Cancer remains to be at the top of the list of the most common causes of fatalities. This fatal disease can affect anyone. Could you be using, or even consuming, cancer-causing chemicals? And there are everyday items that increase the risk of cancer. These products contain a wide-range of carcinogenic and other toxic ingredients and […]
Is Towpath Trail At Cleveland Ohio Steelyard Commons Radioactive From Manhattan Project?
In Cleveland, Ohio, there is only one thing standing in the way of completing the Towpath Trail in the Ohio Canal Corridor and that is radioactive soil. The Towpath Trail – a planned 101-mile path following the historic Ohio & Erie Canal from New Philadelphia through the national park and into Cleveland to the lake […]
Sugar Helps Cancer Grow More Quickly, Study Finds
Pancreatic cancers use the sugar fructose, very common in the Western diet, to activate a key cellular pathway that drives cell division, helping the cancer grow more quickly, a study by researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found. Although it is widely known that cancers use glucose, a simple sugar, to fuel their […]
Aspartame Trap: You May Be Unknowingly Ingesting This Toxic Sweetner
The risk of artificial sweeteners is still very real. Aspartame is used as a substitute sweetener in thousands of products. Most diet sodas, processed foods and candies contain this ‘alternative’ to sugar. If you aren’t careful, you’ll easily run into it somewhere in your food. Aspartame is marketed not by its real name, but through […]
Safer Alternatives to Conventional Hair Color
Studies have shown that beauticians who are regularly exposed to hair dyes have an elevated risk of bladder cancer. Coal-tar derivatives are included in a vast majority of commercial hair-darkening products. The US government doesn’t do much to regulate hair dyes, although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does warn that several coal-tar ingredients are […]
Summer Of Radiation 2011
On March 11, 2011, we as humans have been presented with an unprecedented catastrophe never seen before in human history. The worlds worst nuclear accident occured at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. A 9.0 earthquake occured at 14:46 JST on Friday March 2011, with the epicenter near the island of Honshu. It […]