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Plants of the four winds - The magic and medicinal flora of Peru Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon See book keywords and concepts

Usos: Malhumor, Intoxication de la Sangre, Enojo, Sarpullidos de intoxication, Ingestion de medicina toxica - Uses: Moodiness, Grumpiness, Intoxication of the Blood, Anger, Rashes from intoxication, Ingestion of toxic medicine Conchalay, Conchalay Colorado Fuchsia ayavacensis H.B. & K. Familia: ONAGRACEAE - Family: ONAGRACEAE Partes usadas: Hojas y Tallos, frescos o secos - Plant parts used: Leaves and Stems, fresh or dried Administration: 1., 2. Topica - Administration: 1., 2. Topical Preparacion: 1.

The greenwashing of toxic consumer products Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Everything from toxic cosmetics to smog-producing cars are now being positioned as "green" products, and just recently I actually saw a package of mercury-containing compact fluorescent lights with a marketing logo that claimed the product was, "Helping protect the planet!" I have yet to understand the logic of how buying and throwing away mercury-contaminated products has any real benefit to the planet. Defenders of CFLs claim these lights are good for the environment because even though they contain toxic mercury, they use less energy than incandescent lights.

Unfortunately, the second ingredient in fabric softeners is "fragrance," and the fragrance chemicals are so highly toxic that they cause cancer in humans and are extremely destructive to aquatic ecosystems downstream. Merely drying your clothes with common dryer sheets, then washing them the next time you do laundry unleashes a chemical tidal wave of toxicity that is shockingly harmful to the environment. But that doesn't stop these companies from positioning their fabric softener sheets as being green, does it?

Greenwashing is big business, and so is pushing more toxic products to consumers that they will spray on their lawns, shove down their throats, put in their cars or pee away into the sewer system. Most consumer products are highly toxic for people, animals and nature, and before long, nearly all of them will likely carry some kind of greenwashing claim that declares how good they are for the environment.

8,000 toxic Waste Sites Ignored by EPA; Massive Lead Contamination at Shooting Ranges Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

There is no question that the toxic levels of lead at shooting ranges are endangering America's children and families," says VPC senior policy analyst and report author Tom Diaz. "No amount of lead exposure is known to be completely safe for a child. 'Poisonous Pastime' reveals for the first time that the gun industry -- through toxic and unregulated ranges -- is sacrificing the health of our children for profit." Firearm instructors, range employees and frequent shooters seem to be the group with the highest levels of lead poisoning.

Consumer alert: Popular air fresheners found to contain toxic chemical Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Oh, and here's another huge "Wow" realization that, I guarantee you, nobody else is talking about these days: Many of these toxic fragrance chemicals escape from their product bottles, circulate in the air at grocery stores, and get absorbed by other food products sold in the same store. I'm not kidding: That's why the peaches I once bought at Costco smell like Tide laundry detergent. It's because the peaches have soaked up some chemicals from the Tide!

The health care reform legislation that Congress should pass, but won't Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

These are known toxic substances that are not only toxic to the humans who consume them but also to the environment. Mercury fillings, for example, currently release 34 metric tons of toxic mercury into the environment each year. That's about as much as all the coal plants in a sizeable nation, yet the EPA pretends mercury fillings have no environmental impact whatsoever. Aspartame, too, is a known toxic substance that's well documented as a neurotoxin. And fluoridation?

Consumer alert: Popular air fresheners found to contain toxic chemical Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Just wait until scientists someday wake up and start realizing that virtually everything sold at most retailers is contaminated with toxic chemicals -- even when those chemicals are not added to the products during manufacturing! Just remember this: Products sitting on the shelves at retailers exchange molecules. Fruits and vegetables absorb molecules in the air, and solvent chemicals can go right through plastic containers. When you buy something at a store, you're buying a little bit of everything in the store!

Antibacterial pencils: toxic, useless and hazardous to public health Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

What do I mean by toxic? I mean chemicals that are molecularly similar to Agent Orange -- chemicals that cause brain cancer and impair the ability of your brain and nervous system to function adequately. I mean chemicals that have to be detoxified by your liver, which means that if you touch these chemicals -- if you even get them on your skin -- your liver has to do all the hard work to render them harmless. So, not only are you doing nothing to protect yourself against all those dangerous bacteria, you are actually harming your health by exposing yourself to these dangerous toxic chemicals.

