Protect Children—Protect Our
Future
by the EPA
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(get
it).
 Did
you know...
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Overall childhood cancer
rates have increased 13 percent since 1973.
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NHL (Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma)
is up 30 percent.
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Brain
cancer up 21 percent.
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ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic
Leukemia) is up 21 percent.
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Autism has increased from
1 in 5000 (twenty years ago) to 1 in 150 (now).
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Asthma rates are up from
7.9 million in 1982 to 22.8 million in 2006.
And that's just to name a few of the
diseases that affect our children.
Obviously, something has gone drastically wrong to
cause all of these childhood disease, allergy, and infertility problems. Our
science and healthcare is improving with the years, but our health is not.
Did you know that over 80,000 chemicals have been
introduced to us and our environment since 1940? And most of these have never
been tested for long-term effects on our children. The current EPA regulations
require testing on one chemical at a time on an adult-sized person. But we and
our tiny children are exposed to hundreds of chemicals SIMULTANEOUSLY each and
every day. What's more, the
FDA requires NO TESTING on all the bath and beauty products we absorb in our
skin every day.
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