Measuring Pollution In Humans 423
CHaN_316 writes "Scientists have begun measuring pollutants in our body and the results sound like a chemical clean-up site. They've found things such as flame retardants, chemicals derived from DDTs, mercury, uranium, cotinine, and many more. The concern is a lot of this stuff is ending up in mother's milk. But hey, at least in the event of spontaneous combustion, I'll be partially protected."
Prevention? Antidote? (Score:3, Interesting)
I inquired with my county about testing my water.. (Score:2, Interesting)
$5,000 a test?! (Score:2, Interesting)
What kind of scam is that for blood and possibly urine workups?
Healthy future ... (Score:5, Interesting)
I do not know about the U.S., but things are different in Germany.
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Overweight & Diabetes in Germany Due to overweight, obesity and inactive lifestyles, the number of people with diabetes is set to double from five million to 10 million in Germany in the next 10 years, doctors warned at a meeting of the German Society for Internal Medicine in Wiesbaden this week. Most worrying is the number of young people who are developing type 2 diabetes because of obesity. Unlike type 1 diabetes - an autoimmune disease that usually develops in children or young adults - type 2 diabetes is linked to obesity and lifestyle, and has traditionally been seen in mainly middle-aged and older adults.
[UNQUOTE] ( c.f. here [weight-loss-i.com] )
CC.
Flame retardant example (Score:3, Interesting)
Avoiding pesticides (Score:2, Interesting)
After that, wash well just with water (and leave them for a while in water before that if you wan't) to remove all the soap. Soap can also harm your health.
Re:Prevention? Antidote? (Score:5, Interesting)
When you're expected to live to 75 and you're worried about the quality of the stuff that allows you to live that long, perhaps the problem is that you *ARE* living that long.
washing up liquid (Score:2, Interesting)
http://www.nielsenchemicals.com/datashts/dshy_w
11. TOXICOLOGICAL INFORMATION:
MEDICAL SYMPTOMS:
EYES AND MUCOUS MEMBRANES. Irritation of eyes and mucous membranes. DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. Gastrointestinal symptoms, including upset stomach. MOUTH AND THROAT. Irritation of mouth and throat.
4. FIRST AID MEASURES:
INHALATION:
Not relevant.
INGESTION:
Rinse mouth thoroughly. DO NOT INDUCE VOMITING! Get medical attention.
SKIN:
Wash off with water.
EYES:
Promptly wash eyes with plenty of water while lifting the eye lids. Continue to rinse for at least 15 minutes. Get medical attention if any discomfort continues.
Besides, have you ever been given a mug of tea by someone who assumed that they need not rinse the mug of any detergent? It's undrinkable! Yuk!
Stay safe: Keep window lickers out of the kitchen!
Chlorine on the water (Score:2, Interesting)
To avoid chlorine on your drinking (and cooking) water, use a chlorine filter like this [ecowise.com]
you can overdose on water (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Healthy future ... (Score:5, Interesting)
It is not suprising that cancer rates increase as the population lives longer, as if you don't die from other things, eventually a chance mutation, virus provided oncogene, and/or telomere shortening will begin carcinogenesis.
If you look at countries with very low life expectancy, cancer rates are very low as well.
Body burden hard to measure (Score:2, Interesting)
Also, due to health and genes, different people can tolerate vastly different amounts of a toxic substance before showing symptoms or being disadvantaged.
Remember that the risks of cigarette smoking and factors contributing to heart disease have been researched for decades and are still not fully understood. To just as accurately assess the risks of all of these chemicals, or even just the chemicals that should be assessed is a massive undertaking that our society is not willing to take on. Pronouncements of levels of safety and risk are just guesses.
The bottom line is, we are all guinea pigs. Some of us will get sick and die early from some pollutants, and the rest of us won't notice.
Re:Healthy future ... (Score:5, Interesting)
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LifeExpectancy.htm
Seems to me that at least the above method has a built-in correction. That they are actually measuring is the number of people (% of population) who die within age catagory x. If x is ages 30-40, then it has decreased in the past 100 years. If x is 70-80, then it has increased in the past 100 years.
The conclusion is that more people are reaching the 70-80 age group, and therefore people pn average are living longer.
At least that's my understanding...
=Smidge=
Re:Utterly pointless article (Score:1, Interesting)
In his defense, it should be anectotally obvious to nearly everybody that you are much more likely to die of a fatal car crash than pesticide poisoning from supermarket veggies. There are few among us who have not witnessed a highway collision scene, yet almost nobody dies as a direct result of bug spray on their apples.
Re:I inquired with my county about testing my wate (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:as a chemist... (Score:3, Interesting)
For example; I know people who refuse to fly, for fear of airplane crashes, but are willing to drive hours every day. Many people, in a similar vein, stopped flying after September 11, even though the probability of being a casualty of terrorism is still extremely low (lower than many other activities they would willingly engage in).
The point is not passing the buck (though I think maybe ou meant to say something else here, since he wasn't trying to say anyone else was responsible for the pollution instead of polluters), but rather that we are perhaps overly concerned about unknown risk, though it is likely smaller than many known risks we willingly accept.
Re:Prevention? Antidote? (Score:4, Interesting)
This substance (H2O) has an even more obscure name in the IUPAC chemical naming system: "ozane" (H-saturated oxygen). It is so rarely used you can't even find it in Google.
"Trihydrogen mononitride" (NH3) has its own IUPAC name too: "azane".
Purification Program (Score:2, Interesting)
The Purification program which consists of a regime of heavy vitamins, niacin and long sauna sweatouts can actually purge the body of toxins. Anyone who has ever been poisoned (heavy drug users), exposed to radiation or has lived in a toxic environment (LA) could greatly benefit.
I did it five years ago and the results were amazing. Incredibly, my eyesight improved.
read more here [purification.org].
And this is the book, Clear Body, Clear Mind [amazon.com].
Re:Healthy future ... (Score:3, Interesting)
Perhaps you meant an abundance of easily-accessible complex carbohydrates and refined sugars that allow our children to get a sugar high from every meal of the day.
Blood-sugar level spiking -> accumulative insulin resistance -> ineffective pancreas -> type-2 diabetes.
Please see how insulin [wikipedia.org] works
Regards,