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Research finds environmental affects on childrens future academic abilities

The time of year a woman conceives may influence her child's future academic performance, according to new American research.

When researchers linked standardised test scores of 1, 667,391 Indiana students in grades 3 to 10 with the month in which each student was conceived, they found that those conceived between May and August scored considerably lower on maths and language tests than children conceived during other months of the year.

Lead researcher, Dr Paul Winchester of Indiana University School of Medicine said the evidence pointed to environmental pesticide, used most often in the American summer months, as a possible factor.

The lower test scores correlated with higher levels of pesticides and nitrates in the surface water(nearby streams) and other bodies of water during the same time period.

I would say that many parents have strongly suspected environmental affects on their children in a number of ways. This spells it out!

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Submitted by huttriver10 on May 14, 2007 - 1:15am.

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2catdave | May 15, 2007 - 10:38pm

spell it out. I wonder if those particular pesticides were FDA
approved?? My first guess would be yes, and what about all of those pesticides used to treat termites, cock roaches, mosquitoes....ugh makes you sick to think how many chemicals the public in general uses and does so in good faith, only finding out down the road it wasn't at all safe.

Later huts' 2cat

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huttriver10 | May 21, 2007 - 4:21pm

to think about.


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nikk.solutions | January 30, 2008 - 9:58am

tnx for the information becoz ,i know only that the pesticides or chemicals mixes in our atmosphere & in turn in rain water from there into our food chain & in to our body .it causes many problems to our body is evident

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huttriver10 | January 30, 2008 - 1:22pm

I posted this in the middle of last year. Just shows the value of blogs - they keep moving on through the blogesphere for as long as the site remains.

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huttriver10 | January 30, 2008 - 1:22pm

I posted this in the middle of last year. Just shows the value of blogs - they keep moving on through the blogesphere for as long as the site remains.

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