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"Pesticides have been reviewed by European and North American studies and are linked with an increased rate of leukemia in children. atrazine, a chemical found in household weed killers, is the most widely used herbicide in the United States. It impacts reproduction in frogs. atrazine is banned in France, Germany, Sweden and Italy. In a healthy body, antioxidants and a gamut of other defense systems prevent the number of carcinogens present in the body and work to prevent and repair the damage they cause." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"To bring this point home, Fairweather poses the scenario of a woman who does not possess any genetic autoimmune-disease predisposition who, in the afternoon, takes a walk with her two-year-old down the sidewalk of their townhouse complex, rounds a corner, and walks right into a cloud of atrazine herbicide being sprayed on the crabgrass in the community. Meanwhile, unbeknown to her, her two-year-old is coming down with a coxsackievirus she picked up at daycare, and Mom just shared the end of a Popsicle with her, so the virus is beginning to work on her mast cells as well." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Cornfield Herbicide Shows Up in American Waterways Finally, let me offer in evidence the following: atrazine is a powerful herbicide that, according to Michael Pollan in the New York Times, is applied to 70 percent of America's cornfields. At concentrations as low as 0.1 part per billion, the herbicide will chemically emasculate a male frog, causing its gonads to produce eggs. According to Pollan, who is a superb journalist and reporter known for his detail and accuracy, traces of atrazine routinely turn up in American waterways at concentrations much higher than 0.1 part per billion." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"Hundreds of other pesticides and insecticides remain in regular use, including herbicides such as atrazine (which Becky's lawn company sprays on her yard), and termiticides (which the local pest-control company uses to liberally spray the foundation, cracks, and crevices of Becky's house every year). For the dog, there is tick and flea killer: more pesticides." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Despite such danger signals, in the United States we apply greater quantities of pesticides, such as the weed killer atrazine, to suburban tracts than to agricultural land. Just think back again to Becky, who pulled into her suburban driveway just as the lawn company was pulling away after spraying the crab-grass and dandelions. Throughout Becky's day, we can trace chemical triggers that tax her immune system and those of her children. As Becky and her children prepare to cross the street in the morning, they are blasted with microparticle bursts of exhaust from a diesel bus, then a truck." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"As the amount of atrazine increased, as many as 20 percent of frogs exposed during their early development produced multiple sex organs or had both male and female organs. Many had small, feminized larynxes." Hayes's research team said that the effect on the frogs could have resulted from atrazine causing the body to produce more of the enzyme aromatase, which is present in vertebrates. Aro-matase is used by the body to convert the male hormone testosterone to the female hormone estrogen." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"It impacts reproduction in frogs. atrazine is banned in France, Germany, Sweden and Italy. In a healthy body, antioxidants and a gamut of other defense systems prevent the number of carcinogens present in the body and work to prevent and repair the damage they cause. However, when these carcinogens are in the grass our children play in, in our homes and in our rivers, it can be hard to win the battle against them. What Prevents Cancer?" - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Common pesticides such as atrazine, alachlor and others evaporate after being sprayed on a field. They then combine with water vapor in clouds. When this vapor falls to earth as rain it falls everywhere, not just in fields. Tests have shown that 9 of 41 storms had excessive levels of atrazine per liter. 100 nanograms per liter is the level regarded as borderline. One sample had 4000 ng. per liter, 40 times in excess of the safe limit. Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) Research from Sweden has disclosed that both Americans and Europeans who contract Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma were 2." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"One recent study that evaluated ten hormone-disrupting pesticides showed that only ddt had as damaging an effect as atrazine in altering how the body metabolizes estrogen. Animal studies show liver, heart, and kidney damage, tumors in the uterus and breast, and hormone disruption. Ciba-Geigy has spent more than $25 million, submitted 14,000 pages of defense in response to the epa desire to tighten restrictions on atrazine, and launched a letter-writing campaign (the epa has received more than 87,000 letters) in order to keep atrazine on the market." - D. Lindsey Berkson, Hormone Deception (Get the book.)

"Geological Survey found that more than one-quarter of samples of water from the Mississippi River Basin contained atrazine at levels exceeding the EPA's maximum contaminant level. atrazine, as with several other pesticides found in drinking water such as DBCP and EDB, causes breast cancer. atrazine also causes human ovarian cancer. Although many people think of pesticide contamination as a problem associated with private wells, some one out of ten public water supply wells contain pesticides, and nearly ten thousand community drinking water wells contain pesticides." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., The Politics of Cancer Revisited (Get the book.)

