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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: The Alarming Facts
By Sydney Carlaw
THE ALARMING FACTS:
- From The Journal Pediatrics that 15% of American girls are expected to begin puberty by the age of 7 (with the number closer to 25% for African American girls)
- Over five million children ages four to 17 have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the United States and close to 3 million of those children take medication for their symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
- By the mid-1970s, there were some 62,000 chemicals in use; today the number is thought to be closer to 80,000. The EPA has a full set of toxicity information for just 7 percent of these chemicals, and the U.S. chemical industry, a $637-billion-a-year business, is so woefully underregulated that 99 percent of chemicals in use today have never been tested for their effects on human health. Fewer than 3 percent of these chemicals have ever been tested for carcinogenicity. Far fewer (or none) have been assessed for their effect on things like the human endocrine system or reproductive health.
National Cancer Institute that showed a 9.4% increase in childhood cancer between 1992 and 2007
- 265% increase in children coming into hospitals with allergic reactions
- Children are full of chronic inflamation leading to disease
- 1994 GMO was put into our foods yet research was not done on the future of our foods and how it will effect food supply and our health
- GMO change proteins in foods and protein in our bodies our the main cause of allergies
- From 1973 to 1999, childhood cancers increased by 26 percent, making cancer the greatest health threat to children.
- Currently, one in a 100 8-year-old children in the U.S. have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers, and the number might be as high as 1 in 58 for boys, according to a phone survey in the journal, Pediatrics
- 1 in 2 minority children born in the year 2000 are expected to be insulin dependent by the time they reach adulthood
We need more studies on our food, environment and preventative healthcare. We need DOCTORS that listen to their patients and prescribe prevention rather then drugs.
