Sentences with phrase «exposure to pesticides increases»

It's been known for over 20 years that exposure to pesticides increases the risk of cancer.

This study released a couple years ago stated that exposure to pesticides increased a child's risk of developing ADD / ADHA.

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In addition to the direct environmental benefits Organic Agriculture provides, it reduces farm costs in the long - term by increasing soil fertility, ensures animal welfare, protects farmers against dangerous pesticide exposure and contributes to rural development by generating additional farm employment and fair incomes.

History of constant head trauma, illness or constant exposure to environmental toxins like pesticides are known to increase risk

Children tend to eat a limited number of foods, which can increase their exposure to specific pesticides.

Intermittent lower - dose exposures can be as toxic as a single higher - dose exposure; Miller cites monkey research showing that either 10 nontoxic weekly doses or one toxic dose of an organophosphate pesticide led to the same increase in brain wave activity as measured by electroencephalogram, or EEG.

«Yet mothers exposed to extreme levels of pesticides, defined here as the top 5 percent of the pesticide exposure distribution, experienced between 5 and 9 percent increases in the probability of adverse outcomes with an approximately 13 - gram decrease in birth weight.»

Exposure to a group of common pesticides, called dithiocarbamates, has long been associated with an increased risk of Parkinson's disease, although the mechanism by which the compounds exert their toxicity on the brain has not been completely understood.

Survey data suggest reported cumulative pesticide exposure was associated with increased risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disease, according to an article published online by JAMA Neurology.

Pesticide exposure was associated with increased risk of ALS in survey data and by blood measurements, according to the results.

The researchers found that exposure to any type of pesticide was associated with increased risk of any type of diabetes by 61 %.

A meta - analysis of 21 studies presented at this year's annual meeting the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) shows that exposure to pesticides is associated with increased risk of developing diabetes by 61 %, with different types of pesticides showing varying levels of risk.

«Analysis of 21 studies shows exposure to pesticides is associated with increased risk of developing diabetes.»

For individual pesticides, increased risk was identified in association with exposure to chlordane, oxylchlordane, trans - nonachlor, DDT, DDE dieldrin, heptachlor and HCB.

The authors conclude: «This systematic review supports the hypothesis that exposure to various types of pesticides increases the risk of diabetes.

«What your great - grandmother was exposed to during pregnancy, like the pesticide methoxychlor, may promote a dramatic increase in your susceptibility to develop disease, and you will pass this on to your grandchildren in the absence of any continued exposures,» says Michael Skinner, WSU professor and founder of its Center for Reproductive Biology.

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The increase may also have to do with excessive exposure to xenoestrogens, chemicals such as pesticides which have estrogenic effects on the body.

A diet rich in vegetable oils, white flour and sugar, exposure to pesticides and herbicides, consumption of conventionally raised dairy and meat products, the high use of plastics, as well as use of some cosmetics, toiletries and household cleaners, increases the cancer causing 16a OH Estrone metabolite.

But, with that lifestyle, you tend to increase your risk of getting sick from GMOs, increased pesticide exposure, food poisoning plus many other issues like too much sodium and sugar.

Exposure to high levels of infectious microbes, environmental chemicals such as plasticizers, pesticides, herbicides, personal care products, heavy metals and biotoxins such as mold wear down the bodies glutathione levels, alter the gut microflora and increase inflammatory activity in the body.

Environmental Toxins: Exposure to high levels of infectious microbes, environmental chemicals such as plasticizers, pesticides, herbicides, personal care products, heavy metals and biotoxins such as mold wear down the bodies glutathione levels, alter the gut microflora and increase inflammatory activity in the body (26, 27, 28).

There's substantial evidence suggesting that «exposure to pesticides may increase Parkinson's disease risk,» and autopsies found higher levels of pollutants and pesticides in the brains of Parkinson's disease patients, and some of these toxins are present at low levels in dairy products.

There are, however, other factors that can increase the production of free radicals, and many of them go hand in hand with modern day life: unhealthy food, exposure to pesticides, herbicides, cleaning chemicals, and cigarette smoke, and physical and emotional stress.

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