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"Sources of Toxins We are exposed to toxins every day of our lives, in air and water pollution, chemical and pesticide residues, mercury amalgam dental fillings, biological contaminants such as pollen and parasites, and genetically altered foods, among other sources. Even our own bodies can produce toxins, called endotoxins, which can be harmful if their numbers become excessive or if they aren't adequately neutralized. Environmental Pollution Toxins emanate from a variety of sources, but chiefly from environmental pollution." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

"These are: AIR pollution (cigarette smoke, smoke from the industrial burning of coal and oil and exhaust from vehicles). POLLUTION OF DRINKING WATER with pesticides, chlorine, lead and heavy metals, petrochemical residue, fluoride, and infectious organisms. FOOD pollution Frying, grilling, and blackening food along with the widespread use of synthetic partially hydrogenated oils in salad dressings and margarine creates toxic free radicals that are difficult for the body to destroy." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"It comes from industrial smog from our factories, environmental pollution, pollution caused in the Chernobyl accident and others. Vehicle pollution and military and commercial jet planes polluting our air also take a huge toll on us daily. More and more of our food is now grown using genetic modifica-tions and chemicals. Our fast-paced lives push us to choose more fast foods and processed foods over fresh foods. Our careers, finances, and private lives add to the daily stress we live with, and our bodies become overloaded." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"It makes a lot more sense to go upstream and to stop the pollution at its source. It's always cheaper to prevent the pollution in the first place than to clean it up afterward. Look at the millions—the billions—of dollars that this country is spending on cleaning up Superfund sites and toxic waste sites. And that's all because five, ten, fifteen years ago, somebody carelessly threw a bunch of fifty-five gallon drums of some toxic chemical into a landfill and then forgot about it. "Now, twenty years later, we're having to deal with the consequences. And it's horribly expensive." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Compare indoors with outdoors and you'll be able to tell whether it's the outdoor pollution, the lawn spray next door, the mold, pollen, or pollution in the air that is causing problems outside versus inside. You can easily figure out many, many answers by checking your child's pulse, his breathing, and how he writes, draws, feels and looks. Check these same parameters on yourself as well. If you have high blood pressure, you can even use a blood pressure cuff and check your pressure before and after each of these exposures and you'll turn up answers." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"We are creating a dangerous sea of electromagnetic energy pollution, as Dr. Robert Becker reminds us in Cross Currents: The Perils of Electropollution, the Promise of Electromedicine. The systemic memory process makes the challenge of pollution even more complicated. As a dynamical system, the planet is theoretically learning and remembering, and we may be making it sick. If earth is designed like we are to have a functional immune system, the earth may be learning to recognize the danger we are imposing with the goal of inactivating or destroying us." - Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek, The Living Energy Universe (Get the book.)

"Compare indoors with outdoors and you'll be able to tell whether it's the outdoor pollution, the lawn spray next door, the mold, pollen, or pollution in the air that is causing problems outside versus inside. You can easily figure out many, many answers by checking your child's pulse, his breathing, and how he writes, draws, feels and looks. Check these same parameters on yourself as well. If you have high blood pressure, you can even use a blood pressure cuff and check your pressure before and after each of these exposures and you'll turn up answers." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Non-specific, non-allergic irritants: such as exercise, emotions, atmosphere, pollution, chemicals, food additives and infection. Allergic Triggers Allergic triggers are often very small particles: small enough to be mistaken by the body for viruses or bacteria (which are not as large as human cells). DUST MITES The most common allergic trigger is dust mite populations. The mite is too tiny to be seen, but it is still too large for the human body to have an allergic reaction to it." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"The title of the study is "Energy Balance and pollution by Organochlorines and Polychlorinated Biphenyls,"3 published in Obesity Reviews in 2003.The conclusion is that pesticides (organochlorines) and PCBs (from industrial pollution) are released from the fat tissue, where they are typically stored, and poison our metabolism, preventing us from losing weight. The authors conclude that we should lose a little weight to reduce our risk of cardiovascular and degenerative diseases, but not too much because we could poison our metabolism." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"Analyze in real time to prevent pollution: Include in-process real-time monitoring and control during syntheses to rninimize or eliminate the formation of byproducts. 12. Minimize the potential for accidents: Design chemicals and their forms (solid, liquid, or gas) to minimize the potential for chemical accidents including explosions, fires, and releases to the environment. Originally published by Paul Anastas and John Warner in Green Cliemistry: Theory and Practice (Oxford University Press: New York, 1998)." - 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 act is a specific form of pollution prevention that focuses on reducing the use of toxic chemicals by improving and redesigning industrial products and processes, and provides a useful model for state, national, and international legislation. Thanks to this act, Massachusetts has reduced its generation of toxic wastes from 1989 to 1997 by 50 percent, by reducing toxics use by 20 percent; promoted reduction in the production and use of toxic chemicals; and enhanced and strengthened the enforcement of existing environmental laws, among other achievements." - 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.) "This was coupled with his "guesstimates" that pollution and industrial products account for only 3 percent of cancer mortality ( 7). 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." - 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.)

