Becoming a parent is no small choice. If you and your partner are planning this life-changing event, then congratulations! Planning in advance is an ideal situation for more than one reason. It gives a wannabe-mom plenty of time to detox. How important is this? Why do it? Is it safe? We’ll get to that later.
Health care workers wash and disinfect their hands sometimes 100-plus times per day with chemical-laced cleansers. They are exposed to housekeeping chemicals, latex, anesthetic gases, and radiation. The people who take care of us when we’re unable to…nurses…may have some of the highest toxin levels of any occupation, according to a just-released study.
WASHINGTON – A first ever national survey of nurses’ exposures to chemicals, pharmaceuticals and radiation on the job suggests there are links between serious health problems such as cancer, asthma, miscarriages and children’s birth defects and the duration and intensity of these exposures. The survey included 1,500 nurses from all 50 states
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Hi, readers. I hope you all had a happy holiday season.
We all know about the recent publicity that toys imported from China have warranted…and it’s not good PR. The word this time though, is asbestos, not lead, found in a toy that was relatively popular this past holiday season: a forensic-type kit modeled after the popular TV series, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigators”.
My youngest son has suffered from a myriad of allergies since he was just months old. Eczema was the first, and most obvious symptom.
That “miraculous” little capsule otherwise known as the “purple pill”, I was told, would change my life.
Ok, corny title there.
I’m going to tell you something about your body that you might not know.
You’ve heard of “ph balance”…right? But with the phrase injected into so many cosmetic and beauty product commercials, sometimes I think it has lost its “punch”. Flies right over our radar, that “pH balanced” thing, doesn’t it?
Did you know you are a walking toxic storage facility? is a reality, and mainstream science and medicine is becoming more keenly aware of the problem. Recently, National Geographic featured an article on just how poisoned we really are.
This morning on tv, I heard a warning about lead in a product that we all usually come in contact with this time of the year, especially children.
Have you noticed those Ad Council announcements on TV lately…the ones about autism? While many facets of the campaign seem disconcerting (we’ll get to that in a moment), its numbers are accurate: one child out of every 166 is now diagnosed with autism, up from 1 in 10,000 just over a decade ago.
