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Author: Jovana Ruzicic
Website: http://www.enviroblog.org/2009/04/toxic-babies.html
It’s hard to talk about pregnancy without talking about a woman’s right to give birth to pollution-free babies.
In 2004, EWG tested umbilical cord blood of 10 babies born in U.S. hospitals and found a total of 287 chemicals, an average of 200 chemical per child! All this at the time of the infant’s most critical period of development of the baby, when it needs a chemical-free and nutrient-rich environment, not an industrial site! That those chemicals are present in its mother’s womb is wrong on so many levels!
But babies are not just born pre-polluted due to environmental factors, they are harder to conceive. According to the Telegraph, newspaper in Calcutta, India:
“A study of 100 childless couples who have experienced early miscarriage in the past two years revealed genetic deficiencies in sperms produced by almost 55 per cent of the males in the group. The common factor was constant exposure to air pollution.”
The Telegraph further reports around 15 to 20 per cent…
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