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Why You Don’t Want ‘Normal’ Blood Lead Levels

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Why You Don’t Want ‘Normal’ Blood Lead Levels
Michael Greger
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“By the 1950s, lead—a dangerous neurotoxin that was once buried deep in the ground, far away from humans— had polluted the entire planet.”

That fact was noted by David Rosner, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University. We have leaded gasoline to thank for this. It’s hard to imagine “a better strategy for maximizing population exposure to a poison than to have it emitted by a ubiquitous mobile source and to line the surfaces of dwellings,” wrote David C. Bellinger, a Harvard Medical School neurology professor, for The New England Journal of Medicine.
Michael Greger
Michael Greger
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Michael Greger, MD, FACLM, is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. He has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, testified before Congress, appeared on “The Dr. Oz Show” and “The Colbert Report,” and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous “meat defamation” trial. This article was originally published on NutritionFacts.org
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