Raising Healthy Children in a Toxic World - Part 1

Raising Healthy Children in a Toxic World - Part 1 | Healthy Child Healthy World

This is Part 1 of a two part video filmed at the Mount Sinai Childrens Environmental Health Centers 2nd Annual Greening Our Children Benefit. In this video, Mrs. Rhonda Sherwood and Mr. Bobby Kennedy Jr. describe the increased number of chemicals released into our environment. Mrs. Sherwood focuses on the many ways in which we are exposed to environmental toxins in our everyday lives. Mr. Kennedy goes on to discuss the following themes: • The incredible rise in the rate of asthma amongst children born today, especially when considered in light of the fact that in Mr. Kennedys youth it was considered a rare disease; • The rapidly growing rates of autism and other neurological disorders amongst children; • The insufficiency of current laws governing the use and release of chemicals into our environment; • The EPAs inability to conduct research on the toxicity of various drug...

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