How Does YOUR Garden Grow? - With "Silver Bells and Cockle Shells?" This often repeated line from the Nursery Rhyme is not the reality today. Instead many of us are relying on Pesticides and Herbicides to Grow our Gardens. But Research Now Shows Children are Critically Susceptible to Pesticides
According to Michael Jolliffe writing for NaturalNews.com, July 21, 2009 Straight to the Source "A new study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives has revealed that children are dangerously vulnerable to the effects of environmental pesticides, and for far longer than originally suspected.Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have discovered that children lack sufficient levels of the enzyme most responsible for detoxifying pesticides up to the age of seven and possibly for longer. Known as paraxonase or PON1, the enzyme is the most important defense the body has against organophosphate chemicals, a major ingredient of the most commonly used agricultural pesticides..." More details at the following link: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18621.cfm
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