Toxic waste chemicals are disposed of by feeding to humans, then calling it fluoride Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Think about it: now instead of dumping toxic waste products into landfills where the chemicals leach into the groundwater supplies and get consumed by people, these toxic chemicals get consumed by people first, then they get flushed into the rivers and streams. It reminds me of the beef industry, where one of the USDA-approved feed ingredients for cows is, believe it or not, "chicken litter." (I'm not making this up.) Apparently, there's no good way to get rid of all that chicken excrement unless you feed it to cows. You can look this up on the USDA website if you don't believe me.

Popular shampoos contain toxic chemicals linked to nerve damage Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

In fact, it may surprise you to learn that manufacturers can put practically any chemical they want into shampoos, even if it is a hazardous chemical listed in the RTECS database of toxicity and even if it is considered a toxic waste chemical by the EPA. The FDA allows all sorts of chemicals to be used in these products, including chemicals that are known carcinogens and that contribute to liver failure and nervous system disorders. How's that for protecting public health?

How to get mercury fillings removed without exposing yourself to toxic mercury vapor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: Here's a great idea: Let's take one of the most toxic elements on the periodic table and put it in people's mouths. That's exactly what dentists have been doing in the United States for decades, as they've been filling dental cavities with none other than mercury. Of course, they call them "silver" fillings, but they're really a combination of silver and mercury, which is, again, one of the most toxic substances on the periodic table of elements. I call mercury fillings part of the "dark ages" of modern dentistry.

Consumer alert: Popular air fresheners found to contain toxic chemical Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Support Community-Supported Agriculture organizations (CSAs) and grow what you can yourself, in your own back yard, where the food goes from your garden to your plate, without being subjected to toxic chemicals in the air. And get some detox products to get rid of these chemicals. Some great sources include Heavy Metal Detox from www.DetoxMetals.com and Metal Magic from www.BaselineNutritionals.com (another interesting product is Natural Cellular Defense which I recommend through a friend Jason Groode at http://www.mywaiora.

How to get mercury fillings removed without exposing yourself to toxic mercury vapor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Of course, they call them "silver" fillings, but they're really a combination of silver and mercury, which is, again, one of the most toxic substances on the periodic table of elements. I call mercury fillings part of the "dark ages" of modern dentistry. Today, more and more dentists are realizing, "Hey, maybe this highly toxic metal doesn't belong in the human body." At the same time, dental clients are increasingly realizing they need to get that mercury removed, because as you chew and breathe, some of that mercury is being ingested by your digestive tract or inhaled into your lungs.

Consumers' use of pharmaceuticals, personal care products polluting rivers and oceans with toxic chemicals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It is consumers, often unwittingly, who are poisoning rivers and oceans by sending potentially toxic chemicals down the drain. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stated its researchers have found pharmaceuticals and personal care products -- or PPCPs -- in nearly every water supply they have tested. The issue is not new. In the United Kingdom, the dangers of PPCPs were first recognized in the 1970s. In the U.S., however, it was another twenty years before the scientific community began to take notice, largely in response to the efforts of one scientist, Christian Daughton.

How to get mercury fillings removed without exposing yourself to toxic mercury vapor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Then again, dentists are also many of the same people who are still promoting the ingestion of a highly toxic chemical called fluorosilicic acid, which is sourced from the waste products of smoke stacks and industrial incinerators. This fluorosilicic acid is mislabeled "fluoride" and then dripped into the water supply based on the advice of half-crazed dentists whose mouths are apparently filled with lots of mercury, because they think they alone have the right to determine whether an entire population should be medicated with a highly toxic substance like fluorosilicic acid.

The health care reform legislation that Congress should pass, but won't Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

These are known toxic substances that are not only toxic to the humans who consume them but also to the environment. Mercury fillings, for example, currently release 34 metric tons of toxic mercury into the environment each year. That's about as much as all the coal plants in a sizeable nation, yet the EPA pretends mercury fillings have no environmental impact whatsoever. Aspartame, too, is a known toxic substance that's well documented as a neurotoxin. And fluoridation?

