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Everyone’s dream is the self-cleaning house or apartment. It happened on Mars, so why not here? This might actually be in our future.
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If you want to breathe easy, be sure to do two things: avoid lunch meat and control your temper.

Researchers have discovered that frequent consumption of cured meats results in lower lung function. Dr. Rui Jiang says, “Cured meats, such as bacon, sausage, luncheon meats and cured hams, are high in nitrites, which are added to meat products as a preservative, an anti-microbial agent, and a color fixative. Nitrates generate reactive nitrogen species that may cause damage to the lungs, producing structural changes resembling emphysema.”

While you are switching to peanut butter and jelly, you also need to know that another new study demonstrates that young adults with a short temper or mean disposition also tend to have compromised lung function.
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It’s summer, the time when many of us fire up our grills. But grilling isn’t always a safe way to cook. Ruining a piece of meat isn’t the only thing you need to worry about if you’re cooking at high temperatures: high heat can also produce chemicals with cancer-causing properties. But there are ways to AVOID that problem.
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While unprecedented flooding cripples Britain and Texas andhundreds die in Asian ‘rain bombs,’ the western UnitedStates is experiencing drought so extreme that thousands ofsquare miles of desert and forest are burning, and thepersistence of the weather patterns suggest that they areindicators of fundamental climate change.

Flooding in Britain has left three quarters of a millionpeople in Britain without drinkable water and 50,000 morewithout power. Not even the great flood of 1947, which wasthe benchmark for the past hundred years, was greater thanwhat is happening there now.

Rivers are overflowing, whole towns are cut off, vast areasare under water, and the country’s entire infrastructure isthreatened if the waters do not soon receed.
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