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What are the health effects of outdoor air pollution?
Outdoor air pollution can cause your eyes and nose to burn, your throat to itch, and even breathing problems. Exposure to air pollutants at high levels over a long period of time may lead to cancer, birth defects, brain and nerve damage, and long-term injury to the lungs and breathing passages.
Air pollution affects everyone. Children [...]
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What is outdoor air pollution?
What is outdoor air pollution and how can I be exposed to it?
There are many sources of pollution outdoors, such as:
Emissions from cars and trucks
Power plants that burn fossil fuels
Factories and forest fires
Source: Department of Health and Human Services.
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How can the environment affect older women?
Pollutants in the environment can contribute to some illnesses that are more common in older adults. Indoor and outdoor air pollution can aggravate the symptoms of cardiovascular and lung diseases, including high blood pressure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and asthma. These conditions are more common in women over the age of 50 than in men [...]
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Can the environment affect women who are pregnant or nursing?
Exposure to some toxic substances — including lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, pesticides, solvents, and household chemicals — can increase the risk of miscarriage, preterm birth, and other pregnancy complications. These and other environmental toxins can also harm the developing bodies of fetuses and infants. Women who are pregnant or nursing or who plan to become [...]
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How can the environment affect children’s health?
Many types of environmental exposures are more harmful for children than for adults. There are many reasons for this:
Relative to their body weight, children eat, breathe, and drink more than adults do. So children take in higher concentrations of any toxins in their food, water, or air.
As organs develop, they are more likely to [...]
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How can the environment affect women’s health?
The environment is everything around you, indoors or outdoors. The air you breathe, water you drink, the ground you walk on, and food you eat are all part of your environment. It’s important that you know what things in the environment can affect your health and what you can do to help protect yourself and [...]
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Years of inhaling toxins and chemical can be a cause of lung or other various types of cancer
Air pollution, whether natural or man-induced, is neither good for man or any other life forms on planet earth. Naturally occuring air pollution can be caused by an erupting volcano spewing ashes in the atmosphere. Man-induced pollution, which was further increased by the industrial revolution, and be from factories, cars, and airplanes.
Although harmful to [...]
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The introduction of harmful materials into the earth’s atmosphere which harms life and environment
The introduction of harmful materials into the earth’s atmosphere which harms life and environment in the atmosphere is air pollution. In early days, when pollution was minor, our earth absorbed all the toxins and purified by itself which is impossible in the present day modern world.
Pollution has been raised up after the invention vehicles and [...]
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Lower your impact on the earth and your wallet
The cause of global warming is all around us. Your car, your garbage, even the lights you use to light your home can add to global warming, scary isn’t it? Well I have a tip to help lower your impact on the earth and your wallet.
Use your car less, I know this is a simple [...]
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The Risk of Living With Radon
Radon gas decays into radioactive particles that can get trapped in your lungs when you breathe. As they break down further, these particles release small bursts of energy. This can damage lung tissue and lead to lung cancer over the course of your lifetime. Not everyone exposed to elevated levels of radon will develop lung [...]
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