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"For more studies on environmental pollutants and their impact on children's health, see page 265 in the resources section.) Despite these significant research developments, we still have much, much more to learn about how environmental exposures affect human health. We're only just beginning to understand the extent to which everyday exposures, even at low levels, can leave us vulnerable to illness." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Since that time, an increasing number of hormone disrupters have been shown to cause abnormal hormonal effects in many species of wildlife at very low levels and so been recognized as environmental pollutants. Eggshell thinning, impaired fertility, and reproductive failure have been reported in adult birds exposed to hormone disrupters, coupled with reproductive, bone, and other abnormalities in their chicks. Other effects include small penis size and low testosterone levels in juvenile alligators from pesticide-contaminated lakes in Florida, and the ferninization of trout in the Great Lakes." - 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.) "Doll was unique in his insistence that leaded petroleum, low-level radiation, diesel exhaust, radiation from atom bomb tests, and environmental pollutants didn't pose any significant cancer risk, an opinion that no doubt reflected his professional involvement with a wide range of asbestos, petrochemical, and other industries. It should be noted that in 2002, Doll finally admitted that most cancers, other than those related to smoking and hormones, "are induced by exposure to chemicals, often environmental"." - 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.)

"Alcohol, obesity, a family history of breast cancer, pesticides, synthetic progesterone, and environmental pollutants will raise your risk. A balanced lifestyle, normal body weight, regular exercise, and a diet rich in antioxidants and cruciferous vegetables can help to reduce your risk. How lifestyle affects your metabolism is the topic of chapter 4; this chapter will examine how your hormones are broken down. Estrogen Metabolism Women are usually amazed when I tell them that their body makes over a dozen forms of estrogen." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"It may be necessary to buy a water purifier or to drink bottled water. • environmental pollutants. Kids should also be protected as much as is reasonably possible from other common sources of toxins that are present in their daily, immediate environments. 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." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "It is important that the cod liver oil you use is free of mercury, PCBs, and other environmental pollutants. My general recommendation: one to three teaspoons per day, depending upon age, size, and other treatments and indications. Essential Fatty Acids. EFAs are commonly low among kids with the 4-A disorders. The particular EFAs that are most likely to be low in autistic children are EPA and DHA, the latter of which is very abundant in brain cells." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Toxification from various environmental pollutants. 4. Nutritional deficits that impede detoxification and that impair neurotransmitter function. 5. Food allergies, sensitivities, and intolerances that harm brain chemistry. 6. Inflammation of the brain, particularly from autoimmunity that is related to streptococcal bacteria. This results in a disorder known as PANDAS. 7. In utero stressors, including environmental toxins, inoculations, bacteria, viruses, nutritional deficiencies, and emotional stress. 8." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"It helps the liver to detoxify alcohol, tobacco and other environmental pollutants. It slows cellular damage involved in aging. Typical dosage is 200 to 500 mgs per day. If you are taking NAC, you should take a 1,000 mgs of vitamin C with it because it aids in its antioxidant properties. NAC may not be appropriate for those with diabetes because it interferes with insulin. Do not exceed the recommended dose because it causes toxic side effects. Pancreatic Enzymes The use of pancreatin as a digestive enzyme is said to be useful in reducing pain in chronic pancreatitis." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"And a number of recent studies reinforce links between prenatal exposure to environmental pollutants and childhood health problems. A 2004 Columbia study, for example, showed that babies born to nonsmoking women who lived within two miles of the World Trade Center weighed significantly less than full-term infants born in other areas of New York City." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The exact causes of ADHD are not known, but contributing factors include oxygen deprivation at birth, prenatal trauma, heredity, food allergies and artificial additives in food (particularly foods containing salicylates), smoking during pregnancy, lead poisoning, a low-protein diet, a protease deficiency, and environmental pollutants." - 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 World Health Organization estimates that we could prevent more than 80 percent of all chronic illnesses by improving our lifestyles in simple ways, like working to reduce our exposure to environmental pollutants and eating a healthier diet. Eighty percent! So why aren't we doing more to protect our children? For a number of reasons, children are more adversely affected by exposure to environmental toxins than adults. Pound for pound of body weight, they breathe and eat more than we do." