Rich people’s bodies are polluted with different, more expensive toxins

[xchrom]

http://grist.org/list/rich-peoples-bodies-are-polluted-with-different-more-expensive-toxins/

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Oh sure, the modern world guarantees that our bodies are little more than Tupperwares filled with poison. But you don’t really expect the rich to have the same toxins as you and me, do you? Plebeian toxins? Perish the thought. No, rich people harbor a higher class of contaminants, ones they pick up from eating seafood and lounging on the beach.

According to researchers at the University of Exeter, relying on data from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, poor people are more likely to have high levels of cadmium, lead, and BPA — stuff they picked up from smoking and eating canned food. The rich, meanwhile, were full of mercury, arsenic, cesium, and thallium from their fancy fish and shellfish, and oxybenzone from the sunscreen they slather on for golf games, visits to the private beach, and cocktails on the yacht.

In short: Even in the arena of being horribly poisoned to death, rich people still have it better. Hooray, the system works!

The rich really are different: Their bodies contain unique chemical pollutants

http://qz.com/111834/the-rich-are-different-from-you-and-me-their-bodies-contain-unique-chemical-pollutants/

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America’s rich are harboring chemicals associated with what are normally considered healthy lifestyles

People who can afford sushi and other sources of aquatic lean protein appear to be paying the price with a buildup of heavy metals in their bodies, found Jessica Tyrrell and colleagues from the University of Exeter. Using data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, Tyrrell et al. found that compared to poorer people, the rich had higher levels of mercury, arsenic, caesium and thallium, all of which tend to accumulate in fish and shellfish.
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The rich also had higher levels of benzophenone-3, aka oxybenzone, the active ingredient in most sunscreens, which is under investigation by the EU and, argue some experts, may actually encourage skin cancer.
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America’s poor have toxins associated with exposure to plastics and cigarette smoke

Higher rates of cigarette smoking among those of lower means seem to be associated with higher levels of lead and cadmium. Poor people in America also had higher levels of Bisphenol-A, a substance used to line cans and other food containers, and which is banned in the EU, Malaysia, South Africa, China and, in the US, in baby bottles.

[onethatcares]

1. I was under the impression

most of them were just full of crap.

[B Calm]

2. They are, LOL