Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Moteover, recent research indicates that chloramine exposure is endemic in heavily chlorinated swimming pools. Nitrogen-containing human body sweat and urine, which commonly contaminate pools when children are swimming, also combine with the chlorine to make chloramines. Chloramine exposure at swimming pools is associated with increased risk of childhood asthma.88 On top of all of this, a recent trend has emerged in deliberately mixing hypochlorite with othet agents to make homemade "chemical bombs. |
Marshall Editions
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 Triggers and irritants can include a foreign body in the eye, such as a piece of grit, dirt, or dust, an allergy or hayfever, an intolerance to dairy products or other food, or chlorine in swimming pools. Antibiotic drops or ointment, or antihistamines if the conjunctivitis is an allergic reaction, are usually prescribed. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Swimming pools are superb exercise settings for many people with arthritis.
Choosing Easy-to-Use Products onsider these shopping suggestions from the Arthritis Foundation...
•Avoid products that are difficult to grasp or require twisting to open and close.
Example: Levers are better than knobs.
•Seek out lightweight products, especially cookware, cooking utensils and cleaning tools.
•Buy products, such as shoulder bags, that are shaped so that they can be carried close to the body, reducing pressure on arms, hands and back.
•Choose products that have texture. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Provide funding and other incentives for bicycle paths, recreation centers, swimming pools, parks, and sidewalks.
?Develop and provide guides for cities, zoning authorities, and urban planners on ways to modify residential neighborhoods, workplaces, and shopping centers to promote physical activity.
Taxes
?Levy city, state, or federal taxes on soft drinks and other foods high in calories, fat, or sugar to fund campaigns to promote good nutrition and physical activity.
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Tom Bohager
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 It is particularly prevalent and highly contagious in damp, warm places, such as locker rooms, swimming pools, showers, and gyms.
Recommendations for treating ringworm include eating a well-balanced diet and reducing intake of foods that are high in sugar, which can support the overgrowth of fungus in the body. Enzyme thetapy is used to support the immune and digestive systems and reduce overgrowth of fungus. |
Dr Ron Roberts
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 Ensure that if it is necessary medication is kept at school,- find out where the school stores it, and ask that they take it on outings to swimming pools, sports grounds, etc., where it may most be needed!
Finally, don't feel that your child will be unable to take part in sports because he or she is asthmatic. Many professional sportsmen and women are asthmatics. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| The same system was also introduced at much smaller sites, even down to the level of neighborhood swimming pools. By the late 1940s, chlorine gas had also become a major industrial feedstock in plastics and other chemical manufactuting. Railroad tank cars laden with compressed gas crisscrossed most industrialized countries.
The expanding list of potential exposure scenarios is reflected in the medical reports of chlorine gas poisoning that began to appear in the years during and following World War II. |
Marshall Editions
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| Warm, moist environments such as bathrooms and swimming pools are an ideal breeding ground for the fungus. |
Mark Lynas
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 Despite perennial funding problems, SEDAPAL's operations were humming along as normal, with huge undercover reservoirs, looking like Olympic swimming pools, channelling crystal-clear water to different parts of the city.
But SEDAPAL has a problem. The inland Cordillera Central, on which the river Rimac depends for glacial runoff, is lower than the more extensively glaciated Cordillera Blanca, with even the highest peaks barely crossing 5,500 metres in altitude. The glaciers are small, without extensive snowfields to feed them. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Monsanto was aware that their industrial customers were mixing PCBs into coatings applied inside "potable water supply storage tanks," swimming pools,12 and grain silos. In the latter case, Monsanto knew that high levels of PCBs ended up in the milk of cows fed the grain.13 A Monsanto memo also acknowledged that "one million lbs/year" of PCBs were used in highway paints, and "through abrasion and leaching we can assume that nearly all of this ... winds up in the environment. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 There is chlorine in our drinking water, in our showers, in our swimming pools, and in the water used to irrigate our crops. It is highly recommended that you use a water purification system not only on your drinking water tap, but for the whole house, and if out to eat, avoid drinking restaurant tap water.
