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Parents talk about chemicals: Worry is everywhere, but we ?begged? for convenience | The Lookout - Yahoo! News
As a child, Richard Carriero says, I was oblivious.
He did all the dangerous things as a kid: drank from the garden hose, ate junky processed treats and played with any plastic toy put in front of him.
I didn't know any better and neither did my parents, Carriero, 33, says.
But Carriero later learned about chemicalsespecially Bisphenol A, better known as BPA, a compound used in plastics that some say causes health problemsand horror stories about Superfund sites like Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y. As an adult, Carriero says he sees the world with increasing suspicion: Power lines, tap water, aluminum cans and Styrofoam all became sources of danger.
Now Carriero and his wife, Carrie, are expecting their first child. Before that, he says, their conversion to a less-chemical-laden and natural lifestyle started when Carrie was diagnosed with a benign tumor last year.
As a child, Richard Carriero says, I was oblivious.
He did all the dangerous things as a kid: drank from the garden hose, ate junky processed treats and played with any plastic toy put in front of him.
I didn't know any better and neither did my parents, Carriero, 33, says.
But Carriero later learned about chemicalsespecially Bisphenol A, better known as BPA, a compound used in plastics that some say causes health problemsand horror stories about Superfund sites like Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y. As an adult, Carriero says he sees the world with increasing suspicion: Power lines, tap water, aluminum cans and Styrofoam all became sources of danger.
Now Carriero and his wife, Carrie, are expecting their first child. Before that, he says, their conversion to a less-chemical-laden and natural lifestyle started when Carrie was diagnosed with a benign tumor last year.
