The more we learn about ADHD, autism, and other neurobehavioral development disorders ~ with which an estimated 10 to 15 percent of U.S. babies are now born ~ the more we learn what many have deduced and argued for a long time: that the cause is, in the great majority of cases, environmental. In a paper summarizing the results of their study on the subject, Philippe Grandjean, of Harvard, and Philip Landrigan, of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan, named 12 chemicals that they believe cause these disorders and lower IQs in babies whose mothers were exposed to them. These chemicals can be found in furniture, household products, pesticides, building materials, drinking water, and more. Many of them were proved to be hazardous years ago, and yet we're still using them. Which leaves us with the obvious question: Why isn't our government doing a better job of protecting its people ~ us ~ from these dangers?: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/03/the-toxins-that-threaten-our-brains/284466/
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