More than 80,000 chemicals now in use have never been fully assessed for toxic impacts on human health and the environment. Many of these chemicals are linked to increased incidence of cancer. Watch this video by expert Linda Greer, the Director of the Health Program at NRDC, the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the most effective environmental protection groups. She clearly states that there is a lack of government oversight by the, EPA, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- the very department that is supposed to be protecting us.
The chemical industry should have to demonstrate that a chemical isn't dangerous before it's used in everyday products. But the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) has no such requirements. These regulations have not been updated since 1976. It's time to require that all chemicals be tested for safety and grant the EPA the authority to protect the public from toxic chemicals. But chemicals are innocent until proven guilty. This means chemicals are in use that have no proven safety record.
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The Breast Cancer Fund has a comprehensive report on the link between environmental toxic chemicals and breast cancer.
The President's Cancer Panel released a report in April 2010, detailing the link between cancer and toxic exposures including chemicals used in industry, in the military and in medicine. The report states that "the link between exposure and cancer is strong" and "the risk of cancer increases with more exposure." Children, the unborn fetus and pregnant women are at greatest risk.
If you wish to be informed about the chemicals in products that you use at home and work, visit the website of the Environmental Working Group. They also have another website devoted to the many unregulated toxic chemicals found in personal care products such as shampoos, lotions, toothpaste and cosmetics. Another educational site that shows you how to feed your family safe and healthy food and reduce your chemical exposures at home is Organic Authority.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, M.D., a medical doctor and medical journalist produced a television series "Toxic America" which reveals the most common chemicals that are linked to a multiplicity of health problems, including many cancers that are ubiquitous in our daily lives. This report brings to light the many chemicals that find their way into the womb and into newborns who come into life on day one with high levels of toxic chemicals in their tiny and developing bodies and then nurse on toxin-laden breast milk, increasing their body burden of dangerous chemicals.
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I just ordered your book. I wish I had more choices electronically but I'm glad I will have a hard copy in my possession as I am sick and need to do some serious detoxing. I like what I read from you and I'm grateful that you post here. I also agree that conventional medicine is pumbing us full of toxins. Over 300M bolus doses of the highly toxic gadolinium based contrasting agents have been injected into the people of the world. I think we are just now coming to grips with what that means as new studies are finding it in the brain tumors of non-renally impaired patients that had MRIs with GBCAs and in a patient with acute kidney injury but without the skin condition. See the "train the radiologists' didn't see coming" for the admission that they have known for a long time that these GBCAs are toxic. Anyone can have acute kidney injury and there is no way to test for it after a patient goes home.
My approach to toxin removal was to consult nature on how she evolved us to naturally remove toxins. From a study of anthropology, paleopathology, zoopharmacognosy (animal self-healing), ethnobiology, plant toxicology, and evolutionary psychology, I became aware of detox protocols that look nothing like what the current nutrition gurus would have you believe, and date back to our paleo ancestors and other primates. They certainly do not involve liquid diets, fasting, or colon hydrotherapy.
Natural toxin excretion pathways that are critical to detox are urination, defecation, breathing and sweating. An often overlooked group of toxins are those placed in our bodies by the medical and dental communities.
A description and references to a natural approach to detox can be found in “The Wellness Project,†including the following categories: heavy metals, fungi, bacteria, parasites, halogens, viruses, and stress. Emotional detoxification is also included and, remarkably, has been shown to improve physical detoxification pathways.
Roy Mankovitz, Director
http://www.MontecitoWellness.com
A research organization
I directed a blog post (http://tiny.cc/yiw4c) to Lisa Jackson about this problem. In the meantime, someone has been spraying my car with substances that make me ill and throw off my bio-chemistry! I can't be tested for the likely culprits which means I can't be treated properly. Police also can't file charges as their current forensic lab facilities are inadequate as well. So much for homeland security!
Any toxic chemical on the market should have accessible resources for bio-monitoring. If the consumer must prove harm, we first have to obtain the evidence. They've made it impossible to do so which makes the practice of medicine a very inexact science!
Barbara Rubin
www.armchairactivist.us
detox, then go back to living in the world, then you'll be full of toxins again, then you'll need to detox again... it never ends, what a money maker, eh?
"emotional detoxification" ?!?!?!
caution, there's quackery afoot
“what a racket! wash your hands, bathe, brush your teeth, then go back to living in the world, then you'll be full of toxins again, then you'll need to do it again... it never ends, what a money maker, ehâ€
Regarding emotional detox (much of which is free), from the toxic tone of your comments, you might find it quite useful.