SOME RELATION BETWEEN OUR HEALTH AND OUR ENVIRONMENT

RIVM rapport 270555009 Our food, our health

P.O. Box 1 3720 BA Bilthoven The Netherlands www.rivm.nl/en Our food, our health Healthy and unhealthy diets receive a lot of attention nowadays, and there are good reasons for this. Each year, overweight and unfavourable dietary composition account for thousands of new cases of illness and unnecessary deaths. The number of young people and adults who are overweight is increasing. Foodborne inf...

To save our environment

An algorithmic approach to constructing mixed-level orthogonal and near-orthogonal arrays Quasi Monte Carlo simulations of Brownian sheet with an application to interest rate stochastic string model A method for generating uniformly scattered points on the Lp-norm unit sphere and its application in statistical simulation A new class of model-robust designs A method for screening active effects ...

Our children and the environment.

The publication of research articles in this issue of Environmental Health Perspectives and papers from two important symposia concerning children and their environments in the June issue of EHP Supplements is an encouraging sign of increased attention to the importance of scientific research on the relationship of children to their environments. A recent publication by the National Science and...

Shaping Our Legacy: Reproductive Health and the Environment

Our sexy brain; our compelling environment: interactionism in female development.

The infant female is unique. Her particular qualities include specific genetic, hormonal, and physiological ingredients that help sculpt her development. Parental influences and the wider society and culture have a profound shaping effect on her particular biological components. Whereas male infants have their own inimitable developmental line, this paper’s focus is on the female. Our recent hi...