Were chlorine and fluoride the only chemicals we had to worry about, that would be bad enough. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| Chloramine exposure at swimming pools is associated with increased risk of childhood asthma.88 On top of all of this, a recent trend has emerged in deliberately mixing hypochlorite with othet agents to make homemade "chemical bombs." These seem to be used prominently in school pranks gone sour: in one October 2001 event at a high school in Rhode Island, twenty-three persons (five teachets and eighteen students) required hospital trearment for breathing symptoms.89
Better product labeling is important to protect against some of these problems, yet this alone is not likely to be sufficient. |
Luca Turin
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 The next six are harsh compounds variously reminiscent of swimming pools and rancid fat, and all endowed with a definite 'chemical' character - i.e. something that tells us to stay well away. Octanal is the first presentable member of the family and in dilution smells orange-like, though still slightly fatty. From then on it's smooth sailing all the way to the twelve-carbon dodecanal. These aldehydes are present in such common places as citrus peel, and were synthesized as far back as the 1850s. |
Paula Begoun
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 That sounds great, but even if this product could penetrate the hair shaft, none of the ingredients in here are capable of protecting hair from sun, salt water, or chlorinated swimming pools. This can work well for all hair types looking for a lightweight conditioner, provided you don't rely on it to protect your hair in the sun.
© $$$ Soleil Creme Richesse, Intensive Repair Treatment ($36for 5.1 ounces) is nearly identical to the Nutritive Masquintense, Rich Nurturing Treatment for Thick Hair above, and the same review applies. |
| Sensories Clarify Rosemary & Qmllaja Clarifying Detoxifying Shampoo ($8 for 13-5 ounces) does not contain any chelating agents, which are what is needed in a clarifying shampoo to remove the mineral deposits from hard water or the chlorine buildup from swimming pools. This is a standard shampoo whose conditioning agents pose no risk of buildup, but the TEA-lauryl sulfate (which is not present in a high amount) can still be drying for all but oily hair and scalp.
© Sensories Full Green Tea & Alfalfa Shampoo ($8. |
| We tend to blame the chlorine in swimming pools for turning blonde hair green, but chlorine isn't the culprit in this case. Chlorine does dry out the hair by breaking through the cuticle, staying put, and tearing at the cuticle every time you brush. But the green discoloration comes from the copper leached from copper pipes into pool water (Source: Cutis, July 1995, pages 37-40).
Salt water, if left to dry on hair and combined with sun, wind, and sand, can leave the hair in a tangled, dried-out, frazzled state. These hazards are especially significant for someone whose hair is already damaged. |
| Kerastase Soleil Products
Soleil translates to "sun," and that's the theme for this subcategory of Kerastase products, which is designed to treat hair that has been exposed to the damaging effects of not only the sun but also the ocean, wind, and chlorinated water (as in swimming pools). Perhaps no one in L'Oreal's marketing department noticed that these formulations are remarkably similar to every other Kerastase product. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The EPA, a number of years ago, because silver was starting to be used in things like swimming pools, had to come out with how much you could safely consume every single day for your entire life based on a 72-year life span. And according to the EPA guidelines for safety, a normal sized adult at 160 pounds could actually drink 2 teaspoons of our disinfectant product every day for their entire life, and it would be completely safe. |
Paula Begoun
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| The longer ends have been putting up with blow dryers, brushes, weather, swimming pools, styling products, and chemical treatments such as dyes or perms for a longer period of time. New hair does not need the same attention or product as the ends. Combination hair of this kind is even more typical than combination skin, yet the hair-care companies virtually ignore this condition.
Normal hair and normal scalp (usually straight or wavy). This is the dream head of hair. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 Therefore, most of the spent fuel rods of American reactors have been stockpiled at reactor sites all around the nation, in storage vessels that resemble swimming pools, where the material becomes steadily less radioactive as the more unstable isotopes decay and also generate less and less heat. This method of stockpiling onsite has always been considered a temporary stopgap, but has become routine pending the resolution of a national nuclear waste storage program. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Stay away from hot tubs, steam rooms and swimming pools.
