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The number of pollutants out there is not hard to imagine in our fast paced, electronically induced lives today. We are not only destroying the environment, but also our own health with a wide spectrum of modern age diseases, from cancer to countless others. Some curable, some not. Sometimes, the cure is yet to be discovered. Thankfully, the evolution of technology is as rapid as our tendency to carelessness in almost all aspects of our lives, – the chaotic result of which is globally evident.

When I was a kid the sun was not only good for you, but made you healthy. Today the sun gives you cancer unless you shield yourself, despite the very fact that a healthy and age-fighting level of Vitamin D can only be obtained in the body by sun exposure. If you have lower levels of Vitamin D due to sun avoidance you are looking at a spectrum of age related illnesses. But, the glow that I was aiming for as a young teenager – and I am not that old – today should only be obtained by sunless tanning spray, unless you want to risk the harmful rays of the sun.

The irony about technology is that it can equally be as destructive as it is constructive – just like we humans are. While we have lots of New Age solutions to avoid the harm that some technology causes, we develop these new technologies to overcome the negative aspects of harmful influences caused by the same.

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