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“Children to identify GMOs as harmful. questions. Within nine years, the number of
According to the their policy paper, several people with three or more chronic diseases nearly
are the most animal studies reveal a long list of disorders, doubled—from 7 percent to 13 percent. Visits to
likely to be including infertility, immune dysregulation, the emergency room due to allergies more than
adversely accelerated aging, dysregulation of genes associ- doubled from 1997 to 2002. And overall food-
affected by ated with cholesterol synthesis, [faulty] insulin related illnesses doubled from 1994 to 2001,
regulation, cell signaling, and protein formation, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
toxins and and changes in the liver, kidney, spleen and gas- Physicist Nancy Swanson compiled numer-
other dietary trointestinal system. The policy statement boldly ous charts showing high correlations between
problems” concludes, “There is more than a casual asso- GMO production (or Roundup herbicide use) and
ciation between GM foods and adverse health the incidence of numerous disorders in the U.S.
related to GM effects.” Based on established scientific criteria, (See charts: thyroid cancer, kidney and renal pel-

foods, says “there is causation.” vis cancer, liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancer,
“Physicians are probably seeing the effects obesity, high blood pressure, acute kidney injury,
Dr. David in their patients,” says AAEM past-president diabetes, end stage renal disease, reproductive
Schubert of Jennifer Armstrong, MD, “but need to know disorders, autism, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s,
the Salk how to ask the right questions.” The patients at senile dementia, inflammatory bowel disease,

Institute. They greatest risk are the very young. “Children are peritonitis, chronic constipation, irritable bowel,
the most likely to be adversely affected by toxins intestinal infection, and rheumatoid arthritis.)
become “the and other dietary problems” related to GM foods, Tragically, there is no systematic, well-fund-
experimental says Dr. David Schubert of the Salk Institute. ed investigation to explore links between GMO
animals.” They become “the experimental animals.” consumption and any disease. “The experiments
simply haven’t been done and we now have be-
RISING DISEASE RATES CORRELATE come the guinea pigs,” says renowned Canadian
WITH GMO INTRODUCTION geneticist David Suzuki. He adds, “Anyone that
Unfortunately, no system of post market says, ‘Oh, we know that this is perfectly safe,’ I
surveillance on the health impacts of GMOs has say is either unbelievably stupid or deliberately
been set up anywhere in the world. Although lying.”
correlation clearly does not imply causation, the
deteriorating health of Americans since GMOs NUMEROUS U.S. PHYSICIANS NOW
were introduced in 1996 does raise important BLAME GMOs
Based on evaluations of GMO research
presented at medical conferences, as well as
recommendations by their peers, thousands of
U.S. physicians now prescribe non-GMO diets
to all their patients. The Institute for Responsible
Technology has started hearing reports and col-
lecting case studies from physicians, patients
and consumers about significant and often dra-
matic improvements in health and alleviation of
symptoms from of a wide variety of diseases and
disorders after removing GMOs from the diet.
Michelle Perro, MD, who is regularly named
one of America’s top pediatricians, says she
believes that the novel proteins found in GMOs
“may be responsible in part for the profound
increase in allergies and immune dysfunction
that I am witnessing.”
Emily Lindner, MD, who practices internal
medicine in Chicago, says, “When my patients
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