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Cosmetics Could be Killing You!

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:24:41 GMT

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Cosmetics could be killing you

THE average woman absorbs two kilograms of chemicals from cosmetics a year - from cancer-causing compounds in face cream to arsenic in eyeshadow.

A typical woman's daily beauty regime may involve applying as many as 175 chemical compounds to their skin and hair.

Cosmetics contain many different kinds of chemicals, but of particular concern are a group of preservatives called parabens, which by some estimates are found in 99 per cent of all 'leave on' cosmetics, and 77per cent of 'rinse off' cosmetics.

These are known hormone disruptors: evidence suggests they can mimic the female hormone oestrogen, and a lifetime of increased exposure to oestrogen is linked to a heightened risk of breast cancer.

Chemical romance ... the average woman unwittingly eats five lipsticks a year, and that's just a small part of the cosmetic chemicals they absorb.

Tags: cosmetics, health, women's health, chemical

Special Nutrients & Anti-Oxidants

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:55:06 GMT

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Clip Source: anrvitamins.com

Special Nutrients

Activated Charcoal
Alpha Lipoic Acid
Bee Pollen
Bee Propolis
Beta Sitosterol
Bio-Perine
Borage Oil
Chondroitin

Conjugated Linolenic Acid
Co-Enzyme Q10
Cranberry Juice Extract
Evening Primrose Oil
Flax Seed Oil
Gamma Oryzanol
Glucosamine
Glucuronic Acid

Grapefruit Seed Extract
Grape Seed Extract
L-Carnitine
Lutein
Lycopene
MSM
Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Octacosanol

Olive Leaf Extract
Papaya Fruit
Phosphatidyl Choline
Pumpkin Seed Oil
Pine Bark Extract
Pycnogenol
Pygeum Bark
Reishi Mushroom

RNA & DNA
Royal Jelly
Shiitake Mushroom
Silimarin Extract
Soya Lecithin
Soy Isoflavones
Zeaxanthin

Anti-Oxidants

Overview
Alfalfa Grass
Alpha Lipoic Acid
Beta Carotene
Bioflavonoids
Chlorella Algae

Co-Enzyme Q10
Cruciferous Vegetables
Grape Seed Extract
Green Tea Extract
Green Barley Grass
Lutein

Lycopene
Methionine
Milk Thistle Seed
Olive Leaf Extract
PABA
Pine Bark Extract

Quercetin
Rose Hips Berry
Royal Jelly
Selenium
Spirulina Algae
Turmeric Rhizomes

Vitamin C
Vitamin E
Wheat Grass
Zeaxanthin

Tags: special nutrients, anti-oxidants, health, diet

WiserEarth-toward a just,sustainable world created by community

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:28:47 GMT

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clipper's remarks: the site looks better than could be captured
more about it:
http://www.wiserearth.org/article/About

Clip Source: www.wiserearth.org

WiserEarth . . .

serves the people who are transforming the world. It is a community directory and networking forum that maps and connects non-governmental organizations and individuals addressing the central issues of our day; climate change, poverty, the environment, peace, water, hunger, social justice, conservation, human rights and more. Content is created and edited by people like you.

Browse the Directory

106,965 Organizations
3,592 People
2,070 Resources
794 Events
173 Jobs

Expand Your Network

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Join discussion forums and share resources, events, jobs, and volunteer opportunities.

Today's Portal
Access To Education

Today's Organization
A Vehicle for Change

Tags: green, community, earth

Sunshine repairs skin and treats skin cancer.

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 15:22:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.newscientist.com

How sunshine triggers skin repair

A blast of sunshine could help fight skin diseases and cancer by attracting immune cells to the skin surface, according to a new study.

Eugene Butcher at Stanford University in California, US, and colleagues discovered an interesting immune process in human skin. Immune cells in the skin, called dendritic cells, convert vitamin D3 (produced in exposed skin in response to sunlight) into its active form.

This “active” vitamin D3 then causes T-cells to make surface changes that allow them to migrate to the uppermost layer of the skin, Butcher’s team found. T-cells are the immune cells that destroy damaged and infected cells, and they also regulate other immune cells.

The findings explain how T-cells “know” to go to the skin's surface once the skin has suffered some sun-induced DNA-damage, the researchers say.

