Ray D. Strand
See book keywords and concepts |  Air and water pollution, the long-range effects of smoking, and a faster-paced and pressure-packed lifestyle add up to stress on our bodies. Even our diet has suffered. Our food supply is significantly deficient in quality nutrients. In 1970 Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000 they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music combined. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | Nutrition, Diet & Fitness
Also, because of water pollution and some fish-farming techniques, fish can contain meth-ylmercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). High amounts of these chemicals can cause children to experience muscle weakness, fatigue, headaches and severe developmental problems.
Bottom line: Eat fish if you enjoy it, but remember certain caveats...
•Limit your consumption of large predatory fish, which are likely to contain the most methylmercury (shark, swordfish, king mackerel, albacore tuna and tilefish), to no more than twice per week. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  In this context, water pollution is a worldwide phenomenon and represents both a spiritual and physical crisis. The external water pollution in the oceans, lakes, and rivers mirrors the inner physical and spiritual pollution, as well as our global spiritual crisis.
For thousands of years, Kabbalists have used pure water for physical and spiritual cleansing. This is the mystery of the mikvah water purification ceremony which usually takes place in a cosmic womb - a sacred pool of running water or a clean stream. Kabbalists have used this ceremony for thousands of years. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Mercury is an essential element in millions of fluorescent lamps throughout the world, and as those lamps are thrown into landfill, the mercury can escape and contribute to air and water pollution. (It can easily leach into groundwater supplies.)
According to www.lightbulbrecycling.com, each year an estimated 600 million fluorescent lamps are disposed of in U.S. landfills, amounting to 30,000 pounds of mercury waste. Astonishingly, that's almost half the amount of mercury emitted into the atmosphere by coal-fired power plants each year. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Nothing is more prototypically modern than the specter of massive water pollution from an oil tanker spill. Thus the Exxon Valdez sails on in the public mind as a kind of latter-day, environmental Flying Dutchman. This symbolism was epitomized by the tanker's Hollywood reappearance as a postapocalyptic, floating palace of evil in the 1995 film Waterworld.
I had always assumed that much before 1970, and certainly before i960, people had little or no awareness of the possibility of significant ocean pollution from any man-made source, particularly from petroleum transport. |
Dr Ron Roberts
See book keywords and concepts |  Although not attacked with such a vengeance, non-urban areas are not without hazards, with air and water pollution from agricultural pesticides and burn-offs. Most people with asthma will recognise car exhaust fumes as a trigger, but it is not generally recognised that aircraft burn enormous amounts of fuel, and their exhaust is spread throughout the atmosphere. People who live near airports may be breathing enough aircraft pollution for this to be a significant asthma trigger. |
Ron Garner
See book keywords and concepts |  In addition, these chemically-laden farms are devastating surrounding sea life, causing deadly water pollution and ruining the land on which the seafood farms are set up, with the consequent ruination of fishermen and farmers who depended on these areas for their livelihood.14
When we eat these animal and seafood products, antibiotics, and growth hormones and chemicals, end up in our body systems. Over time, bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Even from this brief summary of air and water pollution, asbestos disease, carpal tunnel syndrome, sick buildings, and job burnout, it is abundantly clear that environmentally related illness, in and out of the workplace, is not a modern problem that we have only recently discovered in our own time. We still face old hazards and many new ones too: novel toxic threats that potentially emerge with each technological twist and innovation of human industry, creating ongoing dangers on the job, in the home, and for the wider environment. These are the collective challenges before us. | | By the same token, water pollution may also have been selfevident to our forebears. Thus, one could argue that these examples are not relevant to subtler threats, such as those that arise in the work or home environment today. Would not our modern litany of high-tech occupational and environmental illnesses be as unfathomable to previous generations as retroviral infection or mad cow disease? |
Mark Schapiro
See book keywords and concepts |  He has a mandate similar to that of Donkers' in the United States —though of course with a far more daunting set of environmental challenges—including air and water pollution, energy efficiency, and protection from hazardous chemicals. About REACH, Gislev commented, "We are looking down the supply chain. A lot of our downstream users do business with the Chinese. |
Gabriel Cousens
See book keywords and concepts |  This is just one of many studies linking specific water pollution to an increase in cancer rates.
