Regulation of new chemicals is desperately needed if we are committed to preserving our planet and ecosystem. As mentioned, in the short video Persistent Organic Pollutants, by one of the natives of Nunavut, Canada, we are introducing pollutants into our ecosystem and it’s going to destroy it. We are seeing daily evidence of this with pesticides and personal care products. So many chemicals are going into the market without the consumer understanding the harm it has to their health. The films “Vanishing of the Bees” and “Dirt” are additional evidence that pesticides are harming our ecosystem and posing a problem in the health and well-being of farmers in India. The regulation of toxic chemicals is important to public health we want to prevent the deterioration of health caused by toxic chemicals and there is existing evidence in the harm of the chemicals in our foods and the exposure over time, in this case, all three forms of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides.
Living in California, I have many opportunities to access healthy seasonal food. There is a wide variety of vegetables and fruits available in the Fall. With so much variety and relatively short food miles in California, seasonal hospital menus can be a beneficial solution to support local farms, provide healthy options, and continue patient education on the importance of healthy nutrition with local seasonal fruits and vegetables. In the future, I would like to live in Washington state. Washington state also produces a lot of food and I decided to look up their Harvest calendar. This would be a shift if I decided to move there and eat local seasonal food. I would have to learn new and be okay in not eating as much citrus fruit. The article Obesogens, An Environmental Link to Obesity introduced a new explanation that chemicals can also impact our metabolism. There is overwhelming evidence that the cause of obesity is poor nutrition and limited physical activity that it is astonis...
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