Your Toxic Day

Let's take a walk through a typical day in your life, and see just how many toxins you are coming in contact with on a daily basis. Some people might not be aware of just how toxic the environment we live in is, and how important it is to try and reduce toxins.

You wake up in the morning, stretch, and probably head for the bathroom, if you are like most of us. You'll probably sit on the toilet and use some toilet tissue. Toilet tissue is whitened with chlorine bleach. When chlorine bleach comes in contact with organic compounds it creates Dioxin, and this is a known carcinogin. Which organic compounds? The ones coming out of your body and into the toilet. This goes into the water treatment system and is not always filtered out. There are going to be residues of this in your toilet. Always put your toilet seat down to flush so this does not get splashed out accidentally when you flush. But it would be easier to just use a toilet tissue that is not bleached. These ARE available, but not at Wal-mart, sadly.

Then you probably brush your teeth. Your toothpaste will probably haved fluoride in it. Fluoride is a strong toxin. Studies show that

after 8 years of age, fluoride has no benefit whatsoever to your teeth. And the majority of people use much more toothpaste than they are supposed to. If you read the directions on the tube, it states you are supposed to use a "pea-sized" portion. 23 studies from four countries have shown that even moderate exposure lowers IQ. The daily dose of fluoride recommended by the American Dental Association results in the same level of fluoride in your blood that is shown in studies to cause an 8 point drop in IQ. In other words, it negatively effects the brain, as well as other organs.

Next you probably head to the kitchen to make some coffee. Your coffee is highly laced with dangerous pesticides. Coffee is the crop which has the highest levels of pesticides of any commercially grown crop. Then you might proceed to make yourself some scrambled eggs laid by chickens that were given hormones and antibiotics, synthetic estrogens which cause cancer and many reproductive-related health problems. You might fix yourself some toast made from wheat that contains mycotoxins, and the bread has high fructose corn syrup and trans-fatty acids, both encouraging diabetes and heart disease. You probably also made your coffee with bleached white coffee filters, so that bleach is getting into your coffee as well.

Next you probably put on your makeup, including some kind of lipstick or lip gloss. Studies of lipstick have showed that every brand tested contained some levels of LEAD. Yes, that heavy metal that has been excluded from paint for safety reasons is in your lipstick. Does that make sense?

You probably now get into your car and go to your job, and on the way you are breathing carbon monoxide from car exhaust and pollution from factories. You sit at a computer screen at your job for hours and absorb radiation from the screen, unless you have purchased a screen protector that hangs over your monitor. If you talk on your cell phone a lot, you are receiving radiation directly into the side of your head, unless you use a non-bluetooth headset. And devices like wireless routers and cordless phones send dangerous radiation zig-zagging across your path everywhere you turn.

At lunch you might heat up a frozen dinner in the microwave, and this leaves radiolytic compounds in the food, as well as destroying 97% of the nutritional value of the food. Also, the plastic containers that hold the food leach more syntetic estrogens and other toxic substances from the plastic into the foods.

Then if you think you are doing something healthy by buying bottled water, the plastic bottle the water is sold in contains BPA (Bisphenol A) and this coumpound is also found in many microwave food containers and also leaches in to the food when microwaved. It also leaches into the water stored in the bottles. Best to bring your own water to work in a glass container (I use a Mason jar), and eat something for lunch that doesn't have to be heated.

Or you might go to lunch and get french fries from a fast food place, deep fried at high temperatures which create free radicals, and with partically hyrogenated oil which clogs your arteries. because of the free radical damage. French fries and donuts are the two most dangerous foods on the planet.

If you do decide to eat something healthy for lunch, like an apple, you then run the risk of ingesting some of the most lethal pesticides in use. 92% of apples contain two or more pesticides which are not removed by washing and peeling the apple. The "Dirty Dozen" list of foods containing the most pesticides are:

1. Apples
2. Celery
3. Strawberries
4. Peaches
5. Spinach
6. Nectarines (imported)
7. Grapes (imported)
8. Sweet bell peppers
9. Potatoes
10. Blueberries
11. Lettuce
12. Kale/collard greens

You come home from work and get into the shower, and as the steam rises and you breath it in, you are inhaling gaseous chlorine, which is even more lethal than drinking it in your water. Then you cook your healthy vegetable stir-fry in a non-stick skillet which releases toxic gases which are colorless and odorless. That's why DuPont got slapped with a huge fine for selling these pans for 20 years even though their records clearly show that they knew about the toxic gas.

All your cleaning products will contain toxic chemicals which you should not breath and which can be absorbed thorugh the skin. Better to use lemon juice, vinegar, and baking soda instead. Or purchase one of the safe alterantives.

If you have a baby, you may be using disposable diapers, which contain Sodium Polyacrylate, which is an absorbent gel responsible for making the diapers super absorbent. This chemical used to be in tampons but was removed because it caused Toxic Shock Syndrome. However, it's still in your baby's diapers.

Speaking of babies, if your baby drinks formula, infant formulas are processed under high heat, which crates AGES (Advanced Glycation End Products). Ages are sugar molecules that attach to and damage protein molecules in the body. Infants switched from breastfeeding to formula were test and it was found that their levels of AGES increased to the levels found in diabetics. When sugar molecules are glycated, they activate the immune system which causes inflammation in the body, This creates scar tissue on the arteries and increases insulin levels, thereby presidposing the individual to heart disease and diabetes, as well as other conditions.

This doesn't begin to address the artificial flavors and colors, preservatives, flavor enhancers, and other substances with known effects on human health.. Nor the things added to our foods such as "microcrystalline cellulose" which is nothing more than good old wood pulp. Go into your pantry and read labels and see just how many foods list cellulose or microcrystalline cellulose as ingredients.

Then there is the Aspartame and Splenda artificial sweetners which are stealthily included in so many of our foods, it's hard to keep track of them. These have known side effects as they are neurological toxins. And how about the antibiotics and hormones in your meats and dairy products, and the fact that almost all corn and soy products grown in this country are genetically modified, and that 70% of processed foods contain genetically modified ingredients. Very dangerous. We also feed genetically modified corn and soybeans to our cattle which gets into the meat and milk.

Is that enough??? There is much more, but I have made my point. Please make the choice to buy organic. We will be carrying many certified organic products.