“Childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century,” reports the World Health Organisation (WHO).
“The problem is global and is steadily affecting many low- and middle-income countries, particularly in urban settings…Globally, in 2010 the number of overweight children under the age of five, is estimated to be over 42 million. Close to 35 million of these are living in developing countries.”
Category : Lifestyle
At some point in our lives, cancer will rear its monstrous head — either to us directly or to the people we love.
With 40% of Americans expected to get some form of cancer, the threat is a disarming and harrowing one.
And according to a new report, American are swimming in a deadly, toxic stew of carcinogenic chemicals which threaten to drag ever more of us into cancer’s waiting jaws.
Who could have guessed that industrial chemicals and pesticides could do such serious damage to the human body?
While this news may not be a shocker to Green Chip Living readers, what you might find shocking is that this report didn’t come from an environmentalist organization, a natural health guru, or an organic farming committee… It came from one of the most mainstream medical coalitions in the country: the President’s Cancer Panel.
The report is called “Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now” and its content echoes the title…
