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"These harmful chemicals can lead to damage of colon cell DNA, which can, in turn, lead to cancer. Do you need another reason to include prebiotics in your diet? Researchers have found that the consumption of prebiotics decreases the level of bad fats in your blood. In a research trial, the blood levels of triglycerides and cholesterol decreased with prebiotic use in people with high cholesterol levels. Do you need fiber for your bones? Yes. Prebiotics have been shown in animal studies to have positive effects on calcium absorption." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Heavy industrial air purifiers can protect workers from the damaging effects of harmful chemicals, whilst other models purify the air in offices, classrooms, surgeries and hospital wards. Some purifiers also allow an air ioniser to be built in. Air purifiers not only provide clean fresh air but also have therapeutic benefits for people affected by asthma, sinus, hay fever or respiratory disorders." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Many others don't even have testing data on basic toxicity. harmful chemicals can be found in daily-use items such as packaged and processed food, household cleaners, cosmetics, and fragrances. Volumes could be written on this subject alone, but a few of the more widely-used chemicals and their common sources are covered here so that readers can take precautions to minimize exposure to them. Chlorine Chlorine is used as a bactericide in drinking water, and as a bleaching and cleaning agent. In small concentrations it is supposed to be non-toxic, or perhaps is apparently so." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Choose not to use, any more than is absolutely necessary, any harmful chemicals, pesticides, tobacco, or food additives. 6 Reduce your exposure to emf and emr-emitting electrical devices. Regarding geopathic energies, look at animals to identify them. For example, large animals like horses, cows, and dogs will not lie down in geopathic energy areas. So if your dog won't lie on your bed where you sleep, move the position of your bed. You can buy small devices for your home, car, phone, place of work, and person that neutralize harmful emrs." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Keeping track of the vast array of food additives in use by the food manufacturing industry today and making sure that they don't contain traces of harmful chemicals is a heady job. Food processing (for foods other than meat, poultry, and egg products) is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA. FDA inspectors are responsible for visiting between sixty and eighty thousand facilities in any given year." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"For a list of companies that have pledged to not use harmful chemicals, visit http://www.safecosmetics.org. For ideas on natural skin care, see the recipes that follow. Natural Skin Care Recipes Citrus Sugar Scrub 2 cups white cane sugar 2 cups vegetable glycerin 1 teaspoon vitamin C crystals 5 drops orange essential oil Combine ingredients in a bowl. Scoop some scrub onto your hand and massage gently over entire body. Rinse well with warm water. Store remainder in a glass jar. Keep in a cool, dry place and use within two weeks." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"You can find a listing of who has pledged not to use harmful chemicals and to implement substitution plans that replace hazardous materials with safer alternatives in every market they serve on the Safe Cosmetics Campaign website: www.safecosmetics.org/companies/signers.cfm. Several major cosmetics companies, including OPI, Avon, Estee Lauder, L'Oreal, Revlon, Proctor & Gamble, and Unilever have thus far refused to sign the Compact for Safe Cosmetics. The good news is that safe cosmetics are readily available." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"Your moisturizer, makeup, and deodorant all might be exposing your child to harmful chemicals. Go to www.cosmeticdatabase.com for a list of safe, and not so safe, personal-care products and cosmetics. This constantly updated Web site, provided by the Environmental Working Group, evaluates thousands of personal-care products?from shampoos to makeup to moisturizer—and rates them according to toxicity. It also lists which popular products might be cotaminated with impurities. Products that may be contaminated with impurities. 9,747 (76.8%) products may be contaminated with impurities." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "The good news is, with just a little effort, you can make sure that your children's toys are free of these potentially harmful chemicals. When shopping for baby products, look for labels marked "No PVCs." For more information on the dangers of PVC, refer to www.checnet.org/ healthehouse/education/articles-detail.asp?Main_ID=185. Make sure your kids' toys are phthalate free. Phthalates are used in everything from cosmetics to plastic PVC toys." