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I. Endocrine disruptors: are very dangerous at all stages of life, but mostly to babies and embryosa. These can affect the development of babiesi. Examples: border of Mexico-> some babies born without brainsb. are chemicals that may interfere with the body's endocrine system and produce adverse developmental, reproductive, neurological, and immune effects in both humans and wildlife.c. Chemicals bind to genes and the genes’ expression of traits is changed and can affect the gene of subsequent generationsi. Example: wildlife showed signs of endocrine stressd. From WW2 to now, there are more plastics being produced and more chemicals being in everyday productsi. Sperm sample before WW2 is more interesting than sperm sample of citizen in New York in the 70’s, due to the mass amount of exposure to chemicalsii. Children of mothers who are more Great Lakes fish had higher IQ’s than other children of mothers who did not eat the fishe. Endocrine disruptors are being linked to a lot of diseases like autismII. Big topics in videoa. Regulations of chemicals have become too relaxedi. Regulations stall market advancementsii. Regulations due to environmental impacts are seen as burdensome to economy1. People only want these regulations if the benefits greatly outweigh the costsa. People are not taking into account the costs we suffer from damaging our economy, they are just looking at monetary costsb. Benefits that can be seen from these regulations will most commonly be seen in the public health departmenti. Example: higher life expectancy, less cancer patients, less obesity, cleaner airc. These benefits are hard to put a number on which is why people miss these benefits due to their subjectivenessiii. EPA did very little, because the government dragged their feet because they did not want to alienate the chemical industryIII. Only some studies were looked ata. Only the studies that said BPA would not be dangerous to the population were accepted and all the studies that said it was dangerous were pushed asideIV. Ark Pope: believes University should not be involved in research, only private sector should be in researcha. Government funded research will usually be more objective than private sector funded researchi. Privates sector is mostly concerned with short term research, while public sector research focus on more broad and long term researchV. Newspaper people: investigative journalism, included all studies and made sure to present accurate informationVI. Why is investigative journalism going extinct?a. Because it takes too long to get things rightb. We have 24 hour news cycle (Twitter, Facebook)c. Our attention spans are getting shorter and shorter, so it makes it harder for journalists to communicate the whole complicated storyVII. Independents are least informed, they do not seem to care what is going onVIII. Cancer: problems in cell mutation (around 6-20 mutations)a. More at risk to get cancer as you get older, because you accumulate more mutations as you get olderII. Type 2 Diabetes (Adult onset diabetes)a. More children are developing this disease because of new dietsi. There is now more processed foods and more sugar in the foodsii. Sizes of meals have increasediii. Increased consumption in sugary beveragesb. People are thinking short term, so they buy unhealthy cheap foodsi. They do not think about how it will affect their health later onc. Lack of exercisei. People drive and park right next to where we need to goii. Schools typically do not have PE everyday, so we are not pushing kids to exercise and engage in physical activityiii. Kids cannot play outside alone anymore or walk to placesENST 201 1st Edition Lecture 17Outline of Last Lecture I. AntibioticsII. GlobalizationIII. How disease spread?IV. How does it escape rural areasV. DiversityVI. FILMOutline of Current Lecture I. Big topics in videoII. Cancer III. Type 2 DiabetesCurrent LectureI. Endocrine disruptors: are very dangerous at all stages of life, but mostly to babies and embryosa. These can affect the development of babiesi. Examples: border of Mexico-> some babies born without brainsb. are chemicals that may interfere with the body's endocrine system and produce adverse developmental, reproductive, neurological, and immune effects in both humans and wildlife.c. Chemicals bind to genes and the genes’ expression of traits is changed and can affect the gene of subsequent generationsi. Example: wildlife showed signs of endocrine stressd. From WW2 to now, there are more plastics being produced and more chemicals being in everyday productsi. Sperm sample before WW2 is more interesting than sperm sample of citizen in New York in the 70’s, due to the mass amount of exposure to chemicalsii. Children of mothers who are more Great Lakes fish had higher IQ’s than other children of mothers who did not eat the fishe. Endocrine disruptors are being linked to a lot of diseases like autismThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.II. Big topics in videoa. Regulations of chemicals have become too relaxedi. Regulations stall market advancementsii. Regulations due to environmental impacts are seen as burdensome to economy1. People only want these regulations if the benefits greatly outweigh the costsa. People are not taking into account the costs we suffer fromdamaging our economy, they are just looking at monetary costsb. Benefits that can be seen from these regulations will most commonly be seen in the public health departmenti. Example: higher life expectancy, less cancer patients, less obesity, cleaner airc. These benefits are hard to put a number on which is why people miss these benefits due to their subjectivenessiii. EPA did very little, because the government dragged their feet because they did not want to alienate the chemical industryIII. Only some studies were looked ata. Only the studies that said BPA would not be dangerous to the population were accepted and all the studies that said it was dangerous were pushed asideIV. Ark Pope: believes University should not be involved in research, only private sector should be in researcha. Government funded research will usually be more objective than private sector funded researchi. Privates sector is mostly concerned with short term research, while publicsector research focus on more broad and long term researchV. Newspaper people:


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