Sentences with phrase «damage human health»

It would involve gradually eliminating pollution from factories and tailpipes; replacing them with artificial aerosols in the upper atmosphere where they're much less likely to damage human health; and then hope nothing (else) goes seriously awry.

• Some renewables decrease pollution other than greenhouse gases, pollutants that damage human health (as well as ecosystems and agriculture).

This occurs because transportation in North America produces a substantial amount of black carbon (soot) and ozone (a main ingredient in smog), both of which warm climate, while power generation leads to a large amount of sulfate particles, which cool climate even as they also lead to acid rain and damage human health.

«As Lesser wrote in a 2013 editorial for the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, «offsets from selling foods that clearly damage human health would, likewise, be indefensible... Serving definitively unhealthful food items to patients, visitors, and staff is simply unethical.»

It could be both positive support for eating whole plant foods as well as those showing how animal foods and highly refined plant foods damage human health.

They could be used to filter out the nitrates, endocrine disrupters and pharmaceutical residues that disrupt ecosystems and damage human health.

«Substantial scientific evidence shows cannabis is a harmful drug that can damage human health.

We know that air pollution seriously damages human health and terrestrial ecosystems but this «new» source of soluble iron can potentially increase the amount of carbon dioxide stored in the oceans and, thus, inadvertently offset global warming.»

Those markers can tell the story of human adaptation as early man moved from equatorial Africa into lower - light regions, and may explain changes in skin pigmentation to metabolize more sunlight, or how indoor living has silently damaged human health.

Such documents could demonstrate companies» knowledge, for instance, that the use of their products damages human health and well - being by contributing to «dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.»

This is extremely important stuff, for some pretty obvious reasons — first of all, if polluting companies and energy sources were properly held financially accountable for environmental degradation and damaging human health, there would be a pretty strong interest in cleaning up some of those practices.

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Reductions on this level would lower the total cost of national annual human health damages by US$ 20 billion to $ 50 billion annually.

The administration was still doing damage control over a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services policy that forces religious schools and institutions that offer employee health insurance to cover FDA - approved contracepHealth and Human Services policy that forces religious schools and institutions that offer employee health insurance to cover FDA - approved contracephealth insurance to cover FDA - approved contraceptives.

I appreciate that you trust and value what your curriculum has taught you, but I have two RNs and a med - tech in the family and have seen for myself how damaging their nursing - school «knowledge» is to human health.

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In 2009, the American Psychiatric Association awarded Dr. Okin and Mental Disability Rights International their human rights award «to recognize an individual and an organization exemplifying the capacity of human beings to protect others from the damage related to the professional, scientific, and clinical dimensions of mental health, at the hands of other human beings.»

Aside from possible effects on human health, cyanide fishing inflicts damage on the coral reefs where it is employed, as the poison kills the reefs and many of the life - forms that rely on them

Raising concerns about potential harm to human health, other recent research has shown that some metal nanoparticles can damage DNA or kill cells.

Damage to ecosystems and threats to human health and the lack of effective mitigation require new approaches to mining regulation.

The treaty has helped the layer begin the slow process of healing, lessening the impact to human health from increased exposure to damaging solar radiation.

To mitigate the impact of future smoke events, the team developed a model framework which could help governments and policymakers in Southeast Asia identify, in almost real time, the fires with the highest potential to cause damage to human health.

Although the human health threats are unknown, animal studies have found evidence of damage to neurological, immune and reproductive systems.

Their impact ranges from upsetting native ecosystems, to damaging the physical environment and even threatening human and animal health; hence the cost to agriculture, fisheries and forestry, as well as the expense of control and eradication programmes.

If the ultraviolet radiation from the sun damages human DNA to cause health problems, does UV radiation also damage plant DNA?

Some of the contaminants have been linked to cancer, neurological damage and other health problems in humans.

Firstly, for many years they did not make public fears about the potential danger BSE posed to human health — concerns of an economically damaging public over-reaction took precedence.

The test is increasingly used as a method of assessing substances — including drugs and cosmetics — that could pose a potential risk to human or environmental health by causing damage to DNA.

One study led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City looked at 373 sites across India, the Philippines and Indonesia, and calculated how much damage elevated levels of lead, chromium and other chemicals imparted to human health.

Humanity depends on nitrogen to fertilize croplands, but growing global use is damaging the environment and threatening human health.

«The introduction of mitochondria into damaged cells has beneficial effects on the health of cells and, in the long term, we believe that mesenchymal stem cells could even be engineered to create more effective therapies for lung disease in humans.»

