>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071228/ap_on_re_us/aging_west
>
> as long as your sitting ducks for asthma and lung institutes and cancer
> hospitals and more and more hospital annexes and directly in path of coal
> pollution, oil refineries and concentrated exhausts with a city prettty
> much
> in denial about how to remedy it or to not even care about worsening
> traffic conditions to maybe improve
> things. I see the exact same things happeening here for coming ten years.
> ,
> You can bank on your kids getting more pollution, , more violence, (then
> average) kids not learning, and horrible health ratings and ads to target
> you from illness put upon you for no reason then because politicians let
> it
> happen.
> cares. Saw that guy Chitwood from homicide talk about murder or cab driver
> ( another murder how surprising) the guy who is probably over 50 also
> looks
> way older then his
> years. and its a shame,, seems like a good guy At a certain point if you
> can
> tell me how to do well in retiirement or
> anyother way when we have the least percentage of days with good air then
> most big cities and number 2 in state for asthma and green house
> pollution,,, . You would then not be surprised we are number one for
> asthma
> ,
> respiratory disease, respiratory death and higher then normal in cancers
> heart disease and number one in nation for depression. We do horrible in
> education and we are one of the worse for violence .most of all your not
> told any of this by your newstations
>
>
>
>
>
> when you ignore the number one city or two city with asthma and
> respiratory
> deaths and respiratory prescriptions and when you can compare our number
> of
> health commercials with other cities and when your graphs also show the
> number of days we get good air in total to other communities then I might
> believe but I know what they are . For example one graph said Philly had
> 200
> days of good air last year, which was totally outrageous lies. It may have
> reached good but many if not most of those days were in moderate zone or
> worse most of the time. . Thats one way of getting to say whatever you
> want
> without showing the reality of the situation.
>
> this is the link to air pollution and danger in exercising in it.
>
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=healthcheck&id=5653450
>
>
>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070914/ap_on_sc/smog_study;_ylt=Aivfwa5A9fYk4.Q4F5t...
>
>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070918/hl_afp/ushealthvirusclimate
>
>
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jul2007/clim-j19.shtml>
> us life expectency falls to 42nd
>
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2147617,00.html
>
> now heart disease worsens because of it.
>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/heart_pollution_dc
>
> pollution and heart disease
>
>
http://www.ionizers.org/Heart-Disease.html
>
> parituclate pollution dangers
> Ultra-fine particulate matter has been linked with premature death,
> cardiovascular disease and respiratory illness, according to the
> California
> Air Resources Board. Though it takes Americans an average of 25 minutes to
> drive to work, according to 2005 U.S. Census Bureau figures, the board
> estimates that over 50%% of a person's daily exposure to ultra-fine
> particles
> can occur during a commute.
>
> Likewise, a 2005 study by researchers at the University of Southern
> California's Keck School of Medicine showed that long-term exposure to
> ambient particulate matter may contribute to atherosclerosis, the
> hardening
> and narrowing of the arteries.
>
> "Particle pollution kills people, whether they're breathing it in over a
> short period or day in and day out for a year," Nolen says. "It's not like
> being hit by a car, but it shortens the lives of people by months to
> years."
>
> Even if you live in a city with low pollution levels, don't kid yourself;
> that doesn't necessarily mean your commute is healthy. A 2007 report by
> the
> Clean Air Task Force that investigated diesel exhaust levels during
> commutes
> in New York, Boston, Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, documented diesel
> particle levels four to eight times higher inside commuter cars, buses and
> trains than in those cities' ambient outdoor air.
>
> The only commutes found to be low in diesel exposure were those on
> electric-powered subways and commuter trains, buses running on alternative
> fuels or retrofitted with diesel particulate filters, and in cars
> traveling
> with little truck traffic
>
>
>
> Exercising in polluted air causes harm
>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-rock-positano/exercising-outdoors-in-ma_b_66171...
>
>
>
> DEATHS caused by pollution
>
> Dying For a Change -
>
>
> Here's one small reason to join the save-the-environment cause: new
> research indicates that some 40 percent of deaths worldwide are a
> direct effect of air, water, and soil pollution. Dirty air contributes
> to cancer and birth defects; unclean water accounts for 80 percent of
> all infectious diseases; and contaminated soil passes toxics to
> unwitting humans through direct contact or via food. According to
> researchers' review of data from more than 120 published papers,
> pollution combined with population growth contributes to
> malnourishment and disease susceptibility in 3.7 billion people, or
> about 57 percent of the world population. In 1950, when a mere 2.5
> billion humans roamed the earth, only 20 percent of the population was
> malnourished. Says lead researcher David Pimentel, "We have serious
> environmental resource problems of water, land, and energy, and these
> are now coming to bear on food production, malnutrition, and the
> incidence of diseases."
>
> straight to the source: Science Daily, 14 Aug 2007
>
> straight to the source: The Ithaca Journal, Topher Sanders, 13 Aug
> 2007
>
>
>
> assume people walk for a cure while not possibly realizing or caring they
> are doing more harm possibly by taking long walks and living in polluted
> air
> , or not worrying about their diet then worrying about a drugs and
> hospitals looking for a cure i. Maybe they don't need to give medical
> centers more money , because I can't think of a single drug that will
> reverse asthma or probably other cancers once they get it from the
> environment (if that can be proven). Since
>
> The
> biggest differences in quality of health when everything else is the same
> like diet and bad habits is the differences between people who live and
> work in polluted air near coal and industry and refineries the most time
> and those that don't. , People who wait in long traffic lines and live
> near
> crowded malls or work in heavy traffic are much much more prone ot lives
> of
> devastation from illness and yet they are rarely connected to the
> pollution
> levels and this is in fact on purpose. What I have seen in the last twenty
> years is babies crying more often , people who sleep less, people who get
> more depression , asthma and respiratory illness often at exactly no fault
> of their own and politicians and newsmakers completely in together in
> ignoring the implications. The most incredible indifference to human
> suffering I have ever seen in my life. continues... so help me god.well
> what
> if its a multiple choice of reasons. Face it some people were born
> too sensitive or different but I can't prove it. What I think I have done
> greatly is alerted as many people as possible about the dangers of
> pollution
> (coal , transportation exhausts) , global warming and subsequent ill
> effects
> ignored for the most part by the people who have the ability to lessen
> them.. Whats that say about this world? I had to scream every day and tell
> people I can't breathe which I couldn't before someone did some things but
> the percentage of time people get good air is still too few. That wouldn't
> be so bad had it not been the case they are cheated out of good health and
> still are and not told. Why should I care If they don't? It says the world
> is a very depressing place to live if we default to harming people and
> when
> people complain , make a timeline for 2020 to fix it while the people who
> profit by it get to keep doing it. . what kind of role models do we get
> for
> allowing this to happen. I am saying people in PHilly and pa are being
> allowed to lose their health for no good reason when so much more can be
> done now. ( also in many other areas close to pollution and on east coast.
>
>
