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  • Dangerous Side Effects of Everyday Benzene - Did you know that the toxic effects of benzene exposure can show up as late as 29 years after the first exposure? Clearly, the health risks of occupational or other benzene exposure are grave. Benzene, classified as a "Class A" carcinogen by the Environmental Protective Agency (EPA), is an extremely harmful chemical that is responsible for diseases such as Hodgkin's disease, various respiratory and skin disorders, and even leukemia. Though benzene has a strong odor, it is clear and colorless. While benzene is used in everyday products such as solvents, dyes and paints - those who work in the oil and petroleum industry are at the greatest risk for benzene exposure as benzene is used in refineries.
  • Crisis On The Health Front A Tale Of Benzene And Cyanide - Look at how two different firms and their products were affected by health scares affecting the image and sales of their products. In one case customers were scared away, and frightened of a product. In another case customers and potential customers came to be reassured by the image of a company, and its concern for their health and safety. That product became the standard of pain and headache relief. Contrast two examples.
  • Complicated Laundry Detergent Labels - Should one need a PhD in chemistry to comprehend the ingredients listed on the side of his laundry detergent? Unfortunately, this seems to be the case with many traditional laundry detergents. Chemicals and other ingredients are written so that many consumers will not or cannot take the time to fully understand what is being used to clean their dirty clothes. This could be a major factor in how we influence the future of our world, and our family. Benzene is found in many everyday laundry detergents. It may also be listed as benzol, benzole, annulene, benzeen, phenyl hydride, or coal naphtha. Benzene is a mixture of coal and petroleum. Because it is potentially harmful to humans, the International Agency for Research on Cancer has labelled benzene a 'carcinogen'.
  • The Fallacy Of So Called Trace Benzene Cases - Consumer products in the United States have not had significant levels of benzene for decades, yet Plaintiffs’ counsel have filed thousands of cases, often called trace benzene suits, asserting that various consumer products such as degreasers, carburetor cleaners, mineral spirits, and paints have caused their clients to contract Leukemia, aplastic anemia or other blood related diseases. Since benzene has not been a known and intended ingredient of these products for many years, the claimants assert that other solvents that have been substituted for benzene, such as Toluene, Xylene, Hexane, Stoddards Solvent and VM&P Naphtha contain benzene and cause users to be exposed to benzene.
  • VOCs & Indoor Air Quality - VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) are a major concern for indoor air pollution. The EPA estimates levels of some common pollutants to be 2-5 times higher inside homes than out. If you've ever shopped for an air purifier, you've probably heard of these chemicals. But do you know what they are? This article is going to tell you a little bit about VOCs: what they are, where they come from, and how to get rid of them. What is a VOC, anyway?
  • Intuition - Your Invisible Guardian Angel - A famous police officer was once asked how he was able to crack several murder cases that appeared almost impossible to solve with the limited evidence available. To everyone's surprise he replied that he himself does not know how as he often relies on his hunches and intuition for cases that cannot be solved through straightforward methods and plain logic. Throughout history, and in every country, many police officers have solved countless unsolvable criminal cases using intuition, and none of them can explain how.
  • If You Don’t Have These Items In Your Home, Then You Are Cheating Yourself Of Some Health Benefits! - Indoor plants have been used as design elements in our homes and they definitely bring life and beauty to our environment. But bringing Mother Nature into our homes does more than just give us the aesthetics we crave; it can give us health benefits as well. We live in a world of better insulated buildings and if you cannot open a window everyday, such as in an office building, then having lots of plants is a must. Here is why! It is known that plants give off oxygen during day light hours (and gives off a smaller amount of Carbon Dioxide at night), but a lesser known fact is that ordinary household plants absorb toxins from the air such as mold, formaldehyde and benzene.
  • A Look At Kidney Cleansing - Several diseases are the significance of the accumulation of venomous supplies in the body. Unnecessary accumulation of misuse supplies shows the inferior fitness of excretory organs. Toxic substances like chief, benzene cadmium and abundant other pollutants in the body are clean by the kidneys. Apart from the, some other key functions, the fluid tally in your body is also maintained by them. The ability of the kidneys to subtract trash supplies is very often impaired by kidney sand. In such a state, kidney refining is very basic. Kidney refining is a practice used to flush out toxins and wastes in kidney tissues. It is also an important procedure in dissolving the decidedly risky kidney shingle.
  • Clean the Air in Your Home...Top 10 House Plants - The air indoors is 30% more contaminated than that of the outside, possibly more in the winter months when the windows and doors are opened less often. You may think that the air inside your home, school, and work is not a non issue. These contaminates are a big factor in creating allergies and asthma. If you have allergies or asthma the air inside your house may be causing your symptoms or at the very least worsening them. The top air pollutants indoors are formaldehyde, benzene and Trichloroethylene or TCE.

  • Organizational Excellence - We teach by what we do. What isn't so obvious is how many bad lessons we teach by what we allow. Every one of our actions sends a message to the people around us about our values, our standards, what we'll tolerate, and what we consider unacceptable.
