Category: Toxins
The facts about chemicals, pesticides, and clean water.
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Toxic Heavy Metals Found in Organic Chocolate
A study by As You Sow found levels of cadmium and lead, two toxic heavy metals, in 45 of 70 chocolate bar samples (including some organic brands) at levels higher than what is considered to be safe in drinking water. While you would have to eat an enormous amount of chocolate to be affected, if…
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Bees Attracted to Dangerous Fungicides
Most people have heard that honey bee populations are struggling–and the affects that neonicotinoid pesticides are having on honey bee health are gradually becoming main-stream knowledge. Interestingly, what is coming to light as more research is done, fungicides may also have an adverse effect on honey bee health as well. Glorybee.com: We need bees. With…
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Toxic Plastic Food Storage
Are your food containers dangerous to your health? Many chemical additives that give plastic products desirable performance properties also have negative environmental and human health effects.These effects include Direct toxicity, as in the cases of lead, cadmium, and mercury Carcinogens, as in the case of diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) Endocrine disruption, which can lead to cancers,…
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Cell Tower at School
Studies show that prolonged exposure to radiation from cell phone WiFi towers can cause illness and health damages in children and adults and yet the cities and counties keep placing cell towers on school property. There is no resistance from parents or students. Is it because we believe that the government has done long term…
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DOES VACUUMING HELP ALLERGIES, OR MAKE THEM WORSE?
Sneezing is not always the symptom of a cold. Sometimes,it is an allergic reaction to something in the air. Health experts estimate that 35 million Americans suffer from upper respiratory tract symptoms that are allergic reactions to airborne allergens. If you own a bagless vacuum cleaner, you may think you’re getting rid of the dust,…
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Another Study Showing a Cell Phone-Cancer Link Downplayed by the FDA
There’s an estimated 327.5 million cell phone subscriber in the United States. Recent worldwide studies have linked cell phone radiation to cancer. World Health Organization has labeled it a “possible human carcinogen.” In November 2018, The US National Toxicology Program — an inter-agency government group that’s a part of the National Institutes of Health —…
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FCC Adopts New Regulations Severely Limiting State and City Right to Placement of 5G
On September 26, 2018, the FCC adopted regulations that are intended to facilitate 5G technology by severely limiting the objections that states and cities can raise to small cell installations. The FCC’s press release stated that this was “another important step in its ongoing efforts to remove regulatory barriers that inhibit the deployment of infrastructure…
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Proximity to Cell Tower Increases Cancer Risk
A mother is Eagle Idaho is fighting for her family’s health and those of her neighbors. <sign the petition> Can you imagine a cell tower being installed 25 feet from your organic garden and not far from your children’s playset? Interestingly, even the cell companies say that “safe distance” is 1/4 mile. Not 80 feet.…
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Epigentics, Toxins and Autism Increase
Autism genetic? If autism was purely a genetic problem then the numbers should be 1 in 100 from here until the dawn of time. The autistic should be part of our culture, the stories we tell, the very fabric of our society. But they’re not. Instead we have stories about the tidal wave of adults…
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US Food Brands Petition EPA to Ban Pre-Harvest Glyphosate Spraying
The Environmental Working Group, joined by food and nutrition companies including MegaFood, Ben & Jerry’s, Stonyfield Farm, MOM’s Organic Market, Nature’s Path, One Degree Organic Foods, National Co+op Grocers and Happy Family Organics, petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday to sharply limit glyphosate residues allowed on oats and prohibit the pesticide’s use as a…