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"Tests show 287 industrial chemicals in 10 newborn babies Pollutants include consumer product ingredients, banned industrial chemicals and pesticides, and waste byproducts Sources and uses of chemicals in newborn blood Chemical family name Total number of chemicals found in 10 newborns (range in individual babies) Common consumer product chemicals (and their breakdown products) 47 chemicals (23-38) Pesticides, actively used in U.S." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Some industrial chemicals, detergents, and food dyes are classified as hormone disrupters because they are estrogen mimics. Our bodies mistake synthetic estrogens for the real thing, accept it, and process it, which causes an imbalance of our natural hormones. Red Dye #3, for example, which is used in hot dogs and other processed foods, contains synthetic estrogen. The plastic coating in many food cans contains a powerful estrogen mimic. In the wild, we are now finding that animals, birds, and fish exposed to pesticides and industrial chemicals are having difficulty producing healthy offspring." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Not only is the oxygen content of the air many of us are breathing deficient, but industrial emissions and engine exhausts are continually polluting the air as well. industrial chemicals such as pesticides, fungicides and insecticides, plastics, radiation, and synthetic products are changing the natural health-giving properties of our food. They introduce toxins to our bodies that our ancestors did not have to cope with. Some industrial chemicals, detergents, and food dyes are classified as hormone disrupters because they are estrogen mimics." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"When this is considered against the multimillion-dollar race for the cure waged by the Alzheimer's empire, we must demand that our public officials use our resources to further identify the neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals in our food, drinking water, and environment, and that they strictly regulate those with known neurotoxic effects. The "fight" against Alzheimer's disease means avoiding exposures to toxins, and defending our younger generations from the ravages of industrial chemicals on their developing brains. Why does aluminum have a bad rap?" - 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.)

"Developmental Neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals. Grandjean, P; Landrigan, PJ. The Lancet, 2006, 368:2167-2178 Autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders may be caused by exposure to industrial chemicals such as lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, arsenic and toluene. An additional 200 chemicals are known to have adverse neurological effects in adults. The authors state that new approaches for testing and control of chemicals that take into account the developing brain are needed." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"For the report, environmental and public health groups contracted with a laboratory to test seventy-two name-brand, off-the-shelf beauty products for the presence of phthalates, a family of industrial chemicals linked to permanent birth defects in the male reproductive system. 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." - 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.)

"Among the toxins most frequently linked to the rising incidence of these cancers are those found in pesticides and industrial chemicals. Currently, one in every 330 American children gets cancer. Approximately 25 percent of all children who get cancer die from it. Some cancers, including acute myeloid leukemia, have significantly lower survival rates. Diabetes Both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are increasing in incidence among America's children." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Though their evidence is not yet conclusive, Davis and her team of researchers have drawn a link between the reduced sex ratio and industrial chemicals, especially certain plastics and metals that have been proven to damage male-producing sperm. Heavy metals including arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury have been shown to affect the ratio of male to female births, and endocrine disruptors, like dioxin and PCBs, can play a role in determining a child's sex." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "From a cord-blood sample taken from ten randomly selected babies born in the United States in August and September of 2004, researchers found an astonishing 287 of the 413 industrial chemicals it tested for. These included perfluorochemicals, or PFCs (found in some stain and oil repellants); flame retardants used in the manufacturing of furniture foam, computers, televisions, and kids'furniture; metals (lead, mercury, arsenic, much of which enters the environment through burning coal, gasoline, and garbage), and chlorinated dioxins." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "But a groundbreaking 2004 study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) showed that the umbilical cord ferries "not only the building blocks of life, but also a steady stream of industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides that cross the placenta as readily as residues from cigarettes and alcohol." The EWG called this phenomenon the "human 'body burden'—the pollution in people that permeates everyone in the world, including babies in the womb." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Philippe Grandjean and Philip Landrigan, declared that the role of industrial chemicals in causing neurodevelopmental disorders in human beings represents a "silent pandemic" in modern society. Their message may be a prescient one. Evidence has been mounting that exposure to metals, solvents, and pesticides present in our environment can cause severe clinical neurode-velopmental damage and may be contributing to the prevalence of learning disabilities, sensory deficits, developmental delays, cerebral palsy, autism, attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity disorder, and premature brain aging." - 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.) "While all of our brains are vulnerable to the toxic effects of industrial chemicals such as lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), arsenic, and pesticides, those most susceptible to exposure to these noxious chemicals are children, from the prenatal stage onward. 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." - 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.) "The "fight" against Alzheimer's disease means avoiding exposures to toxins, and defending our younger generations from the ravages of industrial chemicals on their developing brains. Why does aluminum have a bad rap? Other metals such as aluminum have been implicated as risk factors for brain aging, although the role of aluminum in AD is not thought to be causative.46 Studies going back decades have shown that feeding rats large amounts of aluminum could lead to a type of neurofibrillary tangle." - 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.)

