DDT in Umbilical Cord Blood
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2012-10-30

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Are pregnant women who eat fish, other meat, and dairy still passing along the pesticide DDT even decades after it was banned? The reference to pollutants in mothers' fat is from Friday's NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day Pollutants in Californian Breast Tissue (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/pollutants-in-californian-breast-tissue/). The dozens of chemicals found in the bodies of pregnant Americans is explored in CDC Report on Environmental Chemical Exposure (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cdc-report-on-environmental-chemical-exposure/). For more on which foods appear most contaminated, see yesterday's NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day Food Sources of Flame Retardant Chemicals (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-sources-of-flame-retardant-chemicals/). I have 30 other videos on eating for healthy pregnancies (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/pregnancy/). Included are Dangerous Advice from Health Food Store Employees (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dangerous-advice-from-health-food-store-employees/), Preventing Childhood Allergies (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-childhood-allergies/), and Pregnant Vegans at Risk for Iodine Deficiency (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/pregnant-vegans-at-risk-for-iodine-deficiency-2/). Even if we do pass a load of pollutants onto our babies, how long does it take their bodies to get rid of them? That's covered tomorrow in How Fast Can Children Detoxify from PCBs? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-fast-can-children-detoxify-from-pcbs/).

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