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"As I will discuss later, chlorine is one of the harmful chemicals that most of us come into contact with on a daily basis. See www.sweetpoison.com for more information. For now, you must take these artificial sweeteners out: aspartame (NutraSweet and Equal), saccharin (Sweet'N Low), sucralose (Splenda), acesulfame K. No sugars or artificial sweeteners means not drinking sodas, diet sodas, or fruit juice (unless freshly squeezed) and not eating candy, cakes, cookies, ice cream, most factory-made breads, many crackers and breakfast cereals, condiments such as ketchup, and salad dressings." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"ATSDR gives people information about harmful chemicals in their environment and tells people how to protect themselves from coming into contact with such chemicals. Cancer: A group of diseases that occur when cells in the body become abnormal and grow, or multiply, out of control. Carcinogen: Any substance shown to cause tumors or cancer in experimental studies. Response, Compensation, and Liability Act. Chronic exposure: A contact with a substance or chemical that happens over a long period of time. ATSDR considers exposures of more than one year to be chronic." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The following are a few examples of conditions Sacred Santemony has improved: • Reducing or removing fear related to the past or future, death, disease, the body, foods, harmful chemicals, parents and other people, lack of abundance, impoverishment, phobias, and environmental threats. • Clearing or reducing the pain from a recent or current hurt, disappointment, or anger resulting from past emotional trauma or negative experiences in life." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "There are always other factors present, such as acidosis of the tissues (due to eating an overly acidifying diet consisting of animal proteins, trans fatty acids, and manufactured foods and beverages), most pharmaceutical drugs, an accumulation of heavy metals and harmful chemicals in the tissues, toxic blood, a severely congested liver, an unbalanced lifestyle, and foremost of all, sunglasses and sunscreens. The human body was designed to absorb UV light for very good reasons; otherwise we would have been born with a natural sunscreen for UV light on our skin and in our eyes." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Bisabolol, a penetration enhancer that drives other harmful chemicals deeper into the skin. Not only are the claimed anti-aging effects of these Origins products not based on any clinical trials, but when I communicated the list of dangerous ingredients to the CEO of Origins, she responded that she was uninformed about the "scientific technicalities" of what the company's products contained." - 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.)

"As well as many other harmful chemicals, coffee contains caffeine, a stimulant to the nervous system, and is considered a drug and rightly so. In fact, it is a psychoactive drug, which means it affects the mind, mood and behavior.310 Consider how many times a person reaches for a cup of coffee when they are feeling down and needs a "pick-me-up." And then how many people are there that just can't get started in the morning without their cup of coffee or two? It seems, then, that caffeine gives a person energy, an emotional lift, and sharpens the mind." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"This is a term commonly used to mask the identity of potentially harmful chemicals. Tips for Choosing Safe Products and Alternatives Generally, when choosing cosmetics and personal care products, choose those that contain the fewest ingredients; these will be the safest. As the list of a product's ingredients grows, so does the possibility that the product will cause adverse reactions, including allergy, irritation, and cancer. As well, the more ingredients a product contains, the greater the chance those ingredients will interact with each other in unpredictable ways." - 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.) "It must be stressed that product label warning is no substitute for ingredient phase-out or a ban on products containing clearly harmful chemicals. Absolute prohibition should be placed on the introduction of new carcinogenic products and untested new technologies. Human health and safety should rank above economic and political concerns. All of this is impossible while industry claims of confidentiality and trade secrecy still present a serious obstacle to our obtaining the information we need to know to issue such warnings." - 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.) "It even made this declaration: "Nail salon products may contain many potentially harmful chemicals that can be a major cause of occupational asthma as well as other health and environmental concerns." But following complaints from the nail products industry about this and other wording in the guidebook, the national Washington, D.C., EPA office, in collaboration with industry, ordered the text to be drastically revised and the warning watered down." - 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.)

