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"All the scientific literature emphasizes that the fetus and young children are far more vulnerable to toxic chemicals than adults are," Dr. Buttram adds. "And yet the government standards for limitations of pesticides are set by adult standards, which do not take into account the heightened susceptibility of children. "In order to assess the damage caused by pesticides and other toxic chemicals to the nervous and immune systems in children, every educated person should read a government publication entitled Neurotoxicity: Identifying and Controlling Poisons of the Nervous System." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Diabetogenic contributing factors on a planetary level include living in a degraded environment in which the air, earth, and water are, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, filled with 70,000 different toxic chemicals, heavy metals, agrochemicals, and other toxic substances?5,000 of which are potentially hazardous to our health. The Environmental Defense Council reports that more than four billion pounds of toxic chemicals are released into the environment each year, including seventy-two million pounds of known carcinogens." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Many of today's toxic chemicals can hide under the radar of standard medical testing. Moreover, most doctors are trained to treat symptoms and may not be well versed in the area of toxins and how they affect human health (especially if your doctor received his education decades ago). And when they do search for clues to an illness's origins, they routinely look for traditional causes such as an invading bacteria or virus, or, in the case of liver cirrhosis, drinking too much alcohol." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"As these fumes assault your nose and then your lungs, you are being exposed to numerous toxic chemicals. The impact on salon workers, who are exposed for long hours every day, is so severe that their job description should come with a warning label. To complicate matters for salon employees, cosmetology schools are unaware of, or fail to inform their students about, the hazards of carcinogenic and other toxic ingredients in beauty products. Most states use standards for their cosmetology schools that are generally similar in how their curricula are structured to meet licensing requirements." - 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.)

"Nakazawa examines all of the theories about autoimmunity in detail, from heavy metals to toxic chemicals to viruses to vaccines and finally to the hygiene hypothesis. The Autoimmune Epidemic is every bit as compelling as Upton Sinclair's groundbreaking novel The Jungle and every bit as necessary as An Inconvenient Truth, the startling movie featuring Al Gore and directed by Davis Guggenheim, that shows us that global warming is upon us and may at some point in the near future be irreversible." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"At one point, it even came up with the ridiculous suggestion that terrorists were going to use drugs from Canada to kill Americans by somehow tainting those drugs with toxic chemicals. My response to that ploy by the FDA was just as hilarious. I said, "If people start dying by taking prescription drugs from Canada that were laced with chemicals placed there by terrorists, how would we know the difference?" Prescription drugs are killing people anyway, and drugs are already toxic chemicals." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"This can happen for a number of reasons: • Radiation from space, nuclear reactors, or medical treatments may damage the control sequences —the switches in the gene. • toxic chemicals in the air, in water, or in food may produce changes in the molecular information. • A virus may enter the cell and insert itself into a gene, disrupting its sequence of instructions. Guided by an inappropriate set of programs, the damaged cell no longer acts in harmony with the rest of the body. It becomes what is called a rogue cell. Generally, the results are benign." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"While space does not permit a discussion of every known pollutant, we recommend that you remain aware of when you are being exposed to toxic chemicals, and try to avoid unnecessary exposure as much as possible. An Overview of Nutritional Supplements: Expensive Urine or Promising Therapy? In addition to improving one's diet and minimizing exposure to toxic chemicals, nutrient supplementation is often important for restoring and maintaining one's health." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"From Inflammation to Plaque The delicate endothelium can become damaged from a variety of elements, including cigarette smoke, toxic chemicals and metals, bad fats, poor diet, elevated insulin, bacteria, high blood pressure, and excess stress. Singly, or in combination, these elements kindle inflammation that can evolve into plaque. Following is a stage-by-stage description of the process." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"In addition, as you'll soon learn, plastics give off toxic chemicals that you then ingest when you—or your babies—drink from a bottle.) There's nothing more powerful than a collective voice for change. And I'm thrilled to be witnessing finally a growing united effort and interest in reducing the level of toxins in our lives. My mission in teaching people how to live in a toxic world is a personal one. More than twenty years ago I was battling poor health, weight gain, and fatigue, and it was then that I discovered the natural healing principles that would ultimately change my life." