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Toxicology seeks to characterize the potentially adverse effects of foreign chemicals and their dosage response relationships to protect public health.

A healthy diet is one of the keys to a healthy lifestyle. A healthy diet can help one to live an active lifestyle, maintain energy levels, and prevent health and medical problems.

The heavy metals that are presently of most concern from a public health perspective are lead, mercury, and cadmium. They all exert their toxic effects by binding to certain functional groups on critical macromolecules within the body, thereby inactivating their function.

Engaging in an exercise routine is a proven way to lower your cholesterol. Exercise should be done every day for it to yield good results. However, it can be a bit tough to do this because life can get really busy at times. Some tips will still do a lot to guide you into daily exercise despite suffering from a heavy workload.

Saturated fats can be found in animal sources such as meats, egg yolks, and whole milk products as well as in cocoa butter, palm oil, and hydrogenated products such as shortening and stick margarine

Salt is made up of 2 minerals sodium and chloride. Sodium is the part of salt that some people have to limit in the diet. Sodium is not salty! Chloride is the salty part of salt

Halogenated hydrocarbons are usually volatile, and exposure can be through ingestion or inhalation. They are lipid soluble and can pass through the blood-brain barrier. Most will depress the central nervous system (CNS) when acute exposures are high.

Street drugs are synthetic derivatives of federally controlled substances, created by slightly altering the molecular structure of existing drugs and produced illegally in clandestine laboratories for illicit use and they are also called designer drugs.