[Raptor235]

Eating foods grown with pesticides is increasingly recognized for impacts on both the consumer and the environment. New research suggests that even growing up on farms that use pesticides may have long-term consequences.

The study sampled nearly 26,000 women who grew up on farms in Iowa and North Carolina. Typically, living on a farm has been thought to bestow health benefits. Women from farms did have a lower overall incidence of diagnosed asthma. However, of these farm women, those that came from conventional farms had a greater rate of atopic asthma compared to those from pesticide-free farms. Atopic, or allergic, asthma has become increasingly common since the 1960s; it is caused by exposure to airborne allergens.You can find the entire article here http://aboutmyplanet.com/science-tec...growing-wheezy

[3plus3]

My son has seasonal allergies, and asthma. However his asthma only tends to get bad during weather changes and winter time.

[Serenity]

I once inhaled seven dust accidentally when the wind changed as I was dusting my tomato plants. That was very unpleasant indeed. My worst allergy's to poison ivy. No one warned me about THAT part of country living! lol

[Green-Moo]

So no surprises from that study then! It seems obvious to me that if you grow up exposed to airbourne pollutants that you will suffer for it in later life.

[atula]

well...the next thing we will see is people on the farms wearing masks 24 hours a day to ward off the air pollutants...imagine what has life come to....