In 2004 the Red Cross decided to take a look at umbilical cord blood & figure out what chemicals were pumped across the placenta 2 our children in the womb, the most vulnerable time of their development. By analyzing the cord blood of 10 newborns, the researchers learned..

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that the babies in utero had an average of two hundred industrial chemicals and pollutants running through their veins. In total 287 toxins were identified in the ten babies tested, pollutants that are found in pesticides, stain repellents, flame retardants,

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waste from coal-burning power plants, gasoline, and garbage. Of these chemicals 180 are known to cause cancer, 217 are poisonous to the brain and nervous system, and 208 have been linked to birth defects in animal studies.

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