Your hosts this week are Lynn Desjardins, and Marc Montgomery
An internationally respected Canadian researcher has been involved in several long-term studies on the effects of toxins on children’s brain development.
His studies show that even very small percentages of certain chemicals, common in our environment and consumer products, can have an effect on development.
He says that certaiin pharmaceutical drugs are designed to be effective at the same levels as the presence of toxins and hormone disrupting chemicals.
However he has just created a video showing the cumulative effect of several very common chemicals in our environment and consumer goods. It’s called “Little Things Matter”
Marc spoke to Dr Bruce Lanphear about new information related to the issue.
Do you feel you need, really need, a certain kind of food?
Apparently there are some foods that can create addictions by actually altering the brain similar to the effects of such known addictive drugs like cocaine, or alcohol.
A Toronto doctor has written a book called, “Food Junkies: The Truth About Food Addiction”
Lynn spoke with Dr. Vera Tarman.
It was supposed to be a temporary move. During a severe rain storm, the major urban city of Winnipeg Manitoba was threatened with flooding. Instead the water was diverted and allowed to flood the aboriginal community of Lake St Martin.
The people had been moved away from the area in what they were told would be only a temporary move. They were told in a few days, or perhaps weeks they would be able to go back to ancestral lands and their fishing.
Three years later, about 1200 people are still living in hotelsand other temporary housing in Winnipeg.
Wotek spoke to photo-jounalist Michelle Siu about her ongoing photo project documenting the lives of the Lake St Martin residents, It’s called “Unnatural Disaster”
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