Top "10" Hazardous Household Chemicals

AIR FRESHENERS

'Most air fresheners interfere with your ability to smell by coating your nasal passages with an oil film, or by releasing a nerve deadening agent. Known toxic chemicals found in an air freshener: Formaldehyde: Highly toxic, known carcinogen. Phenol: When phenol touches your skin it can cause it to swell, burn, peel, and break out in hives. Can cause cold sweats,convulsions, circulatory collapse, coma and even death.'


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Probiotics Destroy Toxic Chemicals In Our Gut For Us

'It is an awesome fact of nature that we have trillions of organisms within our body – containing completely foreign DNA – some of which break down toxic chemicals that we humans have created to kill other things, but are now killing us, e.g. pesticides. Who are these strange helpers?

Bacteria!

Wait. Aren’t bacteria supposed to harm us? Aren’t they the enemy in the endless war against infection?'

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Phthalates: Lack of Regulation and Protecting Yourself

'Cancer-causing' chemical used in plastics and food containers can also lead to obesity and diabetes, says study'

'Phthalates are highly toxic and they’re virtually everywhere. We literally breathe them in! Here is information about the lack of adequate regulation and how you can limit your exposure.'


'To be blunt, it’s virtually impossible to completely avoid phthalates. They are, literally, in the environment everywhere—in the air, water, and even in food. They’re in cosmetics, cleaning products, and the containers that hold them. They’re in soft vinyl toys, vinyl floorings, vinyl mini blinds, wallpaper, wood finishes, shower curtains, and in the air in rooms that contain them. They’re in wood finishes, perfume, hairspray, soap, shampoo, moisturizers, nail polish, food packaging, plastic wrap, lubricants, adhesives, plumbing pipes, insecticides, medical devices, and much more.

We eat phthalates, we drink phthalates, we soak them in through our skin, and we breathe them. They are everywhere. However, you can limit your exposure, but it will mean doing without a lot of modern conveniences. Here are some things you can do:'


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Benzene – the Hidden Carcinogen That’s Everywhere

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 'Benzene is made mostly from petroleum. Because of its wide use, benzene ranks in the top 20 for chemicals produced in the United States. Various industries use benzene to make other chemicals, such as Styrofoam®, plastics, resins, nylon and synthetic fibers. Benzene is also used in the manufacturing of some types of rubbers, lubricants, dyes, detergents, pesticides and even drugs. So as you can see it’s all over our environment.

And this is the point we want to make. The FDA and EPA have decided that products containing less than 10 micrograms of benzene are safe. But when it’s used in so many products, our exposure goes well beyond 10 micrograms.

Why does all of this matter? Because benzene is a known cancer-causing chemical.'

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Which Toxic Chemical Is Found In 99 Percent of Breast Cancer Patients?

 

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'For years, experts have been warning women about some very toxic ingredients the cosmetic industry uses which put users at risk of cancer and hormonal changes. University of Reading researchers have now found one of those chemicals in 99 percent of the tissue samples for women undergoing mastectomies for first primary breast cancer.'

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Presidential Panel Warns of Grievous Harm & Increased Cancer Risk from Toxins

by Byron Richards CCN


'For decades the FDA and EPA have essentially been run by the industries they are supposed to regulate. A new 240-page report outlines the serious health threat of these chemicals to all Americans, claiming that their former role in cancer has been grossly underestimated and needlessly devastate American lives. I have argued for many years that all the toxic chemicals Americans are exposed to on a regular basis amounts to Russian roulette with your gene weaknesses, a bizarre game of genetic survival of the fittest.'

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