"Pesticides in food linked to ADHD in kids "

[hedgehog]

What it means: Canadian researchers used data collected from nearly 1,140 children participating in the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, including pesticide by-products found in urine. They found that in that group, 119 children met the criteria for ADHD.

Children with substantially higher levels of a breakdown product of neurotoxic organophosphate pesticides were twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD. The university researchers conclude that parents should buy organic for their kids. Numerous other researchers stress the importance of women eating organic at least six months before conception and throughout pregnancy, too.

This isn't the first study that has linked this class of pesticides to human health problems. However, other studies looked at farmers or others who work closely with pesticides day in and day out. This study is the first to look at everyday exposure levels in children from around the country. And as it turns out, U.S. kids are exposed to harmful levels of pesticides in their food, day in and day out.

This study looked at organophosphates in particular, ones designed to attack the neurological systems of pests (unfortunately, they harm humans, too). There are about 40 organophosphate pesticides registered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and most people's exposure to them comes through food, drinking water, and residential pesticide use, according to the EPA.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44260583/ns/health-childrens_health/#.Tm1RjtTK0mc


Wow - who would have thought that neurotoxic coumpounds could affect the brains of growing children?

[hunter]

1. I think we've really screwed ourselves up with these toxins.

That, and things like mercury from coal, other heavy metals, etc.

How can a complex society function when everyone is walking around with some kind of brain damage?

[demoblemocratic]

4. how?

just as it is now--with all the proles dominated by monsters.

[Luminous Animal]

2. K & R

[demoblemocratic]

3. awesome find.

[bvar22]

5. More:

"The harmful chemicals are widespread: A 2008 U.S. Pesticide Residue Program Report found detectable concentrations of one organophosphate alone, malathion, in 28 percent of frozen blueberries, 25 percent of strawberries, and 19 percent of celery sampled. (Malathion is also commonly sprayed out of airplanes and onto communities as part of mosquito-control programs. Organophosphate pesticides, also found in some flea and tick products, have been tied to childhood leukemia, and are believed to be partially responsible for colony collapse disorder, which is killing off honeybees (who pollinate our food crops) at unprecedented rates."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44260583/ns/health-childrens_health/#.Tm1RjtTK0mc

My Wife & I moved to The Woods in 2006 to start producing our own Pesticide/Herbicide Free food.
The US Factory Food Production, Packaging, Transportation, & Distribution System is hopelessly contaminated.

[Generic Other]

6. So the kids whose moms are able to provide nutricious food

are most at risk. Do children whose mothers are poor have fewer ADHD issues?

It would explain why this condition was less well-known when I was young. Fewer pesticides.

[Capitalocracy]

7. Nope. Spongebob's fault.

;)