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Pesticides in Organic food and Parkinsons
Please don't get me wrong, I'm not anti organic food I eat it myself
sometime, however July 2005 Scientific American has an interesting article on Parkinson's. A side bar reads as follows.... "Some pesticides, including one routinely used in organic farming, can induce parkinsonian conditions in animals." "Emory University has also discovered in animal studies that exposure to rotenone, a pesticide often used in organic farming because it's made of natural products, is capable of inducing protein aggregation killing dopamine-producing neurons, inhibiting the cells' energy-producing organelles and giving rise to motor deficits". It continues.. "Experts now accept that smoking and coffee drinking can be somewhat protective - although clearly the risks of smoking far outweigh this particular benefit" It's a complicated old world! |
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