Tuesday, September 14, 2010

This is Comforting...

Found this today -- researchers in Spain have released a report that swimming in chlorinated pools can lead to cancer. Doesn't everything these days! Researchers at the Barcelona-based Centre Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) and Research Institute Del Mar studied changes in indicators of mutagenicity of -- permanent mutation of the DNA -- among a group of swimmers in an indoor chlorinated pool.  "The evidence of genotoxic effects were observed in 49 healthy adults after swimming for 40 minutes in a chlorinated indoor pool," CREAL said in a statement on Monday.  I trust Niagara University is on top of these types of things -- and USA Swimming will respond accordingly. Here's a link to the story:


LINK:  SWIMMING IN CHLORINE

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