Date:   11/14/2014 10:34:24 AM ( 11 y ago)
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Flame retardants, bromide; linked to lower IQ in children; another reason to take Iodine in dosages way over the RDA. While fluroide is relatively easy to avoid, bromide is not. It is everywhere, as long as you have a car, furniture, bedsheets etc. Newer ones, that is.

"The study focused specifically on the class of flame retardants known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). After California passed incredibly strict anti-flammability standards in the 1970s, PBDEs became ubiquitous in a wide variety of consumer products, particularly in the foam of upholstered furniture. After evidence emerged that PBDEs might cause hormone disruption and neurodevelopmental toxicity, manufacturers removed them from the US market in 2004, and they are banned in the European Union.

Yet because PBDEs accumulate in the fatty tissues of humans and other animals, they continue to persist in the environment (and in the human body) in significant quantities. In addition, many products manufactured before the ban are still on the market. Finally, furniture manufactured with PBDEs is still ubiquitous, and releases these toxic chemicals regularly in the form of indoor dust. Numerous studies have confirmed that biologically significant levels of PBDEs can be found in nearly every home and office, as well as in the body of nearly every person tested.

For the new study, researchers measured key BDE levels in 309 women during their 16th week of pregnancy, then followed them until their children were five years old. They found that a tenfold increase in blood concentrations of PBDEs during pregnancy was associated with a 4.5-point lower IQ score at age 5, comparable to the effect of lead exposure.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/047623_flame_retardants_PBDEs_furniture.html#ixzz3...
 

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