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BVO and the Right Dose of Worry

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 04.03.2013 | Healthy Living
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David Katz, M.D.

BVO is much in the news of late. This is the ingredient a teenage girl noticed in her Gatorade, prompting her to find out what it was. Her investigation revealed potential health risks associated with BVO, and she started an online petition to get this ingredient out of her sports drink.

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Safe Home, Healthy Pets

Wendy Gordon | Posted 11.28.2012 | Green
Read More: Pesticides, Pet Care, Flame Retardants, Cancer, HOUSEHOLD CHEMICALS, Learning Disabilities, Dust, Brominated Flame Retardants, Green News
Wendy Gordon

Their lives are spent playing on lawns and sleeping on floors and as a consequence often have higher exposures to lawn and garden pesticides and to harmful chemicals in household products that can accumulate in dust. With these common exposures come shared risk.

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Brain Drain: Could Environmental Chemicals Cause Autism?

Wendy Gordon | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Lead, Bpas, Brominated Flame Retardants, Fetal Brain Development, Autism, Pcbs, Environmental Hazards, Asd, Phthalates, Methylmercury, Fetal Health, Healthy Living News
Wendy Gordon

It never occurred to me to worry about autism when I was pregnant in the '80s, but today it seems that few expectant parents haven't considered the possibility that autism might affect their child.

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