Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  As an alternative, try making your own household cleaners. It's both easy and inexpensive. For furniture polish, mix one part white distilled vinegar, three parts olive oil, and a dash of natural lemon oil. For cleaning glass surfaces, try plain club soda or a mixture of half vinegar and half water in a pump spray bottle. More great household-cleaner recipes abound on the Web (see www.ecomall.com/greenshopping/coamerica.htm).
THINK BEFOREYOU PINK. Our skin is the largest organ of the body—and remarkably porous and adept at absorbing toxins. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
See book keywords and concepts |  An EPA study revealed that toxic chemicals in household cleaners are three times more likely to cause cancer than outdoor air.
>• The Asthma Society of Canada has identified common household cleaners and cosmetics as triggers to asthma. soap to dishwasher tablets. The next time you run out of one product or another, whether it's floor cleaner, window cleaner, or bathroom cleaner, replace it with something less harmful.
If there are particular products you really can't find a replacement for, seal them up in an airtight container such as a tin after each use. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Substances that have been shown to have estrogenic effects in the body include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), weed killers, substances that line cans, plastics, detergents, and household cleaners.31
Despite this lack of identification of a definitive link between chemical exposures and endometriosis, we do know that women are exposed to a multitude of chemicals in utero, in childhood, peripubertally (the time around the appearance of secondary sex characteristics such as pubic hair), and as adults. | | We can identify chemicals in cosmetics, nail polish, plastics, household cleaners, dry cleaning, and foods. A survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals) is currently underway, which monitors 145 chemicals in 2,500 people in the United States. |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts |  Heavy metals are in the water we drink, the foods we eat, the air we breathe, our daily household cleaners, our cookware and our other daily tools. A heavy metal has a density at least 5 times that of water and cannot be metabolized by the body, therefore accumulating in the body. Heavy metal toxicity can cause our mental functions, energy, nervous system, kidneys, lungs and other organ functions to decline. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
See book keywords and concepts |  Cracked nails, for example, can be caused by using household cleaners without gloves—or by nutritional deficiencies.
Body Signs wraps up with the skin. Our skin, the body's largest organ and its most visible and vulnerable, can display a mass of signs: bumps, lumps, freckles, moles, liver spots, spider veins, wrinkles, and dimples. Its color, texture, and tone can all be important clues to countless diseases hidden beneath its surface. While many skin signs are merely cosmetic concerns, some may signify nutritional or hormonal problems, or—most important—cancer. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts |  Lemon has been revered as a key ingredient in various household cleaners for its fresh scent and stain-removal properties. Lemon also does a great job in removing odor from hands. Many claim that applying a little lemon juice mixed with water several times a day to blemishes will help them disappear.
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RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: Vitamin C-rich foods provide protection against inflammatory polyarthritis, a form of rheumatoid arthritis involving two or more joints. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The report, published in the New England Journal ofMedicine in 1964, begins with the following time-encapsulated introduction: "Mixing household cleaners is a common practice among American housewives. Experimenting and unconscious of the fumes that some of these mixtures release, they hope that their own formulation will clean better than a single commercial product will."
Not every homemaker was as lucky as Mrs. B. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts | | Shortly after, investigators in the Netherlands turned up similar findings: they discovered an array of chemicals commonly found in household cleaners, cosmetics, and furniture in the cord blood of thirty newborns.
OUR AUTOGEN-FILLED WORLD: HOW DID WE BECOME SO CONTAMINATED?
How do these chemicals creep into our bodies? The process occurs through the simple exposures to contaminants in our world that most of us rarely think twice about. Consider the substances that Becky came into contact with in just one day. | | In Los Angeles, approximately 108 tons of volatile organic compounds are released daily from household cleaners, personal grooming products, and paints. These domestic emissions are about to overtake car emissions as the primary source of the city's outdoor air pollution.
Some schools and hospitals are replacing chemical-based cleaning agents with natural alternatives. Since September 2006, a state law has required schools in New York to use cleaning products that do not carry any endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, or scents that can trigger reactions such as asthma. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  These chemicals are openly added to laundry detergents, skin creams, cosmetics, pet products, household cleaners, car cleaners, dish soap, perfumes, shampoos and many other products regularly used by consumers. Of course, most consumers have no idea they're consuming cancer-causing ingredients, and most retailers seem to have no interest whatsoever in testing their products for dangerous chemical substances.
