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Air pollution and suicide. Did you know there's a connection? According to a new study , a growing body of research links air pollution exposure to suicide, newswise.com reports.. Researchers found an increased risk of suicide associated with short-term exposure to nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter among Salt Lake City residents who died by suicide between 2000 to 2010. In particular, men and Salt Lake City residents between 36 to 64 years of age experienced the highest risk of suicide following short-term air pollution exposure. “We are not exactly sure why risk of suicide was higher in these two groups but suspect that it might be because these two groups were either exposed to higher levels of air pollution or that other additional factors make these two groups more susceptible to the effects of air pollution,” says author Amanda Bakian, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Utah. The odds of completing suicide were 20 per...

It's good for your heart.  It's supposed to help you lose weight.  And it makes a tasty spaghetti aglio e olio. I'm talking, of course, about olive oil.  My husband takes every vitamin under the sun and now it's going to be olive oil supplements. A new study has found that these supplements may protect us from air pollution. “Exposure to airborne particulate matter can lead to ( unregulated blood clotting ), a condition in which the inner lining of blood vessels does not function normally, which is a risk factor for clinical cardiovascular events and progression of atherosclerosis,” said lead study author Dr. Haiyan Tong, MD, PhD, a research biologist with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, at newswise.com. “As olive oil and fish oil are known to have beneficial effects on (this type of) dysfunction, we examined whether use of these supplements would counteract the adverse cardiovascular effects of exposure to concentrated ambient particulate matt...