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Featured: Cancer is a preventable lifestyle disease

Cancer is a preventable lifestyle disease yet every year cancer claims tens of billions of human lives with drug treatment costing hundreds of billions. Despite enormous investment in cancer treatment most cancer therapies are highly toxic, ineffective and unaffordable to greater than 80% of the world population (1). More attention needs to be paid to lifestyle.

Posted on Thu, 7 Mar 19

Climate change: a call to action

Climate change is a tremendous threat to human health, with alarming projections for the near future. A recent review in the New England Journal of Medicine serves as a stark warning and call to action for health professionals.

Posted on Tue, 13 Mar 18

Toxic cosmetics linked to breast cancer

Personal care products such as cosmetics, lotions, and fragrances might increase risk of breast cancer, with frequent users of beauty and skin products at highest risk.

Posted on Wed, 26 Oct 16

Fast food linked to toxin exposure

Recently eating fast food is linked to higher body levels of environmental toxins. It is suspected it may be due to chemicals from PVC tubing, vinyl gloves, and food packaging leaching toxins into food. Yum.

Posted on Mon, 11 Aug 14

Toxic diet linked to low birth weight babies

By defining a toxic-diet score a research group have been able to uncover a potential link between diet during pregnancy, exposure of the foetus to toxins, and reduced birth weight in newborns.

Posted on Sun, 10 Nov 13

Air pollution a leading cause of cancer deaths

It has been recently concluded that air pollution is a leading cause of cancer related deaths by the U.N.'s International Agency for Research on Cancer.

Posted on Mon, 7 Nov 11

Bisphenol A increases emotional problems in 3 year old girls

Everyone in the industrialised world is exposed to bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used in many common consumer products including food and beverage containers. Prenatal exposure to BPA may increase behavioural and emotional problems in young girls.

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