Environmental Health
Chapter 16, Environmental Health, discusses many ways in which your environment can affect your health. This Web site, produced by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, lists 20 different actions you can take to change your environment for better health.
Select 5 of these steps and write about how you could implement these steps, and how taking these actions might positively affect your health.
Visit the 20 Easy Steps to Environmental Health web site
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Air Pollution
Asthma is a disease of the airways that is caused by an interaction of genes and the environment. Environmental factors often trigger asthma attacks. The Web site below of the American Lung Association has information on asthma attacks and symptoms.
Read the information provided about asthma and then list at least three facts about which you were not aware.
Visit the American Lung Association web site
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