Questions tagged [environmental-health]
Use this tag for questions regarding physical, chemical and biological factors that may affect human health.
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Did the Covid vaccines lower fertility rates via causing infertility?
In this Slay News article, linked to by popular right-wing aggregator Off The Press:
According to independent journalist JD Rucker, the establishment media and their allies are ignoring the obvious. “...
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Can mold cause GERD (acid reflux)?
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) is more commonly known as acid reflux.
According to Metabolic Healing is can be triggered by mold spores:
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Does staying indoors protect you from wildfire smoke?
I’m in New York right now and I’m seeing a lot of news / government warnings to stay indoors due to the wildfire smoke.
For example: Stay indoors, mask up: Staying safe as ‘hazardous' smoke levels ...
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Are organic vegetables higher in carcinogens?
My common senses would have told me that organic vegetables are healthier and less harmful compared to vegetables treated with pesticides. A recent post on Quora made me think otherwise.
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Am I drinking myself sick from the plastic in tea bags?
You’d probably be surprised to learn that most tea bags contain up to 25% plastic.
... says Green Child magazine, and thus
A cup of tea contains ... plastic ... at 16 micrograms per cup... plastic ...
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Are fume events a frequent health hazard to airplane passengers?
Are friend told me about oil fumes contamination he experienced during a flight. This seems to be no isolated case. This list shows several incidents of similar type over years.
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Does Vitamin D created by sun exposure get washed off in the shower?
A recent article by Dr Mercola on a health advocacy web site makes a number of claims about Vitamin D production in your skin. The most surprising to me is the claim that you can wash off a ...
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Do electric cars create more fine dust pollution than comparable petrol cars?
According to this Flanders Today (a local Belgian newspaper) article (dead link, archive on archive.org).
a new small car on petrol in the city creates less fine dust than an electric car of average ...
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Can pressurized air directed on the skin cause an embolism?
At my workplace we are warned against using compressed air to blow dust of working clothes etc, except when a special nozzle is affixed to the to the hose, reducing the pressure of the released air.
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Is it healthy to sunbathe without sunscreen?
An article in The Telegraph starts with:
Researchers followed 30,000 women for 20 years and found that those who avoided the sunshine were twice as likely to die
Women who never sunbathe during the ...
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Are people physically sensitive to light from LEDs over other sources?
The Irish Independent details the claims of a woman saying she is sensitive to LED light, and that it causes her nausea.
The article explains that neurologists, opticians and ophthalmologists found ...
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Are laundry detergent and fabric softener fumes dangerous to human health?
One of my neighbors raised the topic of toxins in the dryer effluence from our buildings' laundry rooms. That's not particularly surprising, but she claimed there was evidence that the trace toxins ...
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Do we unknowingly eat 5 grams of plastic per week?
I just saw a DW (Deutsche Welle the German public state own international broadcaster) short documentary on You-Tube named "How to avoid micro plastic in your food" and is about how much ...
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Does a 400ppm ambient CO2 increase result in a 21% decline in cognitive function "across all domains"?
Apparently VOCs and CO2 in a conventional building will make you half or around 3/4 as smart/performing as you are.
On average, cognitive scores were 61% higher on the Green building day and 101% ...
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Do beeswax candles "purify" the air?
It's a common claim on sites promoting beeswax candles over paraffin or soy candles that they "purify" the air and reduce allergies and asthma (Cleanup Expert,Ebeehoney, Pathways Arts, ...
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Does grass alone produce enough oxygen for life?
Over a work happy hour tonight, two employees were talking about their different lifestyles -- one likes riding four wheelers, which the other considers to be recreational pollution. Somehow the fact ...
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Does 5G pose health risks?
Among others, the website RadiationHealthRisks claims:
Second, according to experts, because of the shorter length of
millimeter waves (MMV) required by 5G to support the bandwidth, these
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Does dry air promote the spreading of respiratory viruses better than wet air, ceteris paribus?
A DW article states that
Air humidity also influences the transmissibility of respiratory viruses. Once the pathogens have been expelled from the respiratory tract with a strong sneeze, they ...
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Do air-conditioning systems help to spread SARS-CoV-2?
Newshub in New Zealand reported on March 9, 2020:
Scientists in Singapore may have found a clue as to how so many people aboard cruise ship the Diamond Princess ended up getting infected with COVID-...
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Do long sessions of computer use damage the user's skin?
I believe that regularly spending long periods of time facing computers monitors while using them significantly damages the skin.
The Daily Mail reported in 2018:
According to [Rebecca Mason, skin ...
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Do more people drown in deserts than die of thirst?
I had first heard about the claim that more people drown in deserts than die of thirst in school maybe 30 years ago. The explanation is that sudden rains can create dangerous flooding in normally dry ...
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Is wireless charging harmful?
My phone has a wireless charging coil, and it got me thinking about how much EM radiation a charger would actually produce. I'm sure some tinfoil people are up in arms about it, and a quick Google ...
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Do some people take several weeks to adjust to the spring DST clock change?
In this proposal on the European Parliament website about Daylight Savings Time (DST), it is claimed that (emphasis mine):
Some studies indicate that summer-time arrangements could ...
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Did wheat nutrition change in the 1960s, causing health problems?
Mark's Daily Apple gives an example of a claim that I have encountered: that modern wheat bears little resemblance to wheat prior to the 1960s, and that this new wheat is the cause for the rise in ...
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Is arthritis a symptom of boron-deficiency in the diet?
As shared on Facebook: Wake Up World: Arthritis Cure Found in Nature?
