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Hygiene Hypothesis Says Mess Is Best

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer adult, allergic, allergy, antibiotics, asthma, births, breast, breastfeeding, caesarean, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, feeding, Graham Rook, hygiene, hygiene hypothesis, immune, immunilogical, immunologist, immunology, Lifestyle changes, reaction, systems

According to the “Hygiene Hypothesis,” less exposure to bacteria & viruses during childhood could explain the rise in allergic diseases in recent decades.

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Contaminants in Baby Food: Is Nothing Sacred Anymore?

E The Environmental Magazine antibiotics, baby, Bisphenol A, BPA, clean label project, CLP, flavors, food, food coloring, food labelling, genetic engineering, GMO, heavy metals, label, labelling, Magnified, pesticides

A new analysis by the non-profit Clean Label Project (CLP) finds only 19 percent of different baby food products tested were free of potentially harmful contaminants according to standards established by the group’s Medical Advisory Board.

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Unnatural Selection

E The Environmental Magazine antibiotics, book, Darwin, Darwinism, drugs, Emily Monosson, evolution, natural selection, pesticides, pollution

Gonorrhea. Bed bugs. Weeds. Salamanders. People. All are evolving, some surprisingly rapidly, in response to our chemical age. In Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, Emily Monosson shows how our drugs, pesticides, and pollution are exerting intense selection pressure on all manner of species. And we humans […]

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Revenge of the Bacteria: Antibiotic Resistance Threatening More Than Just Livestock

Roddy Scheer AFO, animal feeding operation, anti, anti-biotic, anti-biotics, antibiotic-resistant, antibiotics, bacteria, biotic, Center for Veterinary Medicine, Environmental Working Group

Our overuse of antibiotics in health care & agriculture/ranching is leading to a biological arms race with bacteria evolving faster than we can make drugs to combat them.