Category: Toxins
The facts about chemicals, pesticides, and clean water.
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12 Toxins in Your Drinking Water
HFI: Let’s take a look at some of the nastiest water contaminants that may be pouring out of your faucet. Idaho Water District frequently tests the water for contaminates. Unfortunately, they ADD Fluoride to some community water sources. See if you are drinking fluoride. 1. Fluoride Adding fluoride to drinking water is a process that…
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Dollar Store Products Contain Toxic Chemicals
HealthyStuff, in collaboration with the Campaign for Healthier Solutions, released a report today about toxic chemicals found in Dollar store products. The report — A Day Late and a Dollar Short: Discount Retailers are Falling Behind on Safer Chemicals — includes testing results for 164 dollar store products such as toys, jewelry, school supplies and…
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What’s On My Favorite Food: Applesauce
Its been a favorite since they were sitting in the high chair. Now that they are ‘growing up’ we get those conventional single serving sizes for quick snacks during outings and after school. I thought I was doing right by them. Instead of junk food, giving them whole food. I didn’t realize, what I was…
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As If We Needed More: Fumigants Turn Into Fluoride
As if fluoridated water and widespread fluoridated pesticide use like cryolite wasn’t enough, some food processors use sulfuryl fluoride as a fumigant on certain foods, and for pest prevention in warehouses and food containers. Sulfuryl fluoride breaks down into fluoride after application. “Unlike virtually every other western country, the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] does not…
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Lead and Lipstick: Shades of Darkness
Coloring our puckers can come at a high cost – luxury-branded lipsticks aside. It’s the health cost that is causing more women concern as they think before they don the latest shades from global beauty brands. A Food and Drug Administration study from 2012 showed that several hundred lipsticks from 20 popular brands all contained…
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Parasite Cleanse Diet – Foods To Eat And Foods To Avoid
One of the best ways to help the body destroy and get rid of unwanted parasites is following a parasite cleanse diet. This diet should be taken for at least 2 months to give your body an opportunity to get rid of all kinds of parasites and eggs that are hidden in different organs. Parasites…
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What’s On Our Favorite Food: BLUEBERRIES
We LOVE a fresh ripe blueberry. We LOVE a fresh frozen blueberry. We LOVE warm from the oven blueberry baked into something good. WE DO NOT LOVE that there are 52 Pesticide Residues Found by the USDA Pesticide Data Program. Can you believe it? A blueberry can have 52 pesticides. My youngest is highly sensitive…
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$671 Million Payoff for Poisoning the Water with PFOA
Residents whose water was poisoned by a cancer-causing chemical use to make Teflon received a settlement. Yet, the toxicity remains in the water and the health of those exposed. PFOA contaminates the tap water of 7 million American and pollutes the blood of virtually everyone. Non-stick compounds will continue to threaten our health for a…
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What California’s Cleaning Product Disclosure Bill Means For You
As many of us know, a lot of the cleaning supplies we use to “clean” our homes are actually “dirty” for our bodies. According to this post by EWG, a bill was introduced this week by California State Senator Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, that would require all ingredients of household and professional cleaning products made…
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Dirty Truth about Dryer Sheets
Most commercial dryer sheets are loaded with all sorts of toxic chemicals including Benzyl Acetate, Benzyl Alcohol, Chloroform and Linalool; none of which are good for your health. In addition to all the chemicals that end up on your skin, when heated, the fumes are also toxic. These toxins go straight to their brain’s most…