Show 1121: How Can We Protect Children from Environmental Poisons?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Since the middle of the last century, more than 85,000 chemicals have been developed and used. In many cases, they persist in the environment long after their immediate utility has vanished. The World Health Organization attributes more than one-third of childhood mortality to environmental causes. Are environmental poisons contributing to the troublesome rise in childhood […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Grady. I'm Terry Grady.
0:03.3	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the
0:08.8	health headlines. This podcast is brought to you by Reddex Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.0	800, 345, 7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:36.0	During the last half century Americans have been exposed to thousands of chemicals. Are they safe? Especially for children.
0:39.0	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden.
0:43.0	The convenience They're delivered through flexible plastic tubes.
1:03.0	Water bottles are also handy.
1:05.0	But do plasticizers leach into the fluids these containers hold?
1:10.0	What's the impact on our health?
1:12.0	And speaking of water, how would you know
1:14.3	if the water in your child's school is free of lead?
1:18.7	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy,
1:20.7	find out how we can protect kids from environmental poisons.
1:25.0	First the news.
1:27.0	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,
1:33.0	for decades, Americans were warned not to eat eggs for fear that their blood cholesterol levels would rise from eating egg yolks, which are high in cholesterol.
1:42.0	Even after data showed there was no... eating egg yolks, which are high in cholesterol.
1:43.0	Even after data showed there was no link
1:45.2	between egg consumption and cholesterol levels
1:47.6	for most adults.
1:49.0	Nutrition specialists held out an exception
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