“Sunshine is good for you, as long as it’s not too much,” says team member Hekla Sigmundsdottir. She points out that the skin disorder psoriasis is sometimes treated with vitamin D3 creams – it may work by moving T-cells into the skin, she speculates.

The finding adds to a growing body of evidence that dendritic cells, which live in tissues that are exposed to the outside environment, such as the skin and nose, run “traffic control” for the immune system, interpreting local conditions and directing T-cells to where they are needed.

Journal reference: Nature Immunology (DOI: 10.1038/ni1433)

Tags: cancer, skin, sunlight.

Love & Hormones - Hormones & love

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:28:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: For the details on how each hormone works, read the full article.

Clip Source: www.youramazingbrain.org

When do you know if you fancy someone? What does love do to your brain chemicals, and is falling in love just nature's way to keep our species alive?

We call it love. It feels like love. But the most exhilarating of all human emotions is probably nature’s beautiful way of keeping the human species alive and reproducing.

With an irresistible cocktail of chemicals, our brain entices us to fall in love. We believe we’re choosing a partner. But we may merely be the happy victims of nature’s lovely plan.

It’s not what you say...

Psychologists have shown it takes between 90 seconds and 4 minutes to decide if you fancy someone.

Research has shown this has little to do with what is said, rather

55% is through body language

38% is the tone and speed of their voice

Only 7% is through what they say

The 3 stages of love

Helen Fisher of Rutgers University in the States has proposed 3 stages of love – lust, attraction and attachment. Each stage might be driven by different hormones and chemicals.

Stage 1: Lust

This is the first stage of love and is driven by the sex hormones testosterone and oestrogen – in both men and women.

Stage 2: Attraction

Adrenaline

Dopamine

Serotonin

Does love change the way you think?

Love needs to be blind

Stage 3: Attachment

Oxytocin - The cuddle hormone

Vasopressin

And finally … how to fall in love

Find a complete stranger.
Reveal to each other intimate details about your lives for half an hour.
Then, stare deeply into each other’s eyes without talking for four minutes.

Tags: health

How Sunshine Triggers Skin Repair

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:47:57 GMT

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Clip Source: www.newscientist.com

A blast of sunshine could help fight skin diseases and cancer by attracting immune cells to the skin surface, according to a new study.

The findings explain how T-cells “know” to go to the skin's surface once the skin has suffered some sun-induced DNA-damage, the researchers say.

Journal reference: Nature Immunology (DOI: 10.1038/ni1433)

Tags: science, sun, biology, medicine, skin, body, cancer, sunshine, research, disease, vitamin, immune system, study, man, health, life

Nasty Critters on your Eyelashes

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:16:26 GMT

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Clip Source: www.worsleyschool.net

Demodex folliculorum, or the demodicid, is a tiny mite, less than 0.4 mm long, that lives in your pores and hair follicles, usually on the nose, forehead, cheek, and chin, and often in the roots of your eyelashes.

(A follicle is the pore from which a hair grows). Demodicids have a wormlike appearance, with legs that are mere stumps. People with oily skin, or those who use cosmetics heavily and don't wash thoroughly, have the heaviest infestations ... but most adults carry a few demodicids. Inflammation and infection often result when large numbers of these mites congregate in a single follicle.

The mites live head-down in a follicle, feeding on secretions and dead skin debris. At the left, you can see three demodicids buried in the follicle of a hair, and you can also see the hair's shaft. If too many mites have buried into the same follicle, it may cause the eyelash to fall out easily.
An individual female may lay up to 25 eggs in a single follicle, and as the mites grow, they become tightly packed. When mature, the mites leave the follicle, mate, and find a new follicle in which to lay their eggs. The whole cycle takes between 14 to 18 days.

Sometimes demodex is called the 'face mite', since it is often associated with blackheads, acne and other skin disorders (although it is not the cause of these). Demodex are harmless and don't transmit diseases, but large numbers of demodex mites may cause itching and skin disorders, referred to as Demodicosis.

The mites have tiny claws, and needlelike mouthparts for eating skin cells. Their bodies are layered with scales, which help them anchor themselves in the follicle. The mite's digestive system results in so little waste that the mite doesn't even have an excretory opening. So although there may be mites in your eyelashes, there isn't any mite poop! Thank goodness!

Tags: eyelashes, pests, mites, health

Do smokers deserve equal medical care?

