| Please print a toxic ingredient directory. Educate yourself about the potential hazards and health risks associated with common ingredients found in the products you are using on your body. Please be sure to check your children's or grand children's products too. Be an educated consumer and don't be fooled by false claims of "natural", "organic" and "botanically based" CLICK HERE FOR YOUR TOXIN DIRECTORY |
| Children and Toxins......continued Deborah Elaine Barrie, Published in Vitality magazine A special by Bill Moyers last year entitled Kids and Toxins dealt with many issues including the damage done to the DNA of babies from the chemicals their mothers breathed in while pregnant. Dr. Elizabeth A. Guillette, world renowned anthropologist, with the University of Florida has documented alarming differences in the Yaqui Valley Mexican children who have been exposed to pesticides compared to the children in the foothills who do not face the same contamination. These changes include premature breast formation and cognitive and motor difficulties. The Environmental Working Group, one of many organizations working to seek a ban on CCA pressure treated wood have recently released a study on toxins in the body as well. They tested the blood and urine of nine people who did not work with chