Children at Risk. / Jennifer Bogo.
by Bogo, Jennifer; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 59Environment. Publisher: E Magazine, 2001ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Chemicals -- Physiological effect | Children -- Diseases | Children -- Health risk assessment | Environmental health | Food contamination | Poisons | Pollution -- Law and legislation | Prenatal influencesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Over time, the nature of childhood illness has evolved from epidemics like scarlet fever, smallpox and measles to chronic and disabling conditions like cancer, asthma, neurological impairment and hormone disorders. Though genetic predisposition certainly plays its part, Kenneth Olden, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, likens the gene code's influence over illness to merely loading the health risk gun. 'The environment,' he says, 'pulls the trigger.' " (E MAGAZINE) The author investigates how chemical exposure to unborn babies and children can cause numerous ailments and alter the way the brain works.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: Children at Risk, Sept./Oct. 2001; pp. 26+.
"Over time, the nature of childhood illness has evolved from epidemics like scarlet fever, smallpox and measles to chronic and disabling conditions like cancer, asthma, neurological impairment and hormone disorders. Though genetic predisposition certainly plays its part, Kenneth Olden, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, likens the gene code's influence over illness to merely loading the health risk gun. 'The environment,' he says, 'pulls the trigger.' " (E MAGAZINE) The author investigates how chemical exposure to unborn babies and children can cause numerous ailments and alter the way the brain works.
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