Archive for March, 2006
Our Preferred Poison
Discover.com: A little mercury is all that humans need to do away with themselves quietly, slowly, and surely By Karen Wright Let’s start with a straightforward fact: Mercury is unimaginably toxic and dangerous. A single drop on a human hand can be irreversibly fatal. A single drop in a large lake can make all the [...]
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Read the numbers on your fruit – megnut.com Another little tidbit gleaned from April’s Food & Wine: those sticker numbers on your fruit actually mean something. Here in the US, fruit often comes with stickers on it, sometimes telling you where it’s from and/or what it is. There’s also a number, but I never paid [...]
Full StoryEarly Antibiotics May Raise Asthma Risk
Studies Suggest Risk Is Double for Treated Babies By Salynn Boyles WebMD Medical News March 13, 2006 — Babies treated with even one course of antibiotics during their first year of life may have twice the risk of developing asthma later in childhood as unexposed babies, an analysis of past research shows. The findings bolster [...]
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