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 "When leaders of Ontario's three main parties voluntarily gave blood and urine samples to environmentalists to be analyzed for seventy chemical contaminants linked to health problems, all three carried a bewildering variety of pesticides, residues from stain and grease repellents, and compounds used in plastics.
- Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)"The escalating use of chemical-based consumer products inside such homes can be a recipe for disaster, especially in consideration of the fact that the average person spends upwards of 90 percent of his time indoors. chemical contaminants in buildings contribute to "sick building syndrome," which is in reality "sick.person syndrome," a result of time spent in contaminated buildings. Such exposure can give rise to environmental illness, a growing problem today estimated to affect 40 million Americans (and an area of specialization for some progressive physicians)." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Aquatic wildlife has taken a beating in the last several decades, and advances in technology are now giving us an unprecedented look at chemical contaminants in bodies of water throughout the United States and abroad. Among the most disturbing evidence of water pollution are the reports of sexually deformed and chemically castrated fish and amphibians." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) |
 "Only breastfeeding rivals this period of development in its potential for a mother's own accumulated chemical contaminants to affect her child.
As a clear illustration of how easily the chemicals a mother uses on her skin end up in her fetus, consider these findings: An analysis of umbilical cord blood samples taken from twenty-seven European volunteers, in a 2005 study conducted by Greenpeace International and Britain's WWF (formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund), detected eight groups of contaminants."- 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.) "Altogether, 287 mostly industrial chemical contaminants were detected in them, ranging from pesticides to chemicals that had leached from non-stick cooking pans and plastic wrap. Nearly all of these chemicals had been linked in animal testing to cancer, birth defects, hormone disruption, and other health disorders. (4) Though these tests did not specifically target ingredients found in cosmetics and personal care products, their results demonstrate the same principle: the toxins in the mother are passed also to the child. Once there, they inflict an unknown amount of harm. " - 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.) |
 "Wegmans, he told me, buys fish only from known suppliers, relies on just two sources of farmed fish, tests the fish for bacterial and chemical contaminants, visits suppliers to make sure they follow safety procedures, and generally takes care to offer its customers only the freshest and safest products. Knowing this, he explained, a Boston-based fishing crew had called him personally to offer its prize catch. On ice from the moment it was caught, this shark would be fully converted to steaks by the next day."- Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) |
 "The weight of evidence based on the findings of wildlife biologists, toxicologists, and epidemiologists clearly indicates that the world's populations are being exposed to a host of chemical contaminants that have recently passed over an invisible barrier and Zinc in Cancer Prevention and is now more dangerous and threatening than any combination of viruses.
Chronic disease is the number one killer in the United States, accounting for about four out of five deaths in America each year."- Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.) |
| "As they grow, some start to eat other fish but ones that are small and relatively
low in chemical contaminants. But young farmed fish eat meal and oils from larger fish—those with concentrated PCBs—right from the start, so farmed fish accumulate PCBs throughout their entire lives.
Everyone wishes this system could change. Fish farmers would love to find a replacement for industrial fish because the supply is limited and they are expensive to catch." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) |
 "These chemical contaminants tend to collect in the animals' fats where they quickly attain much higher concentrations than those found in the environment.
None of these contaminants are required to be listed on the label of processed meat products such as bacon.
When you eat bacon fat, you are consuming highly-concentrated stores of these chemical contaminants. All those chemical toxins, heavy metals, pesticides, hormones and other substances found in the fat tissues of the original animal now become your problem."- Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.) |
| "Seafood producers must demonstrate that they harvest shellfish only from approved waters —those that are not excessively polluted —and that the shellfish sent to market do not have dangerous levels of microbial contaminants, chemical contaminants, or natural toxins. Seafood importers
are responsible for making sure that their suppliers outside the U.S. borders follow such rules.
All of that sounds great." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "Not surprisingly, nearly all of these are also high in chemical contaminants. You can take this list with you to a supermarket or restaurant and order farmed catfish, tilapia, clams, and the other "Enjoy" fish with a clear conscience. The Fish List makes it easy for you to know that you should avoid shark, farmed salmon, and bluefin tuna because they are likely to be highly contaminated, or Atlantic cod and imported shrimp for ecological reasons. The Fish List Web site (www.thefishlist." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) |
 "Here, it seemed that chemical contaminants from certain industrial sites were creating breast cancer for women who lived nearby. But this ill-conceived story has proven to have no merit.
Another chemical carcinogen concern surrounds acrylamide, which is primarily found in processed or fried foods like potato chips. The implication is that if we could effectively remove this chemical from potato chips, they would be safe to eat, even though they continue to be highly unhealthy, processed slices of potatoes drenched with fat and salt.
So many of us seem to want a scapegoat."- T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.) |
 "As part of a pilot research study, she was tested for chemical contaminants.1 She had never worked in a factory She had no chemically intensive hobbies like boatbuilding or oil painting. Yet it turned out that Andrea was a walking toxic waste site. Her body contained nearly one hundred different chemical residues, half of which caused cancer when tested in experimental animals. Many of these toxins didn't exist when she was born in the middle of the past century. Had they played any role in causing either her breast or brain tumors?"- Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) |
 "They tend to have a higher percentage of undesirable omega-6 fats and more pesticides and chemical contaminants.
