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A parable about environment and our daughters’ health
Although this book is backed by scientific references, the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the fetal impact of DES are often referred to as complex, which is not really the case. A clearer mechanistic discussion, vital to non-scientists who make critical decisions on new drugs and chemicals that impact our safety, could have been provided through more careful presentation.
Otherwise, Toxic Bodies provides a well-documented narrative that exposes the DES legacy and interweaves it with accounts of other estrogen-like contaminants that are saturating our environment, such as pesticides and plastics, which the author convincingly contends will have yet-to-be-identified harmful effects on our daughters for generations to come
- Bodies In Motion
Laurie Anderson - Bodies In MotionWe embody the spirit of motion.We're bodies in motion. We're bodies in motion.We dig down in the ocean. Swing up to the stars.We own the moon and the earth. We're masters of Mars.We're bodies in motion....
- Como Fazer Amor De Forma Sustentável E Ecológica (é Mesmo Um Aritgo No Ecologist De Novembro)
How to have sex (sustainably and ethically) Eifion Rees9th November, 2010 Kicking off a new series of 'how to...' we show you the most satisfying way to 'green up' your lovemaking between the sheets. Now relax, lie back and think of the...
- Câmaras Digitais, Componentes E Meio Ambiente
Vai para férias? Adora tirar imensas fotos e a Natureza? As câmaras digitais são mais amigas do ambiente. Irei tentar saber do ranking de marcas mais eco-amigas. Por agora fica este texto. Digital cameras are good for the environment 01.02. 2005...
- Naked People Are Popular. {nudity}
I’ve noticed that if one attaches the words “naked”, “nude”, “nudity” or “adult” to one’s work, they’re bound to get more people interested in their written material.It’s like we’re all still 10 years old and trying...
- Dossiê Pesticidas
ATENÇÃO © Copyleft - É permitida a partilha do dossiê exclusivamente para fins não comerciais e desde que o autor e o BioTerra sejam citados. Los pesticidas, venenos confesosNão esqueças de visitar regularmente este espaço para manteres-te...
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Livro-Sítio da semana: Corpos Tóxicos (Toxic Bodies) por Nancy Langston
Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES [sítio] explores why our environment has become saturated with synthetic chemicals that disrupt hormones, and asks what we can do to protect human and environmental health. Since World War II, these chemicals have penetrated into every aspect of our bodies and ecosystems, yet our government has largely failed to regulate them.
At the center of Toxic Bodies is the troubling case of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic hormone that poisoned women, workers, children, and livestock, consumers, and wildlife. Although researchers knew that DES caused cancer and disrupted sexual development, doctors prescribed it for millions of women, initially for menopause and then for miscarriage, while farmers gave cattle the hormone to promote rapid weight gain. Its residues, and those of other chemicals, in the American food supply are changing the internal ecosystems of human, livestock, and wildlife bodies in troubling ways.
Toxic Bodies argues that the industry and the federal government knew as early as the 1940s that these chemicals caused cancer and disrupted sexual development. Yet they were approved by regulatory agencies and widely marketed to producers and consumers. Toxic Bodies explores how scientific uncertainty has been manipulated to delay regulation, and shows how we can use history to make better policy.
A parable about environment and our daughters’ health
Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, June 2010
Although this book is backed by scientific references, the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the fetal impact of DES are often referred to as complex, which is not really the case. A clearer mechanistic discussion, vital to non-scientists who make critical decisions on new drugs and chemicals that impact our safety, could have been provided through more careful presentation. Otherwise, Toxic Bodies provides a well-documented narrative that exposes the DES legacy and interweaves it with accounts of other estrogen-like contaminants that are saturating our environment, such as pesticides and plastics, which the author convincingly contends will have yet-to-be-identified harmful effects on our daughters for generations to come
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- Bodies In Motion
Laurie Anderson - Bodies In MotionWe embody the spirit of motion.We're bodies in motion. We're bodies in motion.We dig down in the ocean. Swing up to the stars.We own the moon and the earth. We're masters of Mars.We're bodies in motion....
- Como Fazer Amor De Forma Sustentável E Ecológica (é Mesmo Um Aritgo No Ecologist De Novembro)
How to have sex (sustainably and ethically) Eifion Rees9th November, 2010 Kicking off a new series of 'how to...' we show you the most satisfying way to 'green up' your lovemaking between the sheets. Now relax, lie back and think of the...
- Câmaras Digitais, Componentes E Meio Ambiente
Vai para férias? Adora tirar imensas fotos e a Natureza? As câmaras digitais são mais amigas do ambiente. Irei tentar saber do ranking de marcas mais eco-amigas. Por agora fica este texto. Digital cameras are good for the environment 01.02. 2005...
- Naked People Are Popular. {nudity}
I’ve noticed that if one attaches the words “naked”, “nude”, “nudity” or “adult” to one’s work, they’re bound to get more people interested in their written material.It’s like we’re all still 10 years old and trying...
- Dossiê Pesticidas
ATENÇÃO © Copyleft - É permitida a partilha do dossiê exclusivamente para fins não comerciais e desde que o autor e o BioTerra sejam citados. Los pesticidas, venenos confesosNão esqueças de visitar regularmente este espaço para manteres-te...