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"Tap water, swimming pools and hot tubs, bleach, household cleaners. Phenol. Perfumes and colognes, newspapers, glue, wood smoke. Ethanol. Car exhaust, perfume, household cleaners, wood smoke. Fluoride. Tap water, toothpaste, fluoride treatments. Benzyl alcohol. Solvents, perfume, artificial flavors. Glycerin. Makeup, soap, lotion, furniture polish. SUMMARY: FOOD REACTIONS Overcoming food reactions is of absolute, pivotal importance. It is often the single most significant element of the Healing Program. In many cases it's just as important as the element of eliminating toxicity." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"As an alternative, try making your own household cleaners. It's both easy and inexpensive. For furniture polish, mix one part white distilled vinegar, three parts olive oil, and a dash of natural lemon oil. For cleaning glass surfaces, try plain club soda or a mixture of half vinegar and half water in a pump spray bottle. More great household-cleaner recipes abound on the Web (see www.ecomall.com/greenshopping/coamerica.htm). THINK BEFOREYOU PINK. Our skin is the largest organ of the body—and remarkably porous and adept at absorbing toxins." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Every year, about half a million tons of liquid cleaners go down the drain in the United States alone. household cleaners, which are sold now in virtually all retail outlets, from grocery stores to convenience markets and pharmacies, are the major source of home toxins; they are a toxic cocktail of petroleum-based surfactants, solvents, and other chemicals that are associated with a bevy of health problems. (An exploration of their labeling gives you a clue.) The number one cause of household poisoning is dish detergent." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "The Lion's Den Wherever you store household cleaners, detergents, disinfectants, bleaches, stain removers for the laundry, and so on, aim to tackle this place gradually. Replace one or two products a week with natural ones, and try making your own where possible using the ideas on pages 63-65. Every year, about half a million tons of liquid cleaners go down the drain in the United States alone." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Do you use commercial household cleaners, cosmetics or antiperspirants? ? Have you ever taken prescription medications or over-the-counter medications, including hormone replacement therapy or birth control? ? Do you have wall-to-wall carpet in your home or office? ? Do you eat commercial (non-organic) vegetables, fruits, or meat? ? Do you wear clothes that have been dry-cleaned? ? Do you wear synthetic materials (such as polyester)? ? Do you eat processed food or fast food? ? Have you ever smoked or been exposed to second-hand smoke? ? Do you eat in restaurants more than twice weekly?" - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"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. In strong solutions or as a pure gas, it is a deadly poison." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Nontoxic, environmentally friendly household cleaners are now available in most health food stores as well as many mass market stores (see Resource Directory, page 265, for leads).These can still be a little pricier than regular toxic cleaners, but your health is worth it. If you feel the need to keep a few regular, chemical-laden cleaning products, store them in airtight containers and keep them in the toolshed or garage." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"A by no means complete list would include fur, feathers, wool, perfumes, chemicals used in hair care products and cosmetics, insecticides, household cleaners and disinfectants, oil and petrol fumes, and the fumes from gas heaters. Three of the most common are moulds, foods and drugs. Mould spores are being increasingly suspected as causes of asthma because, like pollen, they can be released into the air in huge numbers. You don't have to live in a damp suburb to have mould in your home, either: moulds can survive in a variety of places." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"In Los Angeles, approximately 108 tons of volatile organic compounds are released daily from household cleaners, personal grooming products, and paints. 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." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"You may want to use nontoxic cleansers, including natural dish soap, laundry detergent and household cleaners. You may want the most natural personal care products. You may eventually want to make your own shampoo out of natural ingredients. The rule of thumb is this: Never put on your body what you wouldn't want in your body. You may elect to get the mercury out of your teeth. I know of one man who went on a 100% raw diet. His body finally got around to detoxifying his oral cavity, including his teeth. He had a lot of problems until he got all the mercury out." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Manufacturers of household cleaners are not required to list toxic ingredients on their product labels even if those products contain toxins. The truth is, you have no idea what is in the polish you use to make your dining room table shine or the spray you use to make your windows gleam. Yet, according to a study by the Environmental Protection Agency, the fumes and gases released into our homes by everyday cleaners help to make indoor air five times more polluted than the air we breathe outdoors." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"We can identify chemicals in cosmetics, nail polish, plastics, household cleaners, dry cleaning, and foods. A survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals) is currently underway, which monitors 145 chemicals in 2,500 people in the United States." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Substances that have been shown to have estrogenic effects in the body include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), weed killers, substances that line cans, plastics, detergents, and household cleaners.31 Despite this lack of identification of a definitive link between chemical exposures and endometriosis, we do know that women are exposed to a multitude of chemicals in utero, in childhood, peripubertally (the time around the appearance of secondary sex characteristics such as pubic hair), and as adults." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Cracked nails, for example, can be caused by using household cleaners without gloves—or by nutritional deficiencies. Body Signs wraps up with the skin. Our skin, the body's largest organ and its most visible and vulnerable, can display a mass of signs: bumps, lumps, freckles, moles, liver spots, spider veins, wrinkles, and dimples. Its color, texture, and tone can all be important clues to countless diseases hidden beneath its surface. While many skin signs are merely cosmetic concerns, some may signify nutritional or hormonal problems, or—most important—cancer." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Lemon has been revered as a key ingredient in various household cleaners for its fresh scent and stain-removal properties. Lemon also does a great job in removing odor from hands. Many claim that applying a little lemon juice mixed with water several times a day to blemishes will help them disappear. Throw Me a Lifesaver! RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: Vitamin C-rich foods provide protection against inflammatory polyarthritis, a form of rheumatoid arthritis involving two or more joints." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (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.)

"Fluoride is also in our toothpaste, and chlorine is in many household cleaners, though it is often described as "sodium hypochlorite" or "hypochlorite." Liquid household bleaches are approximately 5% sodium hypochlorite solutions.The basis of this belief is that both chlorine and fluoride are chemically related to iodine, which is an essential component in the synthesis of thyroid hormone. They block iodine receptors, interfering with iodine metabolism, and therefore impair thyroid function. First, let's take a quick look at fluoride." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Use nontoxic household cleaners. • Eat healthy, whole organic foods with plenty of antiinflammatory antioxidants, such as fresh fruits and vegetables. • To prevent allergic disease in babies, consider perinatal avoidance of known food allergens, especially if there's a family history of allergies; breastfeeding might also protect newborns against allergies. Common food allergens include fish, shellfish, milk, soy, eggs, wheat, peanuts, and tree nuts like walnuts and cashews." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "You want to avoid clothing treated with pesticides; toys made with lead and PVCs; personal-care products that contain petroleum distillates, parabens, sulfates, and propylene glycol; and household cleaners that contain chlorine bleach and ammonia. Green Cleaning Greening your cleaning is the simplest—and most essential—step you can take to clean up your family's indoor environment. • Imus's Greening the Cleaning institutional and retail product line. One hundred percent of the after-tax profits from sales of my products go to the Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids with Cancer." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Chlorine bleach and chlorine byproducts form the basis of all sorts of conventional household cleaners: toilet-bowl cleaners, laundry detergents, dishwasher detergents, tub and tile cleaners—the list goes on and on. It's imperative that you stop exposing yourself to this dangerous respiratory irritant, which is one of the primary causes of household poisonings in the United States. Formaldehyde, a carcinogen in humans, can be found in many conventional air fresheners, disinfectants, and spray starches." