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Why Litter? Why Not?
Man, I love to throw shit out the window while I'm driving. There's nothing more satisfying than throwing garbage everywhere, and letting everything go to waste.
It Gets Blown
It Gets Thrown
It Gets Dumped
Consider the following:
June 10, 2004 -- Weather forecast: cloudy, with chance of migraine.
You won't likely see that forecast in your local weather report. But a new study shows that changes in the weather mean migraine headaches for some people. And it may affect half of all migraine sufferers.
The report comes from Marcelo E. Bigal, MD, PhD, director of research at the New England Center for Headache in Stamford, Conn., and assistant professor of neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
Bigal and colleagues had 77 migraine patients keep detailed headache diaries for up to two years. Using National Weather Service data, they checked on the kinds of weather linked to migraine attacks.
An impressive 51% of the patients had weather-related migraines. However, 62% of the patients thought their headaches were linked to the weather. And few of the patients predicted the kind of weather linked to their migraines.
That's because it wasn't so much the weather itself as a change in weather that brought on migraines.
"The one constant in weather-triggered migraines is change," Bigal says in a news release. "We're realizing more and more that change -- or fluctuation -- is a major factor in migraine triggers, whether it's change in sleep patterns, estrogen levels, or weather."
Different kinds of weather change affected different patients:
What's going on?
"The brains of migraine sufferers are extremely sensitive, and stimulation that has no effect on most people can trigger migraines in those prone to them," Bigal says.
REFERENCE: http://www.webmd.com/migraines-headaches/news/20040610/weather-change-can-bring-on-migraine
PERSONAL COMMENT:
Heavy Mobile Phone Use Increases Cancer Risk
According to Kjell Hansson Mild, who led the study, heavy users of mobile phones have a 240 percent increased risk of developing a malignant tumor on the side of the head where they press the phone to their ear.
Published in the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, the study defines “heavy use” as 2,000 hours of mobile phone use in the course of a decade, which "corresponds to 10 years' use in the work place for one hour per day."
Of the 2,200 cancer patients in the study, who ranged in age from 20 to 80 years old, 905 had a malignant brain tumor and just under one-tenth of that number were heavy mobile phone users.
"Of these 905 cases, 85 were so-called high users of mobile phones, that is they began early to use mobile and/or wireless telephones and used them a lot," said the authors of the study in a statement issued by the Institute.
In addition, the study concluded that early users, defined as people who started using a mobile phone before age 20, are also at greater risk of developing a malignant brain tumor.
The study also took into account factors such as smoking habits, working history and exposure to other known cancer-causing agents.
Limit Mobile Calls and Use Handsfree Options
Hansson Mild advised that the best ways for consumers to lower their risk of cancer related to mobile phones are to use their wireless phones less frequently and to use handsfree options when they do make or receive mobile calls. He said the research report about the study is not intended to cause public alarm or to raise concerns about widespread risk for the majority of people who use mobile phones.
"It does however give reason to use caution when calling on wireless phones,” he said in an interview with Dow Jones. “Use handsfree and avoid wireless when possible.”
REFERENCE: http://environment.about.com/od/healthenvironment/a/cancerphones.htm
PERSONAL COMMENT:
I use my phone almost everyday and i was shocked knowing that I can have a brain tumor!!! I want to inform everyone about this because most of us didn't know that too much use of cellphone can lead us to death. After reading this article, I thought i cannot relate this to environmental issues but since most of the post are about effects of technology, pollutions etc.. I realized i can have this issue and I also wanted to spread the news. So after reading my post, you should limit using cellphones.