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "As I pointed out earlier, researchers haven't yet quantified the precise role environmental pollutants play in the growing number of birth defects we're seeing in this country; a recent estimate put the figure anywhere between 3 and 25 percent. We do know that roughly 2 to 3 percent of babies born today have a major birth defect, and about 18 percent of newborns are diagnosed with some minor structural anomaly. Because scientists have only recently begun studying the links between these health issues and the environment, they don't yet know at precisely what age the critical exposures occur." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The development of the human brain in utero is an extremely fragile process, as the placenta is not an effective shield against environmental pollutants and the blood-brain barrier (which protects an adult brain from environmental insults) is not completely formed until the beginning of the third trimester. Because the brain continues to develop postnatally and experience periods of high vulnerability, toxic interference at any point of prenatal and early childhood growth can lead to permanent and devastating changes in brain functioning." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Cancer has a multitude of contributing factors, such as: heredity, beliefs, attitudes, habits, excesses, nutrition, environmental pollutants, and stresses, as well as various carcinogens like radiation, pesticides, toxic chemicals, dioxins, and asbestos—to name a few. It is an enzyme deficiency and an autointoxication disease. It is a failure of the body's cells to obtain all the building materials essential for their construction and functioning. It is also the result of excess toxicity, which affects and eventually destroys cells, or transforms them into abnormal, wild, growing cells." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"And the environmental pollutants continue to increase asthma in our society. However, if you believe that pollution is the major contributing factor to your asthma there is much you can do to make your environment healthier. You can take control of your condition and reduce or eliminate your exposure to household and workplace pollutants. þ Keep everything that gives off unpleasant odours out of inhalation range until you need to use them. These include polishes, window and oven cleaners, insecticides, cosmetics, nail polish and remover, glues, etc. Use only in well ventilated areas." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Were we to create a world without tobacco (or various environmental pollutants), much disease would be prevented; mortality would be reduced dramatically—not only just to smokers themselves, but also to those around them. As we will show in chapter 8, this is not a hypothetical conclusion. Thus, the issue is not the effectiveness of prevention. Rather the question is: to what degree does routine medical screening contribute to prevention? This chapter has provided some counterintuitive answers." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Likewise, a heightened incidence of lupus in a small African-American community in Georgia has been attributed to environmental pollutants from industrial sources. In a four-year study of Choctaw Native Americans in southeastern Oklahoma, researchers found a higher than average occurrence of scleroderma. Although genetics in the closely related Choctaw population was likely a contributing factor, relatives who moved away did not have as high a rate of scleroderma." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"People often seem to think that kids need to eat paint chips to have high levels of lead, but that was only true in the long-ago days of fewer environmental pollutants. Previous testing had shown that even though Paul mostly avoided dairy products, he still had enough maldigested partial-proteins from milk in his system to create pseudo-morphines, which can be so intoxicating that they make kids space-out into their own inner worlds, and become fascinated by mundane things, such as running water or the movements of their own hands. Paul's overall metabolism was just a mess." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"This means getting all the right nutrients and enzymes, having the right environment, and avoiding those things that tend to depress immunity such as: household cleaners, the overuse of antibiotics and drugs, pesticides, chemical additives present in the foods we eat, exposure to environmental pollutants, and stress. Lowered immunity results in impaired healing ability and lowered defense against infection." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Instead, most diseases are on the rise because they are environmentally rooted, our bodies not being designed to deal with the continual barrage of environmental pollutants in today's civilized societies. Our increasingly unhealthful lifestyles and polluted environments result in toxic body ecologies. The movie Safe graphically illustrates this by showing the effects that environmentally induced diseases have on people's lives." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Consider all the exogenous toxins of food-generated residues, the endogenous toxins of poor food combining and the ingested, absorbed and inhaled environmental pollutants, as well as drugs taken. These toxins are all retained and build up when there is an energy crisis in a toxic body. They typically detoxify in reverse order from when they were either taken into the body or created within the body and then accumulated." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "Another factor is that while the supply of B,2 is down, the body's demand is greatly increased by mercury from dental fillings, auto exhaust and other environmental pollutants. Several studies have been published which discuss the need for B|2 supplementation in raw vegans. One is "Vitamin B!2 status of long-term adherents of a strict uncooked vegan diet ('living food diet') is compromised." It was published in The Journal of Nutrition (Oct 1995, Vol. 125, Issue 10, pp. 2511-2515, PubMed ID 7562085)." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The cause of all these problems lay in the dietary and environmental pollutants that throw the seven underlying systems in our body out of balance. The Simplicity of Treatment It is not any one thing that caused Clayton's ADHD, abnormal handwriting, hives, asthma, or stomachaches. It was the total load of all the stresses on his system interacting with his unique genetic susceptibilities, which thus led to his abnormal brain function and health problems. Clayton's treatment was disarmingly simple." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"More and more research now suggests that environmental pollutants disrupt our hormonal systems, sending mixed or unclear messages to their targets. Many of the chemicals dumped into our environment have been banned in Europe but are still in wide use in the United States. According to several studies, they are, in reality, low-level poisons that slowly erode the functioning of our hormones and contribute to feeling Spent—particularly the chemicals we use to "treat" and "clean" our water with." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Diabetes was a rarity in cultures whose people ate diets composed entirely of wholesome, natural foods; who exercised vigorously; who lived and worked outdoors under natural sunlight; and who were exposed to a minimum of environmental pollutants. Unfortunately, economic and lifestyle factors have created thriving multitudes of consumers who congregate in polluted cities; who live sedentary, indoor lifestyles; who eat more calories than they expend; and who rely on all of the conveniences and pleasures offered to them through the powerful forces of marketing." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

"Toxins may include chemical food additives, environmental pollutants, trapped metabolic waste products, and poisons generated by bacteria that decompose undigested foods in the gut. Once the body's tolerance level for toxins has been reached, it signals pain or other forms of discomfort. This stimulates the organs and systems of elimination, such as the skin, respiratory system, liver, large intestine, kidneys, lymphatic system and the immune system into defensive action." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Some environmental pollutants, heavy metal poisonings, and certain drugs can also contribute to goiter formation.1'2'3 Both iodine deficiency and inability to use iodine properly make the thyroid gland unable to produce thyroid hormone, a hormone that helps to regulate the body's metabolic rate. This state is called hypothyroidism (page 252) and the symptoms include fatigue, weight gain, heavy menstrual bleeding in women, dry skin and hair, as well as goiter. Iodine-deficiency goiter can be common in regions where the soils and foods have insufficient iodine." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"This is accomplished by supplementing with natural hormones and/or herbal supplements, modifying nutritional profiles, eliminating external environmental pollutants, and changing lifestyle. Thus, understanding how the sex steroid hormones become out of balance is the first step towards reversing many chronic prostate problems. A Note About Prostate Cancer Most prostate conditions, including prostate cancer, are chronic problems. While prostate cancer can be life-threatening, it is certainly not in the same class as a massive heart attack or stroke." - James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.)

"A number of environmental pollutants have been shown to interfere with specific nutrients. For example, a group of compounds called hydrazines and hydrazides, which are widely used in industry and agriculture, appear to interfere with vitamin Bg utilization.32 Carpal tunnel syndrome, a condition that causes problems in the hands, has been reported to respond to relatively large doses of vitamin B- Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"Cigarettes, however, are only one source of free radicals. environmental pollutants such as paint fumes, carpet glue, exhaust smoke, chlorine, petroleum products and many others bombard us with free radicals. X-rays and other sources of radiation cause free radical damage. Radiation from the sun causes free radicals when it strikes the fats in the cell membranes of our skin, which can lead to skin cancer if nutrition is also poor. {Note: sunlight is only one factor in skin cancer! As you continue reading you will understand that poor nutrition relates very closely to the disease." - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

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