New Study Finds Pesticides Double Risk of ADHD in Children

It can't be repeated enough that, despite the myriad uses chemical companies have for genetically modified organisms - none of them good - their main function is so that the pesticides and herbicides marketed by the same chemical companies - Monsanto, Bayer, Dow, etc - can be sprayed on crops, so that the weeds and bugs will be killed but not the crops themselves. In other words, they are engineered so that more and more pesticides can be sprayed on them. That's their function. They don't produce higher crop yields, they're not more nutritious - they're toxic. That's what they're for, and even then, mother nature has evolved, so that not only do their chemicals not kill the crops, they're not killing the pests and weeds, either.

Tony Isaacs
NaturalNews -

For years environmentalists and natural health advocates have been trying to point out that organophosphate pesticides (malathion, etc.) work by disrupting the neurological systems of insects, and therefore humans who consume them on foods are at risk of neurological problems. Now, after millions of kids have been diagnosed with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactive disorder), it is finally being admitted.

In a new study just published in Pediatrics, researchers from the University of Montreal and Harvard University found evidence strongly indicating that pesticides could be a major cause of the alarming rise in ADHD in our children. Children who had higher than average biomarkers for organophosphate pesticides were nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD. Previous studies found that pesticides may contribute to hyperactivity and cognitive problems in animals, but the new study is among the first to determine that it affects humans, too.

Among the study's findings:

* Children who have high levels of pesticide residues are 93% more likely to have ADHD.
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* For every 55% increase in residue in urine, there is a 10% greater risk of ADHD.

"I think it's fairly significant. A doubling is a strong effect," said Maryse F. Bouchard, a researcher at the University of Montreal in Quebec and lead author of the study.

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