Sentences with phrase «more chemical in the environment»

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We really need to make more of an effort to learn what's going on in our environment and in our home and try to further our efforts to not only protect our kids from harmful chemicals, but to also lesson our family's carbon footprint.

Infants are born with detoxification and immune systems that aren't fully developed, so they are much more susceptible to the harmful affects of the chemicals in the air or in their sleeping environment.

«It would be hard to imagine a chemical that is more widespread in our environment,» said Kenneth Cook, the president and founder of the watchdog organization Environmental Working Group.

Many adults are becoming more health - conscious and concerned about what is in the food they eat, the toxins floating around in the environment and the potentially harmful chemicals stuffed into a lot of beauty products on the shelves today.

Inside of your digestive tract, it is more complicated for the lactase to pair up with lactose, and it is also more difficult for the chemical reaction to take place due to continuous changes in the digestive tract environment.

But the number of regulatory labs has decreased, leaving more chemical inputs in the environment and far fewer scientists to study them.

Thinking that more hemoglobin might help plants better survive a low - oxygen environment, Leif Bülow and colleagues at the Center for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in Lund, Sweden, inserted the Vitreoscilla bacterium's hemoglobin gene into the tobacco genome.

He hopes the research will identify factors in the environment — cultural, genetic, social, physical, and chemical — that make us more susceptible to disease.

In the current study, Yu - Shang Lee, PhD, of the Cleveland Clinic, together with Jerry Silver, PhD, of Case Western Reserve Medical School, and others, used a chemical that promotes cell growth along with a scar - busting enzyme to create a more hospitable environment for the nerve graft at the injury site.

«More than 10,000 million metric tons of carbon emissions were reported in 2010 from conventional fossil fuels and chemicals, which has a long - term catastrophic effect on our environment.»

P.V. Ramachandran, professor of organic chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, and graduate assistant Ameya S. Kulkarni have discovered a way to produce amine - boranes in an open - air environment using cheaper and more plentiful chemicals that have not been used before.

EPA would have to give even more priority to chemicals that don't break down easily in the environment, accumulate in the body, or are already known to be highly toxic.

Moving the chemical complexity of the ocean to the laboratory represented a major advance that will enable many new studies to be performed,» said Kimberly Prather, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego and director of the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment, who led the team of more than 30 scientists involved in this project.

About two thirds of the discarded devices were still functioning, upping the danger that they would crack during transport or when crushed by garbage trucks, tossed into landfills or incinerated (more of an issue in developing countries), thereby releasing toxic chemicals into the environment.

At the North American branch of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry's 31st annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, on 8 November, environmental chemists warned that complex interactions between chemistry and climate change might be making chemicals more toxic and the environment more susceptible to damage.

Researchers at the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme in Samoa report that fuel and toxic chemicals are still leaking from the more than 1,000 military and cargo vessels from Japan and the United States that sank in this region between 1941 and 1945.

This first observation helps to clarify the puzzle of the methanol ice - gas transition [2], and more generally the chemical processes in astrophysical environments [3].

And while most of the disasters foreseen in the book have not occurred, environmental problems overlooked at the time have become more threatening, such as the acidification of the oceans and the release of hormone - mimicking chemicals into the environment.

By removing the material from the complexity of the operating environment the intrinsic kinetic function of the material in controlling chemical reactions can be more clearly assessed.

So, whereas the typical person might think of their «environment» as their house, or their neighborhood - scientists trying to understand the factors that influence the development of schizophrenia define environment to include everything from the social, nutritional, hormonal and chemical environment in the womb of the mother during pregnancy, up to the social dynamics and stress a person experiences, to street drug use, education, virus exposure, vitamin use, and much, much more.

This microbial environment develops in reaction to us and our microbes but also in response to the outside factors that come in contact with our environment, including pets, pesticides, chemical cleaners, and so much more.

Everyday we are exposed to hundreds of chemicals in the air, water and our environment, and many more through products we use in our homes and beauty care.

More than 700 synthetic chemicals mimic estrogen in a toxic way, and their prevalence in our environment is on the rise.

More than 80,000 chemicals permitted in the United States have never been fully assessed for toxic impacts on human health and the environment.

Get lots of sun, go barefoot, go to bed earlier (still working on that one), reduce stress, avoid as much as possible chemicals and toxins in my home and work environments, and spend more time outside, get exercise when I feel like it, and laughing and having fun.

This means that if you have red hair, I mean natural red hair, that would mean that maybe you really are more sensitive to pain and you also probably have a harder time detoxing some other chemicals in your environment.

And while we learn some seriously concerning details about what's happening to males worldwide - a Danish study in 1992 demonstrated that sperm counts in healthy men had dropped by more than half in 50 years - with rapid cell division in sperm making them vulnerable to chemicals in the environment, especially endocrine disruptors, there is hope at hand!

As living organisms, probiotics set up shop in the gut, crowding out less friendly elements and producing pH - altering chemicals that make the internal environment more hospitable for themselves and their host.

There are so many demands on our time that we run ourselves ragged trying to keep it all going, finding nutrient dense, healthy food requires lots of effort and planning because packaged food has become the norm for society, our environment is becoming more and more toxic with man - made chemicals and pollutants and to top it off, the news and social media keep us in a constant cycle of negative stories.

This could involve placing the learner into the middle of a disaster like a chemical spill or the aftermath of a hurricane, or into a more benign environment like a retail store where a person is in the process of shop lifting a smartphone.

This also results in no chemical residue left on the floors, significantly reducing slip and fall risks, and eliminates chemical scents to provide a more comfortable learning environment.

The headliner is wrapped in a fully recyclable soy - based material The carpet is made of recycled polyester and jute Leather used to cover the seats and instrumental panel is free of harmful chemicals Xorel material used on the door panels and instrument panel; treated to perform as a carbon - fiber - type material Chrome trim made with less - harmful materials The earth - friendly interior components blend seamlessly with the more conventional materials inside the Provoq, enhancing the vehicle's integrated, customer - focused environment.

Minimizing the use of vaccines, pharmaceuticals and other chemicals and toxins, such as cleaning products, fertilizers, etc., in his environment will also contribute to more robust immunity.

If thyroid problems are involved in generating feline heart problems, and the environment or commercial cat food is to blame, then this condition will become more common until we fix whatever chemicals are causing the problem.

More than 30 years after Congress enacted the Toxic Substances Control Act, it is clear that we are not doing an adequate job of assessing and managing the risks of chemicals in consumer products, the workplace and the environment.

On the one hand we can see the value in reducing feral pigeon populations, and we don't suppose they can be retrained to monitor pollution like some of their cousins, but do we really need more pharmaceutical chemicals in our environment, and can we be sure it's safe?

Another review in 2012 by the European Environment Agency advised «a precautionary approach to many of these chemicals until their effects are more fully understood.»

They used the production of this green issue to learn more about their craft, its impact on the environment and the importance of news media going green.Columnists learned about the toxic chemicals common in photography, as well as, whether or not the paper their articles are printed on is worth its weight.

Basically, the campaign requests that restaurants stop buying bottled water for these reasons: - Tap water is no less safe than bottled water, especially if the tap is filtered - Restaurants will protect customers from the chemicals and pollutants found in various brands of bottled water - The city of San Francisco's water is tested more than 100,000 times each year, and it meets state and federal water quality standards that are stricter than bottled water standards - It's cheaper - It's better for the environment to end the manufacturing of plastic bottles - Focusing on using tap water will refocus monies towards the repair and maintenance of our water infrastructure

The Story of Broke, released on November 8, 2011, calls for a shift in government spending toward investments in clean, green solutions — renewable energy, safer chemicals and materials, zero waste and more — that can deliver jobs and a healthier environment.