{"id":89162,"date":"2025-07-28T13:33:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=89162"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T13:33:29","slug":"how-harmful-are-forever-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/how-harmful-are-forever-chemicals\/","title":{"rendered":"How harmful are forever chemicals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k3ZYVWmlsU4u0HDwniK\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nForever chemicals, also known as PFAS, can pose significant health risks due to their persistence in the environment and the human body. Studies have linked PFAS exposure to a range of health problems, including increased risk of certain cancers, reproductive issues, developmental delays in children, and impacts on the immune and endocrine systems. <\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forever chemicals, also known as PFAS, can pose significant health risks due to their persistence in the environment and the human body. Studies have linked PFAS exposure to a range of health problems, including increased risk of certain cancers, reproductive issues, developmental delays in children, and impacts on the immune and endocrine systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-89162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-chemicals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89167,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89162\/revisions\/89167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}