Never mind bodies.It’s the latest trend in self care, with women now using up to 10 products on their face as part of their daily routine. Is this focus on our skin healthy and helpful – or just an expensive new pressure?
Never mind kids in buggies.More than 4.5m affected, says UN group, while tests suggest children’s shorter height increases exposure on busy roads
More than 4.5 million children in the UK are growing up in areas with toxic levels of air pollution, the UN children’s organisation Unicef has warned.
Tests suggesting that children walking along busy roads are exposed to a third more air pollution than adults, as their shorter height places them close to passing car exhausts, were also released on Thursday.
The Unicef report found that almost a third of under-18s live in places with unsafe levels of small particulate pollution, including 1.6 million under-fives and 270,000 babies. The analysis is based on the World Health Organization limit set in 2005, which is 60% lower than the legal limit in England and Wales.
The tests on children’s exposure next to busy roads are relevant to the millions of children walk to school each day, with experts are advising that where practical parents choose quieter routes, away from traffic, as this can cut pollution exposure by almost two-thirds. Other scientists have suggested parents use covers on their prams and buggies during the school run to protect their infants from air pollution. Half of all children walk to school, but being driven to school by car instead can actually result in greater pollution exposure for those inside the vehicle, previous research has shown.
Your hatred of England as ever. Amsterdam gets a D+ - (lower than London) for air pollution levels,Scot Dutchy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 8:28 amSurprised?
Millions of British children breathing toxic air, Unicef warns
Never mind kids in buggies.More than 4.5m affected, says UN group, while tests suggest children’s shorter height increases exposure on busy roads
More than 4.5 million children in the UK are growing up in areas with toxic levels of air pollution, the UN children’s organisation Unicef has warned.
Tests suggesting that children walking along busy roads are exposed to a third more air pollution than adults, as their shorter height places them close to passing car exhausts, were also released on Thursday.
The Unicef report found that almost a third of under-18s live in places with unsafe levels of small particulate pollution, including 1.6 million under-fives and 270,000 babies. The analysis is based on the World Health Organization limit set in 2005, which is 60% lower than the legal limit in England and Wales.
The tests on children’s exposure next to busy roads are relevant to the millions of children walk to school each day, with experts are advising that where practical parents choose quieter routes, away from traffic, as this can cut pollution exposure by almost two-thirds. Other scientists have suggested parents use covers on their prams and buggies during the school run to protect their infants from air pollution. Half of all children walk to school, but being driven to school by car instead can actually result in greater pollution exposure for those inside the vehicle, previous research has shown.
Which index are you looking at? Must be British.Rum wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 8:42 amYour hatred of England as ever. Amsterdam gets a D+ - (lower than London) for air pollution levels,Scot Dutchy wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 8:28 amSurprised?
Millions of British children breathing toxic air, Unicef warns
Never mind kids in buggies.More than 4.5m affected, says UN group, while tests suggest children’s shorter height increases exposure on busy roads
More than 4.5 million children in the UK are growing up in areas with toxic levels of air pollution, the UN children’s organisation Unicef has warned.
Tests suggesting that children walking along busy roads are exposed to a third more air pollution than adults, as their shorter height places them close to passing car exhausts, were also released on Thursday.
The Unicef report found that almost a third of under-18s live in places with unsafe levels of small particulate pollution, including 1.6 million under-fives and 270,000 babies. The analysis is based on the World Health Organization limit set in 2005, which is 60% lower than the legal limit in England and Wales.
The tests on children’s exposure next to busy roads are relevant to the millions of children walk to school each day, with experts are advising that where practical parents choose quieter routes, away from traffic, as this can cut pollution exposure by almost two-thirds. Other scientists have suggested parents use covers on their prams and buggies during the school run to protect their infants from air pollution. Half of all children walk to school, but being driven to school by car instead can actually result in greater pollution exposure for those inside the vehicle, previous research has shown.
You forgot, he's committing tu quoque by bringing it up in the first place.pErvinalia wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 8:44 amYour Anglo-Saxon mindset can't comprehend how much better Dutch pollution is for you than British pollution..
According to the googles this morning, London was better than Amsterdam - even New York City was slightly better than Amsterdam, this morning. London was almost ideal at "1".Rum wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 2:00 pmIt does change and I certainly don't dispute that. My Anglo Saxon mindset, in all its adversarial nastiness however finds a certain Netherlandian Scottish deserter using such statistics to have yet another dig at the country he fled requiring of a degree of challenge.
I take a bath at Christmas, and another on my birthday, whether I need it or not.JimC wrote:To me, it would only be excessive if you were having a shower more than once a day...
http://www.womeninandbeyond.org/?p=13941Asylum seekers in detention in the United Kingdom are on strike. They object to being treated as trash. The action began last Friday at Harmondsworth IRC, Immigration Removal Centre. Over 300 prisoners staged a sit-down protest and hunger strike. They are protesting the fast-track deportation program; the toxic health care system; the lack of access to legal representation, and more: “They’re not running detention. It’s like prison over here.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/women ... stmas.htmlAt 615 prisoners, Harmondsworth IRC is one of Europe’s largest detention centers. It has always been an abomination. The conditions have always been inhumane. Last year, a surprise visit by the Chief Inspector of Prisons found mismanagement and worse: “A number of security procedures lacked proportionality. Separation was being used excessively and was not in line with the Detention Centre Rules. Disturbingly, a lack of intelligent individual risk assessment had meant that most detainees were handcuffed on escort and on at least two occasions, elderly, vulnerable and incapacitated detainees, one of whom was terminally ill, were needlessly handcuffed in an excessive and unacceptable manner. These men were so ill that one died shortly after his handcuffs were removed and the other, an 84 year-old-man, died while still in restraints. These are shocking cases where a sense of humanity was lost.”
Yarl's Wood has a reputation for being the UK's worst immigration removal centre. Radhika Sanghani goes inside and finds women struggling to gain access to medicine, counselling and basic privacy
Children aren't allowed there. I guess they either separate the children from the parent, or they go to a facility for parents with children together. Or, what? I guess it's possible that having a child in this circumstance means being released when one otherwise would be held -- but a Brit will have to set out the process for that.“I did not see a single face or hear the voice of another detainee. I was locked up for 38 hours with no exercise - every hour seemed like a year,” she says. “I started to challenge my mind to find the difference between a criminal and an asylum seeker. That day l felt like a criminal offender. As an asylum seeker we seek sanctuary but here in the UK we are treated as the outcast and the same way as the prisoners are treated.”
Shona was taken to Yarl’s Wood where she has been for over a month. This is because she was never officially given legal status in the UK. It is one of the UK’s 13 immigration removal centres, but is commonly known as the ‘worst’ after its endless reports of sexual abuse, hunger strikes and shocking healthcare. The centre is mainly for women – there are a few men in a separate unit – and children are no longer allowed to be held there, after an investigation suggested they were being badly treated.
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