Endocrine disruptor

Plastics are a material currently being used all around the world. As the production of this synthetic polymer has increased, it has become almost impossible to completely avoid interaction with a plastic material. With the discovery of this practical material, positives and negatives were discovered too. Plastics have a strong effect on the environment and human health. During manufacturing, additives are put in that can be harmful to each of these important aspects. Due to their synthetic…

and the first evidence of the estrogenicity of bisphenol A came from experiments on rats conducted in the 1930s, but it was not until 1997 that adverse effects of low-dose exposure on laboratory animals were first reported. Bisphenol A is an endocrine disruptor that can mimic estrogen and has been shown to cause negative health effects in animal studies. To be specific, bisphenol A closely mimics the structure and function of the hormone estradiol with the ability to bind to and activate the…

habits. Many studies have identified potential environmental factors that may cause obesity and T2D; the most prominent being a combination of high caloric intake and inactivity. Other potential factors include smoking, sleep deprivation, and endocrine disruptors. The way that environmental factors and an individual’s predisposition can disturb cellular or physiological processes…

Judy is a 25 year old female born with autism. During my aunt 's pregnancy all seemed well, all tests that were taken when she was pregnant came out normal with no abnormalities. However during delivery there was some complications. Judy was without oxygen for ten to twenty minutes because the ambilical cord was wrapped around her neck and could not come out through the vaginal canal. Everytime the baby 's head came out, the ambilical cord retracted her back into the womb. In the process the…

Every year, millions of people lather on sunscreen, thinking it could protect them from skin damage and cancer. Every person is taught that the sun is the main reason for skin cancer. I started thinking a long time ago—if sunblock is to prevent skin cancer, why is the sun still to blame if we are adequately protected? The way sunblock is meant to work is by blocking the damaging UV and UVB rays. For many years now, the media would have you believe that you’re to use sunblock every time you’re…

and evaluation to build toward that claim? Ventura’s claim of policy is that the FDA should be able to control the chemical substances that companies put into their products, particularly when the chemicals are known carcinogens, neurotoxins, endocrine disruptors, or pose any other possible harm to the human body. In her article, Ventura admits that natural products don’t tend to be as satisfying as their harmful counterparts. The attractive properties of the beauty products that people desire…

Obesity has been affecting society for centuries. The rate of gaining weight and health related diseases have increased during the past decades. Farmers are using harmful chemicals, such as pesticides, to protect their crops from insects. Scientists and food companies are coating edible items with deadly chemicals to enhance their products’ flavor. Over twenty different kinds of chemicals are sprayed into the environment and in our food, increase the rate of obesity found in adolescents.…

The website Greenpeace.org hosts an article titled Fracking’s Environmental Impacts: Water. The article discusses the many dangers hydraulic fracturing or fracking poses to water sources both above and below ground. The article also discusses the effects of poor regulation of hydraulic fracturing operations the fracking fluid that is used in the hydraulic fracturing process. Greenpeace.org does not waste any time letting the reader know how they feel about the practice of hydraulic…

Herbstman, Antonia M. Calafat, Wei Xiong, Virginia Rauh, and Shuang Wang. "Prenatal bisphenol a exposure and child behavior in an inner-city cohort. This article talks about how Experimental laboratory evidence suggests that bisphenol A (BPA), an endocrine disruptor, is a neurodevelopmental toxicant. However, there have been limited and inconclusive results with respect to sex-specific BPA effects on child behavior. In this article it was also examined how the association between prenatal BPA…

CB3 Recycling Go outside, smell that, that 's fresh air but the air we breath ain’t as fresh as it should be. Don’t be trashy recycle. We should be saving the things that make fresh air not using all of before we can replace it.How much would it cost to have recycling places instead of landfills. When we recycle we are making the air smell better and fresher without fresh air it will be hard to breath and no one would want to breath anyways. “While many people believe it is okay to recycle,…