Sentences with phrase «causes health harms»

Smoking, for instance, almost always causes health harms to your child's living environment.

Not exact matches

Alcohol and cigarettes, which also «hook» people, destroy health and lives, and cause death and harm to those who don't use them (second - hand smoke, drunk driving, abused families) are legal, billion - dollar industries, and these drugs are available and consumed everywhere.

«Vital Vio is an incredibly exciting company built on a truly revolutionary breakthrough idea — disinfecting without using harsh chemicals or other agents that could cause harm to human health or engender resistance to treatment.

In their letter, the groups said the breach caused «incalculable harm» and suggested several of the affected individuals had already filed complaints with the Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights or other state authorities.

And this analysis ignores the harm done to low - and middle - income households by the loss of health insurance and higher health insurance premiums caused by the individual mandate's repeal.

«Incest is abuse of children» is a way of saying it could cause genetic abnormalities and birth defects in the child, therefore harming the child's health.

The church abuses LGBTI people horribly, causing numerous harms to all aspects of health.

Ultimately, the end product should empower health, generate joy and cause no harm.

About 20 percent of babies in the United States are now fed soy formula, but the estrogens in soy can cause long term harm your baby's sexual development and reproductive health that is irreversible.

While many consumers wish to enhance their health through food, diet and lifestyle, a greater and increasing concern is the direct harm and illness caused by unsafe food products.

You have probably heard a number of rumors about the effects of technology on your health; that having a cell phone next to your head can cause brain cancer, for example, or that pregnant women shouldn't stand near a microwave that is running because it may harm the fetus.

That parents are the cause of, and so to blame for, their child's self - harm, depression, and suicide is quite a bold claim to make in Palo Alto where many well - respected mental health professionals have taken great care this year to make clear to our community, repeatedly, that that is not the case.

Those behaviors are among the leading actual causes of death and long - term harms to health and well - being for youth

If a low level of contamination can harm health in this way, labels should state that the product is not sterile and may contain bacteria which could grow under certain conditions and cause harm.

Difficulties for women who choose to formula feed under such a system must be weighed against the fact that free and easily accessible formula leads to unnecessarily supplementation and the harm that this causes to public health.

Led by the Milk Processor Education Program and the National Dairy Council, the program aims to «keep chocolate milk on the menu in schools nationwide», in light of «lunch advocates [who] are calling [to remove chocolate milk from the lunch line, a decision that could] cause more harm than good when it comes to children's health.»

* Chemical may be harmful to babies, children * FDA says not final response on BPA's safety (Adds details on petition, FDA comment) WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters)- U.S. health regulators denied a petition to ban a chemical used in water bottles, soup cans and other food and drink packaging that may cause harm to developing babies and young children.

U.S. health regulators denied a petition to ban a chemical used in water bottles, soup cans and other food and drink packaging that may cause harm to developing babies and young children.

These elements are crucial for your baby's gut health because their stomach is then able to gather good bacteria to line their guts before bad bacteria can get in and potentially cause harm.

An eco-friendly diaper will never cause any harm to your baby's health.

«The announcement of this grant program highlights Governor Cuomo's commitment to foster collaboration and coordination among state agencies, municipalities, not - for - profits and educational institutions to minimize the harm aquatic invasive species cause to New York's environment, economy, natural resources and human health,» Acting Commissioner Seggos said.

The Department for Health and Social Care has requested the collection of «robust statistic evidence» on the harm that this agreement causes, but given the damage that has been done already to the patient's trust in the NHS on data sharing, it is hardly likely to be successful in encouraging patients to share more.

Cuomo's inaction on hydrofracking has angered both supporters of the technique — who say it could inject economic life into the state's long - struggling Southern Tier — and opponents, who say it could cause irreparable harm to the state's water, air and human health.

Nevertheless, the ACMD emphasised that in their opinion the use of cannabis was «a significant public health issue» which could «unquestionably cause harm to individuals and society».

No law currently prohibits conversion therapists operating in the UK, even though the Department of Health has acknowledged the practice «may well cause considerable harm».

But, Poloncarz quickly added that the amendment is attached to a health care bill that would cause grave harm in Erie County, increasing the number of people without health insurance and thereby burdening local hospitals — and especially the county - funded Erie County Medical Center — with patients with no way to pay their bills.

«We approached this problem many years ago and have seen all kinds of studies, and there isn't anything definitive to say that antibiotics in livestock cause harm to people,» says Richard Carnevale, vice president of regulatory and scientific affairs at the Animal Health Institute, which represents the manufacturers of animal drugs, including those for livestock.

