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Bill wrote:
FRONTLINE
http://www.pbs.org/frontline/
- This Week: "Poisoned Waters" (120 minutes),
April 21st at 9pm on PBS (Check local listings)
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For years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith has reported
from the corridors of power in Washington, on Wall Street, and overseas.
*But these days, he's worried about something that he's found much
closer to home -- something mysterious that's appeared in waters that he
knows well: *frogs with six legs, male amphibians with ovaries, "dead
zones" where nothing can live or grow.
What's causing the trouble? Smith suspects the answers might lie close
to home as well.
This Tuesday night, in a special two-hour FRONTLINE broadcast
--"Poisoned Waters"-- Smith takes a hard look at a new wave of pollution
that's imperiling the nation's waterways, focusing on two of our most
iconic: *the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound. *He also examines three
decades of environmental regulation that are failing to meet this new
threat, and have yet to clean up the ongoing mess of PCBs, the
staggering waste from factory farms, and the fall-out from unchecked
suburban sprawl.
"The environment has slipped off our radar screen because it's not a hot
crisis like the financial meltdown, war, or terrorism," Smith says.
*"But pollution is a ticking time bomb. It's a chronic cancer that is
slowly eating away the natural resources that are vital to our very
lives."
Among the most worrisome of the new contaminants are "endocrine
disruptors," chemical compounds found in common household products that
mimic hormones in the human body and cause freakish mutations in frogs
and amphibians.
"There are five million people being exposed to endocrine disruptors
just in the Mid-Atlantic region," a doctor at the Johns Hopkins School
of Public Health tells Smith. *"And yet we don't know precisely how many
of them are going to develop premature breast cancer, going to have
problems with reproduction, going to have all kinds of congenital
anomalies of the male genitalia that are happening at a broad low level
so that they don't raise the alarm in the general public."
Can new models of "smart growth" and regulation reverse decades of
damage? *Are the most real and lasting changes likely to come from the
top down, given an already overstretched Obama administration? *Or will
the greatest reasons for hope come from the bottom up, through the
action of a growing number of grassroots groups trying to effect
environmental change?
Join us for the broadcast this Tuesday night. *Online, you can watch
"Poisoned Waters" again, find out how safe your drinking water is, *and
*learn how you can get involved.
Ken Dornstein
Senior Editor
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This will probably get kinda sticky. If you "google" phyto endocrine or
phytoendocrine it quickly comes up with soy or phytoestrogen.
See article on phytoestrogens in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoestrogens
Lavender bath oils are an other culprit know to grow tits on little boys.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16906552/wid/11915829/
Oils in bath products may enlarge boys' breasts
Researchers suspect lavender, tea tree oil disrupt hormonal balance
Essential oils such as tea tree oil and lavender are often found in
soaps, shampoos and lotions. Researchers suspect the oils may promote
temporary breast development in boys.
updated 3:33 p.m. PT, Wed., Jan. 31, 2007
BOSTON - Lavender and tea tree oils found in some shampoos, soaps and
lotions can temporarily leave boys with enlarged breasts in rare cases,
apparently by disrupting their hormonal balance, a preliminary study
suggests.
Breakdown products "Round-Up" also come under the disputed heading of
endocrine disrupters. I say disputed because some say that they are
ubiquitous in nature.
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- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI29wVQN8Go
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html