Category: Toxins
The facts about chemicals, pesticides, and clean water.
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Teen Talks About GMO’s
Fifteen-year-old activist Rachel Parent believes that the use of these chemicals is negatively affecting our health, and that consumers have a right to know when they’ve been used to modify ingredients in the food we’re buying on a daily basis. In her informative TEDxToronto talk, Rachel urges Canadian officials to make it mandatory for food…
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Toxins and Our Kids
During the past 50 years, more than 85,000 industrial chemicals have been registered in the United States alone. The US is not alone as countries around the world including Canada and the United Kingdom face the same issues. Many of these chemicals have found their way into children’s environments: in the food they eat, the…
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Ignoring Congress Concerns over safety EPA approves expanded use of Combo Herbicide
EPA Approves Expanded Use of Dow’s “Enlist Duo” Herbicide. The Environmental Protection Agency has approved the special blending of the two herbicides developed by Dow. Enlist Duo, containing 2,4-D and glyphosate, for use on Dow’s 2nd generation GMO corn, soy and cotton. About 18 weeds have developed resistance to 2,4-D over the more than 50…
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Three reasons ‘BPA-free’ won’t protect you
Children are particularly susceptible to the effects of BPA and similar chemicals, research shows, even in very small quantities. A walk through the baby aisle of any pharmacy will reveal a sea of products shouting “BPA-free” on their packaging. Bisphenol-A — better known as BPA — is an industrial chemical that’s used in many household…
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Confirmed! Fluoride is a Neuro-toxin. SUMMARY OF THE SCIENCE
New York – December 30, 2016 – The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has released a new video: “Fluoride & The Brain” that should be the ideal tool to help educate dentists, doctors, scientists, decision-makers, the media, and friends on the scientific evidence that fluoride can damage the brain and has the potential to lower IQ…
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Scientists Prove Link Between Aluminum and Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
In today’s world, aluminum is omnipresent, building up within our system from everyday products. Now, we are learning that aluminum toxicity can manifest itself in alarming ways. As many of us are aware, the human body is being bombarded with aluminum in everyday products. Many of our foods, vaccinations, medications, baby products, cosmetics, cleaning products…
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12 Ways to Avoid Toxins in the Kitchen
Avoid plastic whenever possible when it comes to food and beverage. Hard plastics can contain BPA, which is a developmental, neural, and reproductive toxin. Scientists have linked very low doses of BPA exposure to cancers, impaired immune function, early onset of puberty, obesity, diabetes and hyperactivity[1]. It can be transferred from plastic into food and…
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Imagine a world without pesticides
Can we imagine a day, a year or a world without using hazardous chemicals to grow our food? I can. And we must. Today, people are continuing to stand up for the future of food and farming, speaking out against harmful pesticide use in Hawaii, Iowa, California and beyond even when it draws the ire…
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ACTION ALERT: Petition to ban neurtoxic additive to our water
New York – November 30, 2016 – A coalition of environmental, medical and health groups have served the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a Petition calling on the Agency to ban the addition of fluoridation chemicals to public water supplies due to the risks these chemicals pose to the brain, reports the Fluoride Action Network…
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Fluoride: Just when you thought it was safe to drink the water …
32% of Idahoians have fluoride added to their water. Fluoride the active ingredient in rat poison and Prozac, was in 2015 officially classified as a neurotoxin. Unlike other chemicals added to water, which are intended to treat the water itself, fluoride is intended to treat the people who drink the water, whether they want the…