Download or read book Teflon and Human Health Do the Charges Stick written by and published by Am Cncl on Science, Health. This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Triumph of Doubt written by David Michaels and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-heeled American corporations have long had a financial stake in undermining scientific consensus and manufacturing uncertainty. In The Triumph of Doubt, former Obama and Clinton official David Michaels details how corrupt science becomes public policy -- and where it's happening today. Opioids. Concussions. Obesity. Climate Change. America is a country of everyday crises -- big, long-spanning problems that persist despite their toll on the country's health. And for every case of government inaction on one of these issues, there is a set of familiar, doubtful refrains: The science is unclear. The data are inconclusive. Regulation is unjustified. It's a slippery slope. Is it? The Triumph of Doubt traces the ascendance of science-for-hire in American life and government, from its origins in the tobacco industry in the 1950s to its current manifestations across government, public policy, and even professional sports. Amid fraught conversations of "alternative facts" and "truth decay," The Triumph of Doubt wields its unprecedented access to shine a light on the machinations and scope of manipulated science in American society. It is an urgent, revelatory work, one that promises to reorient conversations around science and the public good for the foreseeable future.
Download or read book Counterfeit Drugs Coming to a Pharmacy written by and published by Am Cncl on Science, Health. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Counterfeit Drugs Coming to a Pharmacy Near You 2009 written by and published by Am Cncl on Science, Health. This book was released on with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Tobacco Lawsuits Are Not a Model written by and published by Am Cncl on Science, Health. This book was released on with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foods Are Not Cigarettes Why Tobacco Lawsuits Are Not a Model for Obesity Lawsuits written by and published by Am Cncl on Science, Health. This book was released on with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Helping Smokers Quit A Role for Smokeless Tobacco written by and published by Am Cncl on Science, Health. This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Facts about Dirty Bombs written by and published by Am Cncl on Science, Health. This book was released on 2005 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whole New Me written by Angie N Choi, EdD and published by Kosmos Publications . This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dr. Angie Choi provides a detailed report on how she used non-toxic metabolic therapy for managing her ovarian cancer. She was able to translate scientific information from published clinical and preclinical studies into a logical and effective treatment strategy for managing her cancer. The scientific and spiritual stress management strategies she employed are presented in clear language and, when followed, will give hope to cancer patients for improving their quality of life and overall survival.” -Thomas N. Seyfried, PhD, Professor and Author of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management and Prevention of Cancer “Angie Choi approached her cancer diagnosis as an opportunity for healing, digging deep into the physical nature of the disease and its treatment while also honoring insights into her human nature that nourished her spiritually. Through this synergy, she repaired and rebuilt the balance she needed to thrive. Through her narrative, she shares in intimate detail the steps she took as she moved along this intensely personal path to healing. There are gems here for every reader!” -Miriam Kalamian, EdM, MS, CNS, Author of Keto for Cancer: Ketogenic Metabolic Therapy as a Targeted Nutritional Strategy Angie Choi’s cancer memoir details her experience from ovarian cancer diagnosis to being cancer free by using a metabolic approach to cancer. Dr. Choi describes how she combined standard treatment (surgery) with alternative treatment for cancer inclusive of a therapeutic ketogenic diet, anti-parasitic medication, and supplements. She relates her process working with both conventional and alternative healthcare practitioners to get the support she needed as she forged a holistic, complimentary path through cancer. Dr. Choi discusses how cancer grew from an imbalance in her body, mind, and spirit and healed from rebalancing. This book is presented in three sections: body, mind, and spirit, and is presented through the lens of Indian spirituality. Whole New Me is for cancer patients and cancer caregivers and provides an intimate account of a holistic, integrative approach to cancer. It provides support for those who seek alternative treatments to cancer or who desire to integrate complimentary approaches like a therapeutic ketogenic diet with standard treatment. For those with ovarian cancer, it provides a complete account from cancer diagnosis to remission. Whole New Me covers Dr. Choi’s personal experience in the following areas. · Metabolic approach to cancer · Keto for cancer · Cancer diets long-term · Anti-parasitic medication repurposed for treating cancer · Supplements for cancer · Opting out of chemotherapy · Working with conventional healthcare professionals when declining standard treatment · Hysterectomy · Recovering from surgery · Curing cancer naturally · Community support · Reflecting on mental and emotional aspects of cancer · Listening to intuition · Spiritual support and healing · Integrating body, mind, and spirit
Download or read book Paths to a Green World second edition written by Jennifer Clapp and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of a book that takes a comprehensive look at the ways economic processes affect global environmental outcomes. This comprehensive and accessible book fills the need for a political economy view of global environmental politics, focusing on the ways international economic processes affect environmental outcomes. It examines the main actors and forces shaping global environmental management, particularly in the developing world. Moving beyond the usual emphasis on international agreements and institutions, it strives to capture not only academic theoretical debates but also views on politics, economics, and the environment within the halls of global conferences, on the streets during antiglobalization protests, and in the boardrooms of international agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and industry associations. The book maps out an original typology of four contrasting worldviews of environmental change—those of market liberals, institutionalists, bioenvironmentalists, and social greens—and uses them as a framework to examine the links between the global political economy and ecological change. This typology provides a common language for students, instructors, and scholars to discuss the issues across the classical social science divisions.The second edition of this popular text has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect recent events, including the food crisis of 2007-2008, the financial meltdown of 2008, and the Copenhagen Climate Conference of 2009. Topics covered include the environmental implications of globalization; wealth, poverty, and consumption; global trade; transnational corporations; and multilateral and private finance.
