Environmental Health News has summarized a new study hat looks at arsenic levels in infants and toddlers. The article, Impaired arsenic metabolism in children during weaning, appears in the Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology journal.
Here is an excerpt from the synopsis by Abby D. Benninghoff, Ph.D.
The results of this study of 18-month-old Bangladeshi children show for the first time that arsenic metabolism changes as infants grow into toddlers and replace breastfeeding with eating food and drinking water. The children face a double whammy: they are less able to detoxify the poison at a time when their exposure through food and water is most likely increasing.
Read the entire synopsis here: Toddlers less able to detox arsenic than infants.
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