Protecting Children's Health
Protecting children from endocrine disruptors (also known as endocrine disrupting chemicals - EDCs) is an important goal of parents, teachers,
EPA and U.S. Congress. Pregnant women, mothers, fathers, and
educators are trying to learn more about these chemicals that are hazardous to infants and young children.
Where are Endocrine Disruptors?
Endocrine disruptors may be found in schools, day care centers, toys, homes, and other sites where infants and young children are.
Free software here can be used to teach in schools. More comprehensive software is also available as an inexpensive aid for teachers and parents to use.
Free Teaching Aids
View examples of the free sofware for parents and teachers. Educators can also download free summary software for use in
schools as a teaching aid or purchase the inexpensive more comprehensive slide show.
Help protect our children's health. Learn what endocrine disruptors are,
how infants and young children can be exposed to these hazardous chemicals, what their effects can be, and how to minimize exposure.
A New Publication
Preventing Children's Exposure to Endocrine Disruptors - A Teaching Aid is a publication in the series
Protecting Children's Health. Dr. Lawrence H. Keith has developed this material to help parents and teachers prevent or minimize children's exposure to hazardous chemical pollutants.
Pollutants covered in this series include chemicals that cause acute (immediate) toxic effects and chronic (delayed) effects.
Examples of acute effects include skin, throat, and eye irritation, vomiting, and death. Examples of chronic effects include attention deficite syndrome, reduced
IQ, motor nerve development, overweight teenagers, reduced sperm count, undecended testicles, breast cancer, and many others.
New Publication - Updated October 2002
- Preventing Children's Exposure to Endocrine Disruptors - A Teaching Aid
is a publication in the series
Protecting Children's Health. It is a
slide show presentation to help parents and teachers understand the complex technical issues involved with this new category of chemical pollutants that threaten
our children. These chemicals harm our children and the younger the child is the greater is the risk of harm. The unborn
child is thus at greatest risk. Endocrine disruptors affect the developing fetus and young children by causing a variety of endocrine and
reproductive system defects including malformations of newborns, undecended testicles, abnormal sperm, low sperm counts, feminization of males and masculinization
of females, thyroid dysfunction, various types of cancer such as cervical, breast and prostate cancer, etc. Dr. Keith presents an overview of
what is known and what is not yet known about these chemical pollutants at a level that everyone can understand. The very latest developments are presented along
with ways to prevent or minimize children's exposure to these chemicals. Using this knowledge, parents and teachers will be able to read and discuss new
developments in this critical field as they unfold over the next several years. The slides may be used with Microsoft's
Ò PowerPointÒ Viewer for presentations or printed for handouts.
Teachers will be able to use this publication for materials that can be used to discuss this topic at PTA meetings, other community and public outreach forums,
and in the classroom.
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to download a free PowerPoint slide show summary of this publication. Save the file named freeshow.zip in a folder, and click on it to extract the file named childfre.ppt to view with PowerPoint.
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