Word: toxication
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chisso's trouble began in 1950 after it opened in the fishing port of Minamata an acetaldehyde factory that began to discharge effluents into Minamata Bay. One of the waste substances: a highly toxic methyl mercury compound that was passed up the food chain from tiny organisms to small fish to the larger fish that comprise a substantial part of the townspeople's diet. By 1953 the mercury contamination had reached a dangerous level in some people, who began to suffer the crippling symptoms of what is now referred to as Minamata disease. Howling in pain and racked...
...Ronsard, who studied esthétique corporelle (body aesthetics) at a Paris école supérieure, recommends a diet that eliminates those foods she believes will leave behind the "toxic wastes" that contribute to cellulite. The low-salt diet includes raw vegetables and fruit, skim milk, lean meats, poultry and fish. It also includes plenty of water to help flush out the system and foods chosen to assist the kidneys and digestive tract in the elimination of wastes. In addition, Ronsard recommends deep breathing, exercises such as jogging and gymnastics, massage to break up cellulite deposits, and relaxing...
Faulty Physiology. Doctors generally find fault with Ronsard's physiology. What the author calls cellulite is plain ordinary fat and certainly not toxic wastes, says Physiologist Marci Greenwood, a research associate at Columbia University's Institute of Human Nutrition. The dimpling effect, says Greenwood, often is caused by the loss of skin elasticity that occurs with aging. Nor is there any way to get rid of the dimpling. Exercise and proper diet may improve skin and muscle tone and make this excess adipose tissue less obvious, but it will not make it go away. Says Greenwood: "Body type...
...course, another and perhaps better way to deal with toxic solid waste would be to keep it out of the trash in the first place. How about a TIME article on ways to reduce some of that 125 million tons of garbage...
...fired power plants to coal by 1980 might at first glance seem worrisome to environmentalists because electric utilities have long argued that no existing technology can clean coal smoke. But the Environmental Protection Agency points to two recent studies showing that pollution-abatement devices now in use can remove toxic gases from smokestack emissions reli° ably and effectively. In any > case, says Michael McClos-8 key, executive director of the Sierra Club, "the limiting factor is not scrubbers, but whether we can produce sufficient coal supplies...