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Powerful New Evidence Suggests that Exposure to a Common Weed Killer can Trigger Insulin Resistance
From The Organic Center:
Just days after completion of the pesticide chapter in our March 2009 report "That First Step: Organic Food and a Healthier Future", the prestigious open-access journal Plos One published a new, highly relevant report on the effects of chronic exposure to the herbicide atrazine. 

This triazine herbicide is the second most heavily used pesticide in the U.S. and is present in much of the drinking water in corn growing areas.  Multiple studies have demonstrated atrazine's ability to disrupt endocrine system functions and normal developmental processes.
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