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Back in November 2007, I wrote an article “Is Cancer in Your Tub?” The information within this article predominately came from Network News and Publications(www.netnewspbl.com).  In essence the literature discusses FDA approved chemicals in our foods and house hold products as an outrage to our families health!  Many of your everyday use items have carcinogenic toxins that within a laboratory controlled study, in many cases “confirm serious health issues with long term use of our FDA Qualified “SAFE” products!”  To read the full article “Is Cancer in Your Tub?  Visit our Health Repository, look under “Environmental Toxins, and scroll over to Mirror Athlete free read articles column.”

Recently I procured brochures from author Debra Lynn Dadd, “Please Protect Yourself from Household Toxics.  I would like to share a portion of the information that was in her literature.  She writes,

“While certain people may be more sensitive than others, and some chemical(s) may bring on reactions only after many years of repeated exposure, I discovered through my research that chemicals may bring on reactions only after many years of repeated exposure, I discovered through my research that chemicals in the home could put anyone at risk.  Cancer, birth defects, genetic changes, heart disease… Almost any symptom imaginable, both physical and psychological, has been associated with chemicals in common household products.  Recently, scientists have discovered that toxic chemicals can lodge in our endocrine system contributing to thyroid problems, diabetes, weight gain, and infertility.  At greatest risk are fetuses, children, the elderly, and those who are already ill, but these chemicals are threatening the health of everyone, every day.”

Also, as I combed through AARP Bulletin Today, May 2008, Vol.49 No. 4, there is an excellent article I’d like to share with you.  “Hazards at Home,” by Reed Karaim.

“And older people are more likely to have conditions – such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease and diabetes – that can dramatically reduce their ability to withstand exposure to environmental hazards… The stakes are high.  Older people tend to process and eliminate toxicants from their bodies more slowly than younger people.  And “as we age, we become less efficient at detoxification – the slowing down of kidneys, liver and immune system functioning all play a role.  In this older people are more like infants and children in their ability to fend off toxic assaults,says Sandra Steingraber,the author of Living Downstream:  An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment.”

“Cleaners – Chemicals to avoid in cleaners, says McRandle (Paul McRandle, Deputy Editor at the National Geographic Green Guide), run from ammonia, which is known to trigger asthma, elements in chlorine bleach, which is a lung irritant and will kill you if you swallow it, to things like glycol ethers, which are used to dissolve grime and dirt, and can cause nerve damage.”  Protect your skin by wearing rubber gloves and your lungs by ventilating your work area or wearing a mask.”

It simply was amazing to see within these articles, glycol ethers and propylene Glycol (ingredient found in anti-freeze), are ingredients within many of your household shampoos, deodorants, cosmetics, lotions, toothpaste and pet food?”  Why is it necessary to put these carcinogenic solvents in our consumable house hold products?  Especially, when company’s know how to make a non-toxic human product?  The answer is very clear.  “It’s all about the money.”  It’s obvious to me that cost cutting “skimming SAFE quality products” and outsourcing American business is “the” critical” element required when profits are king.

Author:  Marc T. Woodard, MBA, BS Exercise Science, USA Medical Services Officer, CPT, RET.  2008 Copyright.  All rights reserved, Mirror Athlete Publishing, www.mirrorathlete.com,  Sign up for your Free eNewsletter.