Comments on: Study: Common Pesticides Linked to Attention Deficit Disorder

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:01:58 +0000

Jay has an excellent point. Many researchers list ADD/ADHD as disorders falling along the autism or PDD “spectrum.”

By: scribbler

scribbler — Wed, 19 May 2010 00:46:27 +0000

We will find that even with the harm done, our lives demanded the use of chemicals…

By: Jay Fox

Jay Fox — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:19:09 +0000

Keep looking at this and you’ll find all kinds of problems. ADHD is just the beginning. What about autism?

By: KDdidit

KDdidit — Tue, 18 May 2010 04:57:25 +0000

Geraldine,
My mother grew gladiolus as a hobby and the trend during the mid-1950s was to use DDT to kill any bugs. I remember my mother telling about the salesman who ate a teaspoon of DDT to demonstrate that it was safe. I helped her plant, clean and care for those gladioli. Of course she used DDT on the garden stuff so in theory I was eating fresh off of the farm food but it was contaminated because it was pre- Rachel Carson and her book “Silent Spring.”

A medical person told me that at the age I was exposed to DDT my eggs were forming so the exposure I had affected their development. That’s WHY I asked about the chemicals we are being exposed to via the medical establishment aka prescriptions! Are we setting up another thalidomide issue? But perhaps it will be less obvious such as ADHD or ADD. AAARGH!

I spent 36 years in K-8 classrooms in 5 states and overseas. There is a change in the students’ attention span and interest. I still substitute teach and I am seeing a regression in the maturity of the students in the primary and intermediate grades. I am also hearing as one of my former students who is a teacher calls it — “Twitter Live”. The students do not know the value of being silent for even a short period of time.

By: jmberan

jmberan — Tue, 18 May 2010 03:16:23 +0000

It’s unfortunate that studies like this don’t even consider correcting for internal variables (lifestyle choices, parenting methods, etc) insofar as to suggest that a more diligent parent will select or prepare foods better for their children in coincidence with emphasis on reasonable disciplines. Whereas the lazy, unthoughtful, and sometime contemptuous parent would aim for less care as personal freedom. Such lax would also result in weekened discipline and morals in the child.

The most unfortunate side affect from this article will be it’s gospel-like adherence of die-hard anti-inorganics.

Don’t check your brain at the keyboard or the door when you read things like this, everyone has an agenda.

By: Geraldine

Geraldine — Tue, 18 May 2010 01:36:57 +0000

The end of the article says, “Wash your friuts and vegetables thoroughly.:
That will not make much of a difference in the end. The plants uptake these poisons, and they become part of the fruit.

KD,
The old adage of, “We are what we eat” is very truthful. Unfortunately, unless we grow our own foodstuffs or eat organic foods, we have no idea what has been done to our food supply.

By: KDdidit

KDdidit — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:56:00 +0000

Just makes me wonder how my exposure to DDT between the ages of 8-12 and the fact that all three of my children had foot deformaties is all related. The Japanese Snow Monkeys had feet and hand deformaties from DDT exposure. There are no other foot deformaties on either side of our families to blame genetics. Thank heavens that none of my eight grandchildren have similar foot deformaties. One of my children did have ADHD. Was that DDT related?

WHAT will we find in the future regarding the chemicals we casually use today?