Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Respiratory Health

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Children In China Are Getting Sick: Parents Call For Government Action To Curb Smog Problem
By Angela Laguipo | Jan 07, 2017 08:48 AM EST
Chinese parents are calling for the government to do something with the toxic smog that has covered Beijing over the past week.
Lumber Liquidators Laminate Flooring are Cancerous, CDC Report Finds
By Cheri Cheng | Feb 22, 2016 09:28 AM EST
The CDC reported that laminate flooring from Lumber Liquidators can increase cancer risk by three times.
Why Women Have a Harder Time Breathing During Exercise
By Christine Hsu | Nov 07, 2013 09:37 PM EST
Women experience greater shortness of breath than men during exercise because their breathing muscles show greater electrical activation.
Pollution in Northern China Slashes 5.5 Years from Life Expectancy: Study
By Jennifer Broderick | Jul 09, 2013 02:49 AM EDT
A new study has analyzed the effects of the air pollution in China on the country's occupants, and found that the half-billion people alive there in the 1990s will live an average of 5 1/2 years less than their southern counterparts.
Hookah and Bong Smoke as Dangerous as Cigarettes, study finds
By S.C. Stringfellow | Aug 30, 2012 12:30 PM EDT
Researchers nix the common idea that filtered smoking decreases the toxicity of smoke inhaled from water pipes by suggesting that there is an increased prevalence and severity of respiratory symptoms among water pipe smokers and cigarette smokers, alike.

Did You Know?

Key to Healthier Mouth: Vick Handa Burlington Dentist On Best Oral Health Practices

According to an article published in 2018 in the New York Post, a study that evaluated the oral health habits of 2,000 millennials discovered that many of them don't keep their mouths as clean as they could. The study reported that three out of 10 millennials brush their teeth once a day, and that the average millennial participating in the survey has gone more than two days in a row without brushing their teeth even once. Yet, the survey says, more than half of those polled indicated that they're worried about losing their teeth as a result of poor oral health.