Canaries In The Coal Mine By Lisa Geng 9/11/03 Almost 15 years ago now I was first concerned with environmental links to the rise we are seeing in autism and apraxia and wrote this Speech disorders and learning disabilities did not run in either my mom or dad’s family. Genius runs in my mom’s side…
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Eating Clean To Protect The Brain
“So you recommend that pregnant women eat organic produce?” I asked Grandjean, a Danish-born researcher who travels around the world studying delayed effects of chemical exposure on children. “That’s what I advise people who ask me, yes. It’s the best way of preventing exposure to pesticides.” Grandjean estimates that there are about 45 organophosphate pesticides…
Pregnant Women Cry Over New Studies “Toxins and Drugs and Poor Diets….Oh My!”
Hold the cigarettes and alcohol while pregnant. We all know that, but what about exposing a fetus to a virtual cocktail of toxins including PCBs, together with pharmaceuticals including nitroglycerin, together with limiting what essential nutrients that growing fetus needs to develop? Have researchers today become like the blind men with the elephant as they…
A Tale Of Dead Birds and Black Ooze in NJ
June 18, 2013 Update Harvard study: autism doubles in dirty air. US kids born in polluted areas more likely to have autism. Boston, MA — Women in the U.S. exposed to high levels of air pollution while pregnant were up to twice as likely to have a child with autism as women who lived in…