Prenatal phthalate exposure linked to altered information processing in infants

https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/708605600

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Per Wikipedia, phthalates are a class of chemicals used to improve plastic properties such as durability or flexibility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalate

ArkanExplorer• 5 years ago

It appears we have a trifecta of evil materials in our environment:

1. Diesel/Petrol/Thermal Coal - air pollution

2. Plastics and Phthalates - hormone disruption, land and sea pollution

3. Sugar - obesity

If anyone has any surplus energy, money, or political power, we would strongly benefit from these ingredients being removed as much as possible from human environments.

carlmr3• 5 years ago

3. Sugar - obesity

Also diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, tooth decay, depression... The list goes on.

You can consume sugar, be skinny and still be unhealthy.

Sugar is probably worse than Corona and we're doing nothing about it.

sascha_sl• 5 years ago

Cause and effect is not the only axis you need to look at. Lots of things mentioned on this list happen gradually and can be counteracted; not so with COVID where you go from (relatively) healthy to dead within a month (not even including Long COVID here)

maxerickson• 5 years ago

There is lots of public health effort expended on dietary health, way more than nothing.

sstephant• 5 years ago

You forgot

4. Heavy metals

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26769446

refurb• 5 years ago

University press release. Not exactly an unbiased source.

Prenatal phthalate exposure linked to altered information processing in infants

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