Sentences with phrase «damaging effects of chemicals»

Vitamin E acts as an antioxidant, meaning it protects tissues against the damaging effects of chemicals called free radicals which are produced in the body as a normal part of metabolism.

It is unfortunate that the damaging effects of these chemical laden products are hidden from us over the short term.

Not exact matches

There are so many ways their little bodies can come into contact with potentially damaging chemicals, from their toothpastes, shampoos, food, frying pans, shower curtains — there has to be some looking at the cumulative effects versus thinking of each chemical in a vacuum.

For instance, recent research has shed light on a group of chemicals in the brain that naturally dampen the damaging effects of prolonged exposure to stress hormones.

It belongs to a group of chemicals called reactive oxygen species (ROS), which scientists suspect to have a damaging effect on cells and their components.

Yet even with clear levels of these chemicals and knowledge of the damage they pose, Downs realized the ultimate cause of decline in the corals preceded recorded climate effects.

«One of the greatest uncertainties in EU environmental legislation is that we do not know the precise effects of synergistic chemicals when determining the scale of damage to nature from chemical cocktails,» says environmental chemistry professor and lead researcher, Nina Cedergreen.

If that happens, the ban will go into effect in about three years (starting in 2021), and Hawaii will begin leading the charge to protect our earth from the damaging effects of common sunscreen chemicals.

This novel chemical has been shown to provide aggressive brain antioxidant protection, helping to reduce the damaging effects of villainous toxins called free radicals.

This proves that the antioxidant effects of vitamin C were sufficient to protect the thyroid from damage caused by the chemical pollutants.

A combination of limited human data and a wealth of animal studies show that phthalates, as only one of many chemicals in fragrances, can impair reproduction and development, alter liver and kidney function, damage the heart and lungs, and effect blood clotting.

With rudimentary laboratories, one could argue that more was accomplished with regards to the effect of diet on cancer in the former half of the century, as revolutionary researchers like Tannenbaum, Rous, and their colleagues provided us with dozens of animal studies linking diet and cancer by exposing mice to free radical - laden vegetable oils.32, 33 Several decades later, two other researchers, Dayton and Pearce, provided one of the few studies revealing what happens when we give humans vegetable oils and their accompanying free radicals when they randomized men to a corn oil solution and a similar rise in cancer followed.34 It is no surprise that corn oil is often used in animal studies to cause cancer, as the ingestion of damaging free radicals predictably hastens cancer development.35 Furthermore, these scientists were the first to show that fasting, restricting calories, and cutting carbohydrates could lower the chance of cancer in animals exposed to dangerous chemicals and carcinogens.

Furthermore, it's often not low levels of one chemical that does the damage, but the cumulative effect of many chemicals found in food, cosmetics or tap water.

With the removal of hydrogen sulfide, heavy metals and other chemicals, dry skin and damaging effects on hair and scalp dryness is gone.

It is extracted using a special chemical - free, cold - pressing process which minimizes the damaging effects of light, oxygen and heat.

Such chemicals are commonly linked to insulin resistance, damage to the absorption of nutrients from foods, higher stress levels, and many other side effects.

So although much more CO2 is released by fossil fuel burning, smaller amounts of these high - greenhouse effect chemicals can cause equal damage.

Consider the chemical Bisphenol A. Research on the health effects of this common component of plastic suggests a probable link to neurological damage in fetuses and children.