Showing posts with label chemicals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chemicals. Show all posts

07 May 2010

America Awash In Dangerous Chemicals


Apparently Americans are swimming in a toxic pool of chemicals that are responsible for poor health, especially cancer. There are over 80,000 chemicals out there, but only 200 of them are studied to learn what harm they actually do. The rest are unknowns. But in this case, what you don't know can and will and is harming you. The government should do more to protect us, but until they do, we have to do all we can to protect ourselves.


As a nutritional practitioner, I discover the not so hidden side of things - chemical and heavy metals that poison people every day. The rarest thing in my practice is to encounter someone who is toxin free. Through very exact protocols one can safely detox. Improper detoxification is very dangerous. The body has a certain way of handling things in order to survive. Improper detoxing can do more harm than good. Pay us a visit at the Abundant Life Health Attainment Center and find out exactly what your toxic burden is and what to do about it. Feeling less than well? Chances are you've been poisoned. We can help.


Call 240 245-4147 for an appointment,


Or go to: http://www.myabundantlife.me/ and do the symptom survey



U.S. facing 'grievous harm' from chemicals in air, food, water, panel says
An expert panel that advises the president on cancer said Thursday that Americans are facing "grievous harm" from chemicals in the air, food and water that have largely gone unregulated and ignored.
The President's Cancer Panel called for a new national strategy that focuses on such threats in the environment and workplaces.
Epidemiologists have long maintained that tobacco use, diet and other factors are responsible for most cancers, and that chemicals and pollutants cause only a small portion -- perhaps 5 percent.
The presidential panel said that figure has been "grossly underestimated" but it did not provide a new estimate.
"With the growing body of evidence linking environmental exposures to cancer, the public is becoming increasingly aware of the unacceptable burden of cancer resulting from environmental and occupational exposures that could have been prevented through appropriate national action," the panel wrote in a report released Thursday.
Federal chemical laws are weak, funding for research and enforcement is inadequate, and regulatory responsibilities are split among too many agencies, the panel found.
Children are particularly vulnerable because they are smaller and are developing faster than adults, the panel found. The report noted unexplained rising rates of some cancers in children, and it referred to recent studies that have found industrial chemicals in umbilical-cord blood, which supplies nutrients to fetuses. "To a disturbing extent, babies are born 'pre-polluted,' " the panel wrote.
Health officials lack critical knowledge about the health impact of chemicals on fetuses and children, the report said.
In addition, the government's standards for safe chemical exposure in workplaces are outdated, it said.
In 2009, about 1.5 million American men, women and children had cancer diagnosed, and 562,000 people died from the disease.
"There are far too many known and suspected cancer-causing chemicals in products people, young and old, use every day of their lives," said Kenneth A. Cook, president and co-founder of Environmental Working Group, an environmental advocacy group. "Many of these chemicals are believed to be time bombs, altering the genetic-level switching mechanisms that lead to cancerous cellular growth in later life."
The panel said the country needs to overhaul existing chemical laws, a conclusion that has been supported by public health groups, environmental advocates, the Obama administration and even the chemical industry.
The current system places the burden on the government to prove that a chemical is unsafe before it can removed from the market. The standards are so high, the government has been unable to ban chemicals such as asbestos, a widely recognized carcinogen that is prohibited in many other countries.
About 80,000 chemicals are in commercial use in the United States, but federal regulators have assessed only about 200 for safety.

07 February 2010

What are Chem Trails?

I first noticed 'chem trails' in late 1999. I wanted to know what they were. It was clear that something was going on over my head and I noticed that it affected my health and the health of people around me. People started coughing and sneezing after chem trails appeared in the sky. As part of my investigation, I called government agencies and all I got was the same story: these are just the vapor trails from jet planes. They must have thought I was a vapor head to believe that. But these are not vapor trails. These 'chem trails' linger and then coalesce into cloud cover, sometimes with rainbow effects. Reports have circulated about what they contain: barium, soy bean oil, red blood cells and other organic material, etc. To date there is no definitive explanation of what they are, why they are being sprayed all over the world and who authorized it and who benefits from it. Is this weather modification to reflect sunlight back into space? Chemical and biological weapons to harm people?

Don't you want to know? Don't you need to know?

Here are two informative videos about the subject,

but they do not answer all the outstanding questions.

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19 November 2009

Why is that Boy a Girl?


