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Author: Philippe Grandjean
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Download books file now Free Only One Chance: How Environmental Pollution Impairs Brain Development -- and How to Protect the Brains of the Next Generation for everyone book 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link Today, one out of every six children suffers from some form of neurodevelopmental abnormality. The causes are mostly unknown. Some environmental chemicals are known to cause brain damage and many more are suspected of it, but few have been tested for such effects. Philippe Grandjean provides an authoritative and engaging analysis of how environmental hazards can damage brain development and what we can do about it.
The brain's development is uniquely sensitive to toxic chemicals, and even small deficits may negatively impact our academic achievements, economic success, risk of delinquency, and quality of life. Chemicals such as mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), arsenic, and certain pesticides pose an insidious threat to the development of the next generation's brains. When chemicals in the environment affect the development of a child's brain, he or she is at risk for mental retardation, cerebral palsy, autism, ADHD, and a range of learning disabilities and other deficits that will remain for a lifetime.
We can halt chemical brain drain and protect the next generation, however, and Grandjean tells us how. First, we need to control all of the 200 industrial chemicals that have already been proven to affect brain functions in adults, as their effects on the developing brain are likely even worse. We must also push for routine testing for brain toxicity, stricter regulation of chemical emissions, and more required disclosure on the part of industries who unleash hazardous chemicals into products and the environment. Decisions can still be made to protect the brains of future generations.
"In his crisply written, deeply documented book, Dr. Philippe Grandjean, renowned physician and public health specialist, describes the exquisite vulnerability of the developing human brain to toxic chemicals in the environment, a vulnerability that he ascribes to the brain's almost unimaginable complexity. Today, nearly one in every 6 children is born with a neurodevelopmental disorder - a birth defect of the brain. One in 8 has attention deficit disorder. One in 88 is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. These rates are far higher than those of a generation ago, and, although they are less publicized, the problems are more prevalent than those caused by thalidomide in the 1960's. The increases are far too rapid to be genetic. They cannot be explained by better diagnosis. How then could they have come to be? Dr. Grandjean has a diagnosis -- the thousands of toxic chemicals that have been released to the environment in the past 40 years with no testing for toxicity. David P. Rall, former Director of the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, once stated that 'If thalidomide had caused a ten-point loss of IQ rather than obvious birth defects of the limbs, it would probably still be on the market'. This is the core message of Dr. Grandjean's 'must read' book." - Philip J. Landrigan, Dean for Global Health, Ethel H. Wise Professor and Chairman and Director, Children's Environmental Health Center, Mount Sinai School of MedicineDownload latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Free Only One Chance: How Environmental Pollution Impairs Brain Development -- and How to Protect the Brains of the Next Generation
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- Print Length: 231 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0199985383
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (April 5, 2013)
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B00D6CRVA6
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Free Only One Chance: How Environmental Pollution Impairs Brain Development -- and How to Protect the Brains of the Next Generation
This book by Philippe Grandjean tackles an important medical and societal issue, the potential deleterious effects of toxic chemicals on the developing brain. While the subject matter-developmental neurotoxicity- may be difficult to the non-initiated, Grandjean presents his arguments in a simple and engaging style. A large part of the book focuses on chemicals well known to damage the developing brain (e.g. lead, methylmercury, alcohol), but the real challenge, as Grandjean stresses, is that of identifying, studying and curtail exposure to hundreds of other chemicals (a long list is presented in an appendix) which have the potential to do so. In recent years it would appear that developmental disorders (autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorders, learning disabilities, etc.) are on the rise, and the possible contribution of environmental chemicals to this "epidemics" needs to be determined. Damage to the developing brain is often irreversible, as there is only one chance (hence the book title) to develop one's brain. With passion yet scientific rigor, Grandjean pleads for attention and resources to deal with this important issue, in a book that may become the "Silent Spring" of developmental neurotoxicology. The book is a pleasant and quick read, and is recommended for all concerned that children would be allowed to develop to their highest intellectual potential.
By Guruofwisdom
Only One Chance is perhaps the most important book of the last fifty years.Dr. Philippe Grandjean pinpoints the causes behind the multiplying health problems faced by the world today. Starting from neurodevelopmental disorders --birth defects of the brain--attention deficit disorders and autism, the relentless attacks of thousands of untested chemicals on the developing preborn continue unrestrained and unpunished After the child is born, the toxic exposures may produce grave effects and dysfunctions far into adulthood and even old age.
Following upon the WHO/UNEP 2012 Report on the effects of endocrine disruptors and other developmental toxicants, this book may finally bridge the present disconnect between attacks on the preborn through industrial toxic exposures, and the impotence of the present legal regimes. When case after case of environmental harms is dismissed,despite the diseases and stunted development of children, because "it does not raise to the level in international crime", thus leaving vulnerable populations from the Canadian "cancer alley"(Sarnia,Ontario) to the Indigenous peoples of Ecuador and Columbia, Grandjean's scientific "tour de force" may finally be brought in as evidence of the ongoing crimes being perpetrated.
Only One Chance refers to the only time when the human brain is developing, thus when it can be harmed, in the early stages of fetal development. Only One Chance can also refer to the only time when the child (and the future adult) can be protected, despite the present immunity enjoyed by most chemical corporations, and the complicity of governmental institutions.
I hope that the thorough, solid science supporting Grandjean's conclusions, may bring about the radical changes needed to protect the most fundamental of human rights, the right to live and develop normally, both in our body and our brain.
This is a book that everyone should read.
By laura westra