GENIUS FORUMS

Phthalates Affect Way Young Boys Play

http://children.webmd.com/news/20091...oung-boys-play


Boys With High Phthalate Exposure in Womb Show Less Masculine Play
By Kathleen Doheny
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
Nov. 16, 2009 -- Mothers exposed to high levels of chemicals known as phthalates during pregnancy may have boys who are less likely to play with trucks and other male-typical toys or to play fight, according to a new study.

Phthalates, common in the environment, are found in toys, food packaging, personal care products, nail polish, adhesives, and other products.

In the study, the researchers focused on two phthalates of concern to environmental experts, DEHP and DBP. They tested the urine of women during the 28th week of pregnancy and divided them into four groups depending on the concentration of phthalate metabolites or breakdown products. Then they assessed the play behavior of the 145 children when they reached age 3 to 6.

If mothers were in the highest concentration group, the chance that their boys had a less masculine score was five times greater than mothers in the lowest concentration group, according to study researcher Shanna Swan, PhD, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Rochester Medical Center's Center for Reproductive Epidemiology and an expert on phthalates.

''I'm not saying these boys are feminized," Swan tells WebMD. Rather, she says, ''they are less likely to play in a male-typical manner."
{ed:hahahahahahahaha...rotfcmeo!}

No effect was found with the girls.

Swan and other experts suspect that exposure to the chemicals affects the level of testosterone crucial for the development not only of male reproductive organs, but also the masculine brain. ''We now suspect that the phthalate [exposure] affects the entire body, not just the reproductive tract,'' Swan says.

The study is published in the International Journal of Andrology.

Exposure to Phthalates
Swan and her colleagues tested urine samples of 74 pregnant women who gave birth to boys and 71 who gave birth to girls, looking for nine different phthalates. The women were part of The Study for Future Families, an ongoing study.

When the children were ages 3.6 to 6.4 years, Swan's team asked the mothers to answer questions about their children's play behavior. Parents described the type of toys and play their children favored, and each child was given a score reflecting masculine-typical play or feminine-typical play.

Exposure to two of the nine phthalates, DEHP and DBP, was associated with less masculine play behavior, the researchers found.

For example, Swan says, ''If the mother's MEHHP concentration [one of the phthalate metabolites] was high, in the upper quartile, the odds that her boy had a score that was less masculine [in play behavior] was five times greater than mothers whose MEHHP was in the lowest quartile."

Exposure to phthalates may lower testosterone production in the fetus during a crucial period of development, at about 8 to 24 weeks' gestation, Swan says, when the testes begin to function, and in doing so alter sexual differentiation in the brain.


- - - -
Second Opinion
The study results should be a wake-up call about the potential dangers of phthalate exposures, according to Sarah Janssen, MD, PhD, MPH, staff scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, who reviewed the study results for WebMD.

''This study by itself shouldn't make parents panic, but I do think we are beginning to accumulate more and more evidence that exposure to phthalates, especially during pregnancy, can be harmful for the development of baby boys," she says.

Janssen cites animal studies, finding that exposure to the chemicals can cause a wide range of male reproductive harm, including undescended testicles, birth defects of the genitals, and infertility later in life.

"What this study adds is, we know testosterone and estrogen are also very important for the development of the brain and sexual differentiation of the brain,'' she says. The new study suggests that interfering with testosterone levels during critical periods of development can affect later behavior, she says.

Advice for Moms-to-Be
Limiting exposure to the chemicals is best, say Swan and Janssen, although the chemicals are ubiquitous.

Under a federal law passed in 2008, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, six phthalates are now banned from use in toys such as bath toys, dolls, and teethers. Some products carry a "No phthalates" label.

One way to avoid exposure, Janssen says, is to avoid heavily fragranced shampoos and lotions as well as air fresheners.

What's needed next, according to Janssen, is more attention on limiting exposure to the chemicals to women who are pregnant or those of childbearing age.

Swan's study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the State of Iowa.


