Sunday, December 19, 2010

Air Pollution Associated with Diabetes

SHELTON BLOG NOTE:

The Adage and new Simpson incinerators will spew large amounts of particulate matter 2.5 which is the pollutant in the study below. There is no real doubt about the hazards of PM 2.5. This has been clear for some time and the case against it will continue to be strengthened with more and more scientific evidence. This is now a moral issue. This is clearly a profits vs. people issue. Adage and Simpson and the rest must be stopped.


Excerpt from:
Air Pollution Appears to Foster Diabetes
Findings confirm previously published animal data
By Janet Raloff

A pair of new studies — one in the United States, another in Germany — reports strong evidence that diabetes rates climb with increasing air pollution in the form of tiny airborne particles.

“Although previous studies had hinted at this possibility, the data were mostly from small studies or from animals exposed to high levels of particulate matter,” notes Aruni Bhatnagar, a cardiovascular researcher at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, who did not take part in either study. He says the new data provide important and more rigorous evidence that real-world pollution may be tampering with blood sugar control in a large and growing number of people.


View the entire article at:
www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/63971/title/Airpollutionappearstofosterdiabetes

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