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For RESEARCH REPORTS please click here. Articles in this section cover the relatively new disciplines of environmentally and ecologically related conditions and treatments. Visitors might also find the chemical sensitivities section useful. Please read the thumbnails below and click on the title to open the article. NB Biolab Medical Unit maintain a database of medical doctors specialising in nutritional and environmental medicine, and allergy. All doctors on the list are familiar with Biolab investigations and are either members of professional organisations for doctors working in this field or regularly attend Biolab workshops for doctors.
Toxic glue may penetrate food packaging – and the discovery of a non-toxic, vegetable-oil-based glue which could replace it. 07/10 Environmental Toxins Affect the Body's Hormone Systems Phthalate and antibiotic levels in the body plummet after five-day vegetarian diet. Research and article. Bisphenol A to be found in many favourite foods – article in The Independent Gay moths to help growers protect British apple crop Environmental Toxins – a lengthy article in TIME magazine on the millions of chemicals to be found everywhere in the environment from the Antarctic to baby's bottles, the realisation that far tinier molecules than had been thought have the power to harm human health, and the currently absurd situation that pertains in the US where chemicals are deemed to be safe unless the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can prove otherwise, rather than the precautionary approach which would deem every chemical to be dangerous until their makers can prove otherwise. 04/10 The future of food – Cressida Boyd checks out recent activity around our looming global food crisis. Dodgy drinking water... Healthy water – Sarah Merson reviews the case for water filtration and, if you choose to filter your water, how you might go about it. 2010 US wants farmers to use coal waste on fields US drinking water widely contaminated Thoughts on the nutritional and environmental potential of marine species and the pollution estuaries and coastal waters – Professor Michael Crawford – 12/09 BPA found in aluminium water bottles as well as plastic ones – and in tin cans... Infants in the USA exposed to unsafe levels of thyroid-damaging perchlorate. Lino versus vinyl – low allergen and environmentally friendly Ditch the bleach – for electrolyzed water Managing environmental Illness – Dr George Carlo – courtesy HealthKeepers Magazine Ecologist report on UK air pollution Are Contaminants Silencing Our Genes? Toxic nerve agents from airoplane engines can 'bleed' into ventilation systems causing serious and irreversible health damage to passengers and crew Are bees the new canaries? Nicky Greenham of www.chemicalfree.co.uk 2009 Plastics in the kitchen - a warning guide courtesy of Seventh Generation - 2009 Testing for health: an overview of some of the tests carried out at Breakspear Hospital – Michelle Berriedale-Johnson 2009 The Incurable Patient: MCS, EMHS and allied challenges Super E Homes - for the environment, for asthma and for allergies Iratherm – turning up the heat: an investigation into how raising the core body temperature could be positively curative – James Mallinson 2004
NB Information on this site is not a substitute for medical advice and no liability can be assumed for its use.
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