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"He wanted to make even more profit from the waste products of petroleum refining; so in the 1860s, he patented bottled raw petroleum as a cure for cancer and the popular maladies of the day. This "miracle cure," called Nujol (from "new oil"), had a placebo effect for some users, meaning that the belief people had in it created a certain amount of results. His cost to produce it was V5 of a cent, and it sold for 282/3 cents for eight fluid ounces. Of course some of these petroleum-based drugs appeared to have a certain value, such as for poisoning insomniacs into unrestorative sleep." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Often derived from petroleum, it is frequently disguised in pseudo-natural cosmetics with the phrase "comes from coconuts." It causes eye irritation, scalp scurf similar to dandruff, skin rashes, and other allergic reactions. Petrolatum: Also known as petroleum jelly, this mineral oil derivative is used for its emollient properties in cosmetics. It has no nutrient value for the skin and can interfere with the body's own natural moisturizing mechanism, leading to dryness and chapping. It often creates the very conditions it claims to alleviate." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"PETROLEUM BENZIN ? petroleum DISTILLATES ? petroleum ETHER ? petroleum NAPHTHA ? petroleum SPIRIT ? SKELLY-SOLVE-F ? VM&P NAPHTHA NAPHTHALENE_ Products and Uses: Commonly used for moth balls, rug cleaner, upholstery cleaner, preservative, and antiseptic; a squirrel and small animal repellent. Precautions: Human poison by swallowing. An eye and skin irritant. Can cause nausea, headache, diaphoresis (perspiration), hematuria (blood in urine), fever, anemia, liver damage, vomiting, convulsions, and coma. Poison by swallowing, breathing, or skin absorption. Synonyms: CAS: 91-20-3 ?" - Grace Ross Lewis, 1001 Chemicals in Everyday Products (Get the book.)

"I was working for a petroleum company as a computer geologist and living in a small apartment in Denver. As a member of the newly formed technical-services department, I spent most of my days, evenings, and weekends learning the ins and outs of new computers and applying what I learned to the traditional concepts of petroleum geology. I hadn't really considered owning any pets simply because I was never home enough to care for one. One weekend a friend was visiting and brought me an unexpected gift: a beautiful orange and blond kitten about five weeks old." - Gregg Braden, The Divine Matrix: Bridging Time, Space, Miracles, and Belief (Get the book.)

"Petroleum: To treat rough, dry skin that festers easily and heals very slowly, use petroleum. Symptoms include affected areas that itch and burn, with skin eruptions showing a strong tendency to occur in folds of skin, and itchiness that is so maddening that the skin may be broken and bleed as a result of compulsive scratching. This leads to hard, thick crusts developing over the sore areas. Sulphur: To treat intensely itchy, inflamed skin that reacts badly to bathing or showering, and is aggravated by heat in any form, Sulphur is a classic remedy." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"But many other fruits are waxed with polyethylene or paraffin wax, by-products of petroleum refinement. We're actually eating oil detritus, what Norman Mailer calls "the excrement of oil." The plastic bags we carry fruit home in are also made from polyethylene. Fossil fuels are used to power tractors and mechanized farming devices, to manufacture the petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides that help fruit grow and to transport fruits from warehouses to supermarkets. Accordingly, our produce departments look like new-car lots full of enormous, perfect fruits gleaming with wax." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "The White House office of Environmental Policy chief of staff from 2001 to 2005 was Phillip Cooney the former chief lobbyist from the American petroleum Institute. He joined Exxon two days after resigning from his post (following a media scandal about his rewording of documents on global warming). It's not surprising that commercial logging occurs in national forests and parks given the fact that, from 1998 to 2002, the head of the Forest Service was Mark Rey a former timber-industry lobbyist." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"What You Actually Get in the Store Many commercial-grade vitamin and mineral concentrates are synthesized by the large pharmaceutical and chemical companies2 from the same starting material that they make their drugs from (coal tar, wood pulp, petroleum products, animal byproducts, waste and fecal matter, ground rocks, stones, shells, and metal." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Petrolatum: Also known as petroleum jelly, this mineral oil derivative is used for its emollient properties in cosmetics. It has no nutrient value for the skin and can interfere with the body's own natural moisturizing mechanism, leading to dryness and chapping. It often creates the very conditions it claims to alleviate. Manufacturers use petrolatum because it is unbelievably cheap. Propylene glycol: Ideally this is a vegetable glycerin mixed with grain alcohol, both of which are natural. Usually it is a synthetic petrochemical mix used as a humectant." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (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.)

"Researchers broke down natural petroleum into its constituent parts and put them back together in sophisticated new combinations." During this period of rapid innovation, the following events took place that would set the stage for many of the trends now affecting our lives: • In 1958, nearly 200 chemicals in foods were declared safe by the FDA, not based on any laboratory testing, but because they had already been in common use in consumer products. This category is called Generally Recognized As Safe. • In 1966, 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.)