  • Ways to Pass Your Kidney Stones - Several diseases are the eventualities of the accumulation of lethal equipment in the body. Unnecessary accumulation of misuse supplies shows the deprived fitness of excretory organs. Toxic substances like advantage, benzene cadmium and copious other pollutants in the body are clean by the kidneys. Apart from the, some other key functions, the fluid tally in your body is also maintained by them.
  • Hot Fuels For Fast Cars - Men have been experimenting with weird fuel concoctions since man tamed fire. Even from the beginnings of fire it was obvious that the hotter fuel would give the best results. This more than translates the right fuel would mean top speeds for racing cars. After all the best burning fuel would give the faster camshafts to win the race. Eve with the technologically advanced fuels we still do not know what the upper limits of performance potential might be with the most potent fuels. The conventional automotive piston engine was designed to run on straight gasoline fuels. The major problems in this case was to get sufficient fuel octane ratings to prevent excessive detonation , or knock , to prevent excessive detonation, Detonation of course is a sudden , uncontrolled explosion of the last part of the gas-oil mixture.
  • How Media And The Food Industry Affect Your Health, By Actress And Radio Host Rhio - This interview is an excerpt from Kevin Gianni's Raw Summit which can be found at http://rawsummitarchives.com . In this excerpt, Rhio educates us regarding mainstream media, the food industry and how it affects your health.
  • Zeolites - How Do They Affect Cancer? - If you look around the internet, you will find many references to Activated Liquid Zeolite and its use with Cancer. This article discusses some of the information, and attempts to take a rational viewpoint of the material with regard to what Zeolite actually does in the human body. Recently, while in Las Vegas, I was told that preliminary research has been done taking Zeolite with a chemotherapy drug, Cyclophosphamine.
  • Environmentally Friendly Laundry - The list of chemicals that make up many laundry detergents is scary! The whole world is concerned with greening our environment, and now they are turning their eyes to alternative cleaning products. A great place to start is the laundry. The world of complex ingredients lists and vague labels leave consumers unable to identify potential harmful products, and laundry detergents are no exception. Specifically, there are certain toxins present in laundry detergents that take particular aim at the environment. Linear alkyl sodium sulfonates (LAS) are more commonly listed as 'anionic surfactants' on detergent labels.
  • Brita Water Purifier-how Does The Brita Compare To Its Competitors? - A Brita water purifier is a very popular water purifier model today. However, just because a machine is popular doesn’t necessarily make it the best buy for you.
  • smoking-facts-and-figures - Smoking Facts and Figures A random list of statements, facts and figures relating to smoking. Hopefully this list will give you the final push to be committed to giving up smoking. When you have read it, visit abouthowtoquitsmoking for further information, help and advice. If you smoke more than 25 cigarettes a day are 25 times more likely to die from cancer and almost twice as likely to die from heart disease. Each cigarette on average takes 11 minutes off your life. Fifty diseases are caused by smoking causes. Twenty of them are fatal. Seven out of ten smokers say that they want to give up. Nicotine stimulates the central nervous system, which Increases the heart rate and blood pressure. If you carry on smoking you have a one in two chance of dying from it.
  • Finding The Right Drinking Water Filter For Your Home - A drinking water filter system is designed for filtering our water, making it palatable to drink. The right drinking water filter system can keep you and your family safe from bacteria, chlorine and other harmful things in the water. When you find out what is lurking in your water, you may not want to drink it. But, your body is 70% fluid and you lose those bodily fluids every day. The best way to replace them is by drinking water. An in-home drinking water filter system can turn your tap water back into something that you enjoy drinking. On the other hand, many people do not realize what they are drinking, and thus continue to use tap water.
  • Wood-Burning Fireplaces & Air Pollution - Wood-burning fireplaces are becoming more popular. There's something romantic and relaxing about sitting near a fireplace, hearing the crackle of the wood, and gazing at the flickering flames. And with soaring fossil fuel prices, many people believe that it's less expensive to burn wood for heat during the winter. But research shows that central heating is typically the most efficient and cheapest way to heat. Many people also think that burning wood is better for the environment since wood is a renewable resource;
  • The Main Cause of Cancer - Cancer is the disease of the cells. It is an abnormal Growth of cells, which tend to reproduce in an uncontrolled way and, in some cases, spread or metastasize. A cancerous growth or tumor is also known as a malignant growth or tumor. A growth or tumor, which is non-malignant is called benign.
  • Why Should You Quit Smoking? - The dangers smoking tobacco could bring to one's physical and mental (nicotine addiction and dependence) health could somehow bring a smoker to his senses. It really is true what the ads say, that smoking is indeed dangerous for your health. It is a very well known fact that smoking is a very destructive and fatal habit to indulge in. It can even be regarded as a medical crisis. Assuming that you aren't aware of these bad effects at all, this article could help you with the much needed information to give up that habit.