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:05:52 GMT

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Clip Source: www.newscientist.com

Do smokers deserve equal medical care?

Does a pack a day keep the doctor away? It could if you are a smoker in need of lung surgery. In 2006, a UK primary care trust announced that it would remove smokers from its surgery waiting lists to cut costs. Now, in the most recent issue of the BMJ, two medical ethicists debate whether or not this decision is ethical.

Matthew Peters of the Concord Repatriation General Hospital in Australia felt that denying smokers surgery is justified: “Smoking up to the time of any surgery increases cardiac and pulmonary complications, impairs tissue healing, and is associated with more infections and other complications at the surgical site.”

“It is also true that smoking is rarely the only risk factor for a poor out¬come, and smoking should not be considered to the exclusion of all others. Smoking is, however, unique in that its associated risk can be reduced substantially within a short period,” he adds in his piece.

But Leonard Glantz of the Boston University School of Public Health says that denying smokers healthcare because they have a stigmatized habit is outright mean. He says that we would then have to be prepared to deny medical attention to many other people with bad habits. “Do patients have a general obligation to get healthy as a condition of receiving treatment? Patients are not required to visit fitness clubs for eight weeks, lose 25 pounds, or take drugs to lower blood pressure before surgery.”

I think that this is a great ethical debate for the medical community. But I believe it’s an even better issue for smokers to discuss. Knowing that enjoying a cigarette before the operation could suck money out of the healthcare system – and thereby worsen someone else’s treatment – could make smoking before surgery a real drag.

Roxanne Khamsi, Online Reporter

Tags: smoking, health care, health, medicine, ethics

UN: Cattle #1 Cause of GLOBAL WARMING

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:47:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Article dated November 30th, 2006. Click the link to read the whole article

For more resources, simply GOOGLE "meat + global warming"

Clip Source: www.dnaindia.com

NEW YORK: Who is contributing most to global warming? Dumb cattle and not emissions from factories and power plants, says the United Nations.

The increasing world population, a new UN report warns, would lead to further increase in the number of livestock as demand for meat and milk increases and that would mean emission of more greenhouse gases.

Not only that. Cattle are also a major contributor to land degradation and pollution of water, the report says.

"The environmental costs per unit of livestock production must be cut by one half, just to avoid the level of damage worsening beyond its present level," it warns.

When emissions from land use and land use change are included, the livestock sector accounts for 9 per cent of carbon dioxide deriving from human-related activities, but produces a much larger share of even more harmful greenhouse gases. It generates 65 per cent of human-related nitrous oxide, which has 296 times the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of carbon dioxide. Most of this comes from manure.

And it accounts for respectively 37 per cent of all human-induced methane (23 times as warming as carbon dioxide), which is largely produced by the digestive system of ruminants, and 64 per cent of ammonia, which contributes significantly to acid rain.

Stressing that cattle-rearing generates more global warming greenhouse gases as measured in carbon dioxide equivalent, the United Nations has called for improved animal diets to reduce enteric fermentation and consequent methane emissions.

With increased prosperity, people are consuming more meat and dairy products every year, the report notes. Global meat production is projected to more than double from 229 million tonnes in 1999/2001 to 465 million tonnes in 2050, while milk output is set to climb from 580 to 1043 million tonnes.

Tags: health, meat, global warming, cattle, united nations, politics, vegetarianism

What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:54:24 GMT

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Clip Source: healthbolt.net

What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?

In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.
20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get it’s hands on into fat. (There’s plenty of that at this particular moment)
40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dialate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.
45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
>60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
>60 Minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
>60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like even having the ability to hydrate your system or build strong bones and teeth.

Tags: coke, drink, sugar, effect, soda, health, caffeine, science, fact, interest, interesting, cocacola, pepsi

Your cell phone is a "roving bug"

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:57:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: According to this report, the FBI can activate a remote tracking and listening device built into every recently-made cell phone without having to modify or handle the phone physically. The only way to defeat the bug is to remove the phone's battery.

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Court Says FBI Can Use Your Cell Phone To Spy... On You

Cell phone users, beware. The FBI can listen to everything you say, even when the cell phone is turned off.