Earlier this year, I was staying overnight at a hotel just outside of Charlotte, NC. I was by the pool one morning preparing for my lecture later that day. Two boys, about 12 and 14 years old came out to play in the pool. Was I shocked at what I saw! Both were rather feminine looking and from appearances they were 'brothers'. But one of them had breasts so large that 'he' clearly could have benefited from a bra! Small rounded shoulders, large wide hips, high pitched voices, all contributed to the impression that these 'boys' were more like girls. They didn't seem 'gay'- they just had the developmental characteristics of females. I wondered what kind of life will these boys have? Will they marry? Will they father children? Will they suffer ridicule and abuse because of their obvious gender ambiguities? Are we producing a generation of hermaphrodites?
Here's an article that talks about why this is such a huge global problem.

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Here's something rather rotten from the State of Denmark. Its government yesterday unveiled official research showing that two-year-old children are at risk from a bewildering array of gender-bending chemicals in such everyday items as waterproof clothes, rubber boots, bed linen, food, nappies, sunscreen lotion and moisturising cream.
The 326-page report, published by the environment protection agency, is the latest piece in an increasingly alarming jigsaw. A picture is emerging of ubiquitous chemical contamination driving down sperm counts and feminising male children all over the developed world. And anti-pollution measures and regulations are falling far short of getting to grips with it.

Sperm counts are falling so fast that young men are less fertile than their fathers and produce only a third as much, proportionately, as hamsters. And gender-bending chemicals are increasingly being blamed for the mystery of the "lost boys": babies who should normally be male who have been born as girls instead.
The Danish government set out to find out how much contamination from gender-bending chemicals a two-year-old child was exposed to every day. It concluded that a child could be "at critical risk" from just a few exposures to high levels of the substances, such as from rubber clogs, and imperilled by the amount it absorbed from sources ranging from food to sunscreens.
The results build on earlier studies showing that British children have higher levels of gender-bending chemicals in their blood than their parents or grandparents. Indeed WWF (formerly the World Wildlife Fund), which commissioned the older research, warned that the chemicals were so widespread that "there is very little, if anything, individuals can do to prevent contamination of themselves and their families." Prominent among them are dioxins, PVC, flame retardants, phthalates (extensively used to soften plastics) and the now largely banned PCBs, one and a half million tons of which were used in countless products from paints to electrical equipment.
Young boys, like those in the Danish study, could end up producing less sperm and developing feminised behaviour. Research at Rotterdam's Erasmus University found that boys whose mothers were exposed to PCBs and dioxins were more likely to play with dolls and tea sets and dress up in female clothes.
And it is in the womb that babies are most vulnerable; a study of umbilical cords from British mothers found that every one contained hazardous chemicals. Scientists at the University of Rochester in New York discovered that boys born to women exposed to phthalates had smaller penises and other feminisation of the genitals.
The contamination may also offer a clue to a mysterious shift in the sex of babies. Normally 106 boys are born for every 100 girls: it is thought to be nature's way of making up for the fact that men were more likely to be killed hunting or in conflict. But the proportion of females is rising, so much so that some 250,000 babies who statistically should have been boys have ended up as girls in Japan and the United States alone. In Britain, the discrepancy amounts to thousands of babies a year.
A Canadian Indian community living on ancestral lands at the eastern tip of Lake Huron, hemmed in by one of the biggest agglomerations of chemical factories on earth, gives birth to twice as many girls as boys. It's the same around Seveso in Italy, contaminated with dioxins from a notorious accident in the 1970s, and among Russian pesticide workers. And there's more evidence from places as far apart as Israel and Taiwan, Brazil and the Arctic.
Yet gender-benders are largely exempt from new EU regulations controlling hazardous chemicals. Britain, then under Tony Blair's premiership, was largely responsible for this – restricting their inclusion in the first draft of the legislation, and then causing even what was included to be watered down.Confidential documents show that it did so after pressure from George W Bush's administration, which protested that US exports "could be impacted".
Now the Danish government is planning to lobby to have the rules toughened up. It is particularly concerned by other studies which show that gender-bending chemicals acting together have far worse effects than the expected sum of their individual impacts. It wants this to be reflected in the regulations, citing its discovery of the many sources to which the two-year-olds are exposed – modern slings and arrows, as it were, of outrageous fortune.