http://counterpunch.com/-snip of history so far of the toxic contamination facts-
"These kids are different," she says, adding that she's pretty sure she knows why. "The reason our kids are different is because the toxins that they're exposed to are different."
(re: . . . autism spectrum, bipolar, attention-deficit hyperactive, obsessive compulsive, pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric associated with Streptococcus and depression.)
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Marcella "Marci" Piper grew up in Southern California, where she inhaled lead on a daily basis. Now 49 (50 in January), Marci Terry explains: "In the 1960s, California built a ton of elementary schools on the embankments of freeways, including the one I went to. Gasoline was not unleaded until 1978."
And, she learned retrospectively through her research, her mother suffered and died from acute lead poisoning.
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Terry never understood what happened to her mother until she performed a neuropsychological evaluation on a D.C. child with known lead exposure. "I found out that lead mimics calcium," she says. "It circulates in the bloodstream, but then it goes into places where calcium goes -- bones, teeth, hair."
As is her wont, Terry explains in intricate detail how lead "disregulates" calcium, forcing it out of bones and teeth and into the rest of the body, where it finds other places to settle. Her mother's last heart surgery before she died revealed a malfunctioning, calcified valve.
But when the body is "pulling for calcium," it leaches lead from the bones and teeth back into the bloodstream, Terry continues. "That's during pregnancy and breast-feeding. Lead crosses the placenta, and it is transmitted in breast milk as many other toxins are."
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Like California, Indiana has some of the highest rates of ASD diagnoses in the nation. And Terry, who still goes by Marci, says moms in the Ohio River Valley today pass on far more than just lead to their sons and daughters' developing bodies.
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"This is a hair analysis," she says. "This costs $65. What it shows is, his aluminum is high, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, bismuth, cadmium, lead, mercury."
Terry evaluates children who live in the coal-burning power plant capital of the world, where toxins literally float in the air, she says. "In the summertime, the number of particulate-matter days is unbelievable here. The stuff that hangs in the air that causes the haze is a mixture of stuff that comes out of the coal plants."
She ticks off some of the chemicals her lab results have routinely shown in Southwest Indiana children: "Antimony, arsenic, aluminum, cadmium, bismuth, vanadium. All of those things that are in coal."
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In Terry's D.C. practice, the kids who struggled the most were those with visual processing problems, she says, "and it was rare. It was a handful." In the 120 or so evaluations she has done on Indiana kids, "that's what I see all the time."
Visual impairments, she says, are symptomatic of heavy metal poisoning. "You can't make your hands do what your eyes see."
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so its just not poor teaching or poor schools why children don't do well in school or graduate from H.S. and end up living on drugs, in jail, dying young, or ruining family life.
we are so screwed.
but the barons and politicians are still happy.
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