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One of the worst beverages ever invented is the soda pop, also known as soft drink. It is a proven health hazard. ‘Soft drinks contain little to no vitamins or other essential nutrients. However, it is what they do contain that is the problem: caffeine, carbonation, simple sugars — or worse, sugar substitutes — and often food additives such [...]

Touted as a clean, renewable, and environmentally-friendly energy source, wind power may have its ‘own environmental problems.’ The energy source’s infrasonic waves produced by the windmills’ rotors may cause health problems in humans that manifest in muscle pains, headaches, tremors, and insomnia. Incidences in Japan have been reported. “Wind-power [...]

When smokers flick their cigarette butts to the ground, these materials aren’t just considered trash. These butts are actually toxic materials that are undeniably hazardous to the environment, to say the least. It is said that it takes a lifetime for the cigarette butt to decompose, if even ever it does. It is said that ‘cigarette butts are not [...]

McDonalds is in the news for, unfortunately, the wrong reasons, reasons which are quite gross and may turn you completely off fast food. Not many people would have the stomach to reach over for some French fries after this bit of news. A 7 year old girl allegedly found a condom inside her order of French fries from McDonalds. Unlike in the case of packaged [...]

There are chemicals found in pharmaceutical products that are also used in other industrial and manufacturing purposes. Lithium is used for the treatment of bipolar disorder, as well as for making ceramics. Nitroglycerin is a medication for the heart, as well as an ingredient in bomb-making. Copper is in contraceptives, as well as wires and pipes. The [...]

There’s an irony to the current raging recession. While millions have lost their jobs, livelihood, and their healthcare plans in all probability, getting promoted at work may also be hazardous to one’s health. Upward mobility at the workplace may not augur too well with one’s physical and mental health. The logic is simple if we are to go by [...]

Countless tactics to scare smokers out of their nasty habit have been employed to all and sundry. Nothing seems to have worked significantly since smoking has not abated in the world, smoking being a physical and psychological addiction. This latest ploy in India to alarm smokers has not lessened the smoking phenomenon in the country one whit. Six Inches [...]

While the developed countries of the West are strict with their safety regulations in the manufacture of toys and other products, the countries where defective items are shipped are not as stringent. Thus, these importing countries become dumping ground for what are considered inferior products in the West. Blame it on some degree of colonial mentality, [...]