Feeding Baby (and yourself) - with Jackie Bowen

Are you aware of the amount of plastic that people unknowingly ingest each day?

This week on Grassroots, Patti & Doug discuss plastic pollution from artificial turf fields and the discovery of TFA "forever" chemicals in drinking water everywhere in the world. Then food engineer Jackie Bowen, Executive Director of the Clean Label Project, talks about chemical toxins in baby food and what we can do about it. More information at www.CleanLabelProject.org

Green Street - Feeding Baby (and yourself)

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Links from the interview:

• Clean Label Project:https://cleanlabelproject.org/

• People could be eating a credit card worth of plastic each week:https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/resource-library/people-could-be-eating-a-credit-card-of-plastic-a-week#:~:text=A%20study%20finds%20that%20people,on%20plastic%20ingestion%20by%20people.

Links from the news:

• Rapidly rising levels of TFA alarm experts:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/01/rapidly-rising-levels-of-tfa-forever-chemical-alarm-experts

• Conservation work is making a measurable difference:https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/05/first-ever-planet-wide-analysis-shows-conservation-work-is-making-a-measurable-difference/

Chemical Exposures and Pregnancy - with Dr. Megan Romano

his week on Green Street, Patti & Doug talk about the hazards of pesticides and wildfire smoke. Then Dr. Megan Romano of Dartmouth University talks about how pregnancy can be impacted by endocrine-disrupting chemicals in our air, our water, our food, and the consumer products we buy...impacts that can have life-long consequences for the new baby.

Green Street - Chemical Exposures and Pregnancy

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Links from the interview:

• How are we exposed to PFAS?:https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/pfc#:~:text=PFAS%20are%20used%20in%20the,or%20breathing%20air%20containing%20PFAS.

• Corsi-Rosenthal boxes redue air pollution:https://sph.brown.edu/news/2023-01-09/corsi-rosenthal-boxes#:~:text=Importantly%2C%20Braun's%20research%20team%20found,decreased%20by%2040%20to%2060%25.

• EWG's guide to personal care products:https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/

• PFAS chemicals and their impacts:https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/05/pulling-out-all-stops-against-pervasive-pollutants

Links from the news:

• Wildfire smoke linked to dementia diagnosis:https://aaic.alz.org/releases-2024/exposure-wildfire-smoke-raises-dementia-risk.asp#:~:text=Reported%20for%20the%20first%20time,average%20wildfire%20PM2.5%20exposure.

• Pesticides may increase cancer risk as much as smoking:https://www.health.com/pesticides-cancer-risk-smoking-study-8687856#:~:text=Pesticide%20exposure—especially%20near%20farming,Hodgkin's%20lymphoma%2C%20and%20bladder%20cancer.

  
  

Plastic in the Placenta with Dr. Marcus Garcia

Scientists are discovering tiny pieces of plastic in virtually every organ of the human body. Now babies are being born with plastic inside. Do you think maybe it's time to reduce our production of plastic?

Green Street - Plastic Placenta

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Links from the interview:

• Study: microplastics found in human placenta:https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/article/199/1/81/7609801?login=false

Links from the news:

• Gas and propane stoves leading to adverse health effects:https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adm8680

• Ron DeSantis scrubs Florida climate change bill:https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/16/desantis-climate-change-energy-bill