Bottled Drinking Water Contaminated With Potent Estrogen—and this can effect especially women with PMS like symptoms!!

While you’re on this topic, take a look at the products you may be using for your oral hygiene. Nearly all commercial toothpastes found on the shelf at your local grocer, and discount drug store, contain whitening and foaming agents which are made from pesticides and antifreeze. The idea that our alcohol laden mouthwashes are somehow helping to decrease the bacteria in our mouths is totally bogus, the drying and tissue damaging effects are immense. If you’ve ever had dental work done and just didn’t seem to heal properly, look up dental “cavitation”. Definitely an eye-opener. There are some brands of toothpaste such as Jason’s and Tom’s of Maine that are made from safe ingredients and fairly readily available. The cosmetic/hygiene industry in general is a huge source of chemical pollution both personally and environmentally.
Bonnie

Sloopy,

I agree with Gianna – You are a the “typing Encyclopedia Brittanica”, and you are a joy to read, my British friend!

I always learn something new from you!

Duane

Yeah, I would want to replace the pans if I didn’t know what the something was on them..

This got me thinking about the minuscule amounts of nasty chemicals in our foodstuffs, and the question of what is minuscule?

500 micrograms of Haldol is physically minuscule, but it’s still enough to sedate a child!

Yet that amount of Haldol placed on a digital scale pan – without the bulking agent of the tablet – and you will scarcely see it, and even less measure it.

Using a digital scale for drug tapering has given me an appreciation of the frightening power of psychiatric drugs, and of other environmental chemicals.

It seems like an over-used cliche, but we really are what we eat. And what might seem like an impossibly small amount of environmental toxin could have a massive impact on our general well-being.

The government’s talk about the “safe amount” of chemical X or the “maximum recommended daily intake” of Chemical Y is dangerous..

In fact, the entire scientific language used to describe environmental toxins is dangerous, designed to downplay the risks, to the industry’s advantage. Why, for example, is tartrazine, a notoriously dangerous artificial food colourant, described as anything other than a neurotoxin?

Since ingesting minuscule amounts of tartrazine leaves kids (and adults) in a disturbed mental state, with agitation, aggression and sleeplessness, it is a neurotoxin.

Here’s a labelling proposal for the goons in the Ministry of Food: “WARNING: This product contains a known neurotoxin that can damage your brain”

Credit to you, Gianna, for providing the stimulus! Many of us know these things are noxious but wouldn’t otherwise find the motivation to comment, if it wasn’t for you and your blog!

I have an uncle who was an industrial chemist. He was surprisingly paranoid about the chemicals he handled. So often people become deluded by their own profession,, psychiatrists being the prime example. However, not my uncle. He remained a cynic throughout his career. I’ve never asked him about BPA but my mum often recounts the time he warned her never to use cooking pans coated with Teflon (PTFE). “That stuff is lethal”, he said, and he gave her a mind-boggling explanation of how it could kill her (and us!). These days, poor old uncle is virtually bed-bound at 61 years old and needs full time nursing care. I hate to think what nasty substances he was exposed to over his working life that have contributed to his ill-health today.

i figure it must be bad for men too… one of the chief culprits for messing with female sex hormones is a chemical called bisphenol-A (BPA)… there is a dedicated website about this dangerous stuff. The makers apparently knew it was dangerous way back in the 1930s.

BPA is a component used today in many types of plastic. It is often used as a flame-retardant in the polystyrene trays used to hold microwaveable ready-meals. Yet another reason to prepare meals using only raw ingredients and safe cookware – e.g. vessels preferably made of glass, cast iron, or earthenware, avoiding aluminium vessels and those with non-stick surfaces.

I’ve heard BPA being called the Gender Bender plastic because it can apparently change the sex of fish when dumped in the rivers. No doubt the chemical industry will claim that BPA is perfectly safe for humans. They typically slur anyone who doubts the safety of their products as a mad conspiracy theorist who also thinks the moon is made of cheese.

Fish are very different creatures, they will claim. They have fins and gills while we have arms, legs and teeth. So BPA can’t possibly have the same deleterious effect on us as it has on fish. In the simplistic but profoundly corrupt world of the industrial chemist, it’s obvious, isn’t it?!

The European Commission supposedly operates to something called the “Precautionary Principle”.. If there is evidence which casts doubt on the safety of a product sold in the EU then the Precautionary Principle should apply. The product should be withdrawn, or should be sold only with a warning statement.. The Precautionary Principle is often cited in law suits, especially concerning microwave radiation from cellphones, but I’ve yet to see it used at the consumer level..

It’s about time someone applied the famous Precaution Principle to BPA, and to the host of other noxious chemicals that screw us up in an untold number of ways..

It’s funny, I was chatting along these lines to someone a few days ago… I was saying how dangerous naive I was a child.. I always grew up thinking the government was there to protect us..

And on that basis, I figured it was A-Okay to chew pen lids, and other man-made objects, because the government would never let dangerous plastics onto the market… The government is there to protect us, right?! Bzzzzzzzzt!