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"It is found in everyday items including gasoline, paints and paint removers. benzene is a clear, colorless and flammable liquid with a sweet odor. Research conducted since the 1980s by the National Cancer Institute has found that workers exposed to benzene, even at relatively low levels, have lower levels of white blood cells. Currently, the National Cancer Institute states that exposure to benzene may increase the risk of developing leukemia. • Laundry Detergent and other household cleaners also contain chemicals that are suspected to be carcinogens." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "When buying an older home, be sure to have a professional test it for asbestos. • benzene is present in crude oil and gasoline and is an important industrial chemical which is used in industry as a solvent or to make other chemicals and products such as dyes, detergents, nylon and plastics. It is found in everyday items including gasoline, paints and paint removers. benzene is a clear, colorless and flammable liquid with a sweet odor." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "Research conducted since the 1980s by the National Cancer Institute has found that workers exposed to benzene, even at relatively low levels, have lower levels of white blood cells. Currently, the National Cancer Institute states that exposure to benzene may increase the risk of developing leukemia. • Laundry Detergent and other household cleaners also contain chemicals that are suspected to be carcinogens. Trisodium nitriotriacetate (NTA) is found in many laundry soaps and is a suspected human carcinogen." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Tests on animals have shown that benzene can damage a developing fetus. The main sources of benzene exposure are tobacco smoke and vehicle exhaust, but toxic cleaning products might also put you at risk. Toluene, another volatile organic compund, is a highly toxic petrochemical solvent. A carcinogen, neurotoxin, and eye and skin irritant, toluene is used in a staggering array of products used both to clean and to renovate the." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"We are regularly exposed to benzene while breathing tobacco smoke, even secondhand smoke, pumping gasoline, while driving in high-traffic areas, and from industrial air pollution. Higher levels are released from the vapors of benzene-containing products such as glues, paints, furniture wax, and detergents. An estimated 44,240 new cases of leukemia will be diagnosed in the United States in 2007. Sometimes chronic low doses can be even more toxic than acute high doses. This looks to be especially true when it comes to the toxins that affect your hormonal, or endocrine, system." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Soil samples indicated the presence of pesticides, benzene, toluene, xylene, chlordane, naphthalene, and metals. Groundwater samples contained metals, benzene, toluene, xylene, pesticides, trichlorethylene, and chlorobenzene.36 I have no interest in being a Chevron booster, either, and, more recendy, they were experiencing serious criticisms from a region in Ecuador where they have oil fields they inherited from their merger with Texaco. But, as I learned with Cargill, I think you have to look at not only a company's history but also where it is headed." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"LAURYL ALCOHOL DODECYL benzene SODIUM SULFONATE__ Products and Uses: Various uses in cosmetic ingredients and detergents. Precautions: Moderately toxic by swallowing. A skin and severe eye irritant. Synonyms: CAS: 25155-30-0 ? DETERGENT ALKYLATE ? BIO-SOFT ? DDBSA ? DODECYLBENZENESULFONIC ACID SODIUM SALT ? DODECYLBENZENESULPHONATE, SODIUM SALT ? SODIUM DODECYLBENZENESULFONATE ? SODIUM LAURYLBENZENESULFONATE ? SULFRAMIN ? ULTRAWET DODECYLBENZYL MERCAPTAN__ Products and Uses: A metal compound and an odorant chemical for cleaning and polishing metals." - Grace Ross Lewis, 1001 Chemicals in Everyday Products (Get the book.)

"IARC and NCI: Their Involvement in the benzene Cover-Up The August 8, 1982 issue of the Houston Post reports that IARC purposely deleted a crucial sentence in its report on benzene. According to the Post: "The sentence, of concern to 500,000 U.S. workers exposed to benzene, had stated that lifetime benzene workers, under currently permitted conditions, might suffer triple the normal rate of leukemia. "The killer of the sentence, Dr. Lorenzo Tomatis of the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, has confessed." - Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, Fluoride the Aging Factor: How to Recognize and Avoid the Devastating Effects of Fluoride (Get the book.)

"These toxins were mainly heavy metals, probably due to current dental amalgam removal, and very high levels of benzene. The latter was the putative cause of the bad taste. The patient was given homeopathics and a high dose antioxidant formula to deal with the heavy metal overload and a homeopathic nosode of benzene at 10M and 20X. Four months later he was much improved but there were still high levels of benzene." - Keith Scott-Mumby, Virtual Medicine: A New Dimension in Energy Healing (Get the book.)

