Category: Toxins
The facts about chemicals, pesticides, and clean water.
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Avoiding Aluminum tainted products
Unlike vitamins, minerals, and trace elements, the body does not need aluminum. And aluminum is no innocent or benign participant. Aluminum accumulates in the kidneys, brain, lungs, liver and thyroid where it competes with calcium for absorption and can affect skeletal mineralization. In infants, this can slow growth. Animal models have linked aluminum exposure to…
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Problems with peanuts, in a nutshell
The peanuts contained a toxin-producing fungus called Aspergillus flavus, from which the name, aflatoxin, comes. New research suggests that peanut allergy in children has increased 21 percent since 2010, and that nearly 2.5 percent of US children may have an allergy to peanuts.1 Aflatoxins are found not only in peanuts, but also in many other…
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Problems with peanuts, in a nutshell
The peanuts contained a toxin-producing fungus called Aspergillus flavus, from which the name, aflatoxin, comes. New research suggests that peanut allergy in children has increased 21 percent since 2010, and that nearly 2.5 percent of US children may have an allergy to peanuts.1 Aflatoxins are found not only in peanuts, but also in many other…
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HFI Brings Generation Zapped to Boise
Concerns about electromagnetic fields (EMF) are branded pseudoscientific conspiracy theories and relegated to the realm of tin-hat wearing quackery. However, a recent publication in the peer-reviewed journal Immunologic Research entitled “Electrosmog and Autoimmune Disease,” sheds new light on the validity of concerns about this so-called electrosmog with which we are constantly inundated. Although we encounter…
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Four Reasons to Celebrate the California Cleaning Product Right to Know Act
At long last, the veil of secrecy over chemicals in cleaning products is lifting. In October, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the Cleaning Product Right to Know Act of 2017, which will require known hazardous chemicals in home and commercial cleaning products to be listed on labels and online. Manufacturers of cleaning products…
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15 year old autistic teen has 10x times amount of aluminum in brain than elderly person
Breaking news: A new study, just published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology has found, via brain autopsies, that there are unusually high amounts of aluminum in the brains of autistic children. Here’s an excellent post about this new science from the Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute: For my science…
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Why diet, environment, toxin exposure and lifestyle MATTERS
Children are living with chronic illness. And those numbers are continuing to rise. 1 in 6 have learning disabilities 1 in 10 have asthma 1 in 13 have food allergies 1 in 20 have seizures 1 in 68 have autism 1 in 42 boys have autism HALF of our children have a chronic illness or…
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Home “medicine cabinet” for flu, colds, injuries, and other ailments
Increasingly, we are seeing media reports that drugs and vaccines have side-effects and risks. These facts are easily verifiable simply by reading the package inserts on products. There are testimonials of those who have trusted these products and experienced harmful side-effects. Here are just a few of these stories: Colton, Utah; Gardasil injury. Gunnar, 2-month…
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The impact of toxic exposure to aluminum
Even though aluminum is not considered to be a heavy metal like lead, it can be toxic in excessive amounts and even in small amounts if it is deposited in the brain. Many of the symptoms of aluminum toxicity mimic those of Alzheimer’s disease and osteoporosis. Colic, rickets, gastrointestinal problems, interference with the metabolism of…
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GLYPHOSATE Contaminated “All Natural” Bread and Breakfast Cereals
Glyphosate linked to many health problems is now everywhere, even in your drinking water, favorite bread or cereal. If we don’t unite to take whatever steps necessary to push Congress and Washington to ban neonicotinoids or glyphosate, more and more crops are going to be nutritionally ruined and contaminated with residue of glyphosate or Bt…