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Sarah Howard

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Jun 7, 2021, 10:07:38 AM6/7/21
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FYI!

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Dear friends and colleagues,

Register here and join us this Wednesday, June 9 at 10am PDT/1pm EDT for the CHE EDC Strategies Partnership webinar, DDT Exposure in Grandmothers Linked to Obesity, Earlier Periods in Granddaughters: New Meaning of “Persistence” for an Environmental Chemical Banned 50 Years Ago

During this webinar Dr. Barbara Cohn will discuss her recent publication on how grandmother’s exposure to the pesticide, DDT in the 1960’s, during her pregnancy, is linked to earlier onset of menstrual periods and obesity in her granddaughters. These granddaughters are the current young women now about age 20. This research was made possible by the Child Health and Development Studies where 15,000 pregnant women donated  blood samples during and shortly after their pregnancies in the 1960s. These women have been followed  for their own health and the health of their daughters and granddaughters over 60 years.  This work is the first to show such a 3 generation effect for a pesticide in humans and gives new meaning to the idea of “forever” chemicals. Dr. Cohn will discuss what this study means for current generations of women and current environmental issues.

This webinar is one in a monthly series sponsored by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment’s EDC Strategies Partnership. The CHE EDC Strategies Partnership is chaired by Sharyle Patton (Commonweal Biomonitoring Resource Center), Jerry Heindel (Commonweal HEEDS, Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies), Genon Jensen (HEAL), Sarah Howard (DiabetesandEnvironment.org), and Hannah Donart (Collaborative on Health and the Environment, a Commonweal program). To see a full list of past calls and webinars related to EDCs and listen to or view recordings, please visit our partnership page. 

This webinar will be moderated by Jerry Heindel, PhD, founder and director of Commonweal's Healthy Environment and Endocrine Disruptor Strategies (HEEDS). It will last for 30 minutes and will be recorded for our call and webinar archive.

Thank you for passing this email on to colleagues and we hope to see you on Zoom!

Cheers,


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