Monday, July 26, 2010

Urban air pollutants may damage IQs before baby's first breath, scientists say

Urban air pollutants may damage IQs before baby's first breath, scientists say
http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/air-pollutants-and-childrens-iqs

"In a sweltering summer in New York City back in 1999, Yolanda Baldwin was eight months pregnant with her first child. She lived near a gas station and across the street from an intersection choked with exhaust-spewing cars and buses. Sometimes the air was so thick with pollution that she could see it, breathe it, smell it, even taste it. And she often wondered what it might be doing to her unborn child."
 

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