  • The Hazards of Secondhand Smoke - Secondhand smoke poses serious harm even to non-smokers. Secondhand or passive smoking refers to the involuntary smoking or inhalation of tobacco smoke. Smoke from this process usually contains a mixture of smoke given off by a tobacco product coupled with the smoke exhaled from the lungs of smokers.
  • Deadly Connection Between Cigarette Smoking and Back Pain - Cigarette smoking has been strongly linked to a number of serious health conditions like heart disease, emphysema, lung cancer, and other cardiovascular ailments. This habit is responsible for nearly 440,000 of more than 2.4 million premature deaths in the United States and is one of the leading causes of death around the world. The effects of cigarette smoking has been well documented in terms of cardiovascular and circulatory health is concerned. However recent medical studies have uncovered a link between smoking and back pain. Various researches suggest that smoking may heighten the risk of developing back pain by about 30 percent.
  • An Interesting Theory on Aging - An Interesting Theory on Aging The caloric-oxidative stress theory of aging. Numerous studies have shown that rats fed on a low calorie diet lived longer and were more youthful than rats that received average or high calorie diets. As a result of these studies, scientists have proposed a theory that low caloric intake could slow down aging, after observing that caloric-restricted rats live almost 60 percent longer than expected. Another theory closely related to the caloric theory, is the theory of oxidative stress. Cells use calories from food and oxygen to generate the energy that keeps the body running. It is through this process, that free radicals are produced - molecules that are highly reactive and will attack the replication structures inside the cells.
  • Smoking and Heart Disease Development - Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death and disability around the world. Surprisingly, the number of people who smoke is still very high perhaps due to the little factual information they have about the dangers of tobacco use. Cigarette-smoking is one of the major causes of heart disease and the number of deaths associated with smoking has been consistently on the rise. In the United States alone, cigarettes are responsible for majority of the deaths from heart disease.
  • Fact: Smoking Is Taking Minutes Off Your Life - When you see a TV commercial for a brand of cigarette, you would see successful, professional men and gorgeous women enjoying their life to the hilt. They're good-looking, hip and glamorous. Or at least, that's what the advertisers would like to project smokers on screen. But the truth of the matter remains. Cigarette smoking is absolutely damaging to the human body. There is nothing hip and glamorous with deep facial wrinkles. Smoking accelerates the normal aging process of your skin. These skin changes may be irreversible and may occur even after only ten years of smoking. Cigarette smoking causes the narrowing of blood vessels in the outermost layers of your skin.
  • The Many Benefits Of Infrared Saunas - If you've always wanted a sauna but were intimidated by the high electrical bills and intense temperatures generated by traditional saunas, you should investigate infrared saunas. They use a new technology with substantial advantages and they are increasingly popular. The idea of a sauna, of course, is relaxation and rejuvenation. Traditional saunas do that by generating steam and high temperatures between 180 and 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Infrared saunas generate heat like the soothing heat of the sun, only without harmful ultraviolet rays.
  • Why not smoke? - The second issue in kicking the habit is: “keep thinking positive”. If you really are determined to give up, keep reading! Both cigar and cigarettes smokers expose themselves knowingly to the adverse effects of nicotine. The body has an immune system that is overridden so that toxic fumes can be inhaled, which is necessary to deliver nicotine into the bloodstream and ultimately to the brain. Although highly addictive, nicotine is less harmful than other substances contained in tobacco products. Those are toxic chemicals that harm our bodies and threaten our health, such as Ethanol, Aluminum, DDT, Ammonia, Arsenic, Formaldehyde, Benzene, Hydrogen cyanide and Carbon monoxide. In fact, the smoke from a single cigarette contains a mix of over 4000 chemicals.
  • Effective treatment of nicotine dependency - We are all very much aware that prolonged smoking increases the chances of suffering from a smoking related disease. There is very little doubt about smoking being the cause of unnecessary deaths. 5.5 million people per year die of smoking related diseases. Millions of people wish to give up but are trapped in the smoking habit as they are addicted to nicotine, which is usually inhaled through smoking tobacco products. The nicotine is harmless (in small doses, at least) but other substances such as Acetone, Cyanide, Aluminum, DDT/Dieldrin, Ammonia, Ethanol, Arsenic, Formaldehyde, Benzene, Hydrogen cyanide, Butane, Lead, Cadmium, Methanol, Carbon mono & dioxide, Tar, Chloroform and Vinyl chloride also enter the body via tobacco smoke inhalation.
  • Hello From Nova Scotia: A Halifax City Tour (part Ii) Titanic - On the night of April 14, 1912, the Titanic, a brand-new and supposedly “unsinkable” ship, was on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City. The ship, the largest and most luxurious ocean liner of the day, was carrying about 2200 passengers and crew when the ship collided about 11:30 pm with an iceberg. The Titanic carried enough lifeboats for just about half the number of people which surprisingly was in compliance with legislation in force at that time.

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