With its fourth and most ambitious edition of its National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, released today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) casts the issue of pollution in people in sharp focus.
The CDC has detected 212 contaminants in the blood and urine of thousands of people tested from 1999-2004, the most extensive survey of the American body burden ever published by the federal government.
CDC's testing focuses on adults and children age 6 and older, leaving EWG and other environmental health groups and academic scientists to investigate the extent to which pollutants were invading the womb.
Last week,
EWG released its second cord blood study, reporting detections of up to 232 contaminants in the cord blood of 10 minority infants born between 2007 and 2008. EWG's study was the first to find the plastic ingredient bisphenol A (BPA), an endocrine-disrupting chemical, in American cord blood.
EWG's first cord blood study, published in 2005, found up to 287 chemicals in 10 cord blood samples.
Comment: For information about Diet and Inflammation read the following articles:
Battling Inflammation, Disease Through Food
The Anti-Inflammation Diet
Vitamin E Shows Possible Promise In Easing Chronic Inflammation
Inflammation May Be Link Between Extreme Sleep Durations And Poor Health
In addition, books like The UltraMind Solution: How to Fix Your Broken Brain by Dr. Mark Hyman provides a groundbreaking program that shows how we can fix our brains by healing our bodies first, preventing brain issues such as depression, anxiety, memory loss, brain fog, attention deficit disorder, autism and dementia. According to Dr. Hyman 'we have all heard of the mind and body connection and how our thoughts affect the health of our body. But the reverse is far more powerful what you do to your body, your basic biology has a profound effect on your brain'
Watch Dr. Mark Hyman describe how diet can reduce Inflammation, 'How to cool the fire inside you':
Also check out the forum discussion: Anti-Candida, Inflammation, Heavy Metals Detox and Diet