Why kids are more vulnerable to chemicals…

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Why kids are more vulnerable to chemicals…

Children are much more sensitive than adults to chemicals in the environment. Exposure to a chemical that causes no discernible effect in an adult can cause significant harm to an infant. Some reasons for this include:

• Children frequently have their hands in their mouths, making it more likely that they will ingest toxins with which they come in contact.
• Children have a faster metabolism — pound for pound, children eat more food and breathe more air than adults.
• Children play on the floor, where many toxins in the home settle.
• Children's metabolic pathways are immature, and they are less able to detoxify and excrete toxins that get into their system.
• Children are undergoing rapid development, and organ systems that are disrupted while in the middle of growing may fail to form correctly.
• Children have more years for toxins to accumulate in their bodies and reach unsafe levels.

(Green Up your Cleanup - Jill Potvin Schoff)

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