Blog #3: Environmental Pollution Promotes Low Birth Weight

This article focuses on how the environmental pollution that is around the world is promoting low weight in newborns.  According to the research done by and published by the Environment Health Perspectives. The research focused on data on more than 3 million births in North and South America, Europe, Australia and Asia and they all showed that the higher the rates of pollution, the greater the risk of having a child with a significant weight problem.  This pollution now only affects the child but obviously the pregnant woman as well. Payam Dadvand, the first author of the story and specialist at the Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology in Barcelona, Spain, says that higher pollution, "increases risk of disease and prenatal dead" for the child. The answer provided for addressing this issue is to have nations become more strict in their regulations on pollution because those nations who have stricter regulations have lower levels.

Yes, it is well known that environmental pollution has a bad effect on pregnant mothers and babies. However  it fails to address any other solution to the problem. Stricter regulations are fine and dandy but how are they going to be enforced. Are those regulations going to be international or up to each country to provide their own. Along with stricter regulations other things must change. An advancement in better air quality would be a great step in eliminating air pollution globally once and for all.


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Jacelle Cannon
02/15/13
9:00pm