Healthy World Watch April 24th, 2009

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Janelle Sorensen

Friday, April 24, 2009

Eco-Multi-Media

• Watch: We Are Rats in a Global Chemical Experiment.

• Watch: Going Green (are you doing it or just saying it?)

• Listen: Our Friend Green and Clean Mom (Sommer) talks about her blog and her journey to green.

Recent Reports

• Lead from mom’s bones influences baby’s gene patterns. Lead released from a woman's bones during pregnancy can affect her developing baby's DNA in ways that can alter gene expression and possibly increase the child's lifelong susceptibility to disease. This is the first study to show that lead can influence genetic programming in human cells, and hence, gene expression, throughout life.

• Proof is in the Poison: PCBs are Hazardous to Humans. Three new studies by researchers at the University of California-Davis, and Harvard University concluded that even low-level exposure to PCBs, likely contributes to developmental disorders in children, including autism, attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities and mental retardation.

• Eco-Friendly Labeling? It’s a lot of Greenwash. The labels on 98 per cent of those good-for-the-earth-and-your-body items you fill your shopping basket with are lying, a new study shows. Of the more than 2,000 self-described environmentally friendly products in North America examined by the environmental marketing firm TerraChoice, only 25 were found to be indisputably "sin free." The rest were greenwashing, a term environmentalists coined to refer to misleading environmental ads or claims.

• Tons of Released Drugs Taint U.S. Water. U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways that often provide drinking water , according to an Associated Press investigation.