{"id":5208,"date":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"burning-incense-hazardous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/burning-incense-hazardous\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Incense May Be Hazardous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/images\/burning_incense_blog.jpg' border='0' align='right' alt='Burning incense may be hazardous'><a target='_blank' href=http:\/\/www.newstarget.com\/021598.html>NewsTarget.com<\/a> reports that the burning of incense releases high levels of some chemicals associated with lung cancer. New Scientist magazine reported that a set of chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are of primary concern. PAHs include carcinogenic chemicals like the components of benzene and the chemical used in mothballs.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ben Kim says the studies serve &#8216;as a good reminder to allow fresh air to circulate throughout one&#39;s living space.&#8217; Dr. Kim says it is &#8216;beneficial to one&#39;s health to simply open a few windows for a minute or two each day to allow some fresh air to enter the residence.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsTarget.com reports that the burning of incense releases high levels of some chemicals associated with lung cancer. New Scientist magazine reported that a set of chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are of primary concern. PAHs include carcinogenic chemicals like&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}