Use this tag for questions regarding physical, chemical and biological factors that may affect human health.
Questions tagged [environmental-health]
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Does the oxygen level in the air drop at night or in the early morning?
There is a pseudoclaim that the oxygen level in the air drops at night and in the early morning (before dawn), and that the change is of sufficient magnitude to influence health.
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Is there a link between blood pressure and salt intake?
So I was reading Cracked article about health risk myths. The first entry was interesting:
[Myth #5] Salt Causes High Blood Pressure
[...] Countless more recent studies have utterly failed to back up the relationship between salt intake and high…
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Is Champix safe?
There are various reports of people feeling depressed and suicidal having taken Champix. What is the truth about this stop-smoking-pill?
The Daily Mail tell the story of a girl who took it and tried to kill herself -…
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Do air-conditioning systems help to spread SARS-CoV-2?
Newshub in New Zealand reported on March 9, 2020:
Scientists in Singapore may have found a clue as to how so many people aboard cruise ship the Diamond Princess ended up getting infected with COVID-19.
It appears the virus might be able to spread…
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Does forest therapy (Shinrin-yoku) improve the immune system?
According to shinrin-yoku.org, forests help to improve the immune system, including the part that fights cancer:
But in the past several decades there have been many scientific studies that are demonstrating the mechanisms behind the healing…
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Are cell phones harmful to male fertility if kept in trousers pocket?
Several studies or press articles suggest that keeping a cell phone in a male's trousers pocket (and cell phone usage in general) may harm that men's fertility (increase sperm issues):…
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Is the safety advice regarding asbestos consistent with advice about other risks?
The HSE in England advise in the FAQ section of their website here "Many cases of inadvertent, short-term exposure to asbestos will most likely have led to minimal exposure to fibres, with little likelihood of any long-term ill health effects" and…
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Does releasing hydroxyl (OH) into the air purify it safely?
Companies like Air Oasis have products that promise to purify the air by:
The Air Oasis brands of Air Purifiers that we carry use a unique nano Nickle catalytic hydration process to create powerful purifying hydroxyls, or hydroxyl ions (OH), which…
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Chemtrails : A dangerous govt. plot or just another debunked theory?
According to countless chemtrail research theories , trails left in the sky by high-flying govt. aircraft are dangerous chemical or biological agents deliberately sprayed for reasons undisclosed to the general public.
There are however, numerous…
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Do higher CO₂ concentrations increase plant well-being?
Dr. Craig Idso claims
increased levels of CO2 reduce the negative effects of a number of plant stresses including: high salinity, low light, high and low temperatures, insufficient water, air pollution, and protects against herbivores i.e. being…
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Is nuclear winter a doomsday scenario like the media depicts it?
While a nuclear war will obviously cause significant environmental harm to the earth, after doing some research on the subject I'm starting to find facts that make me question whether it would actually be a doomsday scenario like the media depicts…
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Are aluminum antiperspirants unhealthy?
It is regularly stated that aluminium is very bad for the brain, and for your general health. Is this true for antiperspirants?
Is Potassium alum more healthy or is this just about marketing ?
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Fan death in Korean and outside Korean
I have been reading some articles about Fan Death as a commonly held belief in Korea, although these days the younger generation seem to be dismissing it now for the myth that it had always been. I have not had any experience in the past of Korean…
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Do 1.5 million children die from pollution?
1.5 million children die every year from drinking polluted water.
www.unicef.in
From this.
Is that really true?
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Does intermittent opioid abuse have a long-term negative effect on health?
If somebody were to take 20mg of an opioid (for example, hydrocodone) twice a week every week, would there be any negative long-term effects?
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