Researchers - 99% certain of link between Chemicals/Pesticides and ADD, Diabetes, etc.

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3. Absolutely!

These are known as persistent chemicals. Tests were done on plants and animals in a local harbor. Most had DDE, the breakdown product of DDT. The animals include crab, fish and the worst were the clams. They live in our history.
People eat these animals and the chemical is then stored in the fat tissue of the person.

The rates of disease would not necessarily go down as the chemicals people consume and store increase when they eat animals further up the food chain. Example is the larger fish that feed on smaller fish will have higher levels of the chemicals than the small fish. We consume the larger fish.

Another example is the polar bears' fat tissue has persistent chemicals used in industry, including DDE, but they are far away from industry. They consume fish that have those chemicals stored in their bodies. Whales are very contaminated with them too. So are people.

Chemicals stored in fat tissue are released when a person is under stress, when they diet, when they are pregnant and when they breastfeed. Newborns take in the fat stored chemicals.

Hint - children's cancer rates are increasing and neurological disorders in children are nearly epidemic.