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On Feb 13, 12:18 pm, EatEmAndWeepOrgani...@ss.com wrote:
> US study links pesticides to Parkinson's disease
>
> – Fri Feb 11, 5:11 pm ET
>
> WASHINGTON (AFP) – US researchers said Friday they have found that
> people who used two specific varieties of pesticide were 2.5 times as
> likely to develop Parkinson's disease.
>
> The pesticides, paraquat and rotenone, are not approved for house and
> garden use. Previous research on animals has linked paraquat to
> Parkinson's disease, so it is restricted to use by certified
> applicators.
>
> Rotenone is approved only for use in killing invasive fish species.
>
> "Rotenone directly inhibits the function of the mitochondria, the
> structure responsible for making energy in the cell," said study
> co-author Freya Kamel, a researcher at the National Institute of
> Environmental Health Sciences.
>
> "Paraquat increases production of certain oxygen derivatives that may
> harm cellular structures. People who used these pesticides or others
> with a similar mechanism of action were more likely to develop
> Parkinson's disease."
>
> The study examined 110 people with Parkinson's disease and 358 people
> who served as a control group from the Farming and Movement Evaluation
> (FAME) Study.
>
> FAME is part of a larger Agricultural Health Study looking at the
> health of approximately 90,000 licensed pesticide applicators and
> their spouses.
>
> The study appears in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
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 Where is the screwball FDA , the ignorant murdering bastards !!!!!

Did you know that the FDA is run by Doctors ?  "Yikes" !!!!!!!!!
Now that is as scary as a suicide bomber !