Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, September 14, 2022 11:33 PM Baltimore City health leaders are working to stop the spread of both COVID-19 and monkeypox. |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, September 14, 2022 11:27 PM SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - On average, every six hours in Illinois someone is killed with a gun. The state has the ninth highest rate of gun homicide in the country. Ten months ago... |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, September 14, 2022 11:07 PM Police said the missing man, Robert Gage, is diagnosed with cognitive impairment, posing a credible threat to his health and safety. |
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Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, September 14, 2022 9:05 PM CHICAGO - The Brookfield Zoo community is lamenting the passing of a 27-year-old brown bear named Jim, who greeted millions of guests during his time at the sanctuary. Animal... |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, September 14, 2022 8:05 PM Is there a single dietary supplement out there that helps with everything as we age? Probably not, but local researchers have certainly found some "promising" results when it... |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, September 14, 2022 7:41 PM A new study out of Finland found that it's vital to move around throughout the day - even if you exercise regularly. |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, September 14, 2022 7:41 PM The Florida Department of Health has confirmed the first case of Monkeypox at Orange County Public Schools was recorded this week. |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, September 14, 2022 7:29 PM Looking to get the new omicron booster or your kids need another COVID vaccine? The city will give you $75 if you roll up your sleeves for either shot this weekend. Those who... |
Health feed - News BreaK Wednesday, September 14, 2022 7:11 PM The hospital officially opened the new unit on Tuesday |
WebMD Health Wednesday, September 14, 2022 6:57 PM Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are taking on different roles -- starring in a new campaign to raise awareness about the importance of screening for colon cancer. |
Mark's Daily Apple Wednesday, September 14, 2022 7:24 PM Are you wearing sustainable fabric? It matters. The provenance of your shirt, pants, and underwear isn't just aesthetic or ornamental. It's serious stuff. Consider food, which isn't that different from clothing. Textile production is an industrial process, with all the economies of scale and chemical adulteration that entails. Just as processed food bears increasingly little resemblance to whole food, clothes are not "whole textiles." They are processed junk fabric enhanced with plastic fibers and many of the same chemicals we try to limit in our foods. But there's better clothing out there, just as there's better food. There's clothing made of sustainable fabric—fabrics that sustain life, rather than detract from it. When I say "sustainable," I'm not thinking about the planet as much as I'm thinking about the health of my own body and my family's. For if something is going to be sustainable on a global level, it must first be a sustainable fabric for the individual. It has to support the life of the organism that populates the planet and is indeed part of the planet. Again, let's refer back to food. If a diet isn't compatible with good health in the population, how can it be good for the planet? Is there any situation where a diet heals the planet and its biological systems while leaving the individual animals who eat it sickly, diseased, weak, and infertile? Of course not. For clothing to be made with truly sustainable fabric, it must be good for individual health and the environment. No other definition of "sustainable" is acceptable. And so when determining the sustainability of a given fabric, we have to consider the health impacts. The Best Sustainable Fabrics Organic Cotton Cotton is the most common and widely available natural fiber, but it's also very popular with the bugs. Cotton plants produce nutritious and energy-dense fruits throughout the growing cycle, making it irresistible and leading to heavy pesticide usage. Conventional cotton is the most heavily treated crop in the world, responsible for a lion's share of total global pesticide applications—despite covering just a fraction of the world's cropland. GMO cotton engineered to repel the most common cotton pests with an in-house toxin worked briefly but ultimately led to resistance to the engineered toxin, necessitating more pesticide usage and triggering a chemical arms race between farmers and pests that continues to this day. In fact, Indian cotton farmers use more pesticides now than they did before the introduction of GMO cotton. I was unable to find any evidence of the pesticides used in cotton production residing in the finished fabric and then leaching into human skin, but skin is permeable. These things happen. Washing reduces any surface-level chemicals added to the cotton, but those bound to the fibers itself may remain. Again, there's not a lot of research on this topic, perhaps because it's one they'd rather not broach. Linen Linen is an ancient sustainable fabric with prehistoric roots—as far back as 30,000 years in present-day Georgia and 10,000 years … Continue reading "A Guide to Choosing Sustainable Fabrics" The post A Guide to Choosing Sustainable Fabrics appeared first on Mark's Daily Apple. |
