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"As Randall Fitzgerald notes in his book The Hundred-Year Lie: How Food and Medicine Are Destroying Your Health (2006), "What distresses and perplexes me is the realization that even if government had the resources to thoroughly conduct widespread safety testing—which it doesn't—our technology is too primitive to detect all of the synthetic chemicals in combination or to complete the task within our own lifetimes or even within the life spans of any of our grandchildren." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"If you wanted to eat produce grown without synthetic chemicals or meat raised on pasture without pharmaceuticals, you were out of luck. The supermarket had become the only place to buy food, and real food was rapidly disappearing from its shelves, to be replaced by the modern cornucopia of highly processed foodlike products. And because so many of these novelties deliberately lied to our senses with fake sweeteners and flavorings, we could no longer rely on taste or smell to know what we were eating." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"In the refining process, hundreds of nutrients are removed, and then a few synthetic chemicals added back. The food industry calls this enrichment. The products are not enriched; they are actually depleted and made more toxic by the synthetic additives. A 1970 study in which rats were divided into groups and fed products made with whole wheat flour, white refined flour, or enriched white refined flour, found that the rats continued to thrive on whole wheat, while the ones fed white bread became malnourished." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"As we saw in Chapter 1, it's impossible to know exactly how many synthetic chemicals exist in the world today. And, according to toxins expert Dr. Doris Rapp, the "rules" have been written in such a way that we can never know what is safe until people or wildlife begin suffering. A tremendous amount of politicking is involved with the passage of regulatory laws on the one hand, and chemical manufacturing on the other." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "FACT According to some reports, at death the human body decomposes more slowly today than just thirty years ago, thanks to all those preservatives and synthetic chemicals absorbed. FACT A Vicious Cycle: The more fat you have, the more toxins you retain. The more toxins you retain, the harder it becomes to lose weight. A simple solution: Minimize your exposure to toxins in your environment and lifestyle, and remove toxins from your body through proper detoxification methods. When excess glucose remains in the blood, insulin levels stay high." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Make a habit of buying 100 percent natural unscented, dye-free products, preferably ones in recycled or recyclable packaging, and opt for soaps and beauty products that contain no synthetic chemicals or dyes. And when you're pregnant, simplify your beauty routine—your natural glow is the only foundation you need! Consider a natural birthing class. Some childbirth classes are more "natural" than others. For expectant moms committed to a completely natural, drug-free birthing process, the Bradley Method (http://www.bradleybirth.com) is an excellent resource." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Make sure soaps contain no synthetic chemicals. • Buy products with the least amount of packaging to reduce unnecessary waste. • Buy products with the least amount of packaging to reduce unnecessary waste. • Avoid any petroleum-based/mineral oil-based formulas. • 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." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"For instance, the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act does not require industry to generate information on the toxicity and environmental effects of 99 percent of the more than 83,000 synthetic chemicals in current use ?less than 1,000 chemicals. In striking contrast, current European laws require such information for about 30,000 chemicals. The "Green Chemistry in California" report emphasized that a growing number of California industries, including IBM, Intel, and Apple, are already developing and implementing policies to reduce the use of toxic chemicals." - 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.) "Allergens are a large group of natural and synthetic chemicals which cause sensitization of the skin, known as allergic contact dermatitis. This is entirely different from non-specific dermatitis, known as irritant contact dermatitis (4). Allergic contact dermatitis involves two distinct stages. First, the skin comes into contact with an allergen, which sensitizes specific "memory cells" to that allergen. Subsequent exposure to the allergen, some five to ten days later, causes the sensitized cells to release specific molecules (known as cytokines), which trigger an allergic reaction." - 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.) "While to any reasonable person "natural" implies something taken directly from nature, the law doesn't prohibit synthetic chemicals from being included in products labeled with the term. Some products labeled as natural even contain nothing but synthetic ingredients. Some of the other major loopholes in labeling laws and practices: • Generic terms on labels often hide the identity of some toxic ingredients." - 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.)

