Check out NPR’s disturbing explanation, in the report “After Deadly Chemical Plant Disasters, There’s Little Action,” for why so many Americans are still at risk of being injured by chemical plant disasters.
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How the goverment got you to eat more cheese - from Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss (by rhpubgroup)
![The 2013 French study “Western diet induces dysbiosis with increased E coli in CEABAC10 mice, alters host barrier function favouring AIEC colonisation” found a link between high fat/high sugar Western diets and microbial harm linked to Crohn’s disease:
CONCLUSIONS:
Western diet induces changes in gut microbiota composition, alters host homeostasis and promotes AIEC gut colonisation in genetically susceptible mice. These results support the multifactorial aetiology of CD [Crohn’s disease] and highlight the importance of diet in CD pathogenesis.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/59d2e487ec828861a03d5a670cd9bb85/tumblr_mn4dbge2hX1ruiwvgo1_500.jpg)
The 2013 French study “Western diet induces dysbiosis with increased E coli in CEABAC10 mice, alters host barrier function favouring AIEC colonisation” found a link between high fat/high sugar Western diets and microbial harm linked to Crohn’s disease:
CONCLUSIONS:Western diet induces changes in gut microbiota composition, alters host homeostasis and promotes AIEC gut colonisation in genetically susceptible mice. These results support the multifactorial aetiology of CD [Crohn’s disease] and highlight the importance of diet in CD pathogenesis.
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Conclusions: ECAT [elemental carbon attributed to traffic] exposure during infancy was associated with higher hyperactivity scores in children; this association was limited to children whose mothers had more than a high school education.
Navigating the Supermarket Aisles With Michael Pollan and Michael Moss (by TheNewYorkTimes)
![“Conservation [is] the application of common sense to common problems for the common good.” - Gifford Pinchot
(Source: 1909 speech at the Conservation Congress in Seattle)
The above image has a creative commons license for easy sharing (noncommercial, attribution required, no derivative works).](http://24.media.tumblr.com/6bba84386ede64e2dc6c914d7b8eef34/tumblr_mmwmpeBDlU1ruiwvgo1_500.jpg)
“Conservation [is] the application of common sense to common problems for the common good.” - Gifford Pinchot
(Source: 1909 speech at the Conservation Congress in Seattle)
The above image has a creative commons license for easy sharing (noncommercial, attribution required, no derivative works).
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As of today, Environmental Illness Network Minnesota has over 2000 followers on Pinterest (which, in case you were wondering, is more than combined are following the two Environmental Illness Network Tumblrs—the general environmental health one and the Minnesota focused one). Although numbers are nice, individuals are more important. And it has been lovely connecting—on whatever the platform—with individuals who, for an interestingly wide variety of reasons (including some heartbreaking ones), care about environmental health issues. The followers who are popular bloggers, representing health organizations, representing news organizations, or representing non-profits are appreciated as well. For whatever reason you want to connect, share information, and/or learn, thanks for being part of the journey.
"Residents of Manhattan will not just sweat harder from rising temperatures in the future, says a new study; many may die. Researchers say deaths linked to warming climate may rise some 20 percent by the 2020s, and, in some worst-case scenarios, 90 percent or more by the 2080s. Higher winter temperatures may partially offset heat-related deaths by cutting cold-related mortality — but even so, annual net temperature-related deaths might go up a third."
