Pesticides on Produce Tied to ADHD in Children

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Rebeccah Wilde of CA 1:12PM May 17, 2010

Research has also shown that exposure to high levels of water causes an increased rate of death! It is called drowning.

Another "research study" done in the name of what? Better health or is it an unbiased view of someone supporting the "organic, hemp based" life style? How about all of the other factors of today's society? Processed foods, preservatives, HFCS, food coloring, BPH plastic, previous generational activities which may have damaged DNA, ie: smoking, drinking etc. How about the lack of exercize and physical stimulation of todays children? Then there is a big no man's land of big pharma. All of the "safe" drugs and vacinations forced on several generations? Most all of the vacines of the 20th century have contained thimersol. It is mercury, an element known to be poisionus and "cause" mental disorders!

I personally come from a long line of farmers and a large family. Over the last 100 years, which coincides with most of the "pesticide" use in agriculture, there was a yearly exposure to a variety of nastyness. Items such as nicotine, paris green, arsenic and lead, DDT, parathion, a variety of organophosphates, copper sulfate and a multitude of others. Believe it or not, we ate our own crops, inadvertantly had skin exposure to many of these posions and actually survived.

Mother and Father have passed away, she at 92 and he at 100+ with no disease or cancers. That leaves the 9 children, 27 grand children, about a dozen greatgrand kids and a few great-great grands. With this toxic back ground one would expect massive mental and physical problems ( if one subscribes to what this article intimates), however that is not the case!

Deaths; brother, complications after surgery at 67--brother, kidney cancer at 65. The rest of us still living, and healthy! That is actual research! That is LIFE EXPOSURE not a re-defination of a labratory experiment on some rats where the "leathal dose 50" is calculated!

I do not prescribe exposure to posions nor do I put my family on a pedestal as "special". I am saying that "research studies" are questionable! There are those who try to put all of humanity into a single square box and we all don't fit! There is always an exception!,(or many) There are no research studies done "for free", there is a dollar involved somewhere.

I applaud educated people but they have to pay bills and carry "baggage" also. Fortunately some of them are so educated that they cannot empty their own garbage can at the end of the day so they provide a job for the lesser educated.

Beware of "Studies" for they may not be right, just ask Galileo and Neuton.

Dave Carpenter of WA 11:19AM May 17, 2010

How can you say it is ridiculous to go organic. I get that it is expensive but the cost of not doing so is greater. If you wish to continue to knowingly poison your children then your the ridiculous one.

Angie of TX 11:08AM May 17, 2010

I don't think the researchers assume they're completely and easily solving the problem by pointing out that eating organic is a way to avoid exposure to pesticides. They are contributing information about the links they've observed and adding to a growing body of knowledge. Hopefully, the collective efforts of many researchers and scientists will eventually get us there.

je of DE 10:50AM May 17, 2010