"Petroleum: To ease symptoms of motion sickness that are accompanied by an aversion to contact with open, fresh air, take petroleum. Motion sickness may have been triggered, or made more intense by, traveling on an empty stomach. When this remedy is indicated, there is likely to be an unpleasant, giddy sensation strongly felt at the back of the head. Unusually, symptoms seem to be eased by contact with warm air. I 451 o < cc I— >-cc < < Cocculus: When this remedy is helpful, there is an overwhelming feeling of faintness and prostration when feeling ill or vomiting." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"Many other conventional types of flooring might contain products made from nonbiodegradable, nonrecyclable, and nonrenewable petroleum resources. The good news is, in recent years, the flooring industry has introduced some more environmentally friendly alternatives. Bamboo, cork, natural fiber carpets, carpets made from partially or fully recyclable materials, reclaimed or rediscovered wood, and natural linoleum are among the many flooring materials now available to you." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Products containing chlorine bleach, ammonia, and petroleum distillates can all have serious health consequences for your family. Don't take the safety of anything for granted. Green Building and Renovating Ideally if you're planning to renovate your home, you should finish construction before you even try to become pregnant. Fetuses and infants are extremely susceptible to toxins in the environment, which increase in concentration during household construction. Obviously, renovating in advance isn't always possible, but do keep these risks in mind as you plan your new home." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"That's almost as much as the worldwide market for petroleum, and more than the United States spends on food. We spend more per capita on health care than the Chinese spend, per capita, on everything. Looking to the future, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services predicts annual health care costs will hit $4.1 trillion by 201 6, eating up nearly 20 percent of our gross domestic product. We currently spend nearly $6,000 apiece on health care, two and a half times the median for the rest of the industrialized world. What do we get for our money?" - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The certified standard also restricts the 5 percent or less of non-organic ingredients to synthetic ingredients, excluding those based on petroleum fractions. Organic certification further requires that all ingredients be identified on the product label by their standard scientific names to avoid the use of false or deceptive trade names. At ECOCERT's initiative, a working group was put together in Europe to develop a single set of European standards. This group included ECOCERT (France); the prestigious Soil Association (England); AIAB (Italy); and BDIH (Germany)." - 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.)

"Manufacturing these bottles consumes tremendous quantities of petroleum, and more than three-quarters of the 70 million bottles of water we purchase every day in this country go straight to the landfill, where they generate dangerous fumes. Filtering your own water at home is much better for the environment. If you're on the go and need to grab a bottle, try to buy one made out of #2 plastic, which is safer and more easily recyclable than other types. (You can find the number on the bottom of most containers." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Various sources state that hemp can be used to make virtually anything that is currently made from cotton, timber, or petroleum. Hemp is an easily and quickly grown annual crop, and therefore a perpetually renewable resource. But, this was a problem, as some interests saw it. It threatened powerful business interests in the emerging nylon industry. It is reported that petrochemical producer DuPont joined forces with Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate, whose company was the main user of chemically treated wood pulp and a major holder of forest logging licenses." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"It also causes chemical sensitivities such as to petroleum, oil, rubbers, exhaust fumes and perfumes." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (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.)

"Just as refineries send trucks filled with petroleum to factories to be turned into everything from plastic to petroleum jelly, your liver sends particles containing cholesterol into your bloodstream for your cells to use. Imagine what would happen if a refinery flooded the roads with tankers, sending out far more supply than was needed. Day after day, Is It My Genes? Rick was 45 when he came to our office looking for help. He was not terribly optimistic that a diet change could really help him. His father had had diabetes and heart disease, and his own cholesterol had been high for years." - Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs (Get the book.)

"The energies dowsers are able to detect are not measurable by conventional standards, such as in terms of frequency or amplitude, so scientists, for the most part, dismiss them and their techniques, although modern businesses, especially those of the mining and petroleum industries, have used dowsers for decades. Dowsers and NES practitioners face the same challenges in terms of finding acceptance by conventional scientists. Dowsers may in fact be performing a kind of resonant conjugate matching, as is Petet in his matching experiments." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"The creamy white filling is made mostly from partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and/or beef fat; polysorbate 60 is added to it, which is a gooey substance derived from corn, palm oil, and petroleum that helps replace cream and eggs at a fraction of the cost. Cellulose gum gives the filling a smooth, slippery feel. To get that vanilla flavor, they create it artificially in petrochemical plants." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Do not use a petroleum product.) 5 Kneel on the floor near the toilet, in the 'head-to-floor' position so that the rectum is higher than the shoulders. This position allows the water to run more easily into the colon. If for some reason it is not possible to assume this position, an alternate is to lie on the right side or on the back. 6 Insert the nozzle gently. If it will not go in all the way, it should do so once the flow of water is begun. It will be necessary to hold the nozzle in place throughout the enema session, as the body will tend to push it out." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"The DEC had investigated the site in the mid 1980s and found the 6,250-square-foot locale to be heavily contaminated with de-greasing solvents such as trichloroethylene (TCE), vinyl chloride, and other particularly dangerous toxic agents commonly used in the manufacturing of metal items to clean off oils, greases, and other petroleum products, as well as a large number of other volatile organic compounds, known as VOCs. VOCs vaporize easily at room temperature and enter the surrounding atmosphere, where, studies show, vapors can linger as pollution for long periods of time." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"A synthetic food dye, derived from petroleum distillates. Current studies suggest a small cancer risk" (PDR, 55th edition, 2001). • F D & C Yellow No. 6 - "Suspected of causing tumors in adrenal glands and kidneys. May cause allergies, hyperactivity, and chromosomal damage. Banned in Norway but not in the U.S." (http://www.purezing.com/livinq/livinq toxins commondyes.html). "Possible side effects are abdominal discomfort, allergies, hyperactivity, hives, kidney tumors, nausea and vomiting. This is derived from petroleum distillates" (http://www.purezing." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"They are found in herbicide and pesticide sprays, petroleum products, plastics, and other chemicals that pollute our food, air, and water. Agricultural animals raised for meat consumption are injected with estrogen-like hormones to increase fat content. These synthetic hormones remain in the meat when it is consumed. Even though they may be in small amounts, it takes very little to upset the delicate hormone balance in the body." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Should you still be sold on having the occasional ice cream treat, eat either homemade (use honey instead of sugar), or a brand of ice cream that doesn't use any chemicals, petroleum products, or additives. These brands have nothing to hide, and proudly list the ingredients on the label." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

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