What Doctors Don't Tell YouIf you live within 3 km of any one of a number of European landfill sites, you’re more likely to produce a child with chromosomal abnormalities.
Teflon®, DuPont’s trademarked heat-resistant coating, is now everywhere. On any given morning, you may well encounter it while curling your hair, ironing your clothes, wearing your clothes, cooking your breakfast or sitting on your sofa. All the...
Chlorine is regularly used in our public water supply to combat infectious waterborne diseases, but it may be doing more harm than good. A public notice issued in Washington, DC, warned that a high level of bacteria
Q After root canal work, the dentist cleaned it out with hydrogen peroxide, then sodium hypochlorite and saline. But is sodium hypochlorite safe? I asked him not to use it on me again. - BJ, India
Endoscopy is the direct visualisation of the digestive tract using an endoscope, a flexible tube with a camera mounted on it that is small enough to pass into cavities in the body such as the stomach, colon, lungs and oesophagus.
Nearly all toothpastes sold in the US and UK contain fluoride - typically 1000-1500 parts per million. Commonly used mouth rinses contain 230-900 ppm.
In the Chinese study of 907 children from four areas in Guizhou Province, the degree of exposure to fluoride was clearly linked to IQ test scores:
Re breast cancer and deodorant use, we are encouraged by the increasing awareness of chemicals in personal-care products and the need for a precautionary approach to their use, given the growing links
Increasingly, substances in our everyday environment are being linked with higher rates of cancer. To protect yourself, avoid: Indoor air pollution, which can be more contaminated with volatile gases such as formaldehyde, benzene as well as toxic...
Cancer is the second biggest killer of children, largely because they are even more susceptible than adults to the growing number of poisons in our lives.
