Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women. (Men too.) You don’t even want to know your chances of dying from it, at least not before we tell you about this advice from a Dallas cardiologist about how you can switch to healthier foods to thwart heart disease and greatly reduce your risk of heart attacks.
Tags: · almonds, avocado, blueberries, cardiologist, cocoa, dark chocolate, epicatechins, flavonoids, heart disease, heart health, kale, leading killer, organic, pesticides, Salmon, Shyla High, Why Most Women Die, women and heart attacks
The European Union votes to give honey bees a reprieve from a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, long suspected of triggering massive bee deaths that threaten agriculture worldwide. The pesticides are still be allowed in the United States.
Tags: · bee deaths, CCD, EPA, European Union, Food/Drink, honey bees, neonicotinoids, pesticides, pollinators, USDA
Apples, strawberries, grapes and celery. All of these are healthy foods, but unfortunately they arrive at the grocery with the highest pesticide residues and top the latest “Dirty Dozen” list released by the Environmental Working Group. The other Dirty Dozen foods include some of the most delectable fruits and vegetables. You’ll just have to buy the organic versions if you want to avoid the trace pesticides that ride along.
Tags: · cancer, Dirty Dozen, Environmental Working Group, fruits, neurotoxins, pesticides, Produce, Shopper's Guide, Toxics, Trees/Plants/Yard
Beekeepers and environmental groups sued the EPA this week for allowing pesticides that are causing an epidemic of bee deaths. The suit asks the agency to suspend the permits for certain pesticides, which have been shown to poison bees, which in turn threatens a wide array of crops dependent on bee pollination.
Tags: · Bees, clothianidin, Colony Collapse Disorder, EPA, pesticide dangers, pesticides, pollinators, thiamethoxam
A national report on the state of breast cancer treatment and prevention has concluded that too little attention is being paid to the environmental triggers that lead to breast cancer, whose incidence continues to rise. Among those factors are BPA, pesticides and alcohol consumption.
Tags: · BPA, breast cancer, Diet, environmental toxics, health, pesticides
European researchers studying the effects of seven common agricultural pesticides on frogs report that exposing the amphibians directly to the chemicals resulted in rates of mortality from 40 to 100 percent.
Tags: · Agriculture, amphibian decline, frogs, pesticides, poison
Autism now affects one in 88 kids, soaring in the last few decades, seemingly out of nowhere, to become a major health issue.
Research shows that genetics plays a role in autism, but many scientists believe that environmental factors are as important in triggering the disorder.
Tags: · autism environmental causes, BPA, brominated flame retardants, chemical triggers of autism, Flame retardants, Mount Sinai Children's Hospital, PAHs, PCBs, pesticides, PFOAs, studies of autism
Ah, spring. You can smell it on the air — that bracing ammonia smell wafting off your neighbor’s lawn; the acrid odors at the local home store, where the first six aisles have been packed with heaping bags of the season’s poisons.
Hydramethylnon, glyphosate, dicambra, atrazine and 2,4-D.
There’s a little something to wipe out every potential lawn and garden interloper, but the most popular consumer weapons in the annual war on nature are the “weed and feeds.” These fertilizers-herbicide combos were conceived of more than 50 years ago in the US to enrich turf grass, while simultaneously stamping out invading weeds.
Tags: · 2, 4-D, atrazine, cancer and lawn chemicals, dangers of pesticides, dogs and weed and feed, Endocrine Disruptors, EPA, Farmers, frogs and atrazine, health effects of atrazine and 2, herbicides, Hodgkin's lymphoma, kids and weed and feed, lawn chemicals, Lawns, lymphoma, Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, pesticides, weed and feed
Just in time for weed-and-feed season, the Natural Resources Defense Council has filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to stop the use of the weed killed known as 2,4-D.
This neurotoxic chemical, infamous as a key ingredient in Agent Orange, is still allowed in products used to treat lawns, golf courses and in commercial operations.
Tags: · 2, 4-D, cancer, EPA, herbicides, lawsuit over 2, lymphoma, NRDC, pesticides, Toxic chemicals
After studying how pollutants travel in the wake of the flooding in New Orleans that followed after Hurricane Katrina, Texas Tech University toxicologists are warning people to stay out of floodwaters stemming from recent heavy Northeastern rains.
Tags: · black mold, degreasers, floodwaters, greenrightnow.com, hurricane katrina, pesticides, Texas Tech, Toxic chemicals
John Dromgoole, owner of “The Natural Gardener” in Austin, has been advising folks on how to go natural and organic in the garden for a couple decades.
Not only does organic gardening save the wider environment, it’s critical to keeping our home turf, our kids, our pets and ourselves healthier. Watch the first part of our conversation with Dromgoole in which he talks about the dangers of pesticides, the growing popularity of organic gardening and the wisdom of letting nature work in harmony in our gardens. We visited with Dromgoole in his garden and store, a vast spread of demonstration plots bursting with butterfly food, culinary herbs, produce, native plants, succulents and whimsical garden decor.
Tags: · Austin's Natural Gardener, butterfly gardens, garden chemicals, greenrightnow.com, growing herbs, growing produce, Native Plants, Organic gardening, pesticides, reasons to go organic, The Natural Gardener
Apples are the most chemically contaminated produce, according to the non-profit Environmental Working Group. To avoid pesticides associated with these fruits and vegetables, look for organic choices when possible.
Tags: · apples, chemically contaminated produce, greenrightnow.com, pesticides
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