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Pineapple Pesticide Linked to Parkinson's Disease

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Pineapples lay in the middle of a large plantation in January 2014.
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Pineapple Pesticide Linked to Parkinson's Disease
by Maggie Fox, nbcnews.com,
9 December 2015

A pineapple pesticide that made its way into milk in Hawaii also made its way into men's brains, and those men were more likely to develop Parkinson's disease, a new study finds.

It's the latest in a very long series of studies linking various pesticides to Parkinson's, which is caused by the loss of certain brain cells.

And the study also seems to support a mystifying observation: smokers seem to be protected against Parkinson's.
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