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Measuring Pollution In Humans

Posted by Hemos on from the you-come-out-to-3.5%-filthy dept.

CHaN_316 writes "Scientists have begun measuring pollutants in our body and the results sound like a chemical clean-up site. They've found things such as flame retardants, chemicals derived from DDTs, mercury, uranium, cotinine, and many more. The concern is a lot of this stuff is ending up in mother's milk. But hey, at least in the event of spontaneous combustion, I'll be partially protected."

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  1. What I find most interesting is that morticians by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    report that bodies are taking up to 10% longer to decompose than they used to from all the BHA and BHT added to preserve freshness.

    Live fast, eat a lot of antioxidant ladden potato chips, leave a durable, good looking (if somewhat corpulent) corpse.

    Gives you more time for a clean dehydration as well, so you can make that trip to Orion in all your leathery splendor.

    KFG

  2. Shhhhhhh! by CodePyro · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't tell the terrorists that there might tbe uranium in their body...They might try to blow themselves up...ohh wait they do that anyways...