Toxic Bodies

Author: Nancy Langston
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ISBN: B0038LB40S

Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES

In 1941 the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of diethylstilbestrol (DES), the first synthetic chemical to be marketed as an estrogen and one of the first to be identified as a hormone disruptor-a chemical that mimics hormones. Download Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Although researchers knew that DES caused cancer and disrupted sexual development, doctors prescribed it for millions of women, initially for menopause and then for miscarriage, while farmers gave cattle the hormone to promote rapid weight gain. Its residues, and those of other chemicals, in the American food supply are changing the internal ecosystems of human, livestock, and wildlife bodies in increasingly troubling ways.In this gripping exploration, Nancy Langston shows how these chemicals have penet Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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