Air pollution is more dangerous than we thought
Categories: Womens Health, Diet & Weight Loss
Obviously, air pollution is bad for everyone's health. That's the very definition of pollution. But a recent, very large, study of over 65,000 people shows that air pollution is much, much more dangerous than previously believed. This study, which is bigger and more detailed than previous research, looked primarily at women's health and found the risk of pulmonary and heart related problems to be almost directly proportionate to the pollution levels in different neighborhoods. Armed with this latest information, experts are pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to lower it's annual standard for the "fine particulates" that are used to measure air pollution levels.
Maybe I'm just really ignorant about pollution, but I've always thought it was made up of mostly microscopic particles. This article says that it would take only 30 of these particulates to equal the thickness of a human hair...that is scary big!
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Jay 2-03-2007 @ 12:13PM
In combination with the recent report that living within 10 miles of a highway/freeway impairs the lung development of children, city living looks more dangerous than ever.
I wonder how good the air quality is here where I live - in Orange County just a few miles inland from the beach but close to a freeway. I know we have better air quality than those farther inland but I wonder how much better.
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