Clean energy policies decrease not only carbon pollution linked to climate change but also other types of pollution that harm human health, such as sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and fine particles that can damage the airways of humans and other organisms.

«During the purification process no gases, odors nor toxic elements that may damage or alter the environment, human health or quality of life are generated,» said the Mexican firm.

«Our ultimate goal is to minimize the impact of pest damages on urban life with, at the same time, no — or minimal — negative impact on the environment, non-target organisms, and human health.»

Multi-stressor situations, such as impacts on vulnerable populations following natural disasters that also damage the social and physical infrastructure necessary for resilience and emergency response, are particularly important to consider when preparing for the impacts of climate change on human health.

Insect damage reduces yields in rice and causes farmers to use insecticides that are harmful to the environment and human health.

Now a team at Harvard has designed a device that smokes cigarettes and sends the smoke through a human lung small airway - on - a-chip to examine just how the habit damages health.

Health improvement (allowing to post - pone / escape the diseases and thus live, healthier / disease - free longer, but not above human MLSP of around 122 years; thus these therapies do not affect epigenetic aging whatsoever, they are degenerative aging problems not regular healthy aging problem (except OncoSENS - only when you Already Have Cancer - which cancer increases epigenetic aging, but cancer removal thus does not change anything / makes no difference about what happens in the other cells / about what happens in the normal epigenetic «aging» course in Normal non-cancerous healthy cells) Although there is not such thing as «healthy aging» all aging in «unhealthy» (as seen from elders who are «healthy enough» who show much damage), it's just «tolerable / liveable» enough (in terms of damage accumulating) that it does not affect their quality of life (enough yet), that is «healthy aging»: ApoptoSENS - Clearing Senescent Cells (this will have great impact to reduce diseases, the largest one, since it's all inflammation fueled by the inflammation secretory phenotype (SASP) of these senescent cells) AmyloSENS - Dissolving the Plaques (this will allow humans to evade Alzheimer's, Parkinsons and general brain degenerescence, allowing quite a boost; making people much more easily reach the big 100 - since the brain is causal to how long we live; keeping brain amyloid - free and keeping our memories / neuron sharp / means longer LongTerm Potentiation - means longer brain function means longer heavy brain mass (gray matter / white matter retention seen in «sharp - witted» Centenarians who show are younger brain for their age), and both are correlated to MLSP).

Sulfur dioxide contributes to particulate pollution — which can be damaging for human health, and acid rain — which can damage ecosystems and crops.

Air pollution is broadly defined as the presence in the air of any pollutant (or substance) that directly or indirectly endangers, interferes with, causes damages, degrades or alters human health, animal health, the environment, or ecosystems.

No «substantiated» evidence exists that genetically engineered crops have caused health problems in humans or damaged the environment, but it's too soon to be making broad statements, positive or negative, about laboratory - based manipulations of crop genomes, an elite panel of scientists concluded in a report Tuesday.

The potential risks around sulfate aerosol solar geoengineering include alteration of regional precipitation patterns, its effects on human health, and the potential damage to Earth's ozone layer by increased stratospheric sulfate particles.

Prolonged exposure to silica dust can pose severe health risks to both animals and humans causing irritation and in some cases, permanent damage of the mucous membranes of the lungs and upper respiratory tract as well as leading to silicosis and lung cancer.

created a stir with findings that bone broth had high levels of lead, a metal that's toxic to human health and especially damaging to children.

A 2013 study created a stir with findings that bone broth had high levels of lead, a metal that's toxic to human health and especially damaging to children.

Perfluorooctanoic acid is linked to damaging the human immune system, altering the endocrine system, causing infertility, damaging children's health and producing development problems, and has been found to be carcinogenic.

GSH is unique in that it plays a crucial role in protecting us from a wide variety of substances that can do significant damage to our tissues Those suffering from many chronic diseases such as AIDS, advanced diabetes, and cancer have very low levels, hence the obvious importance in human health and why researchers continue to study it.

Purple corn has a lot of powerful antioxidants that can provide numerous health benefits for the human body, including support for heart and brain health, as well as protection against free radical damage at a cellular level.

As we mentioned earlier in the post, antioxidants are very important for human health, providing protection to our DNA from cell damage caused by harmful free radicals.

These dangerous chemicals are being sprayed on our food — every day — and cause massive collateral damage to the environment and human health.

«The hypothesis that higher intake of plant foods is beneficial to human health because this increases antioxidant defence against oxidative damage is logical in evolutionary terms, especially when we consider the relatively hypoxic environment in which humans may have evolved.