Household Toxins
The concentration of toxins inside your home is up to 10 times higher than it is outdoors. Each year an estimated seven billion pounds of toxins and chemical agents are added to the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink. Our cells contain 400 new toxins that did not exist 45 years ago. Some experts point out that the majority of dangerous toxins that we breathe continuously on a daily bases are those that we can't see or even smell.
Among harmful metals and chemicals in our water, trace levels of pharmaceutical drugs are now present in our drinking water. While this list is not near exhaustive about the facts on these so to speak lifestyle enhancing chemicals, the point really is that just because you can't see it doesn't mean that it can't hurt you. Dr. Steve Nugent, author of How to Survive on a Toxic Planet, states:
"A researcher from Michigan State University named Shane Snyder went to Lake Mead in Nevada, which is the primary water source for that entire region. He studied the fish in Lake Mead and conducted the same test 30 times to ensure that his data was correct. He found that the level of estrogen--not xenoestrogens like dioxin or PCBs, but pharmaceutical estrogen like birth control pills--was so high in the Lake Mead that male fish were reproducing female egg protein. Common sense tells us that male fish shouldn't be doing that."
We do know is that chronic illness and disease are skyrocketing even among young children. Stress, toxins, and our modern day diet of junk food, processed foods, and high levels of preservatives and additives all have a negative impact on the immune system. Household toxins--and let's talk just about the ones we know about--contains labels indicating side effects and warnings about effects such as:
- Cancer
- Lower immune system function
- Induce asthma, allergies, headache, and fatigue
- May affect the nervous system
- There is evidence of organ damage in infants
- Some are known to contribute to heart disease
What To Do
Realize that your home may have an ill effect on your health or the health of your family. Do not be fooled and think that because you cannot see, smell, or taste household toxins that they does not exist. Then, begin to identify and remove or reduce household toxins from your home.
Finally, eat a healthy diet, exercise, drink fresh clean water, and take a balanced nutritional supplement. Why should you take supplements if you eat a healthy diet? Mass production of fruits and vegetables has robbed us of even more essential nutrients because premature harvesting does not allow them to reach their natural peak of nutrition. Foods are often picked before they are ripe and allowed to ripen in transit. In addition, heat (cooking) destroys many valuable nutrients in food, which is why many experts recommend eating a diet high in raw foods whenever appropriate.
A supplement will help give you the nutritional elements your body may be lacking, and help to combat toxic elements your home may be harboring or producing. Far from being an "add on," in today's toxin-heavy and nutrition-starved world, a good supplement is essential.
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