Children’s Vulnerability to Environmental Exposures: Diet
- Shidonna Raven
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Oct 14m 2010
Source: NIH
National Library of Medicine
National Center for Biotechnology Information
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Different diet and behaviors
Children consume a larger relative proportion of fruits and vegetables and spend a larger proportion of time outdoors than do adults, increasing climate-sensitive exposures such as pesticide residues on food and outdoor insect vectors (Pronczuk 2005).
More future years of life
Children are expected to be alive longer than adults, exposing them to newly developing or worsening environmental hazards in the future. Additionally, many diseases have a long latency period, sometimes requiring decades to develop (Landrigan and Garg 2005).
Dependence on caregivers
Children’s health can be affected not only by health problems or other impairment of caregivers but also by their reliance on adults as political proxies making decisions that have long-term societal impacts. Thus, children’s vulnerability is intergenerational as well as biologic (Ebi and Paulson 2007; United Nations Population Fund 2009).
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