A body of the world’s leading public health researchers says that the number of children dying from noncommunicable diseases over the past 50 years has gone up dramatically, largely because of exposure to synthetic chemicals and plastics.
Source: Futurism, By Frank Landymore
In a new paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which one author described to The Guardian as a “call to arms,” the scientists demand urgent global action and a dramatic restructuring of the law and the chemical industry.
“The evidence is so overwhelming and the effects of manufactured chemicals are so disruptive for children, that inaction is no longer an option,” study coauthor Daniele Mandrioli, director of the Cesare Maltoni Cancer Research Center at the Ramazzini Institute in Italy, told The Guardian. “Our article highlights the necessity for a paradigm shift in chemical testing and regulations to safeguard children’s health.”
The data the researchers point to, encapsulating the past 50 to 75 years, is alarming. Childhood cancer rates have increased by 35 percent. One in 36 children are now diagnosed with autism. The number of children with asthma has tripled, while obesity has quadrupled. And for boys, the rate of birth defects in the reproductive organs has doubled.
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