Every Breath Increases The Risk of Death!!!
As many as 30% of the buildings in cities around the world have Sick Building Syndrome, according to studies done over the last 10 years in Singapore, United States and the European Union. The indoor air is badly polluted with cigarette smoke, contaminants, dust, chemicals, toxic substances, moulds, fungi, bacteria and viruses etc.
Studies have shown that such bad air is the common cause of headache, fatigue, drowsiness and other sicknesses. People working in such office buildings tend to fall sick more easily. This will affect the productivity level of the company eventually.
ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS
The outdoor air pollution has increasingly become a very serious environmental threat all over the world especially in most of the major cities. Reportedly, it costs the governments around the world billions of dollars to try to tackle the air pollution problems but the results have not been very encouraging.
What about the indoor air? Is it clean? Environmental Protection Agency in the USA has reported that the indoor air pollution is at least five times worse than the outdoor air pollution. Indoor air does not circulate as freely as the outdoor air. Chemicals commonly used at home could also trigger allergic reactions. Worse, we actually spend 80%-90% of our time indoor. We live in a very unhealthy indoor environment.
An NUS Professor said that 6% of Singapore’s deaths is caused by diseases sparked by breathing dirty air. It was also reported that about 600 deaths here might be due to tiny airborne particles. Dirty air is choking 80 million people in Indonesia.
The air quality in the clean garden city of Singapore is badly affected when the wind sends the smoke and haze from the neighboring countries, as a result of the forest fires. There is nothing much Singapore could do. Times Magazine reported that the masks don’t help either.
Today, clean air is no longer easily available in the atmosphere. Gradually, you will realise that it needs to be purchased like the mineral water. Don’t be surprised when you see bottles of clean air or oxygen being sold at the 7-Elevens one day. In South Korea, the largest food maker, CJ Corporation has become the first to sell canned clean forest air. More and more oxygen bars are being open in various countries in the world such as in New Delhi of India, Greenbelt in the Makati City of Philippines and even in China.
HEALTH THREATS
The hydrocarbons emitted by the automobiles are toxic and they react with the haemoglobin in the blood. As a result, the heart may be damaged by air pollution, secondary to the lungs.
The percentage of population in most countries, suffering from the various common illnesses, continues to increase, such as cancer, heart attack, menopause, depression, migraine, insomnia, high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, sinus, etc.
Another bad news is that time is running out for antibiotics. Professor Hugh McGavock, a specialist in prescription science from the University of Ulster told BBC that all antibiotics could be redundant in 12 years’ time. He estimated that by 2015, diseases that are easily treatable now would be killers. The growing resistance is not just due to unnecessary prescription by doctors and patients failing to take medicines correctly, but also due to antibiotic use in the farming industry over the last 50 years.
Studies have shown that such bad air is the common cause of headache, fatigue, drowsiness and other sicknesses. People working in such office buildings tend to fall sick more easily. This will affect the productivity level of the company eventually.
ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS
The outdoor air pollution has increasingly become a very serious environmental threat all over the world especially in most of the major cities. Reportedly, it costs the governments around the world billions of dollars to try to tackle the air pollution problems but the results have not been very encouraging.
What about the indoor air? Is it clean? Environmental Protection Agency in the USA has reported that the indoor air pollution is at least five times worse than the outdoor air pollution. Indoor air does not circulate as freely as the outdoor air. Chemicals commonly used at home could also trigger allergic reactions. Worse, we actually spend 80%-90% of our time indoor. We live in a very unhealthy indoor environment.
An NUS Professor said that 6% of Singapore’s deaths is caused by diseases sparked by breathing dirty air. It was also reported that about 600 deaths here might be due to tiny airborne particles. Dirty air is choking 80 million people in Indonesia.
The air quality in the clean garden city of Singapore is badly affected when the wind sends the smoke and haze from the neighboring countries, as a result of the forest fires. There is nothing much Singapore could do. Times Magazine reported that the masks don’t help either.
Today, clean air is no longer easily available in the atmosphere. Gradually, you will realise that it needs to be purchased like the mineral water. Don’t be surprised when you see bottles of clean air or oxygen being sold at the 7-Elevens one day. In South Korea, the largest food maker, CJ Corporation has become the first to sell canned clean forest air. More and more oxygen bars are being open in various countries in the world such as in New Delhi of India, Greenbelt in the Makati City of Philippines and even in China.
HEALTH THREATS
The hydrocarbons emitted by the automobiles are toxic and they react with the haemoglobin in the blood. As a result, the heart may be damaged by air pollution, secondary to the lungs.
The percentage of population in most countries, suffering from the various common illnesses, continues to increase, such as cancer, heart attack, menopause, depression, migraine, insomnia, high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, sinus, etc.
Another bad news is that time is running out for antibiotics. Professor Hugh McGavock, a specialist in prescription science from the University of Ulster told BBC that all antibiotics could be redundant in 12 years’ time. He estimated that by 2015, diseases that are easily treatable now would be killers. The growing resistance is not just due to unnecessary prescription by doctors and patients failing to take medicines correctly, but also due to antibiotic use in the farming industry over the last 50 years.
posted by Jonathan Ooi @ 28.2.06
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