_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
WARNING The following products may turn your future sons gay: film formers, stabilizers, dispersants, lubricants, binders, emulsifying agents, and suspending agents, adhesives and glues, agricultural adjuvants, building materials, personal care products, medical devices, detergents and surfactants, packaging, children's toys, modelling clay, waxes, paints, printing inks and coatings, pharmaceuticals, food products, and textiles, soft plastic fishing lures, caulk, paint pigments, sex toys made of so-called "jelly rubber," shower curtains, vinyl upholstery, adhesives, floor tiles, food containers and wrappers, and cleaning materials. Personal care items containing phthalates include perfume, eye shadow, moisturizer, nail polish...you get the picture.


(List of products obtained from wikipedia)

i'm glad i used cucumbers :)

Kunga wrote:i'm glad i used cucumbers :)

You naughty!

Wait, used cukes for what?

Carl G wrote:

Kunga wrote:i'm glad i used cucumbers :)

You naughty!

Wait, used cukes for what?

For a stimulating intellectual discussion of course ?

Hmmh, well lets see, did God make Phthalates?

or did humans make them.

Pretty obvious.

.


-Foreigner-
Phthalates, common in the environment, are found in toys, food packaging, personal care products, nail polish, adhesives, and other products.
''I'm not saying these boys are feminized," Swan tells WebMD. Rather, she says, ''they are less likely to play in a male-typical manner."
No effect was found with the girls.

-tomas-
The other side is that these vinyls etc. are used in the enteric coating of antidepressants. And women have the double-whammy of carrying the child to term and then breast feeding. Not to omit the women who have gone on the pill, then cut off its use to become pregnant. Many ingredients in The Pill lead to mono-sexual boys, who've taken up masturbation because they are turned off to women. I'd suspect this to be an intentional act by the drugmakers as a way to keep the population under control and limit live births of healthy children.

-Foreigner-
Swan and other experts suspect that exposure to the chemicals affects the level of testosterone crucial for the development not only of male reproductive organs, but also the masculine brain. ''We now suspect that the phthalate [exposure] affects the entire body, not just the reproductive tract,'' Swan says.
The study is published in the International Journal of Andrology.

-tomas-
Yup. It is reflected by some (come and go) members here on Genius Forum. Some women and men express jacking off to be somehow a masculine thing to do. Seems their parents had used condoms, The Pill, dildos, antidepressants, sometime in their past. It just clicks to this fellow that masturbation is a human characteristic - something in the human environment-of things is causing them to play with themselves. Part of the weaning process is to instill in the pre-puberty child that playing with onesself is an abnormal act. The girlfriend and I instilled in our kids that masturbation is a deadly game of cat and mouse. The hell with what the movies, tv, Elle magazine and a few monkey spankers on this Forum go on about.


-Foreigner-
"What this study adds is, we know testosterone and estrogen are also very important for the development of the brain and sexual differentiation of the brain,'' she says. The new study suggests that interfering with testosterone levels during critical periods of development can affect later behavior, she says.

-tomas-
Another yup. Why teenagers would have the desire to continue to bop their brains into human degeneracy and equate it (the process) with normalcy is a byproduct of modern media and its ability to sway these youthful minds with the latest poisons. The jack offs (hand-pumpers) are harming noone but themselves - and they are oblivious that they are turning their brains to mush.


-Foreigner-
Limiting exposure to the chemicals is best, say Swan and Janssen, although the chemicals are ubiquitous.
One way to avoid exposure, Janssen says, is to avoid heavily fragranced shampoos and lotions as well as air fresheners.
What's needed next, according to Janssen, is more attention on limiting exposure to the chemicals to women who are pregnant or those of childbearing age.

-tomas-
Yes, fooling with mother Nature is creating a generation of franken freaks where anything goes...

Soy products and lavenders are no-nos for boys and men.


-Foreigner-
Swan's study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the State of Iowa.

-tomas-
Good to know where taxpayer money is being distributed, would be interesting to take a peek at the lawmaker's families to see if they follow their own advice in an upclose and personal way. Methinks the abortion rate, condom use, the pill use, etc are par for the course as a reflection of society as a whole.


-Foreigner-
WARNING The following products may turn your future sons gay:

-tomas-
Fortunately, the writings of Dan, Kevin and David have a more interesting slant than queering out on ones' own human condition.

prince wrote:Hmmh, well lets see, did God make Phthalates?

or did humans make them.

Pretty obvious.

Or, who else could it be? Maybe Satan?