Medical science has discovered how sensitive the insulin receptor sites are to chemical poisoning. Metals such as cadmium, mercury, arsenic, lead, fluoride,51 and possibly aluminum may play a role in the actual destruction of beta cells through stimulating an auto-immune reaction to them after they have bonded to these cells in the pancreas. |
David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |  For example, the City of Millbrae, California, is working with Chevron Energy Solutions to start construction of facilities at Millbrae's water pollution Control Plant (WPCP) to generate on-site electricity from restaurant kitchen grease and other organic matter.46
Attached to the wastewater treatment plant is a cogenera-tion plant that captures energy from what would have been dumped into the rivers and groundwater. | | In modern times, the salmon's decline is attributed to industrial activities today alleged to be linked to global warming, including accelerated logging in the headwater areas of the Nooksack Basin, erecting small hydroelectric dams on salmon streams, ground and water pollution from industry and agriculture, decline of wedand and nursery areas, and the rapid development of lowland areas of the river. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
See book keywords and concepts |  Among the most disturbing evidence of water pollution are the reports of sexually deformed and chemically castrated fish and amphibians. In several lakes and waterways, including the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, the Columbia River in Washington, and the Potomac, fish have mutated into hermaphrodites (having both male and female sex organs) or changed sex entirely (gone from males to females). In southern California, many bottom-dwelling fish off the coast are now hermaphrodites. | | The Toxic Hit List drugs heavy elements and metals household chemicals and solvents infections herbicides and pesticides alcohol air pollution tobacco water pollution caffeine
A great deal of environmental damage was done before we began monitoring and attempting to control pollution. But even though we acknowledged a growing problem, we have not yet found a way to eliminate the release of so many toxins. Current technology can only reduce them. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) periodically releases a report called the Toxics Release Inventory. | | This is due to the overwhelming body of evidence about the dangers of toxicity, air and water pollution, and the buildup of chemicals in our environment—evidence that is mounting daily.
A cultural shift in the last few years alone has brought the topic of toxins to the forefront of the general public's attention, right alongside the issue of global warming. The two do, after all, go hand in hand in a lot of ways. We can no longer turn a blind eye to the onslaught of stories relating the insidious, long-lasting effects toxins can have on our bodies, on our planet, and the future of both. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | If our modern concerns over water pollution are not so very new after all, then what about air pollution? Consider the following scenario: A toxic cloud menacingly overshadows an entire community, even though scientists have previously assured the public that such an event is highly unlikely if not impossible. The federal government rapidly dispatches a public health team to the site in Pennsylvania. The team of scientists try to come to grips with the new mix of hazards they encounter but conclude that, without long-term research, the effects of such exposures cannot be adequately understood. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
See book keywords and concepts |  Sources of Toxins
We are exposed to toxins every day of our lives, in air and water pollution, chemical and pesticide residues, mercury amalgam dental fillings, biological contaminants such as pollen and parasites, and genetically altered foods, among other sources. Even our own bodies can produce toxins, called endotoxins, which can be harmful if their numbers become excessive or if they aren't adequately neutralized.
Environmental Pollution
Toxins emanate from a variety of sources, but chiefly from environmental pollution. |
Gabriel Cousens
See book keywords and concepts | | One of the best-known examples of toxic water pollution to date is the infamous Love Canal, where according to the New York Times in 1984, thousands of tons of toxic chemicals were dumped, including 60 pounds of the deadly poison dioxin.
The pollution situation is so out of control that in monitoring cancer rates in Philadelphia, one researcher was able to correlate the different rates and types of cancer in the population with the specific river the people lived near. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | The external water pollution in the oceans, lakes, and rivers mirrors the inner physical and spiritual pollution, as well as our global spiritual crisis.
For thousands of years, Kabbalists have used pure water for physical and spiritual cleansing. This is the mystery of the mikvah water purification ceremony which usually takes place in a cosmic womb - a sacred pool of running water or a clean stream. Kabbalists have used this ceremony for thousands of years. It connects us to the force of all natural waters and all mikvahs on the planet. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  Add to these problems nearly ubiquitous water pollution from farms, factories, and cities, and nature is in for a hard slog.
Climate change already exacerbates these problems, yet even worse problems are still to come. Rainfall patterns that have held more or less constant for generations are shifting, making some areas drier and deluging others. Depending on where we live, we can expect more droughts, more heavy downpours, or both.
