Quotes about Air Pollution from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "During spikes of air pollution, asthma hospitalizations generally increase by 20 percent to 30 percent.
• Approximately 40 percent of asthmatic adults have asthmatic children.
• Asthma now costs $11.5 billion annually in medical care.
• Workplaces with indoor air pollution are a leading trigger of asthma.
• Asthma causes 14 million missed school days each year, and 12 million missed work days.
• Almost 6 percent of all Americans have asthma.
These statistics strongly suggest that the new epidemic of asthma is closely tied to the recent increased toxification of America."- Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) |
 "When you are exposed to these toxins day in and day out, they have a major effect on your health. air pollution has been implicated in the causes of asthma, chronic bronchitis, heart attacks, and even cancer. Understanding oxidative stress as the underlying cause of all of these diseases allows us to develop a strategy of protecting ourselves from the damaging effects of air pollution.
We must consider another aspect of air pollution: the occupational exposure to mineral dust such as asbestos fibers. The addition of iron-containing fibers in asbestos can generate even more free radicals."- Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.) |
 "In fact, for the past seven years, the EPA has ranked indoor air pollution as one of the top five risks to human health. And according to the World Health Organization, approximately 30 percent of buildings have serious indoor-air quality issues.
The air in our homes might contain any number of toxins—dust mites; bacteria; particles from cooking, cleaning, smoking, and pet dander; pollutants brought in from outdoors like pollen, pesticides, and heavy metals—that can reduce our ability to perform mental tasks and even contribute to diseases as serious as cancer."- Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) |
 "In what is perhaps the most comprehensive study yet designed to examine how environmental factors, including exposure to unsafe water and indoor and outdoor air pollution, contribute to disease and ill health, the WHO stated that of the 102 major diseases reported yearly, 85 are partly caused by environmental factors, and it estimates that in the United States alone nearly 400,000 deaths each year are preventable simply by making improvements to our environment."- Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Worldwide more deaths per year are linked to air pollution than to automobile accidents. Health effects range from subtle biochemical and physiological changes to difficulty breathing; aggravation of existing respiratory and cardiac conditions; birth defects; damage to the immune, neurological, or reproductive system; and cancer. In 2007, UCLA researchers published a stunning report that said exposure to a combination of diesel exhaust and high blood cholesterol increases the risk for heart attack and stroke far more than exposure to either factor alone." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
 "Also, by heavy metals in water, smog, air pollution. Household chemicals with chlorine, bleach or ammonia. I warn people never to mix ammonia and any kind of chlorine bleach product together, it is extremely neurotoxic."
Other factors linked to memory loss include food allergies, Candida infections, intestinal parasites, and taste enhancers."- Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Indoor air pollution, food allergies and repeated use of antibiotics, which promotes the overgrowth of yeast and leads to Candida, are among the causes of this." Dr. Joseph Debe adds that a study of children diagnosed with ADHD found "65 percent had parasites, one-third had yeast overgrowth and 75 percent had a condition called leaky gut syndrome. Leaky gut syndrome is when the intestinal lining is weakened." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) |
 "Such oxidation can be the result of the body's normal metabolism of the foods we eat, or it can occur in the body as a result of external forces, such as radiation, air pollution, alcohol or heavy-metal intoxication, use of pharmaceutical and over-the-counter drugs, infections, or even strenuous exercise.
