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The Toxic Body Burden

By Alice Delia — Ever wonder what happens to all the things we take into our bodies every day? A lot of the food we eat is metabolized into useful substances, notably proteins, fats and cholesterol. And oxygen from the air we breathe is absorbed into the blood through the lungs while carbon dioxide moves

  • January 14, 2020
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‘Chemical Accident’ At Buffalo Wild Wings Leaves Worker Dead, 10 Hospitalized

“One employee described the chemical as smelling like “ammonia and chlorine.” U.S. NEWS 11/08/2019 05:31 am ET — By Ed Mazza A worker at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Burlington, Massachusetts died and 10 others were sickened after a chemical accident Thursday night.  Fire officials said the incident may have been caused by sodium hypochlorite,

  • November 8, 2019
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Testing Pollution in Homes

Home Performance Channel – Healthy Indoors Minute — May 2019 — Grace and Corbett Lunsford, of the Building Performance Workshop, and the hosts of the new weekly PBS TV series, Home Diagnosis, bring you the next installment of the “Home Performance Channel – Healthy Indoors Minute.” This month’s topic: Air Quality Monitors. Corbett shows a

  • July 2, 2019
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Toxic Water – The PFAS Dilemma

By Dr. Alice Delia — There’s a new bad guy in the environmental world. A group of about 3,000 man-made chemical compounds known collectively as PFAS (per and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) is being hailed as a contaminant of emerging concern. Starting in the 1940s, PFAS have been used in non-stick cookware, water and/or stain resistant fabrics

  • April 26, 2019
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You are not gluten intolerant, you are glyphosate intolerant

by GetHolisticHealth.com on March 20, 2019 — Study blames Roundup herbicide for gluten intolerance and Celiac Disease “Celiac disease, and, more generally, gluten intolerance, is a growing problem worldwide, but especially in North America and Europe, where an estimated 5% of the population now suffers from it,” researchers wrote in a meta-analysis of nearly 300 studies. “Here,

  • March 20, 2019
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SAFE!

By Dr. Alice Delia — You may be confused why we’re talking about baseball in an indoor environment magazine … well, we’re not! We’re talking about one of the most poorly understood and misleading concepts in the English language – the idea of “safe.” The Oxford Dictionary has some variations but this one is most

  • March 19, 2019
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