"These act synergistically with the synthetic chemicals that we absorb through our skin or inhale from the air, which compounds our body burden, throwing us even further out of rhythm. Most of us believe that environmental toxins are evident to the senses. This is completely false. There are thousands of extremely hazardous toxins that you cannot see, smell, taste, or necessarily feel. And you are exposed to these pollutants in many combinations." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Gender Bender" Chemical Effects Hormone disrupters, technically known as endocrine disruptive chemicals (EDC) "gender benders," or more popularly, just "hormonals," are a group of natural and synthetic chemicals that interfere with the action of normal hormones. They can mimic, modify, or block the synthesis, release, binding, and/or metabolism of natural sex hormones. They can also disrupt other hormones, including testosterone, progesterone, and thyroid hormones." - 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.)

"Every citizen of an industrialized nation now carries an average of seven hundred synthetic chemicals in his or her body from food, water, and air—most of which have not been well studied. Wombs Do Wound Many experts once believed that the womb shielded the developing fetus from toxic exposure, but emerging evidence has proven otherwise. In actuality the chemicals and pollutants to which the mother is exposed during her pregnancy are transferred from her bloodstream to that of her unborn child through the placenta." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Most artificial colorings are synthetic chemicals that do not occur in nature and are used almost solely in foods of low nutritional value. Artificial fats (such as olestra), found in snack foods. Olestra reduces the body's ability to absorb fat-soluble carotenoids (such as alpha- and beta-carotene, lycopene, lutein, and canthaxanthin) from fruits and vegetables, which reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease. Any other processed food." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"The health effects from living vitamins are vastly different from that of dead foods or synthetic chemicals. When you take a green bean off of a bean bush in your garden and eat it in its raw living form, you're giving yourself an outstanding form of nutrition that goes beyond merely the vitamins, minerals, fiber, protein, carbohydrates, and other measurable nutrients in that green bean. You're giving yourself nutrition in its living form from a plant that was actually breathing just moments before (yes, plants breathe, too)." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Toxins from Water: 150,000 Arsenic, fluoride, chlorine, prescription drug residue, pesticides, rocket fuel (perchlorate), Bisphenol-A (toxin used in making plastic water bottles), C§ (the chemical used to make Teflon111), bacteria, parasites, etc Toxins from Prescription Drugs: 180,000 Aluminum, mercury, chemotherapy, left-over animal parts from meat processing plants, synthetic chemicals, liver toxic glues, fillers, binders, artificial colorings, spermicides, synthetic hormones, vaccines, etc." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"As a taxpayer who foots the bill for research and health policy in America, you deserve to know that many of the common notions you have been told about food, health and disease are wrong: • synthetic chemicals in the environment and in your food, as problematic as they may be, are not the main cause of cancer. • The genes that you inherit from your parents are not the most important factors in determining whether you fall prey to any of the ten leading causes of death." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"Scientists found that specific receptors on cells, first seen through the microscope, act as docking points for "chemical messengers"—including natural chemicals like hormones, neurotransmitters, or chemicals from herbs and foods. synthetic chemicals like drugs were also found to dock at these receptors. When any of these chemicals attaches to a cell receptor, it "flips a switch" in the cell, changing its function in some way. A whole new theory of health and disease arose from these discoveries, as did a whole new way of developing drugs." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Even sexual attitudes and preferences appear to be affected, mainly by the many synthetic chemicals that have a definite estrogenic or feminizing effect. Known hormonal disrupting chemicals include 209 PCBs, 75 dioxins and 135 furans, to name only a few. 1152 Of the 51 synthetic chemicals that have been identified as hormone disrupters, at least half, including PCBs, are persistent in our soil and water. These may prove to be a terrible legacy for the generations to come.69'140 Can Pesticides Before Birth Affect the Size of the Genitals?90 The answer appears to be a definite yes." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

