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Your Choice Of Fruits Could Be Raising Pesticide Levels In Your Blood, Warns Study
A new study published by the Environmental Working Group highlights that your food choices may be increasing the pesticide levels in your blood. Here is how this is happening and why you need to implement practical tips to be safe.
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Organic vs Non-Organic Foods: Which Is Better For Your Health?
Are organic foods truly healthier or is it just clever marketing? Let's break it down in a simple way.
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Infant Mortality Rate and Decline of Bat Population Might Have a Strange Correlation, Study Claims
In 2006, a fungal disease called white-nose syndrome began decimating bat populations across New England. Over the following decade, the loss of these bats, essential for controlling insect populations, led to significant consequences for agriculture and human health, according to a new study. With fewer bats around to consume insects, farmers reso...
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Chemicals Found In Consumer Products Could Increase Breast Cancer Risk: Study
According to the findings of a new study, several common chemicals, including pesticides, ingredients in consumer products, food additives, and drinking water contaminants, could increase the risk of breast cancer.
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Eating Organic Food May Lower Cancer Risk: 3 Other Health Benefits Of Going Organic
A study, conducted by the Centre of Research in Epidemiology and Statistics in Paris, looked concluded that the incidences of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and breast cancer were lower in adults who gave up conventional food and opted for organic food.
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Pesticide Use Can Cause Diabetes: Scientists Sound Warning
A team of scientists have found links between use of pesticides and the high prevalence of diabetes in India. They have suggested that view of the high occurrence of diabetes in India, the use of OP (organophosphate) pesticides should be reconsidered.
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Miami Residents Fret Over Pesticide Used To Fight Zika
People at the epicentre of America's first homegrown outbreak of the Zika virus are worried that one of the weapons being used to fight it amounts to a cannon rather than a fly swatter.
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Parkinson's Disease has Shot Up in US Over 30 Years: Study
The incidence of different types of Parkinsonism, including the most common type, Parkinson's disease, has increased significantly in the US in 30 years from 1976 to 2005.
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Check What You Eat: Pesticide Exposure Could Put You At Diabetes Risk
An analysis of 21 studies has warned that exposure to pesticides can increase risk of developing diabetes by 61 percent.
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Your Choice Of Fruits Could Be Raising Pesticide Levels In Your Blood, Warns Study
A new study published by the Environmental Working Group highlights that your food choices may be increasing the pesticide levels in your blood. Here is how this is happening and why you need to implement practical tips to be safe.
-
Organic vs Non-Organic Foods: Which Is Better For Your Health?
Are organic foods truly healthier or is it just clever marketing? Let's break it down in a simple way.
-
Infant Mortality Rate and Decline of Bat Population Might Have a Strange Correlation, Study Claims
In 2006, a fungal disease called white-nose syndrome began decimating bat populations across New England. Over the following decade, the loss of these bats, essential for controlling insect populations, led to significant consequences for agriculture and human health, according to a new study. With fewer bats around to consume insects, farmers reso...
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Chemicals Found In Consumer Products Could Increase Breast Cancer Risk: Study
According to the findings of a new study, several common chemicals, including pesticides, ingredients in consumer products, food additives, and drinking water contaminants, could increase the risk of breast cancer.
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Eating Organic Food May Lower Cancer Risk: 3 Other Health Benefits Of Going Organic
A study, conducted by the Centre of Research in Epidemiology and Statistics in Paris, looked concluded that the incidences of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and breast cancer were lower in adults who gave up conventional food and opted for organic food.
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Pesticide Use Can Cause Diabetes: Scientists Sound Warning
A team of scientists have found links between use of pesticides and the high prevalence of diabetes in India. They have suggested that view of the high occurrence of diabetes in India, the use of OP (organophosphate) pesticides should be reconsidered.
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Miami Residents Fret Over Pesticide Used To Fight Zika
People at the epicentre of America's first homegrown outbreak of the Zika virus are worried that one of the weapons being used to fight it amounts to a cannon rather than a fly swatter.
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Parkinson's Disease has Shot Up in US Over 30 Years: Study
The incidence of different types of Parkinsonism, including the most common type, Parkinson's disease, has increased significantly in the US in 30 years from 1976 to 2005.
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Check What You Eat: Pesticide Exposure Could Put You At Diabetes Risk
An analysis of 21 studies has warned that exposure to pesticides can increase risk of developing diabetes by 61 percent.