This article claims that boron kills amoebae that cause rheumatoid arthritis. It also claims that areas of the world that have ...
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Is it illegal to sell used mattresses?
I'm possibly selling a used mattress (plead the 5th) and to my surprise was told that it's illegal! I've never heard this before. It seems that many others are asking this question and have heard it ...
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Are US sunscreens less effective due to FDA regulations?
A recent answer to the question Best sun protection for swimming on a sister site makes the claim "The US market version is hamstrung in order to pass FDA regulations" and expands with the ...
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Is food becoming less nutritious because of depletion of soil minerals and nutrients?
Over and over, I have heard and read claims that the soil growing much of the planet's crops is "depleted" and thus our foods do not have sufficient minerals, vitamins, and other nutrients.
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Does a dairy-free diet reduce autistic behaviour?
PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) suggest the existence of a link between milk consumption and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (see here on the PETA website).
More research is needed, ...
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Does forest therapy (Shinrin-yoku) improve the immune system?
According to shinrin-yoku.org, forests help to improve the immune system, including the part that fights cancer:
But in the past several decades there have been many scientific studies that are ...
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Are there major negative health effects from living next to a coal power plant? [closed]
EnergyJustice writes:
Health Impacts & Coal Plants: There’s no shortage of data to show that individuals living near a coal plant are at higher risk for health problems than those who do not live ...
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Is the European NO₂ limit of 40 µg/m³ for outside air backed by strong evidence?
According to the Umwelt Bundesamt, the average annual limit for the NO₂ concentration is set to 40 µg/m³ with the intention to protect people with asthma, small children and older people, especially ...
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Does commercially-produced cotton cloth contain unhealthy chemicals that cause fertility problems?
The article Czy Twoje ubrania Cię trują? "Wchłaniamy chemię przez skórę. Stąd np. problemy z płodnością" (Do your clothes poison you? "We absorb chemicals through the skin, hence, for example, ...
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Do glyphosate-based herbicides cause autism?
I just read this article on a 'health news' site:
http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/mit-researcher-glyphosate-herbicide-will-cause-half-of-all-children-to-have-autism-by-2025/#sthash.C8EWLSzN.gbpl
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Does too much deuterium clog up our mitochondria?
I recently came across a strange idea that appears to be popular in the biohacking and alternative health community. The essence of it is that many of the ills of modern life are cased by a buildup to ...
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Are earth-grounding mats (designed for connecting humans to earth-ground) effective and safe?
The website Earthing [Warning: auto-playing video] sells earthing mats. The site states:
Throughout history, humans walked barefoot and slept on the ground. But modern lifestyle [(shoes, beds, and ...
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Does grounding (earthing) reduce inflammation? [duplicate]
This seems to be an article in a peer-reviewed journal:
The effects of grounding (earthing) on inflammation, the immune response, wound healing, and prevention and treatment of chronic inflammatory ...
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Does CS tear gas permanently damage children?
In the final assault ending the 1993 siege of a compound in Waco, Texas , in which 76 people were killed, the FBI fired 40mm M651 CS and Ferret CS rounds into buildings containing adults and children ...
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Do UV air purifiers reduce the risk of being infected by the common cold or the flu?
I've seen several manufacturers make the claim that UV-C air purifiers can prevent the common cold and flu - primarily due to the destruction of viruses. (The ones that only purify air by filtering ...
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Do fireworks kills birds, dogs and other animals?
Diwali is a Hindu festival of lights, celebrated with fireworks.
My closest friend on Facebook shared this picture on my wall:
Happy Diwali
Thousands of birds, dogs & other animals die out of ...
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Does sensitatization require less allergens than elicitation?
In Evidence that Food Proteins in Vaccines Cause the Development of Food
Allergies and Its Implications for Vaccine Policy Vinu Arumugham claims:
It has been demonstrated that a smaller ...
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Is it true that other cultures don't see having two windows opened as a health risk? [closed]
I live in Romania and since I was a kid, I heard people talking about something we call, here in Romania, current—basically, the air flow which is being formed if at least two exterior windows are ...
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Asbestos in Chinese manufactured goods
I saw a mini-documentary today from a German show in English called In Focus, it was an expose on asbestos contained in Chinese produced thermoses.
The documentary and as an example this website ...
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Does raising your arm in the air help when you are coughing/choking on something?
When I was younger I once choked on some food and started coughing heavily, my Dad then told me to raise my arm in the air in order to "help raise the diaphragm". It actually helped with the coughing ...
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Is the EPA's regulation of particulate matter justified with evidence?
The US Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has restrictions on "Particulate Matter".
A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed piece article claims it is based on a
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Does each car in inner London cost society £8,000 in health and environmental cost over its lifetime?
The topic of air quality is getting a load of attention in newspaper headlines in the days leading up to Clean Air Day (21st June, apparently).
For example, The Independent reports a recent study on ...
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Does drinking cattle urine have health benefits?
Recently, a provincial government in India has decided to promote cattle urine as a health drink:
Cow urine to be promoted as health drink in Uttar Pradesh
BJP government in UP prepares proposal ...
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Does using BlueTooth devices cause leakage of the blood-brain barrier?
In 2012, the EMFacts Consultancy blog quoted Cindy Sage as saying:
People should realize that Bluetooth devices that fit in or around the ear typically radiate at 0.23 watts per kilogram (W/Kg). [...]...
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Do police officers and firefighters have a shorter than average life expectancy?
I have run across several references that mention that police officers and firefighters have a much shorter life expectancy than average. Is this claim true? Are there any reputable studies that have ...
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