If we are to navigate this crisis, we must start looking at water in a whole new way. We have to save water every chance we get. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Pollution from industrial accidents Medium to low
9. water pollution from farm runoff Medium
10. Tap-water contamination High
11. Industrial air pollution High
12. Ozone-layer destruction High
13. Coastal water contamination Low
14. Sewage plant water pollution Medium to low
15. Vehicle exhaust High
16. Oil spills Medium to low
17. Acid rain High
18. water pollution from urban runoff Medium
19. Damaged wetlands Low
20. Genetic alteration Low
21. Nonhazardous waste sites Medium to low
22. Greenhouse effect Low
23. Indoor air pollution High 25. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  Massive deforestation brings with it many ugly consequences—air and water pollution, soil erosion, malaria epidemics, the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the eviction and decimation of indigenous Indian tribes, and the loss of biodiversity through extinction of plants and animals. Fewer rainforests mean less rain, less oxygen for us to breathe, and an increased threat from global warming.
But who is really to blame? Consider what we industrialized Americans have done to our own homeland. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  External factors include unhealthy workplace environments and exposure to air and water pollution, chemicals, pesticides, and herbicides. Internal factors include both genetics (heredity) and infections.
Lifestyle factors are those we personally can most readily control. These are also the factors scientists believe account for the largest proportion of cancers. They include diet, smoking, drinking, and sun exposure. For example, persons who do not smoke but are exposed to cigarette smoke have significantly higher rates of lung cancer than nonsmokers who are not. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts | | Both large-scale livestock farming and the massive fish farms that dot our coasts destroy the environment: they cause air and water pollution, deforestation, and depletion of fossil-fuel resources.
Some people choose vegetarianism as a way to take a personal stand against destructive factory ranching and farming practices, but for most people, a meat-free lifestyle has no appeal; meat tastes good, plays an integral role in traditional cuisine, and makes up a significant portion of some basic diets. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The gap between the actual causes of cancer and popular belief is even greater when considering pollution-related causes, since, far from being a decisive factor in the development of cancer, exposure to air and water pollution, as well as exposure to pesticide residues, represents barely 2% of all cancer cases.
We can blame, and rightly so, the many harmful consequences of these environmental factors, but atmospheric pollution has much more of an impact on ecosystem equilibrium than it does on the incidence of cancer. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts | | Aside from reducing landfill mass, decreasing air and water pollution, and creating jobs for rural farmers, Kirei also offers the benefit of looking completely distinct from wood. With a highly textured and variable surface, it makes unique and beautiful pieces, from chairs and tables to flooring, cabinetry, and wall covering.
Plyboo: Plyboo? That's right: plywood from bamboo. Bamboo's expansive root system sends up profuse, rapidly growing shoots throughout its lifetime, making the grass a highly renewable source. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | For example, if a drop of water comes through the air as a raindrop and it hits a polluted environment, it will take on the energy of that water pollution, whether it is sulfur dioxide or nitrates. When it hits the rivers, it takes this information into the river and introduces a vibration of pollution. This pattern is one of the ideas of homeopathy: we dynamize it, we dilute it 1:10 or 1:100, and potentize it. We activate the energy by percussing it, which increases the communication of energy. | | Livestock produce twenty times the excrement as the human population, increasing nitrite-nitrate water pollution; the extensive use of livestock is pushing us closer to a clean water shortage. It takes 60-100 times more water to produce one pound of beef than to produce one pound of wheat. In essence, a flesh-centered diet creates need for about 4,500 gallons per day, per meat eater, as compared to 300 gallons per day for a vegan (a diet of no flesh or dairy). In one year's time, a vegan saves approximately 1.5 million gallons as compared to a flesh and dairy eater. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts | | After some solo missteps, Brazil teamed up with China for its own satellite launches, and the two nations have been working together since 1999 on a series of five satellites for monitoring agriculture, water pollution, and the environment.
In late 2005, Iran put its first satellite into orbit, a small observation satellite designed to monitor local agricultural conditions and natural disasters. Sina-i was launched from Siberia on a Russian-built rocket. Like Iran, South Africa uses foreign launch vehicles for its space efforts, and has put two satellites into orbit. |
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