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Author: Erin Elizabeth

Even modest lifestyle changes in middle age may significantly extend your life

Even modest lifestyle changes in middle age may significantly extend your life

Posted by | Apr 26, 2018 | ,

Written By Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on April 26th, 2018 In How to Reduce the Risk of Sudden Death (see below), I discuss how public health workers tend to work in their own separate domains. The tobacco folks rarely talk to the alcohol, nutrition, or sexual health folks, “with no apparent recognition that, far from being unique and separate, the behaviours they all address comprise a typical Saturday night out for large sectors of the population. This also blinds us to the importance of individual empowerment. We beetle away at micromanaging specific behaviours and ignore the key message emerging from the public health evidence base—that...

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Those living near oil and gas facilities may have higher health risks

Those living near oil and gas facilities may have higher health risks

Posted by | Apr 26, 2018 | , , ,

According to a team of researchers from the Colorado School of Public Health, Boulder County Public Health, CU Boulder, NASA, and the University of California Irvine, people who live near oil and gas facilities along Colorado’s Northern Front Range may be being exposed to hazardous air pollutants, including carcinogens like benzene, above levels deemed acceptable by the EPA. (Colorado law requires new oil and gas wells to be 500 feet from a residence and 1,000 feet from buildings serving more than 50 people.) RELATED STORY: ExxonMobil refineries damaged in Hurricane Harvey and releasing hazardous pollutants Using ambient air samples to estimate and...

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Reuters: Facebook releases long-secret rules on how it polices the service

Reuters: Facebook releases long-secret rules on how it polices the service

Posted by | Apr 25, 2018 |

For years, Facebook has had what they call “community standards,” to explain what was and wasn’t postable on the site. However, the explanation of those standards was brief and general- at best- for the public and far more detailed internally. In the last couple years, the company has faced fierce criticism for failing to do enough to stem hate speech or even prevent the service from being used to promote terrorism. And let’s not forget that actual murders and suicides have been posted, in some cases live. It appears now that there have also been times when Facebook has...

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ABC: Judge denies man’s request to reinstate free water program in Flint

ABC: Judge denies man’s request to reinstate free water program in Flint

Posted by | Apr 25, 2018 | , ,

On April 6th, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality announced that it would be ending the free bottled water program after testing showed Flint’s water quality “was below federal action levels for lead for two years.” 3 According to the state, current testing puts the city’s water (at 4 ppb of lead) below the federal action level of 15 ppb.  RELATED STORY: Time: Water tests at Flint elementary schools show increase in lead levels And on April 20th, a Flint man arguing his home’s tap water was still contaminated and therefore needed to continue to receive free bottled water,...

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Breast cancer & the 5-year survival rate myth

Breast cancer & the 5-year survival rate myth

Posted by | Apr 24, 2018 | ,

By watching this video, you’ll know more than an estimated 97% of doctors, about a critical concept called lead-time bias. RELATED STORY: Overtreatment of Stage 0 Breast Cancer DCIS RELATED STORY: Can mammogram radiation cause Breast Cancer? Yes. 90% of breast cancer could likely be prevented if everyone did some of these 12 things *Article originally appeared at Nutrition...

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