More people die prematurely because of the air they breathe than the 2.8 million who die each year of HIV/AIDS and malaria combined.
That's the startling statistic from a new study in this week's journal Nature. The annual global death toll from outdoor air pollution is 3.3 million. (Premature death is a medical term that means a usually preventable death that occurs before expected — for instance, earlier than the life expectancy of age 78 in the U.S.).
If the world carries on business as usual — that is, the businesses of agriculture, traffic, industry and residential cooking and heating — that number is predicted to double by 2050.
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DON'T believe this crap. Consider the source. This journal is an EPA friend. Most of the problems, even with asthma and other breathing problems can be traced to a poor diet. people eating processed foods, high carb diets, high sugar diets and drinking anything but water, no fruits or veggies or high fiber grains that are non-GMO, etc. will have major health issues. what i have just described is the diet of most Americans. so what do we expect?
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