Why was Walgreens selling products if it didn't know what was in them? And what about retailers like Wal-Mart, Costco and Sam's Clubs? |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts |  Triggers and irritants can include house dust; animal fur; pollen; synthetic fabrics such as elastic and latex; certain foods such as wheat, dairy, eggs, seafood, berries, and chocolate; chemicals in soap or fabric conditioners; nickel; fragrances and household cleaners; and emotional states such as upheaval, stress, and anxiety.
DANGER: Any escalating symptoms of an allergic skin reaction that are combined with any hint of swelling of the face, lips, or throat require immediate emergency treatment. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
See book keywords and concepts |  Nontoxic, environmentally friendly household cleaners are now available in most health food stores as well as many mass market stores (see Resource Directory, page 265, for leads).These can still be a little pricier than regular toxic cleaners, but your health is worth it. If you feel the need to keep a few regular, chemical-laden cleaning products, store them in airtight containers and keep them in the toolshed or garage. |
Dr Ron Roberts
See book keywords and concepts |  A by no means complete list would include fur, feathers, wool, perfumes, chemicals used in hair care products and cosmetics, insecticides, household cleaners and disinfectants, oil and petrol fumes, and the fumes from gas heaters. Three of the most common are moulds, foods and drugs.
Mould spores are being increasingly suspected as causes of asthma because, like pollen, they can be released into the air in huge numbers. You don't have to live in a damp suburb to have mould in your home, either: moulds can survive in a variety of places. |
Ron Garner
See book keywords and concepts |  Harmful chemicals can be found in daily-use items such as packaged and processed food, household cleaners, cosmetics, and fragrances. Volumes could be written on this subject alone, but a few of the more widely-used chemicals and their common sources are covered here so that readers can take precautions to minimize exposure to them.
Chlorine
Chlorine is used as a bactericide in drinking water, and as a bleaching and cleaning agent. In small concentrations it is supposed to be non-toxic, or perhaps is apparently so. In strong solutions or as a pure gas, it is a deadly poison. | | This means getting all the right nutrients and enzymes, having the right environment, and avoiding those things that tend to depress immunity such as: household cleaners, the overuse of antibiotics and drugs, pesticides, chemical additives present in the foods we eat, exposure to environmental pollutants, and stress. Lowered immunity results in impaired healing ability and lowered defense against infection. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | Formaldehyde, a preservative that is used in paints, medications, fabric finishes, paper products, household cleaners and cosmetics.
•Cobalt chloride, a metal that is found in medical products, hair dye, antiperspirant and metal-plated objects, such as snaps, buttons and tools. Also found in cobalt blue pigment.
•Bacitracin, a topical antibiotic.
•Quaternium 15, a preservative that can be found in cosmetic products, such as self-tanners, shampoo, nail polish and sunscreen, as well as in industrial products, such as polishes, paints and waxes. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
See book keywords and concepts | | Every year, about half a million tons of liquid cleaners go down the drain in the United States alone. household cleaners, which are sold now in virtually all retail outlets, from grocery stores to convenience markets and pharmacies, are the major source of home toxins; they are a toxic cocktail of petroleum-based surfactants, solvents, and other chemicals that are associated with a bevy of health problems. (An exploration of their labeling gives you a clue.) The number one cause of household poisoning is dish detergent. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts | | Manufacturers of household cleaners are not required to list toxic ingredients on their product labels even if those products contain toxins. The truth is, you have no idea what is in the polish you use to make your dining room table shine or the spray you use to make your windows gleam. Yet, according to a study by the Environmental Protection Agency, the fumes and gases released into our homes by everyday cleaners help to make indoor air five times more polluted than the air we breathe outdoors. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
See book keywords and concepts | | Do you use commercial household cleaners, cosmetics or antiperspirants?
? Have you ever taken prescription medications or over-the-counter medications, including hormone replacement therapy or birth control?
? Do you have wall-to-wall carpet in your home or office?
? Do you eat commercial (non-organic) vegetables, fruits, or meat?
? Do you wear clothes that have been dry-cleaned?
? Do you wear synthetic materials (such as polyester)?
? Do you eat processed food or fast food?
? Have you ever smoked or been exposed to second-hand smoke?
