Alcohol and Health: Cheers!?
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How is alcohol handled in the body?
Alcohol is among the only drugs consumed regularly in the diet other than caffeine. It is water-soluble and distributed into all tissues and ...
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Allergens and Respiratory Irritants at Home
Philip J. Landrigan and Mary M. Landrigan
in Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Children are more susceptible to air pollutants than adults. Children live closer to the ground, breathe far more air pound per pound of body weight, have lungs that are still developing, ...
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Antibiotic Resistance
Mary Elizabeth Wilson
in Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is antibiotic resistance?
Antibiotic resistance describes the survival of bacteria when exposed to a concentration of an antibiotic that would normally kill them or stop their ...
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The Basics of Opioids and Opioid Addiction
Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein
in The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are opioids?
Opioids are a group of chemical compounds that can reduce pain, cause sensations of pleasure, and induce sleep. To have these and other effects on the human ...
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Beyond the Pill: Are There Other Options?
Beth Sundstrom and Cara Delay
in Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Almost 65% of U.S. women of reproductive age currently use a method of contraception, whether it’s “the pill,” patch, injection, vaginal ring, implant, intrauterine device (IUD), and/or ...
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Bioterrorism
Peter C. Doherty
in Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Could sophisticated terrorists initiate a pandemic?
Yes, that is a legitimate concern. Anything to do with those who are capable of extreme violence justified by delusional ...
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Birth Control Today
Beth Sundstrom and Cara Delay
in Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Birth control? Family planning? Contraception? What is the difference?
Talking about family planning, birth control, and contraception can be challenging.
Often confusing, ...
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A Brief History of Nutrition: Scientific Discoveries and Applications
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How do we know what we know about food and health?
We eat every day, and we know how food makes us feel. Perhaps because of this, many overlook that nutrition is a discipline ...
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A Brief History of Vaccines
Kristen A. Feemster
in Vaccines: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The conceptual foundations of vaccination were first documented in ancient Greece, where physicians observed that getting infected with a virus could prevent reinfection with that same ...
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The Changing Patterns of Disease in Children
Philip J. Landrigan and Mary M. Landrigan
in Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How have patterns of disease in children changed over the past century?
In 1900, a baby born in the United States could be expected to live to about 45 to 50 years of age. One in ...
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The Chemical Environment
Philip J. Landrigan and Mary M. Landrigan
in Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the origins of the chemical manufacturing industry?
The chemical manufacturing industry had its origins in Germany and Switzerland in the late 19th and early 20th ...
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Children’s Unique Vulnerability to Toxic Chemicals in the Environment
Philip J. Landrigan and Mary M. Landrigan
in Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Are children more vulnerable than adults to toxic chemicals in the environment?
Children are far more sensitive to toxic chemicals than adults. This sensitivity reflects the ...
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Conclusion: What Is the Future of Birth Control?
Beth Sundstrom and Cara Delay
in Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Beyond women?
As we have discussed in this book, an analysis of birth control encourages us to privilege the experiences and voices of women. It also, however, suggests that we ...
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Conclusions
Peter C. Doherty
in Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
The following summarizes key points and provides short comments on a few issues that come up in any discussion of global infectious disease.
Modern air travel links us all in a ...
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Consequences of Antibiotic Resistance
Mary Elizabeth Wilson
in Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the Most Important Consequences of having Infections Caused by Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria?
Several major consequences stand out. Infections caused by ...
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Consequences of Use: Adverse Events Associated with Use of Antibiotics in Humans
Mary Elizabeth Wilson
in Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the difference between an allergic reaction and an adverse reaction? What are the signs and symptoms of an allergic reaction?
All allergic reactions to a drug are adverse ...
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Contemporary Food Production, Buzzwords, and Pop Nutrition: Fact or Fiction?
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are “processed” foods, and how do they fit into a healthy diet?
Food processing transforms raw agricultural crops into food products. For many, “processed foods” carries a ...
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Creating a Colorful Plate: Vegetables and Fruits
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How do vegetables differ nutritionally?
Botanically, vegetables are the edible parts of plants and, thus, technically include fruits (the seed-containing, mature ovary). ...
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Criminal Justice Policy and the Opioid Epidemic
Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein
in The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the war on drugs?
The “war on drugs” refers to the primary US approach to addressing drug use since the early 1970s. While its roots can be traced to the anti-drug ...
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Daycare
Philip J. Landrigan and Mary M. Landrigan
in Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Finding the right caregiver for a child outside of home can be a challenge—financially, logistically, emotionally. An added concern, and surely one on most parents’ minds when touring a ...
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