Our Kids: More Than a Sales Channel for Big Pharma

According to Dr. Alan Greene, two-thirds of high school students have either high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes, predisposing them to a lifetime of chronic conditions. And a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control shows an eye-popping 265% increase in the rates of hospitalizations related to food allergic reactions.

According to Dr. Kenneth Bock, genetics don't change that quickly. Environment does. And while we've got 80,000 chemicals in our everyday products here in the US, the EPA has required testing on only 200 existing chemicals and restricted only five of them, despite the fact thousands of them have been banned, removed or restricted from children's products in developed countries around the world.

Is it any wonder that the health of American children is under siege?

Evidence continues to mount over the impact that environmental toxins contained in vaccines, foods and sippy cups are having on our health. On any given day, an American child might be exposed to formaldehyde in a flu vaccine, endocrine-disrupting bisphenol-A in a sippy cup, and insecticidal proteins in high fructose corn syrup, presenting a stunning assault on the developing immune system of a child.

And rather than prevent and protect, as governments around the world have done, we prescribe: insulin pumps, epinephrine injectors and asthma inhalers in record numbers to the American children.

So while Mexico bans endocrine-disrupting chemicals from their plastics due to the harm they've been shown to present to the reproductive system in children, American children are experiencing early onset puberty. And while France bans corn that has been genetically mutated to contain insecticidal proteins designed to create neurological and gastrointestinal damage to the creatures that eat it, 1 in 3 American children now has allergies, asthma, ADHD or autism, and the Corn Refiners Association of America insists that one of corn's derivatives, high fructose corn syrup, banned in other developed countries, is "natural." And while other developed countries offer a delayed vaccination schedule, our children are being injected with compounds whose safey has not yet been tested in combination.

With the environmental assault on the health of our children, is it any wonder that health care related costs now contribute 17% to our nation's GDP?

While our children may be viewed as an earnings stream for epinephrine injectors, insulin pumps and asthma inhalers, perhaps we should also view them as our 'canaries in the coalmine.' They just may be trying to warn us of the environmental dangers in front of all of us.

To learn what you can do to help protect the health of our children, please click here to learn more about the Kids Safe Chemical Act and how you can Do One Thing.

Together, we can restore the health of our children.

 

 

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Comments

[mofmars333]

The Obama Administration is listening to "US" concerning too many vaccines & other toxins those we trusted with our well being let loose on "US"

Make your voice heard by adding it to the many others for one so loud, it can't be ignored.

No matter which side of this issue you stand on concerning vaccinations, our children are too important not to address this matter.

See this most revealing & eye opening information at this most important article in the comment section;

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/24/obama-declares-swine-flu_n_332617.html

[Sheldon101]

"To learn what you can do to help protect the health of our children..­." do one of two things.

One, follow the advice of experts in public health and government. I reject the bizarre post-modernist view that science is about the people doing science. Science is done by people--- who are fallible and sometimes let greed get in the way of truth. But it's the best way we have of learning the truth. And unlike the alternative whatever followers, science can produce new and better results.

Two, before embracing the 'we know better than the experts' position, do what's uncomfortable--- deliberately seek out websites that reject the alternative views and explain why. Use these sites as a quick guide to the conventional view, which you can explore at sites such as wikipedia.

Personally, I've found it mentally uncomfortable reading stuff that going in, I think is nuts. But I use it as a guide to tell me what research I need to do next.

Finally, don't watch any videos. On the internet, if you're reading, it's a few seconds to learn more on a word or phrase. Videos just keep going on.

[Hannah Tahoma]

O'Brien definitely brings up a very concerning point in this article. With the technological and medical improvements the world has seen in the last decades, I don't understand why the EPA hasn't furthered restrictions on chemicals that so endanger us and especially children. One of our primary concerns in this country needs to be preventing medical problems that can be prevented by eliminating harmful chemicals in everyday things. If the government wants to improve health in our country, why can't they start here? It is crucial we protect kids especially from these things that are detrimental to their health. We can't solve health issues if we allow the problems to continue on.

[JA10]

I constantly hear from older generations that their parents never had to worry about the kids. And that parents are now too concerned. I feel that this is strong enough evidence for parents to worry, "80,000 chemicals in our everyday products here in the US, the EPA has required testing on only 200 existing chemicals and restricted only five of them, despite the fact thousands of them have been banned, removed or restricted from children's products in developed countries around the world." Why is it America the "best" country cannot follow and ban the bad chemicals. This gives parents a good reason to worry about the sippy cup their kid is drinking from, the teething ring their kid is chewing on, and the thousands of things kids come in contact with. I think the fact America only bans 5 chemicals while over 2,000 are bad for you and only 200 are test for makes America look lazy and uncaring. I am glad though to hear parents can do something personally, but America needs to step it up. This is ridiculous all of these bad chemicals lead to bad health. I though America focused on the kids because they are the future.... If thats so America doesn't have too much faith in our future.