The blog post below, from a senior scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Dr. Richard Dennison, covers four recent studies of great interest to anyone concerned about their health, the health of their families, and the relationship between man-made chemicals and human health.
Quote: “I will use this post to briefly highlight four recent studies that demonstrate the changing landscape of our knowledge of how environmental factors, including toxic chemical exposures, are affecting our health. What’s noteworthy about these studies is that they all identified adverse health effects in human populations, and linked those effects to early-life exposures. They all also illustrate the complex interplay between chemical exposures and social or other environmental factors that directly challenges the overly simplistic and non-scientific approach to causation that our chemicals policies have taken for decades. “
Of particular interest to us was the study on epigenetics and the relationship between socio-economic status and health: ” …it should be very disturbing that low socio-economic status has now been shown to lead to readily measurable epigenetic changes associated with adverse health outcomes, potentially not only in individuals directly exposed but also in their children.” And this at a time when the socio-economic status of many families in developed countries is declining…
The post: “Linking everyday chemicals to disease: New science keeps on intensifying the writing on the wall“
