Know How to Protect Your Children from Toxic Metals in Baby Foods? (Pedcast)

Photo Compliments of Pixabay Images Have you heard the news about heavy metal contamination in commercially produced baby foods in the U.S.? Stay tuned to find out how you can protect your children. Musical Intro Baby food Contamination with Heavy Metals in the News I think many Americans were shocked by the recent discovery that most infant formulas and baby foods sold in the U.S, by some of the biggest companies in the business, are contaminated above what are considered safe levels, by a variety of toxic heavy metals. Some of the contamination has its source in foods that are tainted with the metals and some of the contamination comes from the canning, processing, and storage processes. Being organic did not affect whether the metals were present. Fortunately, none of the baby formulas or baby foods had enough toxin to be harmful with a single ingestion, but repeated frequent ingestion raised that possibility. Congress is now taking an interest in this problem and the FDA is thinking of setting safe limits for metals in baby foods. What's the Nature of the Problem?  We have known for hundreds of years that heavy metals like mercury and lead are toxic to the brain, especially in children as their brains are taking shape. You've probably heard the expression, "Mad as  A Hatter"- that expression came about from the observation that the mercury containing chemicals that are used in making hats, frequently led to its users becoming crazy. The ancient Greeks and Romans recognized that lead was poisonous, most famously by the observation that the lead pipes that the Romans once used to line their famous aqueducts, created a powdery residue of (now known to be lead carbonate) that fouled the water and made its citizens sick. Hence, this type of lead poisoning via pipes became known as "Plumbism". And of course, we have all heard of adding arsenic to foods as a popular method of carrying out a murder. In my home state of NC,  Velma Barfield was put to death for multiple murders she committed by pois