Practical Guidelines for Healthy Eating Habits
Our practical guidelines focus mostly on selecting specific healthy foods and ingredients and avoiding others. These dietary recommendations are essentially our version of the Mediterranean diet. We emphasize high-quality protein such as chicken and fish and a lot of high-fiber vegetables and fruits, olive and macadamia nut oils, and vinegar, but much less starch than in the traditional Mediterranean diet."- Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.) |
 "Environmental Contaminants
During the past few decades, scientists have detected the presence of a wide variety of chemical contaminants in our food and water supply. At the Wingspread Conference Center, Racine, Wisconsin in the early 1990s, scientists studied the effect of man-made chemicals, such as pesticides, PCBs, and dioxins, on human development."- Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH, Naturopathic Nutrition: A Guide to Nutrient-rich Food & Nutritional Supplements for Optimum Health (Get the book.) |
 "Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre to Present First Documentation of Man-Made chemical contaminants in the Amniotic Fluid of Unborn Babies, http://www.poptel.org.uk/panap/archives/ddtbabe.htm.
37 Garry, V., et al., "Birth Defects, Season of Conception, and Sex of Children Born to Pesticide Applicators Living in the Red River Valley in Minnesota, USA," Environ. Health Persp., 110 (supple.); J. Pesticide Reform, fall 2002: 22 (3) 9, 441-449.
38 Fenski, Richard A., et al."- Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.) |
| "The NLFA site contains the following information for each advisory:
• Species and size of fish or wildlife under advisory
• chemical contaminants covered by the advisory
• Location and surface area of the body of water under advisory
¦ Population subject to the advisory
• Local contacts (including names, phone numbers, and Web sites)
Check with your state Department of Public Health before eating fish from local waters.
Warnings can be very different from region to region, based on local industries' polluting specific water sources." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.) |
| "Researchers gave laboratory rats and mice water that contained the same levels of chemical contaminants and pollutants found in rural Wisconsin wells. They discovered that these animals showed unpredictable outbursts of aggression.2,5
• These same researchers noted similar effects in rats and mice given free access to water containing mixtures of pesticides commonly found in well water in Dane County. The effects on male rodents were more evident than in females.2" - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.) "Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, "First Documentation of Man-Made chemical contaminants in the Amniotic Fluid of Unborn Babies," http://www.poptel.org.uk/panap/archives/ddtbabe.htm. 72b http://benson.niehs.nih.gov/sbrp/newsfeatures/News2000/ success.html 73a "The Food Quality Protection Act (FQP) Background: A Visit to the EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs." www.epa.gov/opppspsl/fopa/ backgrnd.htm 73b www.parentcenter.com/refcap/health/food/29644.html. 74 Foster, W. G. et al., "Ovarian Toxicity of Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) in the Superovulated Female Rat," J. Biochem." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.) "Special Concerns in Infants and Children53'82'83124 • Pound for pound, babies consume two to four times more fruits and vegetables than adults so they are exposed to a higher proportion of possible chemical contaminants at a time when they are most vulnerable. • In a study from 1994 to 1996, the government found that 25% of children's most frequently eaten foods contained detectable pesticides known to probably or definitely cause cancer in animals or humans and 34% contained substances known to damage the brain and nervous system." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.) |
| "With those two points in mind, let's take a look at what we'll find in bacon: Toxic chemicals found in bacon and processed meats
Unless they are produced from organic farms, virtually all processed meats have chemical contaminants as a result of unclean feed practices, the meat processing environment, the use of pesticides on grains fed to cattle and pigs, the contamination of soils with heavy metals like cadmium, arsenic and lead, meat product packaging, contaminated well water that ranch animals drink, and many other sources." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.) |
| "These chemical contaminants persist for long periods in sediments, where bottom-dwelling animals accumulate them and pass them up the food chain to fish. Levels of these contaminants may increase as they move up the food chain, so top predators in a food chain, such as largemouth bass or pike, may have levels a million times as high as that in the water.
Mercury, PCBs, chlordane, dioxins, and DDT were at least partly responsible for 96 percent of all fish consumption advisories in effect in 2002." - Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Get the book.) |
 "Some of the chemical contaminants we carry in our bodies are pesticides sprayed by farmers we have never met, whose language we may not speak, in countries whose agricultural practices may be completely unfamiliar to us. Some of the chemical contaminants we carry with us come from long-defunct products of industry—objects manufactured, used, and discarded by people of a previous generation. When we sit down to eat a meal of, for example, freshwater fish, we are linked to all these people through the medium of air."- Sandra Steingraber, Living Downstream (Get the book.) |
| "When you eat bacon fat, you are consuming highly-concentrated stores of these chemical contaminants. All those chemical toxins, heavy metals, pesticides, hormones and other substances found in the fat tissues of the original animal now become your problem. As mentioned in the quote above, 143 chemical substances have been detected in commercial meats, 42 are carcinogens and 20 can cause birth defects." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.) |
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