"The most common findings were acid metabolites of dimethyl tetra-chloroterephthlate (DCPA) and atrazine. All DCPA metabolite detections were at a small fraction (0.2% or less) of the HAL. The median atrazine levels were also low. Five pesticides (alachlor, atrazine, dibromochloropropane, ethylene dibromide, and y hexachlorohexane [lindane]) were detected in a small number of samples at levels above their MCLs. In contrast, over half the community water system wells and rural domestic wells exceeded the MRL for nitrate, with 1.2% of the community wells and 2." - Committee on Comparative Toxicity of Naturally Occurring Carcinogens, Carcinogens and Anticarcinogens in the Human: A Comparison of Naturally Occurring and Synthetic Substances (Get the book.)

"The greatest concerns about water quality today focus on chlorine, arsenic, atrazine and other compounds known as triazenes, perchlorate, organophosphate pesticides, tri-halomethanes, lead, herbicides such as acetochlor, and parasites. Chlorine has long been added to public water supplies to kill disease-causing bacteria. However, the levels of chlorine in drinking water today can be quite high, and some by-products of chlorine are known carcinogens. As a result, the U.S." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"One called atrazine is a common weed killer used on corn. Even if you don't eat corn, you will find that corn syrup is added to a surprisingly number of foods as a sweetener. That is particularly true in regard to most fruit juices. If you read the labels, you will find that most "fruit juices" are really water and high fructose corn syrup, with some juice or flavoring added. They will normally be found in a plastic bottle also. So as we can easily see, men can also accumulate excess estrogen. As it turns out, men are also exposed from another source." - Dr. David W. Tanton; Ph.D., A Drug-Free Approach To Healthcare, Revised Edition (Get the book.)

"Tests have shown that 9 of 41 storms had excessive levels of atrazine per liter. 100 nanograms per liter is the level regarded as borderline. One sample had 4000 ng. per liter, 40 times in excess of the safe limit. Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) Research from Sweden has disclosed that both Americans and Europeans who contract Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma were 2.3 times more likely to have been exposed to the herbicide glyphose than individuals who did not have NHL. Glyphosates are non- selective systemic chemicals found in the popular weed killers ROUNDUP, EAZY WEEDER, AND SLAM." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Before the introduction of atrazine in 1959, only one-fifth of the corn grown in the United States was sprayed with pesticides. By 1988, 96 percent of the annual corn crop (grown on 65 million acres of land in the United States) was sprayed. atrazine is the best-selling pesticide in the nation (68-73 million pounds in 1995) and accounts for one-quarter of Ciba-Geigy's crop chemical business. Atrazine eventually gets into ground water and mingles with drinking water. The U.S." - D. Lindsey Berkson, Hormone Deception (Get the book.)

"According to Pollan, who is a superb journalist and reporter known for his detail and accuracy, traces of atrazine routinely turn up in American waterways at concentrations much higher than 0.1 part per billion. But American regulators generally won't ban a pesticide till the bodies or cancer cases start to really pile up—that is, until scientists can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the suspected molecule "causes" illness in humans or ecological disaster." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"There are more than 10,000 different organochlorines, including chlordane, DDT, dioxin, vinyl chloride, atrazine, and CFCs. Studies routinely show that women with breast cancer have high tissue levels of organochlorines . Farmers and chemical workers who are exposed to organochlorines have high levels of breast cancer. Organochlorines take time to do their damage, rather than cause acute toxic problems. They accumulate in fatty tissue such as breast. Excretion is very slow. How To Minimize Your Exposure Eat only organic produce. Wash produce with mild soap and water." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Funding for such studies is difficult for researchers to come by, but the risks are real both for our immediate health and because atrazine is another petroleum-derived chemical that feeds off our oil addiction. It isn't only the fish of the Northwest or frogs in the Midwest that face tough times. Polar bears don't have it any easier. The same chemicals that produce endocrine disruptions and genetic mutations in the Midwest's wildlife are part of the fossil fuel mentality that is also having an impact in the Arctic." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Hayes's research team said that the effect on the frogs could have resulted from atrazine causing the body to produce more of the enzyme aromatase, which is present in vertebrates. Aro-matase is used by the body to convert the male hormone testosterone to the female hormone estrogen.32 Although these effects are being found at a fraction of a part per billion in tiny vulnerable amphibians, we are consuming water with amounts around three parts per billion." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"While only 14 percent of industry studies reported toxic or carcinogenic effects, such effects were disclosed in 71 percent of studies done by independent researchers. Policies based on the precautionary principle are clearly preferable to our method, the deliberate acceptance of risks followed by often ineffectual attempts to "manage" effects. Ineffective management—reducing dangerous ingredients to levels claimed "acceptable" by self-interested industry or complicit regulatory agencies rather than banning them entirely ?solves few real problems and creates many more." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Nebraska drinking water was routinely contaminated with atrazine, acetochlor, and alachlor, three chemical herbicides with a record of causing either ovarian or other cancers, endocrine disruption, and other serious health problems.2'3-4'5 That night as I lay down to sleep, Sioux Indian thunderclouds clapped above me, shook the room, and made me feel like a leaf on the prairie. All night, lightning and thunder filled the sky, and the rain fell furiously like arrows into the earth. I turned on CNN halfway through the night and listened to the news. It was August 23, 2005." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Contemporary rural magazines still tout atrazine, Telone II, 2,4-D, and Kelthane, all of which are highly toxic and highly persistent relatives of DDT. During the Flit campaigns of the 1930s and 1940s, advertisers created a huge market for household pesticides. Over that same period, the chemical merchants expanded their targets to include businesses and government agencies." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"Geological Survey found that more than one-quarter of samples of water from the Mississippi River Basin contained atrazine at levels exceeding the EPA's maximum contaminant level. atrazine, as with several other pesticides found in drinking water such as DBCP and EDB, causes breast cancer. atrazine also causes human ovarian cancer. Although many people think of pesticide contamination as a problem associated with private wells, some one out of ten public water supply wells contain pesticides, and nearly ten thousand community drinking water wells contain pesticides." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., The Politics of Cancer Revisited (Get the book.)

