Posted on 12/20/2015 5:04:30 AM PST by Libloather
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Then consider this: Lead paint exposure is a widespread national problem, concentrated most heavily in the nation's low-income communities. And government efforts to remove lead paint from public and privately owned housing remains woefully below levels that most child and environmental health experts think truly necessary to eliminate the issue. In fact, the nation's lead paint abatement programs are among those that experienced a budget cut due to sequestration and subsequent federal cost reduction efforts.
And that happened even though some public health experts believe that concerted national efforts to reduce widespread lead exposure - such as removing lead from gasoline - might be at least partially responsible for the precipitous drop in the nation's crime rate over the past two decades.
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Today, Gray's high school is what researchers at the University of California Los Angles have described as an "apartheid school," where in 2011 - the most recent comprehensive federal data available - less than 1 percent of the student body is white and 98.7 percent black. Nearly half of the school's teachers were absent from work more than 10 days during that same school year, nearly 20 percent were inexperienced and teaching for the first time, and just more than 79 percent of students came from families poor enough to receive free and reduced-price meals.
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Thus the fall of the Roman Empire...
While lead matters, the trouble is that many other things matter as well. For example, the USGS and other agencies are terrified of arsenic, so have lowered its legal limit in water to just a tiny amount. This is based on discovering that it dampens the novel pathogen recognition of the immune system. Then, when the pathogen is finally recognized, the immune system dangerously overreacts.
Cadmium, Manganese, and Mercury are also extremely toxic and known for their effects on the brain. Less toxic but still dangerous includes Selenium, Beryllium, Lithium, and Chromium(VI).
Organometallic forms of several metals, combinations with other elements, can make some metals much more toxic.
Yes. Lead Acetate is sweet. The Romans used it as a Sweetener and it also was in their wine. Bad results
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%28II%29_acetate#Sweetener
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