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DDT is possibly the most ubiquitous global toxin exposure in history. Virtually every human blood sample will contain detectable levels of this now widely banned pesticide. The Lance Armstrong Foundation has funded a study that has found an important link between DDT exposure and increased risk to testicular cancer. Prenatal DDT Exposure and Testicular Cancer: [...]
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Will you recommend it? Whilst it has reasonably high levels of sugar and fat, chocolate contains factors that may outweigh the negatives, at least at moderate levels of intake. Chocolate Intake and Incidence of Heart Failure: A Population-Based, Prospective Study of Middle-Aged and Elderly Women. Mostofsky E, Levitan EB, Wolk A, Mittleman MA. Circ Heart Fail. 2010 [...]
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Exposure to cigarette smoke, even at the lowest levels of detection, still causes genetic damage. The same damage occurs in a heavy smoker as occurs in a nonsmoker exposed to occasional secondhand smoke. Threshold of Biologic Responses of the Small Airway Epithelium to Low Levels of Tobacco Smoke Strulovici-Barel Y, Omberg L, O’Mahony M, Gordon C, [...]
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Prenatal exposure to the most common home and agricultural chemical, organophosphate pesticides, causes a 500% increased risk to ADHD. Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure and Attention in Young Mexican-American Children. Amy R. Marks, Kim Harley, Asa Bradman, Katherine Kogut, Dana Boyd Barr, Caroline Johnson, Norma Calderon, Brenda Eskenazi Published online 19 Aug 2010 | doi:10.1289/ehp.1002056
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Breast cancer survival is strongly determined by an iron transport protein called ferroportin. Low ferroportin leads to higher intracellular iron and higher tumour growth and aggressiveness. Ferroportin and iron regulation in breast cancer progression and prognosis. Pinnix ZK, Miller LD, Wang W, D’Agostino R Jr, Kute T, Willingham MC, Hatcher H, Tesfay L, Sui G, [...]
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This morning I watched a TED talk. I had been recommended it and was reluctant to watch it as it was about online gaming. My nephews spent many hours playing online games when they were younger and of course I was the one to roll my eyes and tell them that there were more important [...]
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