Tag: toxins and reproductive health

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Chemicals’ use sacrifices our health and well-being

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This month is the 50th anniversary of the publication of “Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson’s landmark book calling attention to the harmful effects of chemical pesticides, specifically DDT. She charged that pesticides caused food contamination, cancer, genetic defects and the elimination of entire species.

In a CBS documentary, Carson said, “Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” Read full article.

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Want a Side of Infertility With Those Eggs?

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We all do it. The minute after we decide to move out to a home of our own, we’re tapping away at a registry imagining creating the perfect meal in the perfect kitchen outfitted with the perfect pots and pans.

For most of us — myself included — that means a 10-piece set that includes everything from a giant roasting pan to a teeny-tiny frying pan that goes from the box to the cupboard and never sees the light of day after that.

Typically, these inexpensive cooking sets are coated with a nonstick surface like Teflon. And we love them because we can make an egg and it’ll slide right off the pan onto the plate.

 But there’s something else that comes with those eggs: infertility.  Read full article.