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Title: Native American tribe's health harmed due to PAH-intake
Post by: TylerDurden on April 11, 2012, 11:05:53 am

I have often mentioned the harm to human health done by polycyclic  aromatic hydrocarbons(PAHs) which are created by cooking as well as being  a known industrial pollutant, present in car-exhaust fumes and tar-pits etc. Here is a study which claims that the health of a particular Native American tribe was greatly harmed as a result of generations of absorbing PAHs from natural bitumen:-

http://independent.academia.edu/sebastianw%C3%A4rml%C3%A4nder/Papers/931986/Could_the_Health_Decline_of_Prehistoric_California_Indians_be_Related_to_Exposure_to_Polycyclic_Aromatic_Hydrocarbons_PAHs_from_Natural_Bitumen (http://independent.academia.edu/sebastianw%C3%A4rml%C3%A4nder/Papers/931986/Could_the_Health_Decline_of_Prehistoric_California_Indians_be_Related_to_Exposure_to_Polycyclic_Aromatic_Hydrocarbons_PAHs_from_Natural_Bitumen)

Title: Re: Native American tribe's health harmed due to PAH-intake
Post by: Projectile Vomit on April 11, 2012, 08:50:26 pm

Makes sense to me. I'll read it more thoroughly later this evening.