environmental illness - managing your body's toxic burden - natural detoxification methods
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Elite Education | Environmental Illness
The Big Picture (short introductory video) — http://youtu.be/TBZrjOttFns
Unfortunately, there is no escape from environmental toxicity. 25 percent of us live within four miles of a hazardous waste site. We absorb dangerous levels of toxic heavy-metals and synthetic chemicals from our air, water, food, workplace and schools, even in our own homes, and many common products. The good news is that we can take steps to manage this “body burden.” We can educate ourselves to avoid or reduce exposure, and stop supporting businesses that contribute to the problem. We can eat health promoting foods. And, we can practice protocols that support our body’s own natural detoxification systems and processes.
Medical and environmental research is now discovering that many diseases, even so called “effects of aging,” are the consequence of the toxification of our immediate environments. Toxic exposure is an underreported epidemic that now threatens the very survival of our species. According to the UN Environment Programme, the Earth is in the midst of a mass extinction of life. Scientists estimate that 150-200 species of plant, insect, bird and mammal become extinct every 24 hours. This is nearly 1,000 times the “natural” or “background” rate and, say many biologists, is greater than anything the world has experienced since the vanishing of the dinosaurs nearly 65 million years ago.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Environmental Working Group researchers found an average of 91 industrial compounds, pollutants, and other chemicals in the blood and urine of all test subjects studied. Scientists refer to this contamination as a person’s body burden. Of the 167 chemicals researchers found: 76 cause cancer in humans or animals, 94 are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 79 cause birth defects or abnormal development. Also of concern, the dangers of exposure to these chemicals in combination has never been studied. Environmental Working Group: Body Burden study — http://www.ewg.org/sites/bodyburden1/es.php
Resources The Pesticide Education Center — http://www.pesticides.org/
Environment, Health and Safety Online — http://www.ehso.com/contents.php
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry — http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/
Toxic metal — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_metal
Occupational Safety & Health Administration: Toxic Metals — http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/metalsheavy/index.html
Pollution in Newborns — http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/execsumm.php
Early Exposure to Toxic Substances Damages Brain Architecture — http://tinyurl.com/79pm6vm
What You Can Do Right Now — http://www.ewg.org/sites/bodyburden1/factsheets/whatyoucando.php
CDC - National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals — http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/
Prescriptions for a Healthy House: Paula Baker-Laporte, Erica Elliott, John Banta — http://amzn.to/yFcGYN
The Body Toxic: By Nina Baker — http://tinyurl.com/6lu9smg
E-The Environmental Magazine — http://www.emagazine.com/
The Autism Puzzle: Connecting Environmental Toxins and Rising Autism Rates — http://amzn.to/II4LEI
President’s Cancer Panel 2010 Report REDUCING ENVIRONMENTAL CANCER RISK
What We Can Do Now
Excerpt from Executive Sunmary: “Despite overall decreases in incidence and mortality, cancer continues to shatter and steal the lives of Americans. Approximately 41 percent of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, and about 21 percent will die from cancer. The incidence of some cancers, including some most common among children, is increasing for unexplained reasons.” Also included in the Executive Summary, “What Individuals Can Do: Recommendations.” Download Full Report [PDF]: http://healthelite.us/_p/_file_dwnld.php?index=33
For more information on the President’s Cancer Panel or copies of this report, please contact: President’s Cancer Panel, 6116 Executive Boulevard, Suite 220, MSC 8349, Bethesda, MD 20814-8349 Phone: 301-451-9399 | email: [email protected] | website: http://pcp.cancer.gov
http://www.saferchemicals.org/resources/presidents-cancer-panel.html
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Elite Education | Environmental Illness
Early Experiences Can Alter Gene Expression and Affect Long-Term Development — http://tinyurl.com/7arhuhe
The Hundred-Year Lie, By Randall Fitzgerald — http://tinyurl.com/73h44v2
Safe Cosmetics — http://www.safecosmetics.org/
Mammogram-Induced Breast Cancer — http://tinyurl.com/74wwoyw
Toxipedia — http://toxipedia.org/
Indigenous Environmental Network — http://ienearth.org/
U.S. Department of Labor | Occupational Safety & Health Administration http://osha.gov/ For information about exposure to lead: 1-800-434-5323 (LEAD)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — http://www.epa.gov/ EPA Safe Water Hotline 1-800-426-4791
