10 Beauty Products you MUST ditch during Pregnancy http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/beauty-products-you-must-ditch-during-pregnancy.php?campaign=daily_nl Decades ago, when chemists were churning out new discoveries and industry was making “better living through chemistry,” the belief was widely held that chemicals do not cross the placenta. We now know that mother’s chemical exposure can affect her baby’s chances for a normal, healthy life, […]
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Younger mothers’ breast milk has highest levels of flame retardants.
January 25th, 2010 
Mom Younger mothers’ breast milk has highest levels of flame retardants. http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/newscience/younger-womens-breast-milk-higher-levels-of-pbdes/ Daniels, JL, IJ Pan, R Jones, S Anderson, DG Patterson, LL Needham and A Sjödin. 2009. Individual characteristics associated with PBDE levels in U.S. human milk samples. Environmental Health Perspectives doi:10.1289/ehp.0900759. Synopsis by Kim Harley, Ph.D. Breast milk from young women – rather than […]
