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Bees and our brain: What do they have in common?

Bees have been capturing the nation’s attention, and rightfully so. They are one of the biggest pollinators and therefore are essential to the food we eat, the gardens we grown and maintaining the biodiversity of our ecosystems. They may sting, but they’re kind of a big deal. (Photo Credit: Panayiotis Filppou, Flickr) The 2009 documentary, […]

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Eight Going on Eighteen: Our Daughter and Early Puberty

A few years ago, I noticed that my beautiful, vivacious seven-year-old daughter had breasts. Wasn’t this a little young? She was into Harry Potter, rainbow sherbet and puppies — not bras and pads.

Filed Under: Health Science Tagged With: bisphenol A, chemicals, dioxin, early puberty, endocrine, endocrine disruptor, hormone, Lautenberg, obesity, PBDE, TSCA

From childhood obesity to breast cancer: new research links chemicals to large-scale health problems

Cancer, infertility, obesity, asthma, learning disorders, early puberty, diabetes — what do all of these things have in common? For starters, they are all on the rise in the U.S. Second, they are major health trends that scientists are now linking to exposure to toxic chemicals. The latest alarming public health trend now linked to […]

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