"The Lancet, 2006, 368:2167-2178 Autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders may be caused by exposure to industrial chemicals such as lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, arsenic and toluene. An additional 200 chemicals are known to have adverse neurological effects in adults. The authors state that new approaches for testing and control of chemicals that take into account the developing brain are needed. Pilot Study of a Moderate Dose Multivitamin/Mineral Supplement for Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Adams JB; Holloway C." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Environmental and Chemical Reactions That Exacerbate Food Reactions It's very common for kids with 4-A disorders-particularly those with asthma-to have reactions to various industrial chemicals, as well as to environmental allergens, such as dust, mold, pollen, animal dander, and dust mites. These reactions, which are generally inhalant reactions, are also relatively more common among kids with multiple or severe food reactions, because inhalant reactions and food reactions tend to reinforce one another." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Chemicals and Other Environmental Factors In 2006, scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health sounded a long overdue warning: industrial chemicals are responsible for a "silent pandemic" of brain impairment in millions of children around the world. By analyzing publicly available data, they determined that at least 202 chemicals are known to have the capacity to damage the brain. However, only a few—such as lead and mercury—are regulated with regard to children." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"In 2000 EWG and Commonweal began the Human Toxome Project (HTP) to analyze human tissues for industrial chemicals that enter the body as pollution via food, air, and water, or from exposures to ingredients in everyday consumer products. Utilizing the latest technology, the project thus far includes a collection of seven studies involving 75 participants ranging in age from newborn to the elderly." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "It was periodically contaminated with industrial chemicals at levels above FDA standards (mind you, the botded water industry is largely unregulated in the United States). Simple solution: filter your tap water. Bottled water companies have made a killing in the last decade as people turn to them for convenience, purity, or even fashion. The surprise: most bottled water is still just tap water, but unlike tap water, bottled water is not regulated. And, to make matters worse, the plastic bottles it comes in often leach chemicals into the water." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "At least one-third of the ingredients used in these products have been noted to cause cancer or some other serious health problem. industrial chemicals are basic ingredients in personal care products and 89 percent of 10,500 ingredients used in these products have not been evaluated for safety. Among the most damaging personal care products are those that are scented, including cologne, deodorants, lotions, creams, bath salts, shampoo, cosmetics, soaps, body powders, and oils." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Americans also continue to use toys, cosmetics, and pesticides containing industrial chemicals that have been banned in other countries because of their potential to harm human health. Much could be done to prevent disease, but keeping people healthy is not a priority in Americas profit-driven medical system, which thrives when people are ill. Protect yourself. Find a physician who refuses to take the pharmaceutical industry's handouts and instead works only to give patients the best care. A small but growing number of doctors have refused to let sales reps into their offices." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"We all evolved in a time before the eighty thousand toxic industrial chemicals were introduced into our world, before electromagnetic radiation was everywhere, and before we polluted our skies, lakes, rivers, oceans, and teeth (with dental amalgams) with mercury and lead. We used to get by with just the basic version of the genetic detoxification software encoded in our DNA, which is mediocre at ridding the body of toxins.We didn't need more. But who knew we would be poisoning ourselves and eating a processed, nutrient-depleted diet? So why is glutathione so important?" - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"In a 2005 study, researchers found 287 industrial chemicals, including pesticides, phthalates, dioxins, flame-retardants, and the breakdown chemicals of Teflon, in the fetal cord blood of ten newborn infants from around the country—transmitted to the infants by their mothers' exposures before and during pregnancy. We are facing both an increasing prevalence of autoimmunity and an increasing exposure to environmental toxins. Is it clear that the increased exposure of environmental toxins is causing the increase in autoimmunity?" - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "Researchers working through two major laboratories found an alarming cocktail of 287 industrial chemicals and pollutants in the fetal cord blood of ten newborn infants from around the country, in samples taken by the American Red Cross. These chemicals included pesticides, phthalates, dioxins, flame retardants, and breakdown chemicals of Teflon, among other chemicals known to damage the immune system." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.) "During these three conferences, investigators shared dozens of papers investigating links between industrial chemicals and autoimmunity, as well as data showing how damage is done to the tiniest immune cells by exposure to an array of environmental agents. Scientists linked exposure to compounds such as vinyl chloride— used in making plastic pipes (PVC), wire and cable coatings, and packaging materials—to a higher risk of developing mixed lupus, scleroderma, and rheumatoid arthritis in people." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"In the wild, we are now finding that animals, birds, and fish exposed to pesticides and industrial chemicals are having difficulty producing healthy offspring. They are developing shrunken male sex organs, and many are developing both testes and ovaries. These sexual organ changes are leading to behavioral changes, reproductive loss, and early mortality in offspring. Oxygen deficiency, air and chemical pollution, and denatured foods place great stresses on our organs and cells. Our bodies are being forced to cope with pollution and inferior nutrition as never before." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"In addition to helping your child to eliminate heavy metals, you should also do your best to help him or her get rid of other toxins, including pesticides, herbicides, and industrial chemicals. Various nutrients help achieve this, including the following: Vitamin C. • Vitamin B-6. Taurine. Vitamin A. Phosphatidylcholine. • Silymarin. N-acetyl cysteine (NAC). .? Alpha-lipoic acid. Glutathione. A few other natural approaches also help to rid the body of toxins. These are all commonsense methods that are widely used." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Episodes of asthma are clearly linked to air that is polluted from smog, industrial chemicals, particulates, and pollen. Many doctors, though, don't realize that toxins do not have to be in the air to contribute to asthma. Toxins in food and water, and even in home furnishings, can trigger asthma episodes. Furthermore, heavy metals, including those that are included in vaccinations, can also be an indirect but powerful cause of asthma. The link between toxins and asthma exists because of two primary reasons: 1." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Less well-recognized by cosmetic companies are new regulations on the manufacture of industrial chemicals in the original twenty-five member states of the EU. These regulations are referred to as REACH—Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals . They passed their "first reading" in the European Parliament in 2004, were approved by the Environmental Committee of the Parliament in October 2006, and later were extended to the now twenty-seven-member bloc, including Romania and Bulgaria —a population larger than that of the U.S." - 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 with most industrial chemicals, even pesticides, the premarket testing required for Maneb was limited. It did not include testing on monkeys, for example. Chronic experimental exposure testing in nonhuman primates, the only kind of research study likely to be sensitive enough to detect an effect such as chemically induced Parkinsonism, is expensive and time consuming. Such evaluations ate almost never performed routinely for industrial chemicals." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"About 800 industrial chemicals in current use have been shown to be carcinogenic in standard rodent tests. The results of most of these positive tests were initially dismissed or challenged by the industry concerned, and in some cases these results are still being challenged, to protect the profitability of products. The industry claims that the products' effects on human beings are the best proof of safety. But doing epidemiological studies on individual carcinogenic ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products is a largely impossible task to perform." - 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.)

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