«More research is required to further explore why a low birth weight and a stressful pregnancy causes pregnancy complications and adversely harms the health of these mothers,» Professor Wlodek said.

Erdman adds, «You don't want people thinking they are improving their health by consuming large amounts of the material and are actually causing harm.

«To date, the focus of diagnosis and management of carotid artery blockages has been prevention of stroke since that was the only harm that these blockages were thought to cause to patients,» said Brajesh K. Lal, MD, with the VA Maryland Health Care System's Baltimore VA Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.

Even the U.S. Public Health Service, which maintains that dental amalgams cause no harm, notes in a consumer update that ongoing studies «will require several years of follow - up in order to detect any subtle and long - range health effects.&Health Service, which maintains that dental amalgams cause no harm, notes in a consumer update that ongoing studies «will require several years of follow - up in order to detect any subtle and long - range health effects.&health effects.»

Dr Eleni Papadopoulou, lead author from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, said: «The concern for harm to the fetus caused by radio frequency electromagnetic fields, such as those emitted by mobile phones, is mainly driven by reports from experimental animal studies with inconsistent results.

In an editorial also published in the July 1 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, Dr. George Sawaya and Dr. Vanessa Jacoby of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco write, «The pelvic examination has held a prominent place in women's health for many decades and has come to be more of a ritual than an evidence - based practice... With the current state of evidence, clinicians who continue to offer the examination should at least be cognizant about the uncertainty of its benefits and its potential to cause harm through false - positive testing and the cascade of events it prompts.»

The researchers point out that their calculations did not include the health and economic harms caused by second hand smoke or smokeless forms of tobacco, and that their estimates of lost productivity applied only to those who were economically active.

Such events can cause injuries and emergency room visits, but the changing climate also has oblique effects on health, such as reducing food security, altering the range of disease - spreading ticks and mosquitoes and harming mental health.

In this issue, experiments were conducted with sediment dwelling marine worms, showing that chemically inert microplastics of a size similar to sand grains from the beaches in which the worms lived caused physical harm (Wright et al.) whilst Browne et al. showed microplastic can move pollutants and additives to worms, reducing functions linked to health and biodiversity.

Although Zika causes no harm in most people it infects, its possible role in clusters of microcephaly in babies and Guillain - Barré syndrome in adults led the World Health Organization on 1 February to declare that it is a «public health emergency of international concern.&Health Organization on 1 February to declare that it is a «public health emergency of international concern.&health emergency of international concern.»

«Of course not — and yet scientists have the same level of certainty about human - caused climate change as they do that cigarettes harm your health.»

The study is limited to food security and health, and can not tell us about the wider potential for polygyny to cause harm, the researchers said.

The salmon, to be sold under the SweetSpring label, have also been shown to contain high levels of omega - 3 fatty acids, placing the salmon on Seafood Watch's newly created Super Green List, which denotes that the fish is good for human health without causing harm to the ocean.

While it doesn't harm animals like razor clams or crabs, it continues to reside in their tissues and can cause serious health issues if eaten by humans, like short - term memory loss.

«E-cigarettes will likely cause more public health harm than public health benefit unless ways can be found to substantially decrease the number of adolescents and young adults who vape and increase the number of smokers who use e-cigarettes to successfully quit smoking,» says Soneji.

For instance, the treaty allows countries to refuse to import GMOs based on a «precautionary principle» — that is, even without «sufficient scientific evidence» that the products could cause environmental harm or threaten human health.

«Treating patients to very low HbA1c levels is not likely to improve their health, especially not in the short term, but can cause serious harms, such as hypoglycemia,» says Dr. McCoy.

Depending on the criteria used, the predicted health damage caused by thirdhand smoke could range from 5 percent to 60 percent of the total harm.

For example, in response to questions about whether certain environmental chemicals may interfere with the endocrine system and cause negative effects, government and scientific bodies have been working to distinguish between whether a substance is merely endocrine active, or whether, under certain exposure scenarios, a substance goes beyond a simple interaction that is reversible and causes no harm to one that results in adverse health effects — endocrine disruption.

The National Health Service (NHS) says taking less than 540 mg vitamin E and 1000 mg vitamin C supplements per day is unlikely to cause any harm.

and Longevity Meme archives on the mechanisms by which fat is thought to harm long term health and cause low - level damage throughout the body.

Unlike some other social media experiments, a flawed public health monitoring program can cause serious physical and economic harm to large numbers of people.

Impacts of climate change cause widespread harm to human health, with children often suffering the most.