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I agree with some of your fear of synthetic chemicals but it is doubtful that food residue pesticides are the cause, in my opinion. The amounts are ridiculousl

I agree with some of your fear of synthetic chemicals but it is doubtful that food residue pesticides are the cause, in my opinion. The amounts are ridiculously low for foods consumed in the US. If food pesticide consumption was a major source of chemical dosing, why have no studies to my knowledge ever shown eating organic foods to have epidemiologic health benefits? This study compares those that have direct exposure to the organophosphates such as farmers and pesticide sellers in India to those with indirect exposure (eating the food and exposure to runoff) to see this diabetes correlation.

yomly 10y ago
If you work in an organic synthetic lab for an extended period of time, you can develop sensitisation towards bench-top solvents. Granted, the exposure rate is much much higher than the average person's exposure to "chemicals", but over the course of a lifetime, similar mechanisms are surely in place. When you consider factors like plastics leaching into drinks (and it goes without saying how ubiquitous plastic bottles are)and the accumulation of other chemicals through the food chain (think mercury concentrating up the chain into tuna), the exposure rate is probably much higher than we realise.
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