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"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. As many personal care products are targeted to teenage girls in puberty and women of childbearing years, phthalates are gaining attention as a possible cancer-causing chemical that should be avoided." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Phthalates are ubiquitous in plastics such as bags, food packaging, containers, and children's plastic toys. phthalates are commonly used to make rigid polymers like plastic more flexible. They are also found in glues and solvents. Phthalates are associated with precocious puberty in young girls. Extremely high levels have been found in the serum of girls with premature breast development. Fetal and childhood exposure to phthalates may also be a significant factor in the lower age at which puberty is occurring in girls in the United States." - Vincent Giampapa, Ronald Pero, and Marcia Zimmerman, The Anti-Aging Solution: 5 Simple Steps to Looking and Feeling Young (Get the book.)

"For more information on phthalates, please visit www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Plasticizers/About-Phthalates .htm. Whenever possible, opt for wooden toys with nontoxic finishes. Wooden toys reduce the demand for plastic-made versions and the toxic chemicals used in their production. Just make sure those toys have nontoxic finishes. Make sure your kids' toys contain no formaldehyde. Formaldehyde, a known carcinogen, is used in everything from wrinkle-free fabric finishes to some adhesives." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Some hthalates and parabens Banned by the European Union in 2003, phthalates and group of chemicals commonly used as preservatives in co >m< tory tests found phthalates in more than 70 percent of beauty products tested—including the most popular brands skin care products and every single fragrance tested. Both onstrated to be carcinogenic and particularly linked to brejast cancer. parabens are a . Labora-the health and of hair and have been dem- 5." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"If you recall that tangy taste of water from a hose, that's the phthalates used to give the plastic in the hose its flexibility. The article was quick to point out the fact that male politicians are exposed more than most men to these toxins because they typically have makeup applied before appearing in television studios. What if the politicians were women who wear makeup every day? Male fetuses exposed to phthalates in the womb may result in malformation of the reproductive tract and decreased semen quality later in life." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The Safe Cosmetics Campaign began in 2002 with the release of a report, Not Too Pretty: phthalates, Beauty Products and the FDA. 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." - 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.)

"Phthalates Another class of chemicals, phthalates, are added to PVCs in order to make them flexible and soft for use in IV bags, flexible tubing, plasma collection bags, vinyl gloves, and "sharps" containers (for scalpels and needles). phthalates have been used extensively in things such as shower curtains, teething rings for babies, and checkbook covers.64 phthalates are not bound to the PVC molecules and as a result have a tendency to leach out with any exposure to liquid." - Stephen Harrod Buhner, The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicines for Life on Earth (Get the book.)

"Male fetuses exposed to phthalates in the womb may result in malformation of the reproductive tract and decreased semen quality later in life. It would be impossible to cover every toxin and its related effects in this book. Doing justice to just the most common toxins we encounter today would require hundreds of pages. So what we're going to do is look at a handful of toxins that virtually all of us typically meet routinely in our daily lives—but probably don't even know it. They arise from air, water, food, and household products, many of which come from unlikely places." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Other independent studies have discovered fluoride, phthalates, trihalomethanes, and arsenic in bottled water, coming either from the bottling process or from the bottles themselves. Environmental groups are also concerned about the amount of waste that these plastic bottles create." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Federal law allows fragrance makers to include potentially hazardous chemicals in their products, including the highly toxic phthalates and artificial musk. Most fragrances contain phthalates. They are added to plastic to soften it. When absorbed by the skin, they act as the most powerful estrogens ever known. And abnormal estrogen levels cause cancer. Synthetically produced musk is linked to skin irritation, hormone disruption, and cancer as well. Natural fragrances emitted from aroma oils are beneficial for the body." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"As many personal care products are targeted to teenage girls in puberty and women of childbearing years, phthalates are gaining attention as a possible cancer-causing chemical that should be avoided. • Pesticides have been reviewed by European and North American studies and are linked with an increased rate of leukemia in children. Atrazine, a chemical found in household weed killers, is the most widely used herbicide in the United States. It impacts reproduction in frogs. Atrazine is banned in France, Germany, Sweden and Italy." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Studies show that many perfumes and colognes often contain phthalates and parabens (both of which are known endocrine disruptors). Instead, look for organic products that have joined the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, such as the Body Shop, Burt's Bees, Kiss My Face, Aubrey Organics, Avalon Natural Products, and Terr Essentials. Or visit thinkbeforeyoupink.org for a list of companies that produce products that are paraben and phthalate free. AVOID DARK HAIR DYES. As we learned when we went through Becky's day, women who use dark hair dye have three times the risk of developing lupus." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Toxins, including pesticides, mercury, fluoride, radiation, alcohol, caffeine, cigarette smoke, and phthalates (chemicals added to plastics, often emitted when heating or microwaving plastics). 6. Thyroid antibodies These are discussed below. Thyroid Antibodies Thyroid antibodies are also a common problem for perimenopausal and menopausal women, and you should know if you have any. Autoimmune thyroiditis, also known as Hashimoto's disease, is fifty times more common in women than in men, and tends to occur during perimenopause and menopause." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Like dioxin, bisphenol A, PBDEs, and pesticides, phthalates have been found in every American tested. Becky Sandler might be especially disturbed to learn of data linking hair dye to a woman's likelihood of developing lupus, given that she has her roots dyed auburn to cover her premature gray every six weeks. Several studies have shown that women who use hair dye have three times the risk of developing lupus—that is, if they also carry specific genes that make them susceptible to autoimmune disease in the first place. This might not, however, reassure Becky all that much." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, many popular toys on the market are made with plastic polyvinyl chloride (known as PVC or vinyl) and phthalates, which soften PVC plastic. Some toys imported from China and other countries have been found to be contaminated with lead paint. When you're shopping for toys, be sure to check the country where they were made. In recent years, and even more so after last summer's lead scare, toy stores have actually started to categorize their merchandise by country of origin, because not all countries have the same product safety standards." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Avoid any product with "fragrance," which could refer to any combination of unspecified chemicals, including phthalates. • Talk to your pediatrician about alternatives to conventional fluoridated toothpaste, as recent research has caused scientists to question the benefits of fluoride in the public water system. Fluoride might be both ineffective and dangerous, linked to health effects as serious as a rare bone cancer in boys; for more information on this ongoing debate, visit the Fluoride Action Network (www .fluoridealert.org). As a safe alternative, we like Jason organics for Wyatt." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Plastics containing PVCs, phthalates, and other toxins are the very last things I would want my child putting into his mouth! Instead, I recommend an amber teething necklace, which you can purchase at Nova Natural Toys and Crafts (www.novanatural.com). But do be aware that babies should under no circumstances chew on these amber necklaces—their soothing benefits come from contact with the baby's skin. If you do decide to get your child an amber necklace, you must make absolutely sure that the necklace is too short for your child to put in his mouth." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"These chemicals included pesticides, phthalates, dioxins, flame retardants, and breakdown chemicals of Teflon, among other chemicals known to damage the immune system. 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?" - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Dibutylphthalate is listed in Category 1, but no other phthalates appear in any category. • There are no hidden carcinogens, notably ethoxylates, nitrosamine precursors, and formaldehyde precursors, listed in any category. In spite of these limitations, the Seventh Amendment has already had a profound impact on global cosmetic companies. Industry giants Revlon and L'Oreal reformulated their products in compliance with the amendment (and also in anticipation of California's January 2007 law, which we'll look at later in this chapter)." - 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.)