"Both of these systems of explanation blamed disease on filth, pollution, and contamination, with their sequelae of stench, poor air quality, and decay/putrefaction; miasma, the older of the two was, in the simplest terms, a view that bad air, arising from decay and fermentation in an unclean environment, caused disease; zymotic theory glossed 'miasma' in terms of particulate decayed matter, spreading in the air and water, and contaminating all they touched, thus catalysing the internal disease process." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "He also cited sources from the contemporary western press, including Bernard Shaw, Morley Roberts, and an article from the London Times criticizing the bacteriologically focused public health campaigns of the preceding decade, and citing workplace pollution and poor nutrition as the true 'soil' of disease. His most potent ammunition, however, was drawn from germ theory's recent and bitter defeat in the face of the influenza pandemic." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"People who live near airports may be breathing enough aircraft pollution for this to be a significant asthma trigger. Pollutants from fertilisers, pesticides, detergent washing powders and industrial wastes foul rivers, lakes, reservoirs and our domestic water. Then chemicals such as chlorine, fluoride and aluminium are added to our water supplies to complete the health-destroying cocktail. Fruit and vegetables are grown with artificial fertilisers and sprayed with chemicals." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "Non-allergic asthma, often triggered by infection or pollution. 3 Asthma resulting from emotional or physical situations. 4 Intrinsic asthma, a chronic asthma not triggered by allergies and with no obvious cause but often seen in adult-onset rather than in childhood asthma. In fact, many asthma attacks will be the result of a combination of two or even all four types. An inhaled substance may be an allergen and cause inflammation, but it may also be perceived as an irritant and result in bronchial spasm." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "Fresh seaside and mountain air are rich in negative particles, whereas city air contains few ions and any negative ions that might be around are quickly destroyed by pollution, central heating, air conditioning, electrical appliances, synthetic fibres and dust. Environments low in negative ions or high positive-ion weather conditions like dry, hot winds sap our energy, make us feel tired and depressed and can trigger an attack of asthma or hay fever." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Changing the kinds and quantities of fats we eat, as well as how we process and use them is part of addressing both malnutrition and internal pollution.34 Essential fatty acids and unsaturated fats are good oils for the body. Trans fatty acids and hydrogenated oils are harmful oils. Essential fatty acids are utilized by the body to build cell structure, to help generate electrical energy, and produce hormones. They are required for nerve impulses, brain development and function, healthy skin, digestion, inner organ function, the cardiovascular system, and immune system." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Emoto's photographs, is also very significant. Any pollution, or change in the water's purity, results in a breakdown of this hexagonal crystalline structure, with a consequent reduction in life force qualities. The best water for drinking is water that has hexagon-shaped molecules, and maximum activity of biophoton particles. DIFFERENT TYPES OF WATER Let us examine some of the water products that are presently available in the marketplace, as well as treatment methods. Bottled Water Most bottled water in North America is of a good quality. It is clean, because U.S." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "Once we clear out the pollution at the "bottom end," the pressure is relieved, and the rest of the body is able to start dumping its toxins. This will be an ongoing program for quite some time, because it can take several years to fully clean a body that has been toxic all its life. A diet that includes adequate fiber from raw fruits and vegetables is the best and most natural colon cleanser and should always be the first priority for colon health." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"So too did events which cast doctors, scientists, and indeed science itself in a morally dubious light: for instance, the active participation of medical scientists in Nazi atrocities, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment (which ran from 1932 to 1972 and left hundreds of African American men and their families suffering from untreated syphilis long after a cure was available), and forced eugenic sterilizations; the role of physics in creating the atom bomb; and of industrial science in pollution and environmental degradation." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"There are environmental toxins that we absorb such as pesticides, heavy metals and pollution. A popular revision of the old proverb is "You are what you eat and don't excrete." We are exposed to many toxins every day and we must ensure our organs work effectively to eliminate these poisons. Constipation is a serious health concern and can lead to many other health disorders. These disorders are appendicitis, arthritis, bad breath, bloating, body odour, cancer, Candida, colitis, depression, diverticulitis, fatigue, gas, headaches, hemorrhoids, hernia insomnia and indigestion." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Other sources of free radicals and other oxidative stresses include environmental factors such as pollution, hard radiation, cigarette smoke, and certain pesticides. Two molecules share electrons in q a stable carbon- The stable compound is broken by a ¦ carbon bond free radical into one stable molecule and a new free radical molecule. This starts a chain reaction that can be stopped by an antioxidant such as vitamin C Carbon Figure 2-3 Free radicals in action. To neutralize a free radical, vitamin C can donate two hydrogen atoms, thus becoming dehydroascorbic acid." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "Free radicals are also formed when hard radiation impacts living tissue. pollution and cigarette smoke are two more causes of free radicals. Antioxidants can be found in foods. Also, the body produces antioxidants. The antioxidants produced by the body are dependent on certain nutrients to function. Vitamin C is one of the most powerful antioxidants. Vitamin C is found in fruits and vegetables. Like all good antioxidants, vitamin C can neutralize a free radical without becoming a free radical itself." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"This is puzzling, since pollution has abated over the past twenty years. Some theorize that the over-prescribing of asthma inhalers is at fault; others believe that pollution, although decreased, is still the cause. Asthma disproportionately strikes people who are poor and live in inner cities or industrial neighborhoods. Simply put, the closer you live or work to a source of pollution, the more your asthma is likely to bother you. But not all air pollution is outside. The chemicals that abound within can make your indoor air more toxic than the air outside." - Zorba Paster, M.D. and Susan Meltsner, The Longevity Code: Your Personal Prescription for a Longer, Sweeter Life (Get the book.)

