It’s kinda sad when reading articles about chemicals in your food causing diseases actually makes you a little happy. Just a little.
Because it’s a sad thing that we allow this to happen. It’s even sadder that people are just now getting smart enough to realize facts that have been obvious to a small number of people for decades.
But the fact that all these things are coming out in the mainstream media makes me just a little happy.
Reason number one is because it makes me seem a little bit less crazy to all my friends and family who have berated me for years for my, ahem, “paranoia.” And yes, I can’t help but feel a little smug and satisfied as opportunities to say I told you so present themselves.
Reason number two is simply because with awareness comes action, and we’ll all be healthier for it!
Recent sources of this happiness are an article printed Monday in TIME Magazine commenting on a link between pesticides and ADHD. I love the opening paragraph:
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Studies linking environmental substances to disease are coming fast and furious. Chemicals in plastics and common household goods have been associated with serious developmental problems, while a long inventory of other hazards are contributing to rising rates of modern ills: heart disease, obesity, diabetes, autism.
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I’m also delighted by the recent the recent warning by President Obama’s Cancer Panel (referred to as “the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream” by Nicolas Kristoff in the New York Times) that chemicals in our environment have serious consequences.
Here are some of the various articles about the panel’s warnings:
New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF of the New York Times
To Win the War on Cancer – a blog post By SAFER CHEMICALS, HEALTHY FAMILIES
Read the Panel’s Report here:
Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk by PRESIDENT’S CANCER PANEL
Interested in learning how to reduce your risks? Here an article from the Environmental Working Group called Preventing Cancer: 9 Practical Tips for Consumers
Simply,
