Living with the fear of bad air? If you're in a heavily-industrialized city in the U.S. or anywhere, you probably have the term "smog" stamped on your forehead. It's pretty well-known that too much smog inhalation is, umm, not really good for health.
Even if you are a young, healthy adult,
bad air quality can trigger adverse health complications, according to a new respiratory study of of Taiwan (of all places). If you've ever seen Taipei, you'll know smog all too well.
The issue here is that these adverse conditions involve possible cardiovascular problems -- even in these young adults. We're not talking about the elderly or toddlers with overexposed or underdeveloped respiratory systems, but completely healthy people. If one were to do a chemical analysis of smog in many cities, I'd be afraid to look at the results. You?
Revolution Health has a new interactive tool, momScore, that ranks states based on the accessibility and quality of maternal health care. To determine the score, a team of health experts compared state-to-state criteria including:
Though he claims he never had allergies before moving here to my hometown 10 years ago, my husband came home after a recent allergy test with a sheet filled with items that he reacted to. While I doubt all of his allergies cropped up in the last decade, I do know that our area is bad for people who suffer respiratory illnesses. Though we have no intentions of moving, if we ever do, air quality will definitely be on my list of things to consider.
It's amazing to hear that nearly two billion citizens across the globe could create a rising amount of poor health due to the rise of "dirty energy."
Not too many people I know of are fans of smog. Wait a minute -- scratch that; nobody I know of likes smog. If you're not into smog, you probably look for places to live and work that have decent air quality. It's too bad that one of the most exciting cities on the planet, Low Angeles, 
How "good" is the air you breathe each and every day? If you live in a big city, the quality is probably not the best in the world -- and in fact, it can be downright tyrannical over your respiratory system in some cases. I've known some people who had to move due to having bad respiratory conditions due to local air.
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