The Worth of Environmental Stewardship
I 1st learned of a possible health risk associated with driving hybrid automobiles in the April 27, 2008 issue of The New York Times. Environmental author Jim Motavalli points out, "There's a legitimate scientific reason for raising the issue ('are hybrids healthy for drivers'?). The flow of electrical current to the motor that moves a hybrid vehicle...produces magnetic fields, that some studies have associated with serious health matters, including a potential risk of leukemia among children." The future effects of driving a hybrid vehicle have nonetheless to be realized, but one should think about causal damage to the generative region of all hybrid drivers and front seat passengers, especially those individuals of reproductive age and people with a genetic predisposition to diseases related to close contact to magnetic fields.
Whereas health risks posed by sturdy electromagnetic fields (E.M.F.s) may not be as clearly defined as those dangers resulting from ionizing radiation exposure, it's nonetheless grounds for public health concern as evidenced by the reported increase in brain tumors affecting people who constantly speak on cell phones that are nearly glued to their ear. Individuals living in the immediate space of overhead power lines face similar risks of bound diseases that are less demonstrable in the general population. Even in our own homes it becomes necessary to keep up a safe distance from the new television technologies to cut back the concentration of high dose E.M.F. emissions.
Applied Kinesiology (AK) practitioners are discovering important muscle weakening when people stand below or close to the new energy sensible spiral light bulbs which contain the toxic part mercury. It could well be that hot, odorless mercury vapors are elicited when the electricity is turned on, and nonetheless no such muscle weakening occurs under the incandescent lightweight bulb. An unmistakable irony exists in using this energy saving lightweight bulb in that if one ought to shatter, extreme caution must be exercised in the recovery and disposal of any flowing mercury. Like hybrid vehicles, the long term edges and health risks of our new found reliance on energy saving light bulbs would possibly someday be measured in potential consequences to future generations.
Ever since its beginnings the environmental movement has rightly publicized the necessity to conserve energy during periods of outdoor temperature extremes. Televised commercials by utility firms and non-public business interests demonstrate systems and techniques that hermetically seal us in our homes for this purpose and this is, from any health perspective, contradictory to our need for clean, well-circulating air. Rational conservation in the home and workplace truly promotes improved health.
The toxin Bisphenol A (BPA), which lines most metal cans and nearly each plastic meant for food and beverage consumption, is now an integral part of our nutrition. This can be due to its direct leaching impact onto its contents. The matter is therefore widespread that in any given population 95% of the individuals examined test positive for the presence of BPA in urine samples. It'd be inconceivable to suggest that this finding has no physiologic effect on this population, however that's precisely what its makers and Washington lobbyists would have us believe, and so far they've done a masterful job of keeping BPA in our food supply. This can be a case of Americans Poisoning Americans LEGALLY. However, we will be proactive in reducing BPA from our nutrition by not buying any food or beverage that either comes in a metal will or whose "resin identification code," the amount among the triangle on plastic products, is 3 (3), 5 (five), six (vi) or seven (7). Only the numbers one (one), two (a pair of) and four (four) are safe from BPA contamination. Most foods and beverages sold in unsafe metal cans or plastics can sometimes be purchased in glass jars, and jars are not only BPA free, but are safe to recycle. Fortunately, store shelves in several groceries reflect an increasing variety of food product in glass jars.
Health is the value of environmental stewardship. When, in our zeal to enhance the condition of the planet we tend to serve, we have a tendency to create unhealthy living things for ourselves, we tend to want to reassess those priorities and raise if we have a tendency to've gone beyond a point of no return. Only a healthy folks will sustain a healthy planet. It becomes necessary to ask ourselves if the electromagnetic fields we produce are too harmful and if the new merchandise we have a tendency to devise will be additional harmful than beneficial when the unexpected occurs. The terribly plan of hermetically sealing ourselves indoors to conserve energy and for comfort from outside temperatures is not solely irrational and contrary to smart health practices, but painfully reminds us that our adulterated food supply, created by modern technology, is quite inferior to the nutrition of previous centuries. And finally, the ethical query should be raised, "Is it environmentally sound to recycle metal cans and plastics that can again be used to contaminate our food and beverage offer?" I've answered that query for myself within the article "1, 2, and four and Here's to Your Smart Health Without BPA - 'Bisphenol A'" and now that decision is yours.
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Barbara Black has been writing articles online for nearly 2 years now. Not only does this author specialize in Environmental Issues, you can also check out latest website about
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