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"Without a healthy gut flora, we can fall prey to outside offenders such as parasites, viruses, fungi and environmental toxins (such as pesticides, heavy metals and pollution). In utero, children acquire their intestinal flora from their mother. Neonates also acquire part of their healthy gastrointestinal flora from breastfeeding. Often newborns or breast-feeding mothers are required to take antibiotics that strip the healthy flora of the gastrointestinal system. This creates an imbalance of the good and bad bacteria in the gut if not properly replenished with probiotics." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "Some environmental toxins that we absorb are pesticides, heavy metals and pollution. A popular revision of the old proverb is "We are what we eat and don't excrete." Some colon hydrotherapists administer colonics using distilled water mixed with probiotics to flush out the intestinal tract. This is a helpful temporary solution for constipation. It is not suited to those with diverticulitis or the elderly. Aloe Vera Juice Aloe Vera juice is very healing to the lining of the gastrointestinal tract." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Meanwhile, our consumption grows exponentially, along with ever-increasing pollution and environmental degradation, taking humanity to the brink of annihilation. But now, as the writing on the wall accumulates, we are beginning to awaken to the real nature of the conflict we are fighting, the final battle each of us must fight. It is the inner Armageddon, the battle between our ego-mind and our higher self. It is the conflict that each of us is fighting every day—the battle between judgment and letting go, between fear and love, between our cultural conditioning and our inner truth." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "To the cells of the time, it was poisonous pollution. After several hundred million years, so much oxygen had accumulated in the atmosphere that it threatened life on Earth. Nature's response was to exploit oxygen's destructive qualities and capture the energy released as oxygen reduced larger molecules into smaller components. This new process of obtaining energy—called respiration—was far more efficient than either fermentation or photosynthesis, and greatly expanded the range of resources at life's disposal." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Chronic bronchitis typically results from repeated lung irritation and may be caused by allergies, smoking, and regular exposure to heavy atmospheric pollution. Those who suffer from chronic bronchitis have a higher risk of developing heart disease. Acute bronchitis generally develops following upper respiratory tract infections and can develop into pneumonia. Symptoms of bronchitis can include difficulty breathing, fever, sore throat, a mucous build-up, and coughing. It is important to consult a physician to determine the underlying cause of the condition." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Seen in this light, the nuclear threat, the greenhouse effect, the destruction of the rainforests, the wide-scale extinction of species, acid rain, soil erosion, the depletion of the ozone layer, the problem of atomic waste, pollution, the energy crisis, the economic crisis, the food crisis, the water crisis, the housing crisis, the sanitation crisis, and the many other crises that humanity faces are all symptoms of a deeper psychological crisis. The real crisis is in our thinking, in our perception of what it is we really want and how to go about getting it. Happiness ?" - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Pesticides, synthetic hormones, cigarette smoke, pollution, and heavy metals (particularly lead and mercury) reduce our antioxidant levels and increase our risk of disease. Because our body's production of antioxidants declines as we age, we become increasingly susceptible to oxidation problems. For this reason, the problems of aging are primarily due to oxidation of free radicals. Cancer, heart disease, and dementia are largely the result of free-radical damage to our blood vessels and cells." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Airborne chemicals pose one of the greatest pollution threats in the home—and they will pollute you rather easily. There are air purifiers designed for smog, smoke, and particles; for chemicals, gases, and fumes; and for mold, viruses, and bacteria. Some are designed to handle it all. It just depends on what the main indoor concern may be and how much you want to spend. More than 90 percent of particulates you want to filter are small enough to be handled by a HEPA (high efficiency particle absorption) filter. If you suffer from allergies or asthma, air purifiers can help reduce your symptoms." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"NAC is used to counter the effects of heavy metals and other toxins from pollution and chemical exposures.) • CoQIO 100 to 200 mg/day (It is very important to use this supplement if you are on a statin lipid-lowering medication.) There are specialty labs that can measure your vitamins and antioxidant levels to tailor-make your replacement. These are listed in chapter 6. Better yet, eat your fresh fruits and vegetables. If you eat plenty of what is in season, you will naturally rotate your nutrients. My Web site currently offers seasonally rotated multivitamins and antioxidants." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Living in an environment where you are regularly exposed to pollution and contaminants is an inflammation risk factor. Stress associated with work, relationships, and financial pressures can compound the problem. A middle-aged person may go to the doctor, perhaps complaining of shortness of breath or maybe just for a checkup, and hear that his cholesterol is too high and he has the beginnings of atherosclerosis, commonly known as hardening of the arteries. The news comes with a loud jolt. But the process itself has been going on silently for a long time, starting at a surprisingly young age." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"They found that most bronchospasms were touched off by several classic triggers, including mold, pollen, pollution, infection, and pet hair. Therefore, they told their patients to try to avoid these triggers. They believed that this was the best possible solution to the problem. However, other practitioners continued to dig even more deeply into asthma's root causes. Some of us who were treating asthma almost every day came to believe that there was an even more basic root cause than that of the classic asthma triggers. This more fundamental root cause appeared to be inflammation." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Some of our partners here have used our data on the effects of airborne pollution on the developing fetus and young child to change policies in neighborhoods and in New York City, getting cleaner buses. You see our cleaner-energy buses looking proud on the streets." Why not launch a clean air campaign in your area, too? Carpool Whenever possible, organize carpools to take your kids to school and other activities. Take public transportation whenever you can, or carpool with colleagues to work." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "The EWG called this phenomenon the "human 'body burden'—the pollution in people that permeates everyone in the world, including babies in the womb." From a cord-blood sample taken from ten randomly selected babies born in the United States in August and September of 2004, researchers found an astonishing 287 of the 413 industrial chemicals it tested for." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "It's always cheaper to prevent the pollution in the first place than to clean it up afterward. Look at the millions—the billions—of dollars that this country is spending on cleaning up Superfund sites and toxic waste sites. And that's all because five, ten, fifteen years ago, somebody carelessly threw a bunch of fifty-five gallon drums of some toxic chemical into a landfill and then forgot about it. "Now, twenty years later, we're having to deal with the consequences. And it's horribly expensive. The cheapest approach would've been never to use the toxic chemical in the first place." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"A few months after the debut of "biosolids," the Water pollution Control Federation dropped the words "pollution control" from its own name and replaced them with "environment." At the group's 64th annual conference, WEF President Roger Dolan explained the reasoning behind the latest name change: "We don't control pollution anymore; we eliminate it. To the outside world, our people came to be seen as pollution people. In today's world, the word 'control' just isn't good enough." In fact, this claim was largely rhetorical. " - John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry (Get the book.)

