Re: Gray teeth! Is this an iron problem??/Correction

[Guest guest]

I want to thank Summer for sending me the following information:

>>>Children who are most

likely to be exposed to lead are likely to have other risk factors,

such

as a poor diet, which can contribute to iron deficiency. <<<

This is no longer considered factual...not your mistake, it was in

the article, and old belief, but the old lead studies were based

only on the lead intake from paint and its effects on minority

children at poverty line living in inner cities.

For a long time, agencies such as the EPA has used this line to

blame parents for lead poisoning...when there is lead poisoning, it

starts a cycle of malabsorption that makes it nearly impossible to

absorb anything.

Now lead poisoning is found across the board in the US with no

specific concentration in any race, socio-economic status (even nice

houses can be situated in polluted areas or have lead paint) and

despite a variety of diets, as lead, when entering the body takes

out the immune system and mucosal layer in one pop.

Malabsorption is simply another facet, the most significant facet to

heavy metal poisoning. Not that there are other causes.

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It is not exactly wrong, but government agencies and companies have

this horrible knack of blaming people for eating bad diets for

causing lead uptake, but if lead exposure is continual, while the

greatest of diets may prevent some damage, malabsorption can still

take hold, and then the vicious cycle begins. And it was all based

on one small study in new york city, and it became a standard for

advice.

Just talking about this with a lead lawyer the other day. It is not

wrong, but not factual, the study did show this, but it omitted

people who live with quality diet and money. Later studies showed

that lead exposure causes lead poisoning across dietary, monetary,

race and geography, and it depends on the amounts and type of

exposure and timing of it, not just being poor and eating a bad

diet.

Summer