YAISHWARYAJ: {Awareness} The increasing amount of lead in the diet of children and mothers In Pakistan

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The increasing amount of lead in the diet of children and mothers In Pakistan

In Pakistan, more than 50 percent of mothers in weekly doses of 8.5 per cent, while the standard dose of five-year-olds is 93 percent lead.These facts have emerged in the research of the Aga Khan University.
According to the World Health Organization WHO maternal and child the presence of lead in a weekly dose of 15 micrograms per kilogram body weight should be.
Lead is a metal carrying case is a cause of mental retardation.
Head of research, says Dr. Zafar Fatmi born from the womb of the mental development of children is five years. During this period, if the lead in the blood can affect mental development and their ability to think is reduced.and air samples are taken.

The increasing amount of lead in the diet of children and mothers In Pakistan

According to the researchers the first comprehensive study of its kind in Pakistan, which has seen it included in the diet, research women and children's blood, hair and nails samples derived Dr Fatima Zafar lead through the hair and nails is about long-term effects.
According to research by Dr. Zafar Fatmi This result comes from the boxes in which the food biscuits, chips, candy and lead children through chalyan etc. that is moving, not the child's diet Items It is 40 to 50 percent of the diet.
The World Health Organization estimates that the effects of lead annually 6 million children worldwide are mentally handicapped and one lakh 40 thousand are killed.