Using data from a national survey, researchers find that higher levels of malathion detected in urine is associated with a higher risk of the disorder. Food may be a factor.
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The study is "interesting and provocative … because the levels of pesticide are very low," said epidemiologist Brenda Eskenazi of UC Berkeley, who was not involved in the research. "We need to build up a body of evidence [linking pesticides and neurobehavioral development], and we are building it."
ADHD is thought to affect 3% to 7% of children in the U.S., with boys affected much more heavily than girls. Its prevalence is generally assumed to have increased sharply in the last three to four decades, but controversy exists about whether the incidence has increased or diagnostic standards have broadened.
Accounting for factors that could confound the results, the researchers concluded that a tenfold increase in malathion metabolite levels in urine — still a very low level — was associated with a 55% higher risk of having ADHD. For the most commonly detected metabolite, dimethyl thiophosphate, children with levels higher than the median of detectable concentrations were twice as likely to have been diagnosed with ADHD as those with no detectable concentrations.
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oooh! This just makes me sick! I have Asperger's and ADHD as does my oldest. My other two kids just have the ADHD. Guess we are a part of that 3-7%. Gozo had an article about healthy organic food. The more I read about this, the more I want to have my own garden to eat from. I just didn't want to think about what goes on my food to make it look so good. I am really going to start revising my opinion about things like this.
Good Morning Loretta! Hope your day is going good?
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Morning. I couldn't sleep last night, so I seeded several articles knowing my friends would be greeting me as I got up. LOL.
We're growing our own using container gardening, for this reason and others, including the fact that homegrown tastes better because it isn't hybrid. Hybrids are more focused on staying fresh on long-distances to market than tasting good.
The nice thing about container gardening is that we can move them around when we want and they are higher up -- important to me because of my back. I don't have to stoop so low to tend them. Weeding is so much easier too.
Have an Aspie in our household and a couple of ADHDs, so I'm glad we're moving in this direction. This article just confirmed what we were already thinking. Not totally self-sufficient yet though. However, we do shop at Whole Foods, which is organic only, for most of our stuff.
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I saw this story on the news this morning. They were saying buy organic and buy local when you can to minimize intake of the chemicals. I just stocked up on frozen veggies for my little one. She's a veggie fanatic. Now I'm wondering what's in them??
I hope we start seeing more and more stories about what is in our food supply only because I hope we start seeing more accountability. We really need to raise our standards on our food supply.
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Scary, isn' it? And in the packaged food, like cold cereals.
There are more stories along this line then there have been in previous years. We need to band together as consumers and demand better from our government and the agricultural industries.
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Oh no....not the Cheerios!!! Lol! Good thing I found some lovely organic veggie sticks she absolutely loves.
I'm starting to wish I'd gone for a degree in chemistry instead!
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It makes me think of the comments I read on NV sometimes about how kids "these days" are spoiled, misbehaving brats with lazy, stupid parents- about how these lame adults just need to whip some ass and teach their rotten kids a lesson.
What if a toxic environment turns out to be a major factor? What if we've been methodically poisoning our children, then labeling them as "bad" and accusing the parents of inept child-rearing?
I just wonder about that sometimes.
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Those kind of comments are as toxic as the pesticides that are poisoning are children. It is arrogant in the extreme to think you know what best in the lives of people you've never met. If they had to walk a mile in the shoes of some parents who are struggling with their children's disabilities, they wouldn't have the endurance to complete the mile.
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I have often suspected chemical and now pharmacological exposure as the source of many modern maladies. However, so many people are exposed, that finding a base group who aren't makes these kinds studies as suspect as my suspicion. I wish more of them were actually studying people and not medical records statistically.
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