Issue #103 - March 15, 2000
*** Our Children and Environmental Health Risks ***
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Did you know children are especially susceptible to the toxins in our environment?
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Issue #103 - March 15, 2000
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*Table of Contents*
1. *** Our Children and Environmental Health Risks ***
2. Sponsor's Advertisement
3. Ad Swaps
4. Subscription Information
5. Past Issues
6. Sponsor's and Contact information
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*** Our Children and Environmental Health Risks ***
(from notes and readings of Dr. Lendon Smith)
* How Susceptible Are Children To The Environment? *
The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) believes that children are particularly vulnerable to environmental health risks because of their developing, immature immune systems. Children are at increased risk from many environmental threats in three ways:
1. Rapid changes in growth and development, plus their immature body organs and tissues, and weaker immune systems in infancy make children more susceptible to environmental threats.
2. Children eat proportionately more food, drink more fluids, and breathe more air per pound of body weight, and they play outside more, they are more exposed to environmental threats.
3. Their behavior -- such as crawling on the ground or the floor -- exposes them to different environmental hazards.
* How Can These Health Hazards Affect Our Children? *
These health hazards: pollution, lead-based paints, mercury fillings, resistant microbes in drinking water, and persistent industrial chemicals may cause cancer or induce reproductive or developmental changes.
We know these environmental hazards truncate the immune system, but the large chemical companies believe that each of their compounds is safe, by itself. But when accumulated they become toxic. Each year, more than 100,000 children accidentally directly ingest pesticides. EPA estimates that last year, a total of 30 million Americans drank contaminated water. If one can smell it, it is having an effect on the body.
* In What Ways Are Children Exposed To Pollution? *
1. Polluted waters not only affect children when they swim in our lakes and streams, but also when they eat certain freshwater fish. Hundreds of beaches are closed each summer due to raw sewage and other contamination raising special concerns that pregnant women and children should not eat fish caught in the water because of contamination. From January to September 1994, some 1,500 fish advisories were posted -- with 73 percent of them related to mercury contamination. If children are exposure to high doses of methyl mercury and PCB's during pregnancy, they may develop learning disabilities, cancer, and delayed development. EPA banned PCB's in 1976 because they cause cancer; but this toxic chemical continues to persist in the environment, often in contaminated fish.
2. Toxic waste dumps are a neighborhood blight and a health hazard to our communities, especially to our children. Ten million children under the age of ten-years -- live within four miles of a toxic waste dump and our cities are littered with thousand of abandoned industrial sites. Toxic chemicals not only lead to cancer in children, but can also damage reproductive and thyroid hormones. These endocrine disrupters may also play an important role in reproductive cancers.
3. Second-hand tobacco: A recent CDC study estimates that children exposed to tobacco smoke in their homes have 16 million more days of restricted activity, primarily due to acute and chronic respiratory conditions.
4. The Great Lakes next to Canada pose particular health effects on reproduction, and children's development and immune systems.
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