"From a practical point of view, eating fish is potentially dangerous because of the widespread, ever-increasing pollution of the waters of the world. The biggest water contaminants are PCBs and mercury. PCBs, along with dioxin, DDT, and dieldrin, are among the most toxic chemicals on the planet. According to John Culhane, in his 1980 article "PCBs: The Poisons That Won't Go Away," only a few parts per billion of these substances can cause cancer and birth defects in lab animals.19 The tenth annual Council on Environmental Quality, sponsored by the U.S." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Clearly, some lifestyle factor not related to pollution, urbanization, or the environment is seriously increasing the Western woman's chance of contracting breast cancer.45 Looking at the chart below, you can see that a black man in the United States is 280 times more likely to develop prostate cancer than a man in rural Quidong, China, and 70 times more prone than a man in urban Tianjin, China. BREAST CANCER PROSTATE CANCER Parkin, D.M., et ol. 1997. Cancer Incidence m Five Continents Vol 7. International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO) Scientific Publications No. 143, Lyon." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "The Culture of Life manifests as cooperation, health, harmony, and compassion, combined with production of healthy, natural, organic foods that preserve soil and minimizes the pollution of both people and planet. The Culture of Life helps us reconnect to our heart and soul in a way that brings the presence of light, love, and the Divine back into the core of our human experience." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Kelp's most dramatic application is its ability to neutralize heavy-metal pollution and radiation in the body. Algaes CHLORELLA AND SPIRULINA Chlorella and spirulina are two of the most nutrient-dense foods known, and easily qualify as whole, perfect superfoods. They have a balanced complement of protein (60 percent), carbohydrate (19 percent), fat (6 percent), bio-available minerals (8 percent), and moisture (7 percent). Chlorella gets its name from the high amount of chlorophyll in it, up to ten times that of spirulina, which is itself very high in chlorophyll." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"These are two of the most effective measures for the treatment and prevention of cancer. Air pollution and Stress in Cities As reported by NaturalNews.com in May 2008, a Canadian study has shown that women with breasts composed of 25 percent or more dense tissue have five times the breast cancer of women with fattier breasts. The study also found that women with dense breasts were 18 times more likely to have a breast tumor detected within one year of a negative mammogram. Now, recent research conducted by the Princess Grace Hospital in London (U.K." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Individually and collectively we may be suffering from more than physical environmental pollution; we may be suffering from systemic memory pollution as well. One of the most controversial biophysical and political implications of this thesis concerns how we raise and ingest meat. Animals are too often raised under stressful and abusive circumstances, and we ingest their cells into our bodies. Their molecules replace some of our molecules. Hence, we live with the info-energy of their pain and suffering." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.)

