Sentences with phrase «lower organophosphate»

They found adults who lived on at least an 80 per cent organic diet for a week had significantly lower organophosphate pesticide residues in their urine than those who ate a diet of conventional foods.

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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.

Since the use of organophosphate pesticides is widespread around the world, and growing evidence indicates a link between these pesticides and disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Baas said that a deeper investigation of low - level OP exposure is critical for preventing and treating neurological conditions arising from such exposures, in addition to Gulf War Illness.

Animals fed low doses of organophosphates gain weight on less food.

There is substantial evidence that chronic, low - level exposure to organophosphates (the most common class of pesticide) may affect brain functioning and neurological development in humans.33, 34 This evidence indicates a strong likelihood that low - level chronic exposure adversely affects children's nervous systems.

As I mentioned, excessive amounts of two types of insecticides, organophosphates and carbamates, are the most common cause of low blood cholinesterase levels in pets.

How about the farmer who learns that even very low levels of organophosphate insecticides can disrupt developing brains and nervous systems, and then immediately stops spraying his crops for the sake of the health of his grandbabies growing up in a house across the field.