"Endocrine, Immune and Behavioral Effects of Aldicarb (Carbamate), atrazine (Triazine) and Nitrate (Fertilizers Mixtures At Groundwater Concentrations," Toxicology and Industrial Health, 1999:15 (1-2) 85, 133-150. 7b Midthun, Teresa, Interview with Dr. Warren Porter, University of Wisconsin Foundation, 1848 University Avenue, Madison, WI. 53706- 1992, from lecture at Santa Barbara, CA to group of environmentalists. wporter@mhub.zoology.wisc.edu or http://www.wisc.edu/ zoology/faculty/fac/Por/Por.html 7c Porter, W. P., et al." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.) "Hermaphroditic Demasculinized Frogs after Exposure to atrazine at Low, Ecologically Relevant Doses," PBNAS, 2002: 99, 5476-5480. 88c www.SaveOurEnvironment.org Action Center. 89 The Delicate Balance, 1991: IV (3-4)18. 609.429.5358. 90 Emmett, A., 1080. "The Sperm Scare," The Week-Seattle's News Magazine, www.seattlenewsmagazine.com 91 http://ems.org/pesticides/childrens_exposures.html. 92a Loewenherz, C, et al., "Biological Monitoring of Organophosphorus Pesticide Exposure Among Children of Agricultural Workers in Central Washington State," Environ Health Persp. 1997: 105, 13441353." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.) "Triazine herbicides for atrazine in fertilizer and herbicides. 10. Permethrins in flea and tick insecticides and in termiticides in wood and on fruits and vegetables. 11. Phthalates in soft plastics and polyvinyl chloride in hard plastics and often in perfumes. related to chemical exposures probably would be evident in the motor area of the brain image. If your behavior or personality were altered, one would expect changes in the frontal or forehead area of the brain." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"Common pesticides such as atrazine, alachlor and others evaporate after being sprayed on a field. They then combine with water vapor in clouds. When this vapor falls to earth as rain it falls everywhere, not just in fields. Tests have shown that 9 of 41 storms had excessive levels of atrazine per liter. 100 nanograms per liter is the level regarded as borderline. One sample had 4000 ng. per liter, 40 times in excess of the safe limit. Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) Research from Sweden has disclosed that both Americans and Europeans who contract Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma were 2." - James A. Howenstine, MD, A Physician's Guide To Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Hermaphroditic Demasculinized Frogs after Exposure to atrazine at Low Ecologically Relevant Doses," PBNAS, 2002:99 5476-5480. 94 www.SaveOurEnvironment.org Action Center 95 Spyker, Joan, "Assessing the Impact of Low-Level Chemicals on Development: Behavioral and Latent Effects." Current Status of Behavioral Pharmacology, Federation Proceedings August 1975: 34, (9)1835. 96 Cavieres, M., et. al., "Developmental Toxicity of a Commercial Herbicide Mixture in Mice: I. Effects on Embryo Implantation and Litter Size," Environmental Health Perspectives, November 2002: 110 (11). 97 Ashford, N." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"Global Environmental Technologies'TerraTop WaterFilter, reduces lead, mercury, chlorine, Cryptosporidium giardia cysts, chemicals atrazine, alachlor, EDB/ EthyleneDiBromide, DBCP/DiBromoChloroPropane, TCE, TUN, VOCs; recycles its filters (G.E.T., P.O. Box 8839, Allentown, Pa. 18103). Ceramic Katadyn Pocket Filter of .2 micron rids all bacteria. Micro Water SEE above under Wetter Water." - Joseph E. Mario, Anti-Aging Manual: The Encyclopedia of Natural Health (Get the book.)

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