Lead Paint, Sweet It Ain’t

In the Oct-Nov 2018 issue of Healthy Indoors Magazine, columnist and indoor environmental industry expert, Jeff May, discusses what he believes is one of the most serious environmental hazards in many homes--lead paint.

According to May, "Lead-poisoned children number in the tens of thousands and suffer from reduced learning skills, behavioral and nervous-system disorders, and in the worst cases of poisoning, mental retardation. Lead can also affect unborn children."

The Lead-Paint Myth

 One of the most widely believed “myths” is that lead paint tastes sweet, and therefore children eat it and can become lead-poisoned.

 In order for something to taste sweet, it must be soluble in water as well as in our saliva, which contains water. Sugar and all artificial sweeteners dissolve in water, so when added to foods (which contain varying amounts of water), they make the foods taste sweet or sweeter. If these chemicals did not dissolve in our saliva, they could not possibly produce the sensation of sweetness in our mouths.

Paints are primarily a mixture of pigment and a liquid vehicle that either dries or hardens, sticking to a surface. The purpose of the pigment is either to color the surface in the first place, or hide the color that the surface already has.

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