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Car exhaust, perfume, household cleaners, wood smoke. Fluoride. Tap water, toothpaste, fluoride treatments. Benzyl alcohol. Solvents, perfume, artificial flavors. Glycerin. Makeup, soap, lotion, furniture polish. SUMMARY: FOOD REACTIONS Overcoming food reactions is of absolute, pivotal importance. It is often the single most significant element of the Healing Program. In many cases it's just as important as the element of eliminating toxicity. As the old saying goes, "One man's meat is another man's poison." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"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. They are endocrine disrupting and medical literature suggests they may be linked to some reproductive defects in the male fetus." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Shortly after, investigators in the Netherlands turned up similar findings: they discovered an array of chemicals commonly found in household cleaners, cosmetics, and furniture in the cord blood of thirty newborns. OUR AUTOGEN-FILLED WORLD: HOW DID WE BECOME SO CONTAMINATED? How do these chemicals creep into our bodies? The process occurs through the simple exposures to contaminants in our world that most of us rarely think twice about. Consider the substances that Becky came into contact with in just one day." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Not convinced that household cleaners are dangerous to your health? Consider this: • The Associated Press reported that deaths show dangers of household chemicals. This article explained how ALL household cleaners are chemicals that are incredibly toxic. The all can be fatal if they get into your body. They get into your body through the skin, through the fumes that you inhale, and of course, by accidentally drinking." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"Triggers and irritants can include house dust; animal fur; pollen; synthetic fabrics such as elastic and latex; certain foods such as wheat, dairy, eggs, seafood, berries, and chocolate; chemicals in soap or fabric conditioners; nickel; fragrances and household cleaners; and emotional states such as upheaval, stress, and anxiety. DANGER: Any escalating symptoms of an allergic skin reaction that are combined with any hint of swelling of the face, lips, or throat require immediate emergency treatment." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"Heavy metals are in the water we drink, the foods we eat, the air we breathe, our daily household cleaners, our cookware and our other daily tools. A heavy metal has a density at least 5 times that of water and cannot be metabolized by the body, therefore accumulating in the body. Heavy metal toxicity can cause our mental functions, energy, nervous system, kidneys, lungs and other organ functions to decline." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"For example, lemon-scented household cleaners contain the -CN equivalent of what is perhaps the best-known aldehyde of all (at least by smell): citral. The nitrile equivalent is called Agrunitrile® and smells, well, like an oily-metallic lemon. citral, lemon Agrunitrile®, oily-metallic lemon Remarkably, this trick can be done with many aldehydes, giving metallic-oily cucumbers and metallic-oily cumin. Once again, the smell of a molecule is the sum of its parts. Why is all this amazing? Let us go back to -SH for a minute." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.)

"Fear tactics aren't necessarily the best motivation for change, but the ingredients in common household cleaners are downright frightening. The number of toxic substances we generally stock under our sinks and in our utility closets is practically unthinkable, which is just the problem: we choose not to think about them. We also choose not to think about those toxic substances once they swirl down our drains and disappear." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"An EPA study revealed that toxic chemicals in household cleaners are three times more likely to cause cancer than outdoor air. >• The Asthma Society of Canada has identified common household cleaners and cosmetics as triggers to asthma. soap to dishwasher tablets. The next time you run out of one product or another, whether it's floor cleaner, window cleaner, or bathroom cleaner, replace it with something less harmful. If there are particular products you really can't find a replacement for, seal them up in an airtight container such as a tin after each use." - Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton, Toxic Overload: A Doctor's Plan for Combating the Illnesses Caused by Chemicals in Our Foods, Our Homes, and Our Medicine Cabinets (Get the book.)

"Formaldehyde, a preservative that is used in paints, medications, fabric finishes, paper products, household cleaners and cosmetics. •Cobalt chloride, a metal that is found in medical products, hair dye, antiperspirant and metal-plated objects, such as snaps, buttons and tools. Also found in cobalt blue pigment. •Bacitracin, a topical antibiotic. •Quaternium 15, a preservative that can be found in cosmetic products, such as self-tanners, shampoo, nail polish and sunscreen, as well as in industrial products, such as polishes, paints and waxes." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

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