"In Israel, the three organochlorine pesticides banned (lindane, DDT, and BHC, or benzene hexachloride) were contaminating milk and dairy foods. DDT has since been banned in the United States, but it is still used overseas and can be found in many imported meats. DDT is converted in the body into DDE, which remains in the body for decades and has been linked to breast cancer. Examples of other common xenoestrogens are dioxin plastics, chlorinated products, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which are derived from gasoline and oil combustion and found in cigarette smoke and charbroiled meats." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Nine more chemicals were found in 91 to 98 percent of the samples, including benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, DDE (a breakdown product of DDT, the pesticide banned in the United States since 1972), three dioxins, and one furan. Polychlorinated biphenols (PCBs) were found in 83 percent of the population. Another study based in Michigan found DDT in more than 70 percent of 4-year-olds. All of them were citizens of the United States, and, as mentioned above, DDT has been outlawed since 1972. How were these children exposed to these toxic chemicals? Probably through their mothers' breast milk." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"The main sources of benzene exposure are tobacco smoke and vehicle exhaust, but toxic cleaning products might also put you at risk. Toluene, another volatile organic compund, is a highly toxic petrochemical solvent. A carcinogen, neurotoxin, and eye and skin irritant, toluene is used in a staggering array of products used both to clean and to renovate the. home: aerosol paints, floor polishes and other household cleaners, adhesives and sealants, paint and varnish removers, undercoats and primers, vinyl flooring, bathmats, waterproofing compounds, and industrial particleboard." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Ground water and local waterways surrounding the plants were found to contain complex combinations of chemicals such as trichlor-oethene, benzene, chlorobenzene, and 1,3- and 1,4-dichlorobenzenes. Dichlorobenzene, for example, is a persistent chemical resistant to microbial degradation. Greenpeace found similar problems with a manufacturer in England that produces a range of phenols and oils used for pharmaceutical production." - Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on Earth (Get the book.)

"Styrene, a petroleum distillate also known as vinyl benzene, has been classified by the EPA and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) as a possible human carcinogen. Styrene primarily affects the central nervous system. Exposure might cause headaches, dizziness, confusion, and drowsiness, among other symptoms. 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." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"R2 = R4 = OMe 25a/b Rj = R2 = R3 = R4 = OMe TBTH/ AIBN benzene / reflux (RJ- or (SJ-p-hydroxydihydrochalcone 34a/b R, = R2 = R3 = H, R4 = OMe 35a/b R: R> H. R] R, OMe 36a/b R2 = H, R, = R, = R4 = OMe 37a/b R3 = H, R!" - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.) "The chalcone epoxides 21a/b-25a/b were then treated with TBTH/AIBN in refluxing benzene to afford the (R)- 34a-38a and (5)-2'-(5-methoxymethyl-P-hydroxydihydrochalcones 34b-38b in excellent yields (70-90%) and without loss of optically purity (Table 1.4). Table 1.4 fl-Hydroxydihydrochalcone formation MOMO O (otS, PS)- or (aS, pi?)-epoxychalcones 21a/b Ri = R2 = R3 = H, Rt = OMe 22a/b R2 = R3 = H, Ri =R4 = OMe 23a/b R2 = H, Ri = R3 = R4 = OMe 24a/bR3 = H, R!" - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"One example of this comes from a 2003 study in which blood and urine samples from Americans were tested for 210 substances, including industrial compounds, pollutants, PCBs, insecticides, dioxins, mercury, cadmium, and benzene. The volunteers, none of whom had any occupational or residential risks for such exposure, had detectable levels of 91 of these. In other words, these are ordinary people with ordinary lives who have numerous toxins in their body from ordinary exposure." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Currently, the National Cancer Institute states that exposure to benzene may increase the risk of developing leukemia. • Laundry Detergent and other household cleaners also contain chemicals that are suspected to be carcinogens. Trisodium nitriotriacetate (NTA) is found in many laundry soaps and is a suspected human carcinogen. Toilet bowl cleaners can contain ethoxylated nonyl phenols, which are suspected endocrine disrupters. Silica, which is present in abrasive powder cleaners, is a known carcinogen. • Phthalates are widely used to make plastics and in personal care products." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Common cleaning products, formaldehyde, toluene, and benzene are all solvents (meaning they are capable of dissolving other substances) we can typically encounter in daily life when we pump gas, shop for clothes, buy a new car, and pick up laundry. These fat-soluble chemicals collect in the fatty tissues of the body rather than being excreted quickly. They are particularly damaging to those who are deficient in essential fatty acids, because a body deprived of essential fats is a body that will grab onto oily substances—even if that includes toxic substances like diesel fuel?" - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"As an example, consider benzene. The benzene molecule is a hexagonal arrangement of six carbon atoms and six hydrogen atoms. C H Fig. 3.1. benzene ring Fig. 3.2. Carbon-carbon bonds in benzene molecule In the line formula, the hydrogen atoms are ignored, and only the carbon-carbon bonds are shown. The related compound toluene is shown as: H I -C- II ^r Fig. 3.3. Toluene Fig. 3.4. Carbon-carbon bonds of the toluene molecule with the single spike representing a CH3 group. Atoms other than carbon are always shown explicidy, as in allicin. Fig. 3.5." - David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG, Medical Herbalism: The Science Principles and Practices Of Herbal Medicine (Get the book.)

