Sentences with phrase «even harmful»

Trying to establish or maintain a lawn without knowing your soil's fertility and pH requirements can potentially be a waste of money and even harmful to your lawn.

Later research has shown that some of these ideas were just plain wrong and some were even harmful.

From a therapeutic and family oriented point of view, it seems in fact sterile and even harmful to blame the parents, preventing them from taking the pivotal role of help and support to the adolescent care, a task for which they can not be replaced (Novick and Novick, 2011; Apter and Palacio - Espasa, 2012).

I enjoy working with men who desire to change their behaviors when it comes to unwanted or even harmful sexual acting out.

While you state that Harriet Lerner's post «sets needlessly low and even harmful aspirations for people who believe it,» your claim that all conflict can be solved is both alarming and dangerous, as it sets an equally unrealistic expectation for couples.

While individual counseling can be helpful for both parties, it can be counterproductive and even harmful to the victim to attempt to mediate a divorce with a history of abuse.

Your relationship is too important to gamble with therapy that might be ineffective or even harmful to your relationship.

Unfortunately, when many of these couples finally did seek professional assistance, they found marital therapy to be unproductive, disheartening, and even harmful.

Even worse, these self - willed do - it - yourselfers use the much - ballyhooed meta - analyses showing that all credible therapies produce roughly equivalent results in order to do any damn - fool thing they want — which might include totally unsupported, useless, or even harmful methods.

In some circumstances it may be too distressing, or even harmful, for the child to have contact with their parent, for example where a parent has committed a violent offence towards the other parent or towards the child.

But I've actually found it's tougher to «leave» parents who were less than perfect or even harmful.

The history of our field is littered with ideas and treatments that, while well - meaning, were absurd and even harmful.

The FDA is able to maintain a relatively high level of safety through these precautions, but sometimes even harmful drugs are approved.

Do not waste your time and energy digging up information that is irrelevant and possibly even harmful to your case.

Finally, if you get really tired of the US - bashing, you can take some comfort that though the US is the # 1 per capita producer of CO2, of which we are uncertain is even harmful, we have done a fabulous job reducing many other pollutants we are much more certain are harmful.

... until there is a new rise in the temperature curve, we have time to pause and assess which projects can be useful and which may be ineffective or even harmful.

Instead, until there is a new rise in the temperature curve, we have time to pause and assess which projects can be useful and which may be ineffective or even harmful.

So corrupt and ideologically bankrupt are the Republicans (and in some cases the Democrats), so passive is the press, and so fat and ignorant is the public that the only thing we seem able to do at this point as a nation is sell lies that lead to useless and even harmful activities like proposals to increase offshore drilling.

You have to fool them to get around their defenses - and this gets more difficult when enemies start to have electrical charges on their weapons, making a mistimed attack even harmful to you.

Read what these enlightened vets have to say about the shots your dog really needs... plus which ones are a waste of time... or even harmful.

So, you may be spending $ 5 instead of $ 10 on a prescription, but it also may be completely useless or even harmful to your pet.

Cleaning your pet's teeth and gums is important in order to prevent the buildup of harmful bacteria from old food, bad water and even harmful meat bones.

For psychological conditions, it was found that specific traditional therapeutic methods as described in current clinical behavior texts could be beneficial for some individuals, but unhelpful and even harmful to others with the same apparent disorder.

The ingredient could be something undesirable or even harmful to your dog.

Yet, in other situations, clicker training will be useless or even harmful.

Though some online sources claim that grains are unhealthy or even harmful for our canine companions, in reality, small amounts of whole grains such as barley are considered to be pretty safe for dogs.

Once considered a rarity, the opt - out push has prompted high - profile boycott efforts and meetings in large districts such as Chicago and led more parents nationwide to join forces with anti-testing advocates in arguing that the assessments are unnecessary, excessive, and, in some cases, even harmful to students.

However this «higher standard» can be detremental or even harmful if too much is forced down a child's throat too soon.

Nevertheless, this new study out of Louisiana suggests that there may also be a risk that students will sort into new schools in sub-optimal --- or even harmful --- ways.

School choice opponents have seized on these findings as evidence that these programs are ineffective and even harmful while advocates point out that Louisiana is heavily regulated, the first few years of an evaluation tell only the worst part of a story (i.e. there are transition effects), and that we should be careful about a heavy - handed focus on test scores.

Gov. Bobby Jindal tried to block the test and the Common Core standards, saying they represented federal overreach, and some parents have chosen to boycott the tests based on political convictions or a concern the tests are useless or even harmful.

In 1963, researchers argued that «the teaching of formal grammar has a negligible or, because it usually displaces some instruction and practice in actual composition, even a harmful effect on the improvement of writing,» and over 250 studies since that time, as well as a meta - analysis from the Carnegie Corporation in 2011, have widely supported that statement.

Some libertarian signers of the counter-manifesto may indeed believe that we should let schools, districts, and parents make every single educational decision no matter how irresponsible, hare - brained, or even harmful to kids.

There is a growing movement in our country that testing is useless or even harmful.

Dealing with rosacea is hard enough; having to contend with uncomfortable and even harmful side effects as well only aggravates the situation.

Many cosmetics that promise skin bleaching effect might be even harmful as they often contain toxic chemicals which actually speed up the ageing process.

Herbs are natural substances, but some can be quite powerful and even harmful in large doses.

Dietary stress, hormonal stress, emotional stress, and physical stress (past unresolved injuries, improper footwear, orthotics, and yes, even harmful [static] stretching habits) all impact the nervous system causing imbalances in the sympathetic and parasympathetic system which in turn results in patterns of muscle imbalances.

What might be excellent for one person might be totally ineffective or even harmful for another.

Do you think it's useless, or even harmful?

Unfortunately, there are many individuals who became vegetarians or vegans only to supplement animal foods with plant ones but at the same time they still consume refined sugar, white flour products, refined grains and pasta or even harmful stimulants.

All too often, though, the best intentions lead instead to inefficient and even harmful cardio routines.

Note: Regarding the claims that cereals are a «good source of vitamins and minerals», this is actually FALSE... The majority of vitamins and minerals in most cereals are not naturally occurring, but rather, are synthetically added vitamins, which have been proven to be less absorbed than natural vitamins and potentially even harmful in some cases.

However, not only can this amount of sugar be unhealthy, nutrients obtained in this format may not be efficiently absorbed or even harmful (synthetic vitamins are used in fortification worldwide, and these can have dangerous side - effects).

Some expert fitness trainers say it is one of the most important body weight techniques to strengthen the midsection, others say it is useless and can be even harmful.

These oils can be the key to supporting your health naturally while taking control of all the needless even harmful bottles and potions under your sink and in your cabinets.

However, getting the wrong supplements can be frustrating, a waste of money, and in some cases even harmful!

In a rabid display of partisan non-objectivity, they opine that all supplements are a worthless, or even harmful; and furthermore, that we should abandon research on supplement efficacy as a waste of money — «Case closed,» they prematurely declare.

The picture wasn't straightforward, however: several different research groups have found minocycline treatment was either not helpful, or even harmful, in HD mice.

September 27, 2000 Prions may play crucial role in evolution Prions, abnormally folded proteins associated with several bizarre human diseases, may hold the key to a major mystery in evolution — how survival skills that require multiple genetic changes arise all at once when each genetic change by itself would be unsuccessful and even harmful.