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"As an aside, while urban myth holds that freezing water in plastic bottles draws out toxic chemicals and laces the water with them, in fact, freezing actually works against the release of chemicals, because chemicals do not diffuse as readily in colder temperatures.) Phthalates are also key ingredients in Becky's newly purchased U.S. manufactured cosmetics (whereas in Europe and Japan phthalates have been banned because of their health risks). Every day when Becky puts on her face cream and body cream, she is lathering phthalates across the largest organ of her body." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Choose one or two products a week to replace with a natural product that does not contain the harsh toxic chemicals. An increasing number of companies are beginning to sell products that lack potential or known toxins. Natural beauty and personal care products made without added chemicals or unnecessary ingredients can usually be found in most health food stores. I'm a huge fan of Aubrey Organics, which sells a great line of all natural shampoos, conditioners, body lotions, makeup, and even baby and pet products." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Decaffeinated coffee may be more harmful to the liver, as the process used to decaffeinate coffee beans usually uses large amounts of toxic chemicals, such as formaldehyde and trichloroethylene, which is used as a degreas-ing agent in the metal industry and as a solvent in dry cleaning. For this reason I recommend using organic decaffeinated blends. Beverage Coffee, brewed (8 oz.) Espresso (2 oz.) Tea, black brewed (8 oz.) Tea, green (8 oz.) Tea, white (8 oz.) Hot chocolate (8 oz.) Coffee, decaf (8 oz.) Pepsi-Cola (8 oz.) Snapple sweet tea (8 oz." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"The DAN protocol recommends parents feed their children organic foods that are free of toxic chemicals such as artificial colors and flavors and preservatives. FOOD ALLERGIES: Many autistic children have food allergies that hinder proper function of their digestive tract and/or immune systems. A significant study by Dr. R. Cade found that 87 percent of the autistic children tested had the presence of IgG antibodies, which is indicative of an allergy to gluten. The autistic child is also frequently susceptible to dairy allergies." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Thin the blood • Stop external bleeding • Reduce fevers • Relieve pain • Improve circulation • Reduce acidity • Reduce inflammation • Act as an antispasmodic • Help expel mucus from the body • Act as an antimicrobial Oils have another property whereby they become reactive to certain toxic chemicals in the body. This is often interpreted, wrongly, as an allergic reaction. Many of these same synthetic chemicals become stuck in the receptor sites of cells. Several constituents in essential oils will oxidize toxic chemicals and make for a healthy, functioning cell again." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"The liver, which is the largest internal organ, performs many tasks—metabolizes carbohydrates, fats, and proteins; stores substances such as glycogen and fat-soluble vitamins; filters blood; and destroys toxic chemicals. As a result, it affects virtually every other organ and system in the body. Love Your Liver The liver is more than a washing machine for blood; it carries on many important metabolic activities—performing some five hundred other bodily functions, in fact (the most of any organ)." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The cocktail of toxic chemicals and metals, the viruses, and the foreign DNA/RNA from animal tissues in the vaccines impair the immune system. Many of the vaccines contain neurotoxins and actual carcinogens. This is what is being pumped into a healthy body: aluminum, thirmersol, formaldehyde, carbolic acid (phenol), the antibiotics neomycin, streptomycin and a variety of other drugs, the solvent acetone, glycerin (which can cause death), sodium hydroxide, sorbitol, hydrolyzed gelatin, benzetho-nium chloride, methylparaben and other chemicals known or suspected of causing cancer." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Cancer has a multitude of contributing factors, such as: heredity, beliefs, attitudes, habits, excesses, nutrition, environmental pollutants, and stresses, as well as various carcinogens like radiation, pesticides, toxic chemicals, dioxins, and asbestos—to name a few. It is an enzyme deficiency and an autointoxication disease. It is a failure of the body's cells to obtain all the building materials essential for their construction and functioning. It is also the result of excess toxicity, which affects and eventually destroys cells, or transforms them into abnormal, wild, growing cells." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "In a like manner, commercial toothpastes, breath fresheners, and gargles should be avoided, because they contain toxic chemicals that are absorbed in the mouth and taken into the body. Ideally, we should use a minimum of skin, hair, and toothpaste products. Acceptable alternatives can be obtained from healthfood stores. EMOTIONAL ENVIRONMENT RELATIVELY FREE OF STRESS Emotional stress can have a profoundly negative influence on the health of the body. This can be due to circumstances such as a difficult or unsatisfying job, unhappy relationship, and financial difficulties." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"It is wisest to avoid any exposure to these toxic chemicals. The best decision, I believe, is not to start taking psychiatric drugs. I have conducted my psychiatric practice since its inception in 1968, without starting anyone on psychiatric drugs, although I often have to prescribe these medications in the process of helping people withdraw from them. I have found that a deep commitment to helping people through psychotherapy—often with the cooperation of family and community resources—is far more effective and much less hazardous than inflicting toxic agents on the brain." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "These well-known leaders of American psychiatry argued that the black-box warning about suicidal behavior in children had—horror of horrors—resulted in a precipitous 20 percent drop in prescribing these useless toxic chemicals to children. Several other speakers replied to this fearmonger-ing by reminding the FDA that its mandate was not to protect the public from the truth but to tell people the facts." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Modern psychiatry persists in taking the pseudoscientific position that people are biochemical devices to be corrected with toxic chemicals and jolts of electricity. Because they are despairing and sometimes even depressed and self-hating, many people who seek psychiatric help find it difficult to resist or to argue against these assaults on their brain." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"In addition, they form acids and contain toxic chemicals which are added as preservatives to prolong shelf life and enhance flavor. When food lacks one or more of the six essential ingredients listed above, the body has to borrow resources from its own tissues to process it. Toxins present the added burden of elimination because of their harmful and hazardous nature for health. The body attempts to eliminate toxins through stimulation, which "revs up" the metabolism and costs the body energy and nutrition in the process." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"They will apply hundreds of ingredients to their skin every morning, many of which will include the same dyes, preservatives, and emulsifiers, and other frequently toxic chemicals used during industrial manufacturing. By even the most conservative estimates of daily usage, the average woman uses six or more cosmetics and thirteen personal care products containing several hundred ingredients. Some of these products, particularly fragranced hand soaps, are used on several occasions daily." - 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.)

"Think twice before spraying toxic chemicals on your lawn. Cats walking on a sprayed lawn lick their paws, ingesting this toxic substance. Dogs walk and roll in grass sprayed with these chemicals and if they have even a small cut, these toxins can enter their system. Our health, the health of our animal companions, and the health of the environment are at risk when we apply these toxic chemicals. Is it worth having the perfect weed-free lawn at the expense of our health and the health of our animal companions?" - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"Moreover, these outdated regulations fail to take into account the long-term effects of chronic exposure in salons, nor do they address the effects of exposure to multiple toxic chemicals. As a further barrier to proper oversight, OSHA's exposure limits are based on inhalation and do not consider absorption through the skin. And the EPA's efforts? In 2004 the Region 6 office of the EPA, based in Texas, published "A Guide To Protect the Health of Nail Salon Workers and Their Working Environment," a laudatory effort at educating salon workers about health hazards." - 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.)

"It coerces the body to keep large amounts of cellular waste products, acidic substances, and, possibly, toxic chemicals from medicines in the tissue fluid (connective tissue) surrounding Find out what causes pain and what happens when you suppress it in "Painkillers—The Beginning Of A Vicious Cycle" Chapter 2 of Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation. the cells. By repeatedly undermining the body's efforts to cleanse itself, the cells are increasingly shut off from their supply routes of oxygen and nutrients." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "That's why cancerous tumors are always white When compared with healthy tissues, cancer tissues contain a much higher concentration of toxic chemicals, pesticides, and heavy metals. In 1973, a study conducted by the Department of Occupational Health at Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem found a significantly higher concentration of such toxic compounds as DDT and PCB's in cancerous breast tissue of women compared with the normal breast and adjacent adipose tissue in the same women. (although on scanning images they show up as dark masses or shadows)." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Under her leadership, NRDC has launched major initiatives on global warming, oil dependence, reviving the oceans, saving wild places, stemming the tide of toxic chemicals, and the greening of China. Ms. Beinecke has worked with NRDC for more than thirty years. Prior to becoming president in 2006, she was the organization's executive director for eight years, during which time NRDC's membership doubled and the staff grew to over 300. Ms." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"At about 10 percent of these sites, toxic chemicals are known to be seeping out into communities or people are still freely entering sites and being exposed to the hazardous waste there. The Environmental Protection Agency does not release projections for what it plans to spend to remediate these 1,200 sites, when these areas will be cleaned up, or how long it will take." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

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