"IARC and NCI: Their Involvement in the benzene Cover-Up The August 8, 1982 issue of the Houston Post reports that IARC purposely deleted a crucial sentence in its report on benzene. According to the Post: "The sentence, of concern to 500,000 U.S. workers exposed to benzene, had stated that lifetime benzene workers, under currently permitted conditions, might suffer triple the normal rate of leukemia. "The killer of the sentence, Dr. Lorenzo Tomatis of the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, has confessed." - Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, Fluoride the Aging Factor: How to Recognize and Avoid the Devastating Effects of Fluoride (Get the book.)

"Thus, the structure of coenzyme Q10 includes a benzo-quinone, or chemical structure containing a six-carbon benzene ring featuring two sets of double-bonded carbons. The isoprenoid side chain is attached at the sixth carbon on the ring (see Figure 4.1 on page 67). The number of isoprenoid side chains can vary from zero to ten, depending on the animal species. In humans, coenzyme Qi0 has ten isoprenoid units—thus the name coenzyme Qiq. A deficiency in any of the required amino acids, vitamins, and other minerals impairs the endogenous formation of coenzyme Qi0 in the body." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"As an example, consider benzene. The benzene molecule is a hexagonal arrangement of six carbon atoms and six hydrogen atoms. C H Fig. 3.1. benzene ring Fig. 3.2. Carbon-carbon bonds in benzene molecule In the line formula, the hydrogen atoms are ignored, and only the carbon-carbon bonds are shown. The related compound toluene is shown as: H I -C- II ^r Fig. 3.3. Toluene Fig. 3.4. Carbon-carbon bonds of the toluene molecule with the single spike representing a CH3 group. Atoms other than carbon are always shown explicidy, as in allicin. Fig. 3.5." - David Hoffman, FNIMH, AHG, Medical Herbalism: The Science Principles and Practices Of Herbal Medicine (Get the book.)

"Synthetic carpets also contain formaldehyde, along with more than a dozen other hazardous chemicals (including xylene, benzene, and toluene), chemicals that continue to outgas from the carpets for up to five years after installation. The most dangerous stage of off-gassing is from four weeks to three months following installation. While carpets over five years old usually have stopped off-gassing, they may then become breeding grounds for dust mites and mold. Mold is a biological contaminant, rather than a chemical one, but it can give rise to damaging fungal toxins." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Some of these chemicals include: lead, carbon monoxide, vinyl chloride, hydrogen cyanide, benzene, ammonia, acetone, and nicotine. Nicotine is a powerful nerve stimulant, is extremely toxic, and is the most addictive drug known. It is so powerful that if two or three drops were taken internally at once, it would kill the average person. Anyone who smokes tobacco is putting themselves and those around them, as well as their future offspring, at risk. The most important thing a smoker can do to improve their own health, and the health of those who live and work with them, is to stop smoking." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"After testing the blood and urine of nine representative Americans from around the country for 210 substances (sample groups are small as these tests are prohibitively expensive), these scientists discovered that each volunteer carried an average of 91 industrial compounds, pollutants, and other chemicals—including PCBs, commonly used insecticides, dioxin, mercury, cadmium, and benzene, to name just a few. This plethora of chemicals had accumulated in these individuals through the common and minute exposures that we all experience in our daily lives." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"The irradiation process also creates the known toxins benzene and formaldehyde in the food, as well as unknown chemicals that are potentially toxic. According to research, animals consuming irradiated foods have suffered early death, stillbirth, genetic damage, cancer, stunted growth, organ malfunctions and vitamin deficiency. Germany experimented with irradiated food and has decided to ban the process. Dr. Gabriel Cousens cites a study in India in which researchers fed irradiated wheat to children." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Groundwater samples contained metals, benzene, toluene, xylene, pesticides, trichlorethylene, and chlorobenzene.36 I have no interest in being a Chevron booster, either, and, more recendy, they were experiencing serious criticisms from a region in Ecuador where they have oil fields they inherited from their merger with Texaco. But, as I learned with Cargill, I think you have to look at not only a company's history but also where it is headed. In that sense, Chevron was remarkable, and one of the good guys, even if they were an oil company. I liked them." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Numerous studies of exposure to the chemical benzene, one of the world's major commodity chemicals, have demonstrated a radically elevated risk of leukemia. Given the important role our immune systems play in keeping us healthy and disease free, clearly, when we weaken our immune systems, we weaken our ability to deal with our "body burdens" All of the steps in RENEW address the immune system either directly or indirectly, keeping it as strong and fully equipped as possible. AN END TO TOXIC STRESS Let's recap the big picture to bring this conversation to a conclusion." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Examples of VOCs are phthalates, butyl cellosolve (found in Windex), formaldehyde, benzene and toluene, dichlorobenzene, acetone, xylene, vinyl chloride, naphthalene, methylene chloride, and perchloroeth-ylene. These are all petrochemicals whose production contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and which often are used in products where petrochemicals could be replaced by environmentally safer and less cosdy chemicals. Thousands of VOCs are known to be capable of causing all kinds of illnesses and ailments, including neurological and organ damage, cancer, and multiple chemical sensitivities." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

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