If you don't know what endocrine disrupters are, please follow the links, especially the last one. In short, the endocrine system is the system the body uses to send signals (such as hormones) regulating all manner of body processes. It's used for slower signals (minutes to weeks) in contrast to the nervous system which is used for faster signals (near-instant responses). Many chemicals mimic these natural hormones, causing tons of problems, especially in the womb, testes, ovaries, etc.
"Our Stolen Future" is both a book and website about endocrine disruptors:
About the book / research: http://www.
News stories about Endocrine Disruption: http://www.
Discussion of industry-sponsored, biased studies designed to keep people ignorant and regulation lax: http://www.ourstolenfuture.
Mother Jones has an amazing article on how the chemicals and other industries have tried to hide how damaging these chemicals we live with are. It makes my blood boil:
I'm going to be writing more about this kind of issue in the future - how little awareness or control we have over the health of our environment, schools, foods, etc, and how I'm addressing that in this transition. I refuse to raise a family exposed to the risks described in the links above.
