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Fashion Trends That Carry Health Risks
As summer ends and women prepare to change their wardrobe for the coming season, they should be aware of fashion trends and beauty trends that may be hazardous to their health. “Women can pay a high price for fashion when it comes to their health,”...
Falling Age of Puberty in Girls Presents Health Risk.
The shift towards early puberty in girls is a public-health problem. Early puberty opens the window of exposure to estrogen in girls and increases the risk of breast cancer, which strikes one in eight U.S. women.
Video Game Playing Linked to Health Risks
While video gaming is generally perceived as a pastime for children and young adults, research shows that the average age of players in the United States is 35. Investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emory University...
Money Comes First, Health Second.
Desperate to find gold and a way out of poverty, Esther Nyarambi and her fellow illegal miners are not bothered by the potential health risks posed by mercury. According to UNEP, small-scale gold mining and panning is the second highest source of mercury...
Money Comes First, Health Second.
Desperate to find gold and a way out of poverty, Esther Nyarambi and her fellow illegal miners are not bothered by the potential health risks posed by mercury. According to UNEP, small-scale gold mining and panning is the second highest source of mercury...
Money Comes First, Health Second.
Desperate to find gold and a way out of poverty, Esther Nyarambi and her fellow illegal miners are not bothered by the potential health risks posed by mercury. According to UNEP, small-scale gold mining and panning is the second highest source of mercury...
Tackling Reproductive Health Risks.
Maybe you have read about "endocrine disruptors" and filed it away as an "environmental issue." Endocrine disruptors are chemicals found in common consumer products, such as pesticides, fertilizers and cleaning chemicals. They pose...
Ballet Dancers, Female Athletes Share Quadruple Health Risk
A study led by sports medicine researcher Anne Hoch, D.O., at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee has revealed that young female professional dancers face the same health risks as young female athletes when they don’t eat enough to offset...
Prenatal Nutrition Causes Permanent Genetic Changes in Offspring
FASEBJ.org - The new science of epigenetics explains how genes can be modified by the environment, and a prime result of epigenetic inquiry has just been published online in The FASEB Journal: You are what your mother did not eat during pregnancy. The...