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Recent Examples of toxicant
Since toxicants can be found in both healthy and unhealthy foods, this research suggests that some foods can contain a mix of components that are both beneficial and harmful for sleep.
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Erica Jansen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
The incidence of obesity, kidney disease, and prostate disease increased in each subsequent generation after the first toxicant exposure.
—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 2 Feb. 2024
Interestingly, our group has recently shown that toxicants in food or food packaging, like pesticides, mercury and phthalates – chemicals used to manufacture plastics – can affect sleep.
—Erica Jansen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
Nicotine pouches are purportedly intended to help people stop smoking cigarettes, Irfan Rahman, PhD, who runs a lab that conducts research on toxicants at the University of Rochester Medicine, told Health.
—Maggie O'Neill, Health, 28 Nov. 2023
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Erica Jansen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
The incidence of obesity, kidney disease, and prostate disease increased in each subsequent generation after the first toxicant exposure.
—Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 2 Feb. 2024
Interestingly, our group has recently shown that toxicants in food or food packaging, like pesticides, mercury and phthalates – chemicals used to manufacture plastics – can affect sleep.
—Erica Jansen, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
Nicotine pouches are purportedly intended to help people stop smoking cigarettes, Irfan Rahman, PhD, who runs a lab that conducts research on toxicants at the University of Rochester Medicine, told Health.
—Maggie O'Neill, Health, 28 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toxicant
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But for consumers who do choose to partake, there's another layer of concern: Traces of other harmful substances like pesticides, molds and heavy metals might be lurking in a tasty-looking edible or nicely packaged vape.—
Brian Mann,
NPR,
3 Feb. 2025
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The lab also offers tips for helping birds, like putting markers on windows to avoid bird strikes, keeping cats indoors, avoiding pesticides and providing more natural habitat.—
Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Jan. 2025
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Environmental exposures: Exposure to toxic chemicals like herbicides (weed killers) or microplastics increases the risk of developing multiple myeloma.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
14 Feb. 2025
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One final note: In some lawns, annual bluegrass can become resistant to herbicides when the same herbicide has been used repeatedly over the years, says Waltz.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
12 Jan. 2025
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In Uganda, the national government has stopped spraying insecticide and distributing bed nets to pregnant women and young kids; during the country’s next rainy season, which spans from March to May, malaria cases and deaths may spike.—
Hana Kiros,
The Atlantic,
5 Feb. 2025
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Baits contain insecticide that may not only kill the roach who ingests it but that has a secondary transfer to other roaches who may eat that roach’s waste or the roach itself, says Benson.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
31 Oct. 2024
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Brown patch a disease is causes yellow areas in many lawns; apply a fungicide as needed.—
Tom MacCubbin,
Orlando Sentinel,
1 Feb. 2025
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Dipping the fresh-cut end in rooting hormone may also increase the rate of success, both to stimulate root formation and to discourage stem rot (some products contain a fungicide).—
Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Jan. 2025
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During the confirmation hearings, many senators expressed interest in efforts to address toxins and chronic health issues.—
Claire Bugos,
Verywell Health,
13 Feb. 2025
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The reason whooping cough can bring on such a gnarly, well, cough in the first place is because of how B. pertussis wreaks havoc: These bugs latch on to the cilia (a.k.a. tiny hairlike protrusions) on cells in your respiratory tract and ooze toxins, triggering inflammation and swelling.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
13 Feb. 2025
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Cleveland doctors would soon find a deadly dose of the same poison in her sister’s stomach.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
9 Feb. 2025
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Their days are taken up with shooting practice, lobster racing, pelting men with fruit, and slipping poison into unattended cups of tea—and best of all, there isn’t a damsel in distress in sight.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
9 Feb. 2025
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What these arguments fail to understand is that DEI protections were put in place for certain groups because of historically discriminatory hiring practices and to course-correct toxic, racist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, and sexist workplaces.—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
refinery29.com,
30 Jan. 2025
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This strategy has amplified his visibility but has also drawn criticism for aligning with internet personalities accused of toxic and, for some, abusive behaviors.—
Kia Turner,
refinery29.com,
28 Nov. 2024
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“Toxicant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toxicant. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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