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...study was a leap of faith. "Doing this was the lesser of two evils," says Kimberly Carter, a Virginia resident whose daughter Hannah, 5, received a peanut-allergy diagnosis at a year old. "I was sure that at some point in her life, she was going to ingest peanuts, and there was a good chance she was going to die." Hannah recently had no adverse reaction after she downed chocolate pudding mixed with 5,000 mg of peanut protein - the equivalent of a dozen peanuts...
...illnesses are caused by fecal matter: A single gram of feces can contain 10 million viruses, 1 million bacteria, 1,000 parasitic cysts and 100 worm eggs. According to the estimates of one sanitation specialist George cites, each of the 2.6 billion people who live without sanitation may ingest up to 10 grams of fecal matter a day. The consequence is often diarrhea, which is a mere irritation in the West, but in the developing world a lethal condition that kills 2.2 million people a year - more than AIDS, tuberculosis or malaria. And it's all for lack...
...there is no evidence that exposure to aluminum increases the risk of developing Alzheimer's. Any aluminum that can be absorbed through the skin, says Bill Soller, who heads the Center for Consumer Self Care at the University of California, San Francisco, is minimal and probably safe. We ingest far more aluminum with our food, water and medications. "For the average person with healthy kidneys, using antiperspirants with aluminum does not represent a safety issue," he says...
...place to begin that transformation is in schools, since that's where children spend much of their waking lives--and ingest up to 50% of their daily calories. Here, Arkansas--a state that has had one of the nation's highest rates of childhood obesity--is in the vanguard. Led by Joseph Thompson, director of the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, the state in 2004 began tracking the BMI of more than 400,000 children, sending home confidential health reports to parents. BMI is an imperfect metric since it often mistakes a stocky or muscular kid for an obese...
When I was in third grade at the New Lincoln School in Manhattan, a clever sex education teacher showed my class a movie on drugs. In the style of classics like Reefer Madness, the film showed how different drugs were produced, how people could ingest them, and their extremely nasty side effects. Heroin was fashionable at the time, so glistening hypodermics and needle-tracked arms were prominently featured, along with short biographies of celebrities who had died of overdoses. Although the effect of such films on children today has probably been greatly diffused by constant exposure to drugs...