polluted babies
http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/07/14/health.chemicals.reut/index.html
This is kind of creepy, but unsurprising. I guess they did an analysis of cord blood and found like 280 toxic chemicals (fire retardants, pesticides, etc) in it. I'm not surprised, since I don't see how it would be possible for a pregnant woman to walk outdoors and not inhale exhaust fumes which then get passed to the baby, and I know we eat food treated with pesticides which obviously gets passed to the baby too. I'm sure that there would have been just as many pollutants years ago, so I am probably a walking toxic waste dump. But it's still creepy. Remind me if I ever get pregnant to eat more organic foods. :P And live in a germ-free bubble.
This is kind of creepy, but unsurprising. I guess they did an analysis of cord blood and found like 280 toxic chemicals (fire retardants, pesticides, etc) in it. I'm not surprised, since I don't see how it would be possible for a pregnant woman to walk outdoors and not inhale exhaust fumes which then get passed to the baby, and I know we eat food treated with pesticides which obviously gets passed to the baby too. I'm sure that there would have been just as many pollutants years ago, so I am probably a walking toxic waste dump. But it's still creepy. Remind me if I ever get pregnant to eat more organic foods. :P And live in a germ-free bubble.