{"id":3250,"date":"2016-06-19T05:38:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T09:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2016-06-17T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T13:40:12","slug":"harmful-chemicals-are-everywhere-but-what-does-that-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3250","title":{"rendered":"Harmful Chemicals Are Everywhere \u2014 But What Does That Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Zhai Yun Tan for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Everything from our plastic water bottles and cosmetics to our non-stick frying pans contains chemicals that accumulate in our bodies. But it is unclear what effects these chemicals might have on human health and well-being.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewg.org\/cancer\/the-pollution-in-people.php\" target=\"_blank\">A report<\/a> released this week by the Environmental Working Group, a research and advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., attempts to inform part of this discussion by quantifying the extent these chemicals are found in Americans. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/harmful-chemicals-are-everywhere-but-what-does-that-mean\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=30719014&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_g2SSgeXsJXuuhXGO2VTmGc15sv72prj-kN7lYdyK_E5S8SZkrCH30aHk4DlDxHaNDLgLpy2Pyaaj_6DpxzkxVu4iz0A&amp;_hsmi=30719014\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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