Tag: Health
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Lawyers Devise ‘Big Food’ Takedown, Say Industry Should Pay for Soaring Obesity Costs
Lawyers have contacted state attorneys general in 16 states to pitch a radical idea: force the food industry to pay for out-of-control, obesity-related health care costs that have contributed to America’s Medicaid spending woes. [caption id="attachment_322981" align="alignnone" width="500"] “I believe that this is the most promising strategy to lighten the economic burden of obesity on…
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Study Finds Canned Drinks Expose Fetuses to Potentially Cancerous Chemical
In a new study, researchers believe what men are fed during the fetal stage may leave them more susceptible to prostate cancer, which is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men in the U.S., reports TreeHugger. [caption id="attachment_322871" align="alignnone" width="500"] Findings conclude BPA, an estrogenic compound, permanently reprograms a fetus’ stem cells potentially leading…
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Long-Overdue EPA Pesticide Regulations Fail to Fully Protect Farmworkers
By Ronnie Greene Ushering in what it called “milestone” changes to better protect the nation’s farmworkers from pesticides, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lask week proposed a slate of updates to its agricultural Worker Protection Standard. The enhanced protections come 22 years after the EPA last revised the rules intended to safeguard the nation’s 2 million…
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Harvard Professor: Fluoride Toxic to Children, Linked to Autism
Practically overnight, fluoride joined the likes of lead, arsenic, methylmercury, toluene and other chemicals known to damage brain tissue, reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). In the March 2014 journal Lancet Neurology, the highly prevalent chemical was reclassified as a developmental neurotoxin by medical authorities. The authors, Dr. Philippe Grandjean of the Harvard School of Public Health and Dr. Philip Landrigan of the Icahn…
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Warning Labels Coming to a Soda Can Near You? California Lawmaker Says ‘Yes’
A state lawmaker and medical experts introduced legislation last week that would require sugary drinks sold in California to display health warning labels similar to those found on cigarette packs, reports the Los Angeles Times. State Sen. Bill Monning (D-Carmel) and the California Medical Association said the bill is necessary in light of research that…