Word: toxication
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Grewal, who is also vice president of the Harvard Wilderness Alliance, says that environmentalism has been making a concerted effort to expand its support base to include poor urban residents, who may be endangered by toxic sites in their neighborhoods...
...fact, there is more than one way to interpret the neurotoxicity research. For one thing, observes Wurtman, animals don't necessarily respond to drugs the way humans do. The toxic dose of Redux in a monkey is only twice the therapeutic dose, but the therapeutic dose in a monkey is much higher to start with--as much as 10 times that of a human. It's therefore highly unlikely, he says, that a human user would...
...interplay of heredity and environment, they tend to fall into camps in explaining how aging works. Wear-and-tear theorists hold that living itself is fundamentally dangerous. The same breath that gives and sustains human life produces oxygen radicals, unstable compounds that when combined with just about anything, have toxic effects on cells. Add to that the weakening over time of the immune system, which leads the body's fight against disease, and decline is inevitable. Biologists are now experimenting on rats and rhesus monkeys to see if restricting the intake of calories (while maintaining healthy nutrient levels) will slow...
...women's squash teams, which collectively have lost only one match in the last four years. True, it would be a major upset if this soccer team won the national title, but one can certainly expect the Crimson to treat the rest of the Ivy League like toxic sludge--as in, disposed of as quickly as possible...
...OSTEOARTHRITIS of the knee, one of the most common forms of disabling arthritis, is much more likely to progress in people who get less than about 200 IUs of vitamin D daily. But using supplements can be risky; in large doses the vitamin is toxic...