"Most of the focus of this kind of frontier research is on man-made electromagneric pollution, so very little is known about how natural geomagnetic and atmospheric fields may adversely affect human health. Interestingly, we can turn to Europe to explore the detrimental health effects of geopathic stress. The reality of such fields is much more accepted, and thus more widely studied, there than it is in the United States. Part of the reason for this wider acceptance is that dowsing?" - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"This is an important issue to approach in today's environment, as home air pollution is often 10 times as great as outdoor pollution. In this respect, our young children are like the canaries in the coal mine, revealing to us the cost of poor air quality. C. Arden Pope of Brigham Young University, who studies the economic costs and health effects of air pollution, reported findings that linked infant deaths to high air pollution, including a survey of 4 million infants reported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency." - Alan Keith Tillotson, Ph.D., A.H.G., D.Ay., The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook: Everything You Need to Know About Chinese, Western, and Ayurvedic Herbal Treatments (Get the book.)

"Environmental Pollution Toxins emanate from a variety of sources, but chiefly from environmental pollution. Unavoidably, many of us carry around an internal chemical cocktail of toxins we've absorbed: industrial by-products (coal tar or fuel exhaust), pesticides, herbicides, household contaminants (found in cleaners, paints, plastics, and solvents), and biological contaminants (pollens, molds, dust mites, and parasites)." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

"Electromagnetic radiation or pollution, both natural and man-made. Overexposure to e-smog correlates to body-field distortions that may affect the immune system and other aspects of the physical body. field effect: The concept that fields of information permeate the universe in a vast, interconnected web of relations, linking people (and all entities and even objects) in ways that researchers have only begun to explore." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"But headaches can also be caused by illness, pollution, caffeine, alcohol, sulfites, fatigue, fever, drugs, constipation, toxins, vitamin deficiencies, poor vertebral alignment, hypertension, meningitis, head injury, tumor, vision or eye problems, or serious injury or illness. Many headaches are caused by unknown or undetermined factors. There are four common types of headaches. Tension headaches are caused by a tightening in the muscles of the face, neck, shoulders, and scalp or muscle spasms in these areas, usually due to fatigue or stress." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"The body produces free radicals as part of its normal activity, but these substances can also enter us from outside, as a result of exposure to tobacco, sunlight, and pollution. Free radicals don't live long—just a few nanoseconds to 1 or 2 seconds—but they can cause considerable cell damage during that time, similar to the damage caused by radiation. As free radicals roam the body, they scavenge electrons from other molecules. This only creates more instability, possibly setting the stage for cancer development. Here's a step-by-step breakdown of how free-radical damage occurs. 1." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Given that international and transnational exchanges of goods and technologies are in the hands of transnational corporations, national governments are unable to ensure the viability of the nation's economy, and given that pollution knows no frontiers, they are likewise unable to guarantee the physical integrity of their territory. Even if they are large and wealthy, nation-states cannot survive in isolation; a condition of their self-maintenance is that they produce viable conditions for the states with which they are economically and politically linked." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"However, ions are highly unstable; in our industrialized, largely indoor lives, filled with electromagnetic charge from pollution and artificial sources, this ideal number is drastically diminished and the ratio disturbed, leaving all but the most robustly outdoorsy among us inhaling too low a level of ions, with an unhealthy predominance of positive ions. Living without such charges is not particularly good for us—or good for our ability as receivers or transmitters." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"This quantity is decreasing due to soil erosion, destructuring, compaction, impoverishment, excessive desiccation, accumulation of toxic salts, leaching of nutritious elements, and inorganic and organic pollution owing to urban and industrial wastes. In some parts of the world, this augurs major food shortages. China has a population that is five times that of the United States but has only one-tenth as much cultivated land; it is feeding 24 percent of the world's population on 7 percent of the world's agricultural land. This small percentage is further diminishing." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

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