A recent court ruling in a case against the Genovese crime family revealed that the FBI has the ability from a remote location to activate a cell phone and turn its microphone into a listening device that transmits to an FBI listening post, a method known as a "roving bug." Experts say the only way to defeat it is to remove the cell phone battery.

"The FBI can access cell phones and modify them remotely without ever having to physically handle them," James Atkinson, a counterintelligence security consultant, told ABC News. "Any recently manufactured cell phone has a built-in tracking device, which can allow eavesdroppers to pinpoint someone's location to within just a few feet," he added.

According to the recent court ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, "The device functioned whether the phone was powered on or off, intercepting conversations within its range wherever it happened to be."

The court ruling denied motions by 10 defendants to suppress the conversations obtained by "roving bugs" on the phones of John Ardito, a high-ranking member of the family, and Peter Peluso, an attorney and close associate of Ardito, who later cooperated with the government. The "roving bugs" were approved by a judge after the more conventional bugs planted at specified locations were discovered by members of the crime family, who then started to conduct their business dealings in several additional locations, including more restaurants, cars, a doctor's office and public streets.

Tags: privacy, news, technology

Eating Meat Could Destroy the Planet

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:04:40 GMT

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Clip Source: www.emagazine.com

Organizations from Greenpeace to the Union of Concerned Scientists, World Bank and the Pentagon, all agree that global warming is, perhaps, the most serious threat to our imperiled planet. The Pentagon report, for example, states that climate change in the form of global warming “should be elevated beyond a scientific debate to a U.S. national security concern,” higher even than terrorism.

What many people do not know, however, is that the production of meat also significantly increases global warming. Cow farms produce millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane per year, the two major greenhouse gases that together account for more than 90 percent of U.S. greenhouse emissions, substantially contributing to “global scorching.”

Geophysicists Gidon Eshel and Pamela Martin from the University of Chicago concluded that changing one’s eating habits from the Standard American Diet (SAD) to a vegetarian diet does more to fight global warming than switching from a gas-guzzling SUV to a fuel-efficient hybrid car. Of course, you can do both — and more! It has been said that “where the environment is concerned, eating meat is like driving a huge SUV.... Eating a vegetarian diet is like driving a mid-sized car [or a reasonable sedan, according to Eshel]. And eating a vegan diet (no dairy, no eggs) is like riding a bicycle or walking. Shifting away from SUVs and SUV-style diets, to much more energy-efficient alternatives, is key to fighting the warming trend.

According to the United Nations Environment Programme’s Unit on Climate Change, “There is a strong link between human diet and methane emissions from livestock.” The 2004 State of the World is more specific regarding the link between animals raised for meat and global warming: “Belching, flatulent livestock emit 16 percent of the world’s annual production of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.”

Tags: health, meat, global warming, vegetarianism, vegetables, science, diet

Power of Cameraphones, Online Video and Observation

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:07:04 GMT

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Clip Source: ieet.org

This November, comedian Michael Richards learned about the participatory panopticon. So did the UCLA police. And early in the month, Virginia Senator George Allen learned that it can have a political bite.

Futurismic

2006-12-04

The participatory panopticon is the emerging scenario of distributed observation of the world around us, using cheap, networked tools like mobile phones and open, web-based tools like YouTube. A rapidly-growing number of us have literally at our fingertips systems of capturing and sharing what we see. Most of what we capture will be of interest only to ourselves, or to close friends and relatives; some, however, will have a far greater reach that we might suspect.

What all three of the examples I cite at the beginning of this piece have in common is that they were recordings of events that (a) the perpetrators would, in retrospect, probably wish to have done differently, if at all, and (b) would have received little notice in the era before personal networked cameras and video-sharing websites. Certainly there may have been rumors that a comedian had “gone nuts” on stage, or that UCLA cops had beaten a student, but as rumors, they’d have a limited life-span, and would soon be forgotten. Because of the participatory panopticon, however, these events will for a very long time shape how many of us think about these people.

The participatory panopticon is not going to go away any time soon. The publicity associated with the Richards and UCLA cases—and the political impact of the George Allen “macaca” incident—virtually guarantees that more citizens will have cameraphones at the ready to capture and share damning evidence of the misbehavior of officials and celebrities. So what will the participatory panopticon explosion look like?

Tags: technology, camera phones, online vide, youtube

Poor Oral Hygiene Causes Heart Disease

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:52:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: BRUSH AND FLOSS!

