http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/...de-exposure-lo
wer-iq/
Prenatal pesticide exposure tied to lower IQ in children
By Sarah Yang, Media Relations | April 20, 2011
BERKELEY
In a new study suggesting pesticides may be associated with the health
and development of children, researchers at the University of
California, Berkeleyıs School of Public Health have found that prenatal
exposure to organophosphate pesticides * widely used on food crops * is
related to lower intelligence scores at age 7.
The researchers found that every tenfold increase in measures of
organophosphates detected during a motherıs pregnancy corresponded to a
5.5 point drop in overall IQ scores in the 7-year-olds. Children in the
study with the highest levels of prenatal pesticide exposure scored
seven points lower on a standardized measure of intelligence compared
with children who had the lowest levels of exposure.
The three pesticide studies in Environmental Health Perspectives are
available for free *online:
Bouchard et al., ³Prenatal Exposure to Organophosphate Pesticides
and IQ in 7-Year-Old Children² (UC Berkeley)
Engel et al., ³Prenatal Exposure to Organophosphates, Paraoxonase
1, and Cognitive Development in Childhood² (Mt. Sinai)
Rauh et al., ³7-Year Neurodevelopmental Consequences of Prenatal
Exposure to Chlorpyrifos, a Common Organophosphate Pesticide²
(Columbia)
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- Billy
Both the House and Senate budget plan would cut Social Security and Medicare, while cutting taxes on the wealthy.
Kucinich noted that none of the government programs targeted for
elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans
"appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of
waste, fraud and abuse."
http://www.politifact.com/ohio/state...is-kucinich/re
p-dennis-kucinich-says-gop-budget-cuts-dont-targ/
[W]e have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And itıs not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate welfare. Thatıs hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The second is you tax corporations so that they donıt get away with no taxation.
- Ralph Nader
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/19/ralph_naders_solution_to_debt_crisis