"FOOD pollution Frying, grilling, and blackening food along with the widespread use of synthetic partially hydrogenated oils in salad dressings and margarine creates toxic free radicals that are difficult for the body to destroy. The long term exposure to free radicals is believed to cause the degenerative diseases that lead to death (malignancies, arteriosclerosis, arthritis and diabetes). These three forms of pollution are constantly releasing free radicals that injure cells. In a real sense, our immune systems are in a battle for our survival from the day we are born." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Millions of children were deformed by chemical pollution from factories and mining operations. In Romania, thousand of mentally deficient children are left to languish in filthy, poorly staffed, living hells run by the government: all the result of mass pollution and rape of the environment. Even when all of this was known to the West, these loud, often-obnoxious defenders of the environment, remained silent to this disaster. Most of the destruction and environmental contamination by socialist countries will take hundreds of years to correct, if it can be corrected at all." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"In Central Europe, as many as half the trees have suffered or died, and the damage in Eastern Europe, where pollution has been more severe, has been even more disastrous. In Scandinavia, entire lakes are dead. And we are only just beginning to recognize the effects of acid rain on human beings. Meanwhile, we dump our chemical garbage out of sight under the soil, only to find it later seeping into our water supplies. Or we pour it into the sea, killing not just fish but other organisms crucial to the ecological balance." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Without a healthy gut flora, we can fall prey to outside offenders such as parasites, viruses, fungi and environmental toxins (such as pesticides, heavy metals and pollution). In utero, children acquire their intestinal flora from their mother. Neonates also acquire part of their healthy gastrointestinal flora from breastfeeding. Often newborns or breast-feeding mothers are required to take antibiotics that strip the healthy flora of the gastrointestinal system. This creates an imbalance of the good and bad bacteria in the gut if not properly replenished with probiotics." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Birth defects, disabilities, diseases and pollution paralyze the region to this day. The ensuing investigation determined that the catastrophe was caused by a leak of methyl isocyanate, an ingredient used to manufacture carbamate pesticides at the nearby Union Carbide factory. Many of the chemicals used on our fruits were initially developed to be nerve gases and other weapons during World War II. To stay operational, the factories producing wartime chemicals redirected their concoctions into fruit crops." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

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