Free radicals do damage by attacking cellular mechanisms. Because these bombarding molecules have unpaired electrons, they collide like unguided missiles, damaging cells and cellular components, including the DNA."- Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Other causes of oxidative damage include external events such as radiation, air pollution, alcohol ingestion, heavy metal toxicity, use of certain drugs, infections, and even strenuous exercise. While we cannot see the effects of free-radical damage (oxidative stress) in our bodies, we are all familiar with common examples of oxidation in the world around us. The browning of a freshly cut apple or the rusting of metal are examples of oxidation that we see every day. Oxidation results from the breakdown of oxygen molecules as they combine with other molecules in our bodies." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) |
 "There are environmental concerns as well, as fragrances are volatile compounds, which add to both indoor and outdoor air pollution. At present there is little governmental regulation of fragrance. The fragrance industry has in place a system of self-regulation. However, the present system has failed to address many of the emerging concerns. (5)
- 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.) |
| "Kids exposed to air pollution, for example, are more likely to have higher rates of asthma and allergies. Diet is another ingredient in the cauldron. "Kids' immune systems are suppressed—you can't have normal immune function on a diet with so much processed foods and animal products and a diet so low in fruits and vegetables and beans and nuts and seeds. You can't expose the body to so many immune-stimulating challenges and not expect to have some damages in the DNA." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) |
 "These include clothing (although some loosely woven clothing does permit UVB to pass through); window glass; sunscreens formulated to block UVB, particularly when SPF is over 8 [7]; being indoors; cloudy days; smog and light-blocking air pollution; and winter, when the sun does not rise far enough above the horizon to allow sufficient UVB irradiation to stimulate dermal vitamin D3 synthesis. Thus the term vitamin D winter refers to the time of year when UVB radiation is not sufficient for cholecalciferol synthesis in the skin."- Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) |
| "A major component of indoor air pollution, styrene is found in many consumer products, especially those associated with home renovation: plastics, rubbers, resins, insulation, fiberglass, pipes, containers, wainscoting, and carpet backing. If you're thinking about remodeling your home, ask about the styrene content of the building materials you're considering using. A number of the most common—caulking compounds and sealants, vinyl flooring, and various paint-related products?might be worth avoiding." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) |
| "This includes toxins in air pollution, and particularly toxic air emitted from coal-burning plants, which contains high levels of mercury. It also includes toxins that are present in common lawn and garden herbicides and pesticides, as well as toxic products used in commercial agriculture. Even treated lumber on an outdoor deck can cause problems, if kids frequently play on the deck. Also, kids shouldn't be exposed to aluminum cook-ware, or to nonstick cookware that may be eroding." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Even indoor air pollution is a terrible problem. Air is often excessively recycled within homes, and frequently contains not only chemical gas emitted by home furnishings, but also dust, mold, mildew, dust mites, and insect waste products. All of these various toxins add up, and reach a cumulative toxic level that is often underestimated. For example, if air is moderately high in lead, and also moderately high in carbon monoxide, it can escape the attention of federal regulators, but still create such a high cumulative toxic burden that some people can get sick from it." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Workplaces with indoor air pollution are a leading trigger of asthma. • Asthma causes 14 million missed school days each year, and 12 million missed work days. • Almost 6 percent of all Americans have asthma. These statistics strongly suggest that the new epidemic of asthma is closely tied to the recent increased toxification of America. Episodes of asthma are clearly linked to air that is polluted from smog, industrial chemicals, particulates, and pollen. Many doctors, though, don't realize that toxins do not have to be in the air to contribute to asthma." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) |
 "Researchers hypothesized that city dwellers may have increased breast density because of hormone-disrupting toxins contained in air pollution. They also cited stress to be a possible factor.
I might add that the forceful mammogram procedure could also contribute to breast cancers in women with denser breast tissue by injuring it. Softer, fattier breast tissue can tolerate the potentially injurious mammography screening much better.
Microwave Ovens
Do you ever wonder what microwaves do to water, food, and your body?"- Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
| "Unlike air pollution and water pollution, where it is difficult to get a handle on the sources of our exposure to individual carcinogens, what we put on our bodies in the form of cosmetics and personal care products is something that we can control. But there is no way of isolating individual ingredients' effects so as to identify their impacts on health.
Tests for carcinogenicity must be conducted on the products' individual ingredients and contaminants rather than on the products themselves." - 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.) |
| "In an effort to improve children's health, the EPA has targeted a wide range of environmental threats, including indoor air quality (from building materials, toxins used in chemical cleaners); outdoor air pollution (from vehicle emissions, secondhand tobacco smoke, dry-cleaning fluids); pesticide use (both at home and in schools); and lead (in paint, drinking water, and toys). Scientists are beginning to link these and certain other common exposures—like heavy metals, pesticides, dioxins, flame retardants, and PCBs—to different health problems." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) |
 "Individuals with rheumatoid arthritis or lupus who breathe in heavy particles of air pollution for a year or more face a 22-percent increase in their risk of dying from their autoimmune disease. An obvious question might be, Why don't we see headlines about those with autoimmunity being at such a heightened risk of dying in bigger, more polluted cities? The answer is very likely this: since, unlike cancer, there is no autoimmune-disease registry and no way to track these diseases or those who have them, no one—but a few researchers—has really been looking or taking any note."- Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) |
 "The rest creates a lot of heat and combines to make a lot of nasties that end up as air pollution. If combustion is 100 percent efficient, there are no free radicals and no air pollution. As combustion becomes less efficient, free-radical levels increase proportionately.
