Healthy World Watch January 1st, 2010

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Ever wonder how to re-use or recycle the overwhelming amount of stuff we all seem to accumulate? Wonder no more. Check out How Can I Recycle This, an amazingly informative blog that discusses how to reuse or recycle almost anything. Seriously, they cover everything from potato peelings and broken teapots to damaged car seats and old keys. Waste not, want not!
There’s an app for that. Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch is one of the more popular seafood guides online, and now they’ve made it possible to get their website information with ease when you’re standing in front of the seafood case by using their free iPhone app.

Recent Research

Is dirty electricity making you sick? New findings on a particular kind of electromagnetic field called transients are causing some scientists to rethink that part of the EMF debate pertaining to the hazards of power lines. Could they have been focusing on the wrong part of the EMF spectrum?
Wearing hundreds of chemicals without knowing it? The heavy use of personal care products may deliver significant daily chemical exposure. The deodorant company, Bionsen, funded a survey of 2000 women that discovered the “average” British woman wears 515 chemicals on her body daily.

Other News

Following a hearing in November, the US National Toxicology Program (NTP) has recommended that the hazard status of formaldehyde should be upgraded from its current listing as "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen" to "known to be a human carcinogen" in the next (12th) edition of its Report on Cancer (RoC).
Cell phone-cancer link remains unclear, but some scientists urge caution. U.S. cell phone use has quadrupled over the last decade. Meanwhile, brain cancer remains as rare as ever. Nevertheless, nagging worries that cell phones cause brain cancer continue to gain traction.