Collaborative on Health and the Environment — http://healthandenvironment.org/
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) — http://cdc.gov/niosh/
Environmental Health Sciences (News) — http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/
Environmental Defence Fund — http://edf.org/
Oregon Environmental Counsel — http://www.oeconline.org/
The Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN) — http://sehn.org/
Pesticide Action Network North America — http://panna.org/
Reducing Pesticide Exposure — http://tinyurl.com/c3pbem3
Silent Spring Institute — http://silentspring.org/
Pesticide Action Network — http://www.pan-uk.org/
The Environmental Risks and Breast Cancer project — http://erbc.vassar.edu/
Environmental Health Perspectives — http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/
Cumulative Impacts Project — http://www.cumulativeimpacts.org/
The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, better known as the POPs treaty, is a legally binding international agreement to protect human health and the environment from some of the most dangerous chemicals on earth. Join the fight! Learn the truth. Stay informed. — http://uspopswatch.org/
International POPs Elimination Network — http://www.ipen.org/ IPEN: The Big Picture (short video) — http://youtu.be/TBZrjOttFns
EWG’s Shopper’s Guide to pesticides in produce — http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/
Endocrine Disruption Exchange — http://www.endocrinedisruption.com/home.php
SafeMama™ Resource for parents. Information about toy problems, lead paint, toxic chemicals and other health concerns. — http://safemama.com/
Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood — http://steingraber.com/books/having-faith/
Cosmetic Database — http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/
CNN Report: Toxic chemicals finding their way into the womb http://tinyurl.com/2fw4rrq CNN Video: http://youtu.be/0DP2XYw6foE
Women’s Health — http://indianyouth.org/women.html
Environmental Justice Resource — http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/
Committee on Women, Population, & the Environment (CWPE) — http://cwpe.org/
High Levels Of Mercury In Wildlife Species — http://www.briloon.org/hiddenrisk/
Extent And Effects Of Mercury Pollution In The Great Lakes Region http://www.briloon.org/mercuryconnections/greatlakes
Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective — http://sistersong.net/
National Council for Occupational Safety and Health — http://coshnetwork.org/
GoodGuide provides information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of consumer products. — http://www.goodguide.com/
The Center for Health, Environment & Justice — http://chej.org/
The Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) — http://www.turi.org/
Womens Health and the Environment — http://womenshealthandenvironment.org/
Women’s Voices for the Earth — http://www.womensvoices.org/
GREENPEACE: Mining impacts — http://tinyurl.com/6rkdr8l
Fracking’s Health and Environmental Impacts — http://tinyurl.com/78d3n4w
VideoThe Big Picture (short video overview) — http://youtu.be/TBZrjOttFns
PAN-UK YouTube Channel — http://www.youtube.com/user/PESTICIDEACTION
Environmental Working Group presentation: “10 Americans” http://youtu.be/W5n4HhQr25Q
The Story of Cosmetics — http://www.storyofstuff.org/movies-all/story-of-cosmetics/
The Slow Poisoning of India http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-slow-poisoning-of-india/
Genetically Modified Food: Panacea or Poison http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/genetically-modified-food/
Poison on the Platter — http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/poison-on-the-platter/
The World According to Monsanto http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-world-according-to-monsanto/
Flow: For Love of Water — http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/flow-for-love-of-water/
A World Without Water http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-world-without-water/
Tapped —http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/tapped/
Aerosol Crimes (aka Chemtrails) http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/aerosol-crimes-aka-chemtrails/
What in the World Are They Spraying? http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/what-in-the-world-are-they-spraying/
The Battle of Chernobyl — http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-battle-of-chernobyl/
The Beautiful Truth — http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/beautiful-truth/
Burzynski, the Movie: Cancer Is Serious Business — whttp://tinyurl.com/724dbgf
Prescription for Disaster — http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/prescription-for-disaster/
The Marketing of Madness: Are We All Insane? — http://tinyurl.com/2de8k4y
Allergy Planet — http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/allergy-planet/
The Disappearing Male — http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-disappearing-male/
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