"Water in plastic bottles contains phthalates or bisphenol A, toxic petrochemicals. So avoid them if you can. Mineral water or still water in glass bottles is acceptable to drink. Limit Exposure to Chemicals and Metals While doing all the things in the following list is neither practical nor realistic, it is unfortunately what is optimal for our health. Incorporate the things you can. Find alternatives to the water you drink, get an air filter, or get rid of molds and other sources of indoor air pollution (the garden or household chemicals you use, and artificial lighting)." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "Toxins are everywhere—from household cleaning products to plastics in our kitchen-ware, phthalates and bisphenol A in our plastic water bottles, and even in our tap water and air supply. We live in a sea of toxins, and a large body of growing evidence shows that these toxins are, in part, responsible for the epidemic of disease we see in the twenty-first century. Toxic exposures affect the health of all brains, young and old. We must also deal with all the by-products and toxic metabolic wastes created by our own bodies." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "We are exposed to hazardous wastes, emissions from local waste incinerators, solvents, heavy metals, ground-water pollutants including industrial heavy metal waste products such as arsenic, common materials such as phthalates (plasticizers found in all plastic bottles), and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (flame retardants). A recent study of umbilical cord blood found 287 toxic chemicals, 217 of which are toxic to the brain and nervous system. And this is what infants are exposed to even before they take their first breath."" - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Not to Buy' lead, mercury, petroleum by-products, fragrance, nanop^rticles, extracts from human and cow placenta, and phthalates. To give you a sense of how toxic these products are, lejt's take a look at just a few of the most popular chemicals used in hair and s|kin care. gredients. Most otherwise toxic. SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE ( S L S ) AND SODIUM LAURETH SULFATE (SLES) Although advertised as natural and safe, I recommend you try to avoid sodium lauryl sulfate and sodium laureth sulfate, especially when used in combination with other chemicals (which they usually are)." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (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.)

"Congress to enforce the FDA's compliance with the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act helped inspire California Assemblywoman Judy Chu to introduce landmark legislation, in 2004, that would have banned the use of phthalates and required disclosure of all carcinogenic, hormone-disruptive, and otherwise toxic ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products, including their hidden use in perfumes and fragrances. Backed by a coalition of consumer, women's, occupational, and church groups, but opposed by mainstream industry interests, the legislation failed to pass." - 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.)

"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.)

"END BOX] Safe Products and Ingredients For Everyone AIR FRESHENERS Nearly all air fresheners on the market contain dangerous levels of either DEHP or DBP phthalates. The exceptions, according to a 2007 Natural Resources Defense Council study, are Febreze Air Effects and Renuzit Subtle Effects. www.fefreze.com www.renuzit." - 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.)

"I* Avoid water from plastic bottles, which contains phthalates. Drink water that comes in glass bottles or just filter your tap water as I explained above. ?*> Avoid excess exposure to environmental petrochemicals and toxins (garden chemicals, dry cleaning, car exhaust, secondhand smoke). •r Avoid charbroiled foods that contain cancer-causing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. -!* Avoid microwaved food, which produces more AGEs or advanced glycation end products in the food and creates more oxidative stress and inflammation." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Other causes may include bisphenol A and phthalates (found in many plastics such as baby containers, water bottles, and the inner lining of soda cans), other man-made chemicals that affect hormonal balance (such as those found in cosmetics, toothpastes, shampoos, and hair dyes), stress at home and at school, and excessive TV viewing and media use. Soy—A Carcinogen for Humans? The food industry, which operates in a similar way to the pharmaceutical industry, has successfully convinced the population that soy is a health food." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

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