"The producers of these products claim that most of the harmful chemicals becomes degraded in the presence of sunlight and must therefore be safe for the consumer, a claim that is outright false since almost every person in America is contaminated by sunscreen chemicals (according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Avobenzone [butyl-methyoxydibenzoylmethane and oxybenzone particualry penetrate the skin very quickly." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"But as a general rule, sunblocks (which physically "block" the sun's rays) contain fewer potentially harmful chemicals than sunscreens (which chemically absorb the rays). Look for a sunblock containing minerals like zinc dioxide or titanium dioxide, which don't penetrate the skin. For recommendations on safe, effective sunblocks, please refer to the resources section. The Pet Question For many of us, a family doesn't feel complete without a pet, or several pets—I know our Norfolk terrier, Virgil, is a VIP in our household." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Pitta types are also the first to react to the presence of harmful chemicals and poisons, developing multiple chemical sensitivities and allergies. If Pittas' expose themselves to the direct sun (avoid the sun from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.) for just a few minutes a day, they will soon be able to increase their body's exposure to a maximum of twenty minutes a day without having any signs of reddening. Their skin will improve and melanin production will increase." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"The liver combines toxic substances (including metabolic waste products, insecticide residues, drugs, alcohol, and other harmful chemicals) with substances that are less toxic. These substances are then excreted via the kidneys and bowels. Thus, in order for the liver to function properly, you must also have proper kidney and bowel function. Finally, the liver is responsible for regulating thyroid function by converting thyroxine (T4), a thyroid hormone, into its more active form, triiodothyronine (T3). Inadequate conversion of T4 into T3 by the liver may lead to hypothyroidism." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Sulphur helps the liver detoxify harmful chemicals. The ingredients in the liver gallbladder soup include onions, carrots, garlic, beet, turmeric, and oregano. The combination of these foods will help your liver purge toxins during the cleansing process. Other liver and gallbladder detoxifying foods are artichoke, asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, kale, brussel sprouts, and cauliflower which may also be added to the soup if you wish. Dr." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.) "You can't always trust labels stating "drinking water" or "spring water"—they may not be free of harmful chemicals. Just because a clever marketing campaign makes use of images of pristine mountain streams and waterfalls, don't believe for an instant the water actually originated there! As always, read the label and research the manufacturing facility and its standards. How do all of these chemicals and other toxins in water affect the colon, and consequently, the overall health of the body?" - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.) "These harmful chemicals leak through the intestinal lining, accumulate in the body, and can cause headaches, seizures, skin irritation, tremors, respiratory problems, dizziness, and nausea. What's more, many chronic conditions such as cancer, Parkinson's disease, neurological damage, and abnormal immune system function have been linked to organo-chlorine exposure. *J DOCTOR'S NOTE:.................................................................................................................................... Published U.S." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"The State of the Evidence 2006 report called for new government policies that require companies to phase out harmful chemicals and favor safer alternatives, and new research agendas that focus on the preventable causes of breast cancer.10 "We need to eliminate, as much as possible, human exposures to all substances or agents known or suspected of contributing to the disease process," said Jeanne Rizzo, RN, executive director of the Breast Cancer Fund. What it's really going to take to reduce breast cancer, she said, is "a revolution in thinking on the parts of government and the private sector." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "Now active in 37 states, MOMS advocates for government and corporate policies to eliminate harmful chemicals.27 "It distills down to moms taking back their bodies," Mary said. "This is an outrage that these toxic chemicals are allowed into the environment and end up in our bodies and our babies. We have to use our collective voting and purchasing power as moms to change it." Women of all ages are likewise organizing to make change." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

"By following these guidelines, you will ensure that your juices are as pure, nutrient-rich, and appetizing as possible: • Whenever possible, buy and use organically grown produce—produce that is grown without the use of pesticides and other harmful chemicals. This prevents chemical residues from ending up in your juice. • If you are unable to obtain organically grown fruits and vegetables, peel or thoroughly wash the produce, using a vegetable brush to remove chemical residues and waxes. Most health food stores carry vegetable washes that will help remove any residues." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.) "Don't smoke or overexpose yourself to harmful chemicals such as environmental pollutants. Considerations Q Growing older is inevitable; however, we can try to slow the aging process and prolong our lives by taking measures to promote continuous cell division. If science could keep the cells from dying and doing bodily harm, the aging process could conceivably be suspended. Q Many older adults complain of sleep difficulties. One common cause is the consumption of sugar after dinner. Complex carbohydrates have a relaxing effect. A good nighttime snack is popcorn, or nut butter and crackers." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.) "Regardless of the original source of tap water, it is vulnerable to a number of different types of impurities, and may be full of harmful chemicals and inorganic minerals that the body cannot use. Some undesirable substances found in water—including radon, fluoride, and arsenic, as well as iron, lead, copper, and other heavy metals—can occur naturally Other contaminants, such as fertilizers, asbestos, cyanides, herbicides, pesticides, and industrial chemicals, may leach into ground water through the soil, or into any tap water from plumbing pipes." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

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