Traffic and air pollution may trigger heart attacks - Blackmores Australia:
"The researchers found that there was an association between travelling in cars, buses and while riding on a bicycle or motorbike and the onset of heart attack within one hour afterward. Of the cases of heart attack, eight percent were directly linked to the exposure to traffic."
This is a report about the investigations from the Augsburg Study Group. It makes for fascinating reading. Why do we persist in developing environments and lifestyles which kill and damage us? Don't people claim human beings are superior because they have brains? Well, I think we are behaving in a very irrational manner when it comes to our habitat! The Blackmore's site is a fount of information about health and environmental issues and constantly reminds me we make some very silly choices in our lifestyle and living environments. We no longer seem to be capable of developing a civilisation which is self sustaining and promotes the health and welfare of its people, yet we can create the most amazing things and we can do things like quadruple by passes and, liver transplants and micro surgery. What is the matter with us?
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