Swimming pools and hot tubs are filled with water that is loaded to excess with chlorine. Chlorine is a deadly poisonous chemical. People think swimming in a pool or relaxing in a hot tub is healthy. The exact opposite is true. It suppresses your immune system, dries your skin, and loads your body with high amounts of chlorine, scarring the arteries and leading to heart disease. The steam pouring into the steam room is from regular tap water that is loaded with toxic poisons and contaminants. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 We absorb them through our skin from cosmetics, toiletries, treated wood, sprayed plants, treated areas of public parks, golf courses, bath water, and swimming pools. We even inhale them in air contaminated with solvents, car fumes, industrial waste, and environmental pollutants.
The problem is that our bodies were never designed to protect themselves against this form of chemical onslaught. As a result, our systems usually fail to process and remove most of these chemicals once they have entered our bodies, so their levels start building up inside us. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Children would vote themselves an endless supply of candy, sugary breakfast cereal, video games, fashionable clothing, swimming pools and basically anything they wanted, despite parents' explanations about the monthly household budget. Children really wouldn't be capable of comprehending those concepts, and they would outspend the monthly revenues of the household by a rather large margin.
Over time, this would create a household deficit, meaning the parents would have to take out loans and start paying interest on those loans each and every month. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Uses Dowmax super magnets lasting at least 100 years to change the molecular structure of water, holds Minerals in suspension preventing their buildup (in pipes or filters) to eliminate sulfur, chlorine, and iron taste and odor; separates water molecules for less surface resistance, lessens water use with greater penetration into soil and greater uptake by plants in agriculture or landscaping; for commercial water system purifying and swimming pools; gives spot-free glassware in automatic dishwashers. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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 For instance, there are often high levels of organochlorines in swimming pools. Once again, the chlorine in the swimming pool water combines with organic material in the water. These organochlorines can enter the body through the skin. We can also inhale them from fumes near the surface levels of swimming pools and hot tubs. And it is not uncommon to breathe in organochlorines every time we open our dishwasher at home! |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Factors that can contribute to conjunctivitis include bacterial infection, virus, injury to the eye, allergies, and exposure to substances that are irritating to the eye, such as fumes, smoke, contact lens solutions, chlorine from swimming pools, chemicals, makeup, or any other foreign substance that enters the eye. Conjunctivitis is highly contagious if it is caused by a viral infection.
NUTRIENTS
SUPPLEMENT
SUGGESTED DOSAGE
COMMENTS
Vitamin A
25,000 IU daily for
Vitamin A, vitamin C, and zinc
1 month; then reduce to all help to promote immunity,
15,000 IU daily. |
James Howard Kunstler
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| The effect of all this on the students, though, was always secondary to the administrative benefits, and the purpose of school somehow got lost, so that, paradoxically, even the richest suburban high schools with Olympic swimming pools, food courts, and hectares of playing fields produced alienated students dogged by anomie, depression, and a pervasive anxiety about their future roles in a consumer society.
In the Long Emergency, this scale of educational enterprise will no longer be feasible, and the attenuation of childhood no longer affordable. |
Joseph E. Mario
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| Silver is widely used for purifying the environment; Japanese use Sil ver five ways purifying air; used in aircraft and spacecraft to purify water; here on Earth for swimming pools (.04 to .2 ppm./40-200 gamma), apool contaminated with 7000 E. coli bacteria count wascleaned completely with Silverelectrodes in 3 hours. Silver sprayed on plants counters viral and fungal attacks, and in soil. Used as a food preservative, a Silver dollar in a pitcher of milk kept it fresh all day at room temperature.
Wearing Silver metal is a calming stabilizer, similar to the effect ofblue/grey. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| Reuters reports that air around indoor swimming pools is harmful to children's lung cells. Researchers believe that exposure to chlorine byproducts in air around indoor pools harm respiratory cells.
• Reuters reported that mercury is being released from coal fired power plants and is one of the contributing causes of increase in autism and other health disorders. It is also believed that whether you live near a power plant or not you are still affected since mercury travels virtually around the globe.
• It has been reported that the feed that is used in U.S. |
Tanya Harter Pierce
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| We can also inhale them from fumes near the surface levels of swimming pools and hot tubs. And it is not uncommon to breathe in organochlorines every time we open our dishwasher at home! In this case, the chlorine compounds that originate from both the dishwashing soap and the water are "volatized" and released with the steamy mist when the dishwasher door is opened. In the same way, organochlorines are also released into the air after chlorine from laundry detergents mixes with organic material from clothes in our washing machines! |
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