low quality products. Have you ever wished you could own a parrot that sat on your shoulder and said, “squak! don’t [...]

No one can ever say Coca-Cola doesn’t have chutzpah. A few days ago The Chicago Tribune’s Julie Deardorff published a critical article on Coca-Cola’s funding of playgrounds suggesting doing so was effectively marketing to kids (something Coca-Cola has pledged not to do). Her story led Kevin Morris, Coca-Cola’s vice president of Public Affairs and Communications, [...]

Not everyone who sees porn will become addicted to it. Some will just come away with toxic ideas about women, sex, marriage and children. That kind of damage is bad enough. And porn isn’t the only ingredient in addiction. Usually, those who become addicted have some kind of emotional opening that allows the addiction to [...]

Good Morning America’s Investigation and Interview with Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis OSHA has found that some hair smoothing products may contain formaldehyde, may release formaldehyde at levels above OSHA’s permissible limits during use, and may be mislabeled, all of which can pose health risks to salon workers. Salons and other employers, such as beauty [...]

Image Source Hair styling products can result in hair loss, as well as breathing difficulties and skin irritation, due to high concentrations of formaldehyde. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has said it has found hair treatment products on the market which contain dangerous levels of formaldehyde. Peter Kell, the deputy chairman of the [...]

Drinking one or more cans of sugary soft drinks a day is linked to an increased risk of diabetes in later life, a study suggests. A can a day raises the relative risk of diabetes by about a fifth, compared with one can a month or under, say European scientists. The report in the journal [...]

The Vast Emotional and Financial Costs of America’s Killer Epidemic When we hear about someone with a heart problem, HIV, cancer or diabetes we conclude they are ill. If we encounter people whose throats close when they eat peanuts or require epinephrine shots if they mistakenly eat shellfish, we understand there are aspects of their [...]

The horse meat fiasco in Europe  prodded scientists to look a bit deeper into what else we might be consuming. A team of South African scientists have just found traces of human tissue in meat meant for public consumption from 9 provinces, according to Economic Crisis. The issue was revealed to the South African parliament, [...]

Amazon.co.uk Widgets   After our vacation, I really needed to kick start my diet back. Ever since Easter the scale has been a-creepin’ up and I had hit and surpassed that number that told me to start reigning it in. The website has this really good video on it too. It really is Jillian Michaels [...]

It’s been a confusing couple of weeks for lovers of red wine and longevity. On March 8, Science published a paper demonstrating the mechanism by which certain molecules activate a family of proteins called sirtuins, which are thought to be responsible for some of the benefits of caloric restriction. (Those would include improved metabolism, resistance [...]