Clip Source: health.yahoo.com

October 14, 2006 08:42:25 PM PST
By Dennis Thompson
HealthDay Reporter

SATURDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- When people think about poor oral hygiene, problems like decaying teeth, bad gums and offensive breath typically come to mind.

But experts say an unhealthy, bacteria-filled mouth can also lead to a host of problems throughout the body, such as heart disease, diabetes, blood infection and even low birth-weight babies.

And the culprit, more often than not, is gum disease.

"When you're looking at people who have gum disease, they are suffering from a chronic low-grade infection," said Jean Connor, a dental hygienist in Cambridge, Mass., and president-elect of the American Dental Hygienists' Association. "Your whole body is a little bit compromised."

A growing body of research is finding that gum disease -- sometimes called periodontal disease -- can exacerbate a wide array of health problems. And it's not something that just affects a small segment of the population. Four of every five Americans suffer from some form of gum disease, according to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, part of the National Institutes of Health.

Gum disease is suspected of contributing to ailments through the bloodstream. Bacteria from the mouth flood into the circulatory system and travel to other parts of the body, causing widespread inflammation.

Another possibility is that oral infections trigger the immune system, producing inflammation elsewhere in the body.

"If you had an infection in your finger and you left it, it eventually would affect the rest of the body," Connor said. "It's the same with your mouth."

"Gum disease produces a tremendous amount of bacteria," Connor said. "If you have a valve problem with your heart, the bacteria can invade and infect the heart."

Tags: health, gum disease, brushing, flossing, dentist, teeth, oral hygiene, heart disease, diabetes, disease

Study: Vegetables May Keep Brain Young

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:48:07 GMT

clipped by: mykoo
clipper's remarks: EAT MORE VEGGIES

Clip Source: www.happynews.com

By Associated Press
LINDSEY TANNER

Updated: 10/24/2006

New research on vegetables and aging gives mothers another reason to say ''I told you so.'' It found that eating vegetables appears to help keep the brain young and may slow the mental decline sometimes associated with growing old.

On measures of mental sharpness, older people who ate more than two servings of vegetables daily appeared about five years younger at the end of the six-year study than those who ate few or no vegetables.

The research in almost 2,000 Chicago-area men and women doesn't prove that vegetables reduce mental decline, but it adds to mounting evidence pointing in that direction. The findings also echo previous research in women only.

Green leafy vegetables including spinach, kale and collards appeared to be the most beneficial. The researchers said that may be because they contain healthy amounts of vitamin E, an antioxidant that is believed to help fight chemicals produced by the body that can damage cells.

Vegetables generally contain more vitamin E than fruits, which were not linked with slowed mental decline in the study. Vegetables also are often eaten with healthy fats such as salad oils, which help the body absorb vitamin E and other antioxidants, said lead author Martha Clare Morris, a researcher at the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center.

The fats from healthy oils can help keep cholesterol low and arteries clear, which both contribute to brain health.

The study was published in this week's issue of the journal Neurology and funded with grants from the National Institute on Aging.

''This is a sound paper and contributes to our understanding of cognitive decline,'' said Dr. Meir Stampfer of Harvard's School of Public Health.

''The findings specific for vegetables and not fruit add further credibility that this is not simply a marker of a more healthful lifestyle,'' said Stampfer, who was not involved in the research.

Tags: health, vegetables, aging, brain, vitamin e

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Cosmetics Could be Killing You!

Cosmetics could be killing you

Special Nutrients & Anti-Oxidants

WiserEarth-toward a just,sustainable world created by community

WiserEarth . . .

Browse the Directory

Expand Your Network

Share Your Knowlege

Sunshine repairs skin and treats skin cancer.

How sunshine triggers skin repair

Love & Hormones - Hormones & love

How Sunshine Triggers Skin Repair

Nasty Critters on your Eyelashes

Do smokers deserve equal medical care?

Do smokers deserve equal medical care?

UN: Cattle #1 Cause of GLOBAL WARMING

What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?

What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now?

Your cell phone is a "roving bug"

Eating Meat Could Destroy the Planet

Power of Cameraphones, Online Video and Observation

Futurismic 2006-12-04

Poor Oral Hygiene Causes Heart Disease

Study: Vegetables May Keep Brain Young

Futurismic

2006-12-04