Tribez facebook view2/22/2024 Although changes in diet and lifestyle factors could be to blame, we know that widespread exposures to harmful chemicals in the environment are important contributing factors in the development of cancer.įor instance, a recent study by Silent Spring Institute and University of California Berkeley showed that people are exposed to thousands of tons of toxic chemicals from consumer products inside their homes and workplaces every year. The article “Young, fit, and sick” shines a much-needed spotlight on a worrisome trend. It would reduce one source of toxic exposures linked to increased rates of cancers in children and young adults. In 1962, Rachel Carson warned us to stop the most dangerous type of contact - the “minute exposures, repeated over and over throughout the years.” Today, a bill in the Massachusetts Legislature, the Toxic-Free Kids Act, would require businesses to disclose the toxic chemicals in and eliminate PFAS from children’s products. Many of PFAS’ toxic effects were identified in the 1950s by the manufacturers’ own research.Īnd PFAS join the thousands of other unregulated or minimally regulated chemicals that threaten infants and children with an unhealthy start and an uncertain future. PFAS are linked to increased risk of cancers, reduced immunity, infertility, altered metabolism, increased risk of obesity, and reduced vaccine effectiveness. We all, but especially our children, have been the hit-and-run victims of toxic chemicals such as the ubiquitous class of chemicals known as PFAS. “There’s something going on out there, some variable.” The Environmental Protection Agency recognizes styrene as a health threat to humans.Īlong with climate change, plastic pollution is a major menace to our health and safety.Ī factor that the experts featured in the article “Young, fit, and sick” don’t consider is our exposure to the life-altering substances hidden in our water, air, soil, food, and in common products. Plastics (styrene) are recognized as carcinogenic by the US National Toxicology Program and the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
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