Cancer Prevention
24 Ways to Clean with Baking Soda
If you are looking to change from cleaning chemicals to a safer, more eco-friendly alternative to clean your house, then you aren’t going to find another substance that is as ...
Meet Perfluorooctanoic Acid
Aka “PFOA,” “The Magician” Biography He’s a renegade magician, with a show-stopping “now you see it, now you don’t” trick. Although not present in non-stick pans themselves, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) ...
How Chemicals Affect Us
Scientists are observing with increasing alarm that some very common hormone-mimicking chemicals can have grotesque effects. A widely used herbicide acts as a female hormone and feminizes male animals in ...
Skin Cancer Prevention & Protection
Millions of Americans may not be aware of the threat of skin cancer, including, for example, young women who frequently visit indoor tanning salons and older men who regularly hit ...
Higher Risk Women Benefit from Earlier Breast Screening
Women with dense breasts or a first-degree relative with breast cancer are twice as likely as average-risk women to develop breast cancer in their 40s[1] and these women would benefit ...
More Than Skin Deep: Here Comes Summer
Staying sun-safe and watching your skin closely for any changes are important factors in maintaining healthy skin. Limit Sun Exposure Sun exposure contributes to both melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer, ...
Simple precautions can help reduce the risk of melanoma
The specialist: Dr. Ellen Marmur on melanoma. As the vice chairman of the department of skin cancer and cosmetic surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital, Dr. Ellen Marmur is a dermatologist ...
In a lather over antibacterial soap
Should you be washing your hands or bathing your children with antibacterial soap? The University of Texas student government and Canadian leaders say no. Many environmentalists and scientists agree. The ...
Fran on Anderson – How to Make Healthier Choices
From the April 16, 2012 episode of ANDERSON, Fran tells Anderson Cooper that people can reduce cancer-causing toxins in their home by making better choices of personal care items, cleaning ...
Are Pesticides Making You Sick and Fat?
An apple a day might have kept the doctor away prior to the industrialization of food growing and preparation. Unless it’s a pesticide-free apple, not only is today’s apple not ...
If the food’s in plastic, what’s in the food?
In a study published last year in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers put five San Francisco families on a three-day diet of food that hadn’t been in contact with ...
Give Up Pesticides (Try IPM Instead)
At home and in the garden, integrated pest management provides an effective, alternative strategy to the use of toxic pesticides. Insects have plagued farmers and gardeners since the dawn of ...