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 Dear Reader,
We don't want to think our children or grandchildren aren't as smart as they could be.
But, thanks to the chemicals that keep pests off food crops, that may be the sad reality.
Three separate studies connect exposure to pesticides during pregnancy to lower IQ scores in children. Researchers were especially concerned with a farming region in California, in the US, where children and their mums were probably exposed to pesticides used on local crops.
The studies concern organophosphates, which disrupt the brains and nervous systems of insects. Thing is, they do the same thing to humans — after all, they were developed as nerve poison during World War 2.
All researchers can do at this point is draw a link between the damage and the pesticides — they'll never be able to prove a direct cause-and-effect relationship, because obviously nobody is going to assign a group of children to a "pesticide exposure" group in the name of science. But I think a link should be strong enough — why keep playing the "it hasn't been proven!" game when we're talking about children?
Two of the US studies took place in New York and the third was in the region of California I already mentioned. In all of the studies, there was a link between pesticide exposure and lower IQ scores by age 7. In the farming region of California, every 10-fold increase in organophosphates detected in the urine of the mothers when they were pregnant was linked to a 5.5-point IQ drop by age 7.
Children in the lowest 20 per cent of exposure had, on average, a 7-point higher IQ level than children who were in the 20 per cent that had the most exposure — that's a difference of about 6 months of brain development.
Researchers said the exposure could lead to some children requiring special education.
Luckily, reducing exposure to pesticides is fairly simple. Don't use pesticides in the home, and buy organic produce. Anything that's not organic — wash it — even if you're going to peel it. Of course, these tips don't help families like those who were studied in California — short of moving to another area, they can't do much about living near the farms that use the dangerous chemicals.
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I often suspect this condition when these spots are present in my patients, and when they have any of the other major risk factors for diabetes including: family history of the disease, skin tags, obesity or excess weight, hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar), or the combination of high blood pressure with high triglycerides and cholesterol.
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Sources:
"Pesticide Exposure in Pregnancy Linked to Lower IQ in Children," Medline Plus (nlm.nih.gov)
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