Pesticides Linked To Parkinson's

Yahoo! News:

People whose jobs bring them in regular contact with pesticides may be at increased risk for Parkinson's disease, a U.S. study finds.

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Comments

[loki]

comming from a family with more than one person with Parkinson, I have to wonder about this study. But basing this claim off of a 44% saying they were around pesticides is a little deceptive. I could understand it if they said 60% or even 51% might cause some validity, but 44% ? It sounds more like someone if going to print to help chances of securing a gov research grant.

[Lesscancer]

I think it is important to remember as a society we often make the leap to "safety" when there is a lack of science-

A lack of science does not translate to safe.

But truth be told in laboratory studies for pesticides have long been linked with human health risks to not only include Parkinson's but cancer as well.

In my family for instance we have a lot of cancer- we never did before my generation-though ironically all the families in my neighborhood where I grew up have a lot of cancer..so while it runs in my family it also runs in my neighborhood.

If we have an opportunity to reduce the unnecessary and preventable exposures to things like pesticides we should in light of the fact we know that sound science has found negative health outcomes to human health.

When we work to prevent cancer -we work towards stopping cancer at the cause-when we work to prevent cancer there is an opportunity to reduce many types of illnesses.

Bill Couzens, Founder Less Cancer

[Lesscancer]

In Virginia unfortunately pesticide spraying still occurs with in range of school children..­..
This in a time where in this country when we have over 46+children every school day diagnosed with cancer.
American children miss over 12 million school days each year because of Asthma.
So as a response Virginia continues to allow pesticide spraying next to children's play spaces and school yards....d­espite the sound science.
Children are not small adults; rather, they are a developing version of an adult. Simply put, children are under construction. They are unfinished and their developing systems are quite fragile. We know, for instance, that in children the brain continues to develop into their twenties, and this makes their brains potentially more vulnerable to toxicants. They breathe much more rapidly, so they take in more toxins through their lungs. An exposure that might have little negative effect on an adult can be deadly for a child. For children, depending on the exposure, some of the first systems to show negative health effects can be the neurological and respiratory systems.

The dangers of pesticides are not new-either are those that look the other way.

Bill Couzens Founder Less Cancer

[LaurieLee]

I have seen other studies linking pesticides and herbicides to Parkinson's, and I'm quite sure there is a causal link, but the types of studies that ask people about the past, and then compare healthy with diseased patients, aren't that great. The healthy are less likely to remember exposures, and those with illness are far more likely to remember exposures. I prefer the data from studies that ask people current exposure/d­iet/habits­/etc. and follow them for years. Of course those cost a fortune and take decades to get results...

[Alison Rose Levy - Huffpost Blogger]

Neurological ailments are on the rise-- and this study links toxic exposures-- in this case to pesticides to increased likelihood of disease.

This story was posted yesterday and this is the first comment.

Why? Because most of us gravitate to blogs/articles related to feel good topics or how-can-I-fix-it health tips, -- overlooking that health information like this study points to something critical for health. Until we look at the causes of diseases that more and more people experience, there is no way we will get a handle on disease.

Moreover, the mass agricultural practices used to grow food involve pesticide use-- so these foods are contributing to a previously unidentified health harm.

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