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SICKER, FATTER, POORER
The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future... and What We Can Do About It
A leading voice in public health policy and top environmental medicine scientist reveals the alarming truth about how hormone-disrupting chemicals are affecting our daily lives--and what we can do to protect ourselves and fight back.
Pediatrician Leonardo Trasande observed a steep rise in incidents of life-threatening food and environmental allergies relative to children just fifty years ago, in addition to a similar rise in diagnoses of ADHD, bloodwork showing dramatically suppressed immune systems, and the incidents of diseases like diabetes, once only associated with the elderly. All of these conditions are now common on the world's playgrounds. What can explain this unparalleled rise in these serious health risks in just 50 years?
For evidence-based scientists like Dr. Trasande, the answer is clear: hormone-disrupting chemicals commonly found in our food and beverages, on our clothes and furniture, in the products we apply to our skin each day and use to clean our homes, among many others. On this basis, the European Union asked Dr. Trasande to invite medical and data scientists, economists and environmental experts to calculate the cost of not regulating the use of hormone-disrupting chemicals, and the results revealed were staggering: in addition to breathtaking health costs from increased disease, allowing industry to use these dangerous compound is making our children significantly less intelligent, resulting in a marked drop in IQ scores and earning capacity.
Sicker, Fatter, Poorer is a story of how the environment in urban, suburban, and rural communities continues to contaminate its inhabitants, and how each of us can save ourselves from the consequence of the chemicals at the source of this contamination.
Dr. Trasande is an environmentalist, leader in children's health, and father of two young children. After graduating from Harvard Medical School and completing his residency at Boston's Children's Hospital, Trasande helped frame health care legislation. He now serves as an associate professor of pediatrics of health and policy at NYU's School of Medicine.
For evidence-based scientists like Dr. Trasande, the answer is clear: hormone-disrupting chemicals commonly found in our food and beverages, on our clothes and furniture, in the products we apply to our skin each day and use to clean our homes, among many others. On this basis, the European Union asked Dr. Trasande to invite medical and data scientists, economists and environmental experts to calculate the cost of not regulating the use of hormone-disrupting chemicals, and the results revealed were staggering: in addition to breathtaking health costs from increased disease, allowing industry to use these dangerous compound is making our children significantly less intelligent, resulting in a marked drop in IQ scores and earning capacity.
Sicker, Fatter, Poorer is a story of how the environment in urban, suburban, and rural communities continues to contaminate its inhabitants, and how each of us can save ourselves from the consequence of the chemicals at the source of this contamination.
Dr. Trasande is an environmentalist, leader in children's health, and father of two young children. After graduating from Harvard Medical School and completing his residency at Boston's Children's Hospital, Trasande helped frame health care legislation. He now serves as an associate professor of pediatrics of health and policy at NYU's School of Medicine.
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Book Published 2019-01-08 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Book Published 2019-01-08 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |