2011-09-14

liveonearth: (owls)
2011-09-14 08:50 am

QotD: Nature

Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature.
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself...

--Rachel Carson, 1963
liveonearth: (Default)
2011-09-14 09:10 am

Body Burdens of Toxins

Body Burden studies
Table of contents: http://www.ewg.org/sites/bodyburden1/toc.php

Body Burden 1 looked at how many chems are present in adults with various diseases.
http://www.ewg.org/sites/bodyburden1/es.php

Body Burden 2 looked at infants by sampling cord blood.
http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/execsumm.php

Test yourself:
http://www.ewg.org/sites/bodyburden1/usertest/index.php