Interview with Randall Fitzgerald, author of The Hundred-Year Lie, on the prevalence of toxic chemicals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We find many examples -- and it cuts both ways -- where a chemical that is safe for animals turns out to be toxic to humans, and chemicals safe for humans turn out to be toxic for animals, and yet we have based our entire public health foundation on animal studies. The second point, as I indicated earlier with you, is that wastewater treatment and water purification plants are supposed to filter out chemical toxins. We now know these plants are not technologically sophisticated enough to remove most of the synthetic chemicals that show up in our foods, our medicines and our consumer products.

I have to mention laundry, because most people are just bathing their clothes in toxic fragrance chemicals and then throwing them in the dryer with more toxic chemicals in the dryer sheet. Fitzgerald: Yes indeed, and that's true with dry cleaning as well, and bringing home those plastic-insulated chemicals on our dry-cleaned clothes, and then opening them up in our heavily insulated bedrooms and closets and getting a whiff of all of these fumes.

Antibacterial pencils: toxic, useless and hazardous to public health Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We also learned that many of these antibiotic products contain toxic chemicals. What do I mean by toxic? I mean chemicals that are molecularly similar to Agent Orange -- chemicals that cause brain cancer and impair the ability of your brain and nervous system to function adequately. I mean chemicals that have to be detoxified by your liver, which means that if you touch these chemicals -- if you even get them on your skin -- your liver has to do all the hard work to render them harmless.

Toxic waste chemicals are disposed of by feeding to humans, then calling it fluoride Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Think about it: now instead of dumping toxic waste products into landfills where the chemicals leach into the groundwater supplies and get consumed by people, these toxic chemicals get consumed by people first, then they get flushed into the rivers and streams. It reminds me of the beef industry, where one of the USDA-approved feed ingredients for cows is, believe it or not, "chicken litter." (I'm not making this up.) Apparently, there's no good way to get rid of all that chicken excrement unless you feed it to cows. You can look this up on the USDA website if you don't believe me.

Exposed: The toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power Mark Schapiro See book keywords and concepts

All these substances are considered by the EU as having potent carcinogenic or neurologically toxic effects.13 Electronics is one of the most global of industries. Soon it would be clear how far the U.S. government had fallen behind even the industry itself. American-made or designed electrical appliances and high-tech products travel the world. U.S. manufacturers exported $199 billion worth of electronic goods in 2005, just over $43 billion of which was to the European Union.

Consumer alert: Popular air fresheners found to contain toxic chemical Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Essentially, consumers could be exposed to any number of toxic airborne chemicals from air freshener products, with no warning whatsoever. The safety of chemicals used in these products is utterly ignored by the FDA in much the same way that perfumes and cosmetic products containing cancer-causing chemicals are routinely ignored by the agency.

Toxic chemical triclosan commonly found in anti-bacterial soaps, toothpaste products Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: A chemical called triclosan poses a health risk, as it is a toxic compound which can promote cancer. The most shocking thing is that triclosan is commonly found in everyday consumer goods such as antibacterial soaps, deodorants, body washes, creams, lotions, cosmetics, cleaning supplies, detergents, dishwashing liquids, and yes, mouthwash and toothpaste. Toothpaste is supposed to help clean your teeth, but what it actually does just might horrify you.

The greenwashing of toxic consumer products Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Defenders of CFLs claim these lights are good for the environment because even though they contain toxic mercury, they use less energy than incandescent lights. And since coal-fired power plants release mercury into the atmosphere, the use of less energy means less overall mercury is being introduced to the environment. While this sounds sensible at first, it's still junk logic: How does harming the planet slightly less than before deserve a "green" claim of any kind?

Corporations, it seems, can claim that practically anything is eco-friendly or environmentally friendly, regardless of all the toxic chemicals it contains or produces. That's what this article is all about: "Greenwashing" or the practice of corporations claiming their products are green when, in reality, they're not at all impressive as eco-friendly products. I recently saw paper plates positioned as "eco-friendly biodegradable tableware." I remember when we used to just call them "paper plates" and we avoided buying them because we wanted to save the trees.

Most consumer products are highly toxic for people, animals and nature, and before long, nearly all of them will likely carry some kind of greenwashing claim that declares how good they are for the environment. It's the Big Lie of consumerism, and the American economy depends so much on the continued purchasing of throwaway products that it simply cannot survive unless people keep buying -- and tossing -- products that are mostly harmful to the environment.

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