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If you use lead bullets or buckshot when hunting wild game or birds, then some of the lead will get into you when you eat the meat. Even after the bullet or buckshot is removed, tiny lead fragments remain that can not be easily seen. A recent study found this is also true with wild ...continue reading "After Using Lead Ammunition, Lead Fragments Remain In the Hunted Meat"

Another study with concerning results for children and pregnant women has been published. This time researchers found a commonly used fungicide in a majority of children and all pregnant women studied. Some children had chronic exposure. A small study, but still... The fungicide is azoxystrobin, and is commonly used on crops (e.g., cereals, grapevines, potatoes, ...continue reading "Commonly Used Fungicide Detected In Pregnant Women and Children"

We all get exposed to pesticides to varying degrees - whether from our water, foods we eat, inhaling them, or absorbing them through our skin (e.g., walking or playing on pesticide treated lawns). Unfortunately, studies show our exposure to the pesticide glyphosate (found in Roundup) is increasing each year. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control ...continue reading "CDC Finds The Pesticide Glyphosate In Most Children"

Tiny particles of plastic, called microplastics, have now been detected in human blood. Yikes! We all know that plastic pollution is a serious problem in the environment, but recent research has been finding it in our food, in the air, in water, in rain, our organs (including our lungs and brain), human placentas, and now ...continue reading "Microplastics Are Found In Human Blood"

The results of a recently published large study are depressing, but not surprising. The pesticide 2,4-D, which was originally used in Agent Orange, is still around decades later and found everywhere you look - including in us. In the past decade there has been a tremendous increase in the amount of both agricultural and residential ...continue reading "Commonly Used Pesticide Is Found In Many People"

The incredibly high use of pesticides in this country, especially when routinely applied to crops, lawns, and residence interiors, is worrisome. Over 1 billion pounds used in the US annually! Not only are there all sorts of environmental effects, including contamination of water, air, soil, but pesticides also have health effects on humans and wildlife. ...continue reading "Pesticides and Lou Gehrig’s Disease"

Something to ponder: Are tiny plastic particles (microplastics) that enter the human body traveling to the brain and causing harm? An article by the science writer Erica Cirino examines that question by looking at existing research and comes to the disturbing conclusion of: Yes, they are. Yes, that plastic particles are inhaled or ingested (in ...continue reading "Microplastics Are Entering Our Bodies"

Another recent study found an association with pesticide exposure (both herbicides and insecticides) and leukemia risk in infants and children. The study found that exposure prenatally or during childhood to pesticides increases the risk for leukemia. (Keep in mind that cancer in childhood is rare, but it does occur.) Researchers at the School of Medicine ...continue reading "Pesticide Exposure and Increased Leukemia Risk In Children"

Once again it is summer – the weather is hot, flowers are blooming, and pesticide application signs appear on lawns throughout the United States. Americans love their lawns, and there seems to be a national obsession for one that looks like a lush weed-free carpet. Lawns can be thought of as the largest crop in ...continue reading "Are Lawn and Garden Pesticides Harming Us?"

The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has failed the people of the United States with regard to pesticides and pesticide exposures, but absolutely given in to the wishes of the pesticide industry. This has resulted in pesticides being used in the US that are banned in other countries, and in Americans being exposed to unsafe pesticide ...continue reading "The Pesticide Industry’s Influence Over EPA Decisions"