[captioning made possible by kcet public television] they are everywhere in our environment. in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. they are in everyday products we use for personal care and cleaning. they are in our furniture, our children's toys, and the products we use in gardening and agriculture. and almost all of us have them inside our bodies. >> chemicals, right now, according to the best evidence we have, are contributing to the chronic disease burden in thisis country i in ways that are substantial. >> wewe areeeing increaeases, clearlyly, in certain kinds of illnesssses. asthma is one. autism is another. adhd is a third. >> one out of every third child born today is going to have diaabetes. and if f you're a minorityty, it's one out of t. >> chemicals contribute to the incidence of leukemia. >> breast cancer, infertility. >> alzheimer's, parkrkinson's. >> people are more obese or higher weight than they were 10 to 20 years ago.. >> chchildhood cancers are going up. >> we're seeing effects on sperm count in men. um, the catch line is, you know,