"POPs are synthetic chemicals that accumulate in the fatty tissue of animals. While farm-raised catfish, trout, haddock, salmon, flounder and other fish are unsuitable for consumption due to the toxic additives in fishmeal, deep ocean fish are even more harmful than farmed fish due to their excessively high levels of mercury. Even if fish consumption were shown to prevent heart attacks (for which there is no proof), would it be justified and wise to propagate it as being a healthy food when it is known to cause other chronic or fatal diseases?" - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"But as discussed, food manufacturers and the chemical companies have decided to add thousands of synthetic chemicals to our food and beverages in the form of preservatives, dyes, flavorings, flavor enhancers, stabilizers and artificial sweeteners. You truly do not know what you are eating. Let's take a closer look at artificial sweeteners. They are of special interest to me based on the personal experience I've had with them over the years. Artificial sweeteners are designed to reduce the caloric content in foods. The market is flooded with these products." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"But remember: Even with the help of these products, proper immune system function requires greatly reducing exposure to synthetic chemicals and non-natural substances, as well as following the 3 principles of health discussed in the first half of this chapter." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Randall Fitzgerald ISBN: 0525949518 Publishers Weekly Review: "A provocative and frightening look at the synthetic chemicals used by the processed foods, pharmaceutical and chemical industries delivers an excellent, up-to-date summary of what is really in our food, water, vitamins, prescription drugs, childhood vaccines, cosmetics, and in our homes." ARTICLES AND LINKS Visit www.FitAdvocate. com for the direct link to these and many other articles. "Addiction: How to Break the Chain" Michael Craig Miller, M.D. Newsweek (December 2005). Archived Article." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"No population has been more diseased, more obese, and more financially enslaved by a domineering system of synthetic chemicals (drugs) and surgery. If you look at the big question of why nutrition isn't really talked about in the popular press and by food companies, the answer is because all of the big players have very clear financial incentives to avoid talking about nutrition. There's no reason for organized medicine to talk about nutrition as a way to prevent chronic disease." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Scientists found that specific receptors on cells, first seen through the microscope, act as docking points for "chemical messengers"—including natural chemicals like hormones, neurotransmitters, or chemicals from herbs and foods. synthetic chemicals like drugs were also found to dock at these receptors. When any of these chemicals attaches to a cell receptor, it "flips a switch" in the cell, changing its function in some way. A whole new theory of health and disease arose from these discoveries, as did a whole new way of developing drugs." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"Doesn't it make sense to give the body's own miraculous system a chance to heal itself through natural remedies before ingesting synthetic chemicals or carving into it? Your holistic doctor will know what combination of Eastern and Western treatments to administer. Herbs, poultices, aromatherapy, acupuncture, and orher alternative treatments may not be the answer every time, but they are the place to begin. Isn't it better to discover and treat the cause of a headache (stress, pressure, chemical imbalance) than simply mask it with daily doses of ibuprofen?" - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Synthetic chemicals have made jet planes and many modern developments possible. Production and use of these materials during the last century grew exponentially in the developed world, and continues at this pace in the developing world today. These tables and graphs show that at the time and in the manner that Doll and Peto did their report, the full brunt of cancer from synthetic organic materials could not possibly have been detected. By looking at deaths in whites up to 1977, their report told us the cancer burden that arose from exposures dating from the 1930s and 1940s." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Rather than stress the need for improved pre-market testing, to avoid future nitrilotriacetic acid and AN-type problems, Monsanto has recently embarked on a multimillion dollar national advertising campaign designed to persuade the public of the essential safety of synthetic chemicals unless misused. Interestingly, one of the chemicals featured as essentially harmless in a Monsanto TV spot, later withdrawn, was Vegadex (sulfallate), a herbicide reported by the National Cancer Institute in March 1978 to be carcinogenic to both rats and mice." In November 1979, I was invited by Congressman J." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"The studies reveal that every single one of us is contaminated with scores of synthetic chemicals that are known to be toxic.3 So science now demonstrates what indigenous people have been saying all along: the environment is not out there, but in here. The same poisons running through the rivers are running through our veins. Intimate Details Charlotte Brody was surprised by how she felt about her test results. " - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.) "But only recently, with a scientific technique known as biomonitoring, have scientists been able to measure the actual levels of some synthetic chemicals that are getting into people — our so-called chemical body burden. For several years, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been researching the body burden of thousands of average Americans. Government and independent researchers have studied human blood, urine and breast milk from all regions of the world." - Stacy Malkan, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry (Get the book.)

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