Now, inside our cells, the process of cellular respiration breaks down a molecule of glucose into carbon dioxide, water, and energy. This energy is stored as ATP (the adult human produces 150 pounds of ATP a day). It's your gasoline. The process of breaking down sugar is no different from the process of combustion in the car."- Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.) |
 "A major source is indoor air pollution—according to the EPA, indoor air pollution levels are often two to five times (and occasionally as much as one hundred times) higher than outdoor air pollution.
Here's how to clean the air around you:
Purify your air
• HEPA/ULPA filters and ionizers can be helpful in reducing dust, molds, volatile organic compounds, and other sources of indoor air pollution.
• Clean and monitor your heating systems for release of carbon monoxide, the most common cause of death by poisoning in America.
• Use houseplants."- Mark Hyman, M.D., Ultraprevention : The 6-Week Plan That Will Make You Healthy for Life (Get the book.) |
| "Avoid air pollution. A Korean study found a link between air pollution and stroke deaths. Heed smog alerts and limit trips outside on especially bad days.
• Think twice about chiropractic neck manipulation if you are at risk for stroke.
• Silence startling sounds. Loud noises or sudden movements can trigger a stroke. Muffle your doorbell and telephone and avoid sudden, jerky motions.
• Control your temper. Anger and other negative emotions often precede stroke.
• Get a flu shot. It may cut your risk for stroke in half.
CHAPTER 34 Wipe out the threat of
Syndrome X
What is Syndrome X?" - The Editors of FC&A, Unleash the Inner Healing Power of Foods (Get the book.) |
 "Meat has both the advan-
*Industrial meat production is notoriously brutal to the animals and extravagantly wasteful of resources such as water, grain, as well as antibiotics; the industry is also one of the biggest contributors to water and air pollution. A 2006 report issued by the United Nations stated that the world's livestock generate more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation industry. Henning Steinfeld, et al. Livestocks Long Shadow:Environmental Issues and Options. A report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Rome: FAO, 2006)."- Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) |
 "Emissions from wood and biomass fuels are major sources of air pollution in the home and are the number one source of air pollution outside the home (even eclipsing fossil fuels). Studies have shown that cooks inhale more smoke and pollutants than the inhabitants of the dirtiest cities.
Overcoming Disease
"Treat disease through diet, by preference, refraining from the use of drugs; and if you find what is required in a single herb, do not resort to a compound medicament."- David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.) |
| "All environmental toxins such as solvents, pesticides, food additives, and air pollution can be either fat-soluble or water-soluble, depending on their specific chemical makeup. Once in the blood, either directly through the intestinal wall or via the lymph system, the toxins will make their way to the liver. See the illustration on page 86 to put this into perspective.
Example: When you eat a mercury-laden fish, such as tuna or swordfish, it gets broken down and digested by our body's enzymes and bacteria." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
| "These domestic emissions are about to overtake car emissions as the primary source of the city's outdoor air pollution.
Some schools and hospitals are replacing chemical-based cleaning agents with natural alternatives. Since September 2006, a state law has required schools in New York to use cleaning products that do not carry any endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, or scents that can trigger reactions such as asthma. Other states may soon encourage similar changes, especially if they hear from enough constituents who support such legislation." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) |
| "Plenty of research exists to support the relationship between air pollution and asthma and, for that matter, pollution and allergies, which affect 20 percent of Americans (60 million people). Other than natural triggers like pollen and dust, pollutants that trigger asthma and allergies can be found in both indoor and outdoor environments—pesticides, tobacco, soot, car exhaust, engine fuel, cleaning supplies, and any man-made chemical used to manufacture consumer products or "protect" things such as furniture, upholstery, mattresses, and carpets." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
| "Air Pollution
The environment has a tremendous influence on the amount of free radicals our bodies produces. air pollution is a major cause of oxidative stress in our lungs and in our bodies. When you drive into any major city today, you not only can see the thick haze, you can taste it.
I remember my medical-school days at the University of Colorado Medical School in 1970. During my rotation on the neurology unit, I had to make rounds at 6:00 a.m. Before I started, I would walk down to the west windows and admire the sunrise reflecting its light on the beautiful Rocky Mountains." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.) |
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