Rochester area day care providers heard from a leading environmental health researcher this week about how toxic chemicals can impact our health.
Dana Dolinoy, head of the University of Michigan's Environmental Epigenetics and Nutrition Laboratory, says they've done research with pregnant mice that were exposed to the chemical bisphenol A (BPA). It showed that their offspring were adversely impacted by that exposure.
"Then we performed a second experiment. This time, the moms were still exposed to bisphenol A, but we gave them a really good diet. This was a diet full of things like folic acid, found in green leafy vegetables. The result was that this counteracted the negative affect of the bisphenol A."
Dolinoy says what isn't clear is whether a good diet later in life would offer the same protection.
She spoke at the Child Care Council at an event supported by the University of Rochester Medical Center’s Environmental Health Sciences Center.