? Do you eat in restaurants more than twice weekly? | | The Lion's Den
Wherever you store household cleaners, detergents, disinfectants, bleaches, stain removers for the laundry, and so on, aim to tackle this place gradually. Replace one or two products a week with natural ones, and try making your own where possible using the ideas on pages 63-65. Every year, about half a million tons of liquid cleaners go down the drain in the United States alone. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  Other alternative household cleaners include grain alcohol as a solvent instead of toxic butyl Cellosolve, and plant-oil disinfectants such as eucalyptus, rosemary, or sage rather than triclosan, which is found in everything from detergents and soaps to lotions and mouthwashes.
Bathroom Cleaners: Hydrochloric acid and sodium acid sulfate, both of which are found in toilet bowl cleaners, can burn the skin and eyes or cause vomiting, diarrhea, and stomach burns if swallowed. Other common toilet cleaners contain phosphoric acid, which can cause blindness if it gets into the eyes. | | Fear tactics aren't necessarily the best motivation for change, but the ingredients in common household cleaners are downright frightening. The number of toxic substances we generally stock under our sinks and in our utility closets is practically unthinkable, which is just the problem: we choose not to think about them. We also choose not to think about those toxic substances once they swirl down our drains and disappear. |
Luca Turin
See book keywords and concepts |  For example, lemon-scented household cleaners contain the -CN equivalent of what is perhaps the best-known aldehyde of all (at least by smell): citral. The nitrile equivalent is called Agrunitrile® and smells, well, like an oily-metallic lemon. citral, lemon
Agrunitrile®, oily-metallic lemon
Remarkably, this trick can be done with many aldehydes, giving metallic-oily cucumbers and metallic-oily cumin. Once again, the smell of a molecule is the sum of its parts.
Why is all this amazing? Let us go back to -SH for a minute. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
See book keywords and concepts | | The Asthma Society of Canada has identified common household cleaners and cosmetics as triggers to asthma. soap to dishwasher tablets. The next time you run out of one product or another, whether it's floor cleaner, window cleaner, or bathroom cleaner, replace it with something less harmful.
If there are particular products you really can't find a replacement for, seal them up in an airtight container such as a tin after each use. This will significantly reduce the amount of vapor they release into the air, which would otherwise end up in your lungs. | | Using nonenvironmentally friendly household cleaners.
_ Living in a major city (due to air pollution).
_ Eating the skins or outside leaves of conventionally grown fruits and vegetables (nonorganic, particularly strawberries, apples, pears, carrots, lettuce). _ Regularly drinking one or more soft drinks from aluminum cans a day.
_ A diet that consists mostly of processed foods (due to the use of artificial preservatives, colorings, flavorings, and additives).
_ The regular intake of sugar-free or low-sugar foods and drinks, which use artificial sweeteners (such as aspartame and saccharine). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Secondly, the American people's minds and bodies are being poisoned by prescription drugs, food additives, metabolic disruptors, artificial light, toxic chemicals in personal care products, household cleaners, and so on.
We have a degenerate society here right now, and actually, if you're the king of this society, it's kind of handy to have a bunch of people who don't think too much. You're going to want people to have just enough capability to work hard, pay taxes and consume products. |
Kevin Trudeau
See book keywords and concepts |  Not convinced that household cleaners are dangerous to your health? Consider this:
• The Associated Press reported that deaths show dangers of household chemicals. This article explained how ALL household cleaners are chemicals that are incredibly toxic. The all can be fatal if they get into your body. They get into your body through the skin, through the fumes that you inhale, and of course, by accidentally drinking. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
See book keywords and concepts |  Minimize or eliminate toxic chemicals in your environment (i.e., household cleaners, paints, skin care products that contain mineral oil, harmful chemicals, etc.)
• Reduce stress and exercise regularly.
00 0 eating-for-health guideline #5 account for ailments
.. .when making wise food choices.
There isn't any condition in the body that can't be improved by improving your diet. There isn't any condition in the body that can't be improved by improving your diet. No, the cut and paste button on my computer didn't get stuck. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Irritant contact dermatitis is a milder form and often occurs with body care products, laundry products, and household cleaners, although other irritants may be implicated as well.
Signs and Symptoms
Eczema is characterized by chronically itchy, inflamed skin. The skin is very red and scaly and may blister and ooze. Scratching and rubbing lead to darkened and hardened areas of thickened skin with accentuated furrows, most commonly seen on the inside of the wrists and elbows, on the face, and on the backs of the knees. Secondary infections of the skin can occur due to repeated scratching. |
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