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What Your Zip Code Says About Your Health - Community

Reader Contribution By Jay Walljasper . Photo by Fotolia/pootsonnaja Tapping the power of place to keep us all healthy. One number stands above all others as the best indicator of good health.  It’s not your blood pressure, cholesterol level, average daily calories or even the age at which your grandparents die.  It’s your zip code. This fact has sent shockwaves across the county.  The chief aspiration of American democracy is that everyone deserves an equal opportunity for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  Yet medical evidence shows that people living in disadvantaged neighborhoods face greater health and mortality risks.

OPINION: Columnist terrified to let children play outside

The study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research into Public Health, was led by professor of child psychology Helen Dodd. It highlighted youngsters are not allowed out to play outside on their own until two years older than their parents  generation.  More than 1,900 parents of five to 11-year-olds were asked about their children’s play for the British Children’s Play Survey – the largest study of its kind. They found that children averaged three hours of play a day over the course of a year, around half of which took place outside. And the average age a child was allowed to play outside alone was 10.7 years, while their parents recalled being allowed out before their ninth birthday (8.9 years on average). 

Study Warns of Volunteer Firefighters Levels of Forever Chemicals

Study Warns of Volunteer Firefighters’ Levels of ‘Forever Chemicals’ May 5, 2021 Volunteer firefighters who comprise more than 65 percent of the U.S. fire service have higher levels of “forever chemicals” in their bodies than the general public. A Rutgers study, which was published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, compared the levels of nine per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the blood of volunteer firefighters against levels in the general population. The researchers found that the levels of two of the chemicals studied perfluorododecanoic acid (PFDoA) and perfluorodecanoic acid (PFDA) were higher in volunteer firefighters. They found PFDoA levels in 80 percent of the firefighters, but little in the general public.

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