“The loss of that program is going to greatly diminish the ability to make linkages between what might be in the environment and what health might be affected by that,” Breysse said.
Petrona licks her lips in front of her meat-flavored cake during her third birthday celebration at a park in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)Petrona licks her lips in front of her meat-flavored cake during her third birthday celebration at a park in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
makes headlines for having among the most pet owners per capita in the world. Public opinion surveys report pets in almost 80% of the city’s homes. That’s about 20% more than the average city in the United States, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center, and leaps and bounds ahead of other countries in the region.As a growing number of Argentines opt to be childless in a country, dogs have become the go-to companion.
Buenos Aires is now home to over 493,600 dogs — compared to 460,600 children under the age of 14 — government statistics show.Those interviewed referred to themselves not as “owners” but as “parents.”
“Sandro is my savior, he’s my joy,” Magalí Maisonnave, a 34-year-old stylist, said of her dachshund.
In the soccer-crazed country, Maisonnave often“The purpose of adding the hair is for volume and length,” Okpurukre said. “A lot of people, their hair starts thinning out and they need to add something to make it look nice.”
Some synthetic brands use banana fiber to create the hair, which companies say are less irritating to the scalp. But Ford said you won’t necessarily avoid chemicals just because you switch brands.Raven Baxter, a molecular biologist who has talked about braiding hair on social media, opted to stop using synthetic braiding products because of the lack of information — both on the packaging or in research studies. Now, she uses single-ingredient products in her hair care routine, like aloe vera gel and vegetable glycerin.
“A lot of the work that scientists do, we’re able to do it because a funder deemed it as important to support that research,” she said, adding, “until we have funders that value the things that we’re concerned about, we’re not necessarily going to get the research published that concerns us.”McDonald suggested staying away from products that contain PFAS, parabens and other “forever chemicals.”