Download or read book The Shadows of Consumption written by Peter Dauvergne and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the environmental consequences of five commodities. The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth's ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences of rising consumption. Products ranging from cars to hamburgers offer conveniences and pleasures; but, as Peter Dauvergne makes clear, global political and economic processes displace the real costs of consumer goods into distant ecosystems, communities, and timelines, tipping into crisis people and places without the power to resist. In The Shadows of Consumption, Peter Dauvergne maps the costs of consumption that remain hidden in the shadows cast by globalized corporations, trade, and finance. Dauvergne traces the environmental consequences of five commodities: automobiles, gasoline, refrigerators, beef, and harp seals. In these fascinating histories we learn, for example, that American officials ignored warnings about the dangers of lead in gasoline in the 1920s; why China is now a leading producer of CFC-free refrigerators; and how activists were able to stop Canada's commercial seal hunt in the 1980s (but are unable to do so now). Dauvergne's innovative analysis allows us to see why so many efforts to manage the global environment are failing even as environmentalism is slowly strengthening. He proposes a guiding principle of “balanced consumption” for both consumers and corporations. We know that we can make things better by driving a high-mileage car, eating locally grown food, and buying energy-efficient appliances; but these improvements are incremental, local, and insufficient. More crucial than our individual efforts to reuse and recycle will be reforms in the global political economy to reduce the inequalities of consumption and correct the imbalance between growing economies and environmental sustainability.
Download or read book Low Tox Life written by Alexx Stuart and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever stopped to read the list of ingredients in the products you use every day? In Low Tox Life, activist and educator Alexx Stuart gently clears a path through the maze of mass-market ingredient cocktails, focusing on four key areas: Body, Home, Food and Mind. Sharing the latest science and advice from experts in each area, Alexx tackles everything from endocrine-disruptors in beauty products to the challenge of going low plastic in a high-plastic world, and how to clean without a hit of harmful toxins. You don't need to be a fulltime homesteader with a cupboard full of organic linens to go low tox. Start small, switching or ditching one nasty at a time, and enjoy the process as a positive one for you and the planet.
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Download or read book Exposure written by Robert Bilott and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For Erin Brockovich fans, a David vs. Goliath tale with a twist” (The New York Times Book Review)—the incredible true story of the lawyer who spent two decades building a case against DuPont for its use of the hazardous chemical PFOA, uncovering the worst case of environmental contamination in history—affecting virtually every person on the planet—and the conspiracy that kept it a secret for sixty years. The story that inspired Dark Waters, the major motion picture from Focus Features starring Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway, directed by Todd Haynes. 1998: Rob Bilott is a young lawyer specializing in helping big corporations stay on the right side of environmental laws and regulations. Then he gets a phone call from a West Virginia farmer named Earl Tennant, who is convinced the creek on his property is being poisoned by runoff from a neighboring DuPont landfill, causing his cattle and the surrounding wildlife to die in hideous ways. Earl hasn’t even been able to get a water sample tested by any state or federal regulatory agency or find a local lawyer willing to take the case. As soon as they hear the name DuPont—the area’s largest employer—they shut him down. Once Rob sees the thick, foamy water that bubbles into the creek, the gruesome effects it seems to have on livestock, and the disturbing frequency of cancer and other health problems in the area, he’s persuaded to fight against the type of corporation his firm routinely represents. After intense legal wrangling, Rob ultimately gains access to hundreds of thousands of pages of DuPont documents, some of them fifty years old, that reveal the company has been holding onto decades of studies proving the harmful effects of a chemical called PFOA, used in making Teflon. PFOA is often called a “forever chemical,” because once in the environment, it does not break down or degrade for millions of years, contaminating the planet forever. The case of one farmer soon spawns a class action suit on behalf of seventy thousand residents—and the shocking realization that virtually every person on the planet has been exposed to PFOA and carries the chemical in his or her blood. What emerges is a riveting legal drama “in the grand tradition of Jonathan Harr’s A Civil Action” (Booklist, starred review) about malice and manipulation, the failings of environmental regulation; and one lawyer’s twenty-year struggle to expose the truth about this previously unknown—and still unregulated—chemical that we all have inside us.
Download or read book A Consumer s Dictionary of Household Yard and Office Chemicals written by Ruth Winter and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest exposure to many toxic chemicals takes place in our own homes, according to studies conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency. New chemicals and materials on the market may react adversely with one of the thousands already available.
