Introductory comments: nutrition, environmental toxins and implications in prevention and intervention of human diseases

摘要

Exposure to environmental chemicals or pollutants can contribute to compromised health and the pathology of many age-related diseases [1]. Human contact with toxic chemicals can originate from environmental and occupational sources primarily occurringthrough the food chain and polluted water, as well as through airborne or dermal exposure. Excessive and uncontrolled hazardous waste sites, as well as the ever increasing use and accumulation of pollutants in general, and persistent organic pollutantsin particular, are a major environmental and public health concern in the United States.