Our Daily Poison

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Now a doc. on the green channel.

http://sales.arte.tv/detailFiche.action?programId=2433
"According to the World Health Organization, the incidence of cancer has doubled over the last thirty years [[after allowing for the population ageing factor). Over this period, the increase in leukaemia and brain tumours in children has been around 2% per year. And the WHO has observed a similar trend for neurological diseases [[Parkinson's and Alzheimer's) and auto-immune disorders, and for reproduction dysfunctions. What explanations can be found for this worrying epidemic, which is hitting the "developed" countries particularly hard? This is the question which "Our daily poison" sets out to answer, on the basis of a two-year investigation in North America, Asia and Europe.

http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/134506.html
"...The EU study suggests the risk of giving birth before 37 weeks of a normal pregnancy is increased by 38 percent if the woman was drinking, on average, one can of a diet drink a day.."

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/media/...ns/sya-bpa.cfm
"The NTP has some concern for effects on the brain, behavior, and prostate gland in fetuses, infants, and children at current human exposures to bisphenol A."

"The NTP or an expert panel convened by the NTP may express "serious concern" if a substance is found to cause reproductive or developmental effects in humans or if human exposures are similar to doses that clearly cause adverse developmental or reproductive effects in laboratory animals."
[But effects on the brains of children is not a serious concern?]

http://www.keepitorganic.org/2008/09...al-is-harmful/
"According to “Environmental Health News”, the first major study of the plastic chemical bisphenol A [[BPA) on humans supports evidence of harm from the chemical in animal tests. According to the study, people exposed to higher levels of BPA in plastic food and beverage containers are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease and diabetes. According to research by a British team of scientists published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the 1,455 U.S. adults tested, the more BPA in their urine, the higher their rates of heart disease and diabetes. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control collected the data for the new study. People between the ages of 18 and 29, many of whom have been heavily exposed to food and beverages from cans and polycarbonate bottles, had the highest BPA levels, while the oldest group, ages 60 to 74, had the lowest..."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...041501960.html
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The Environmental Protection Agency for the first time will require pesticide manufacturers to test 67 chemicals contained in their products to determine whether they disrupt the endocrine system, which regulates animals' and humans' growth, metabolism and reproduction, the agency said yesterday.
Researchers have raised concerns that chemicals released into the environment interfere with animals' hormone systems, citing problems such as male fish in the Potomac River that are bearing eggs. Known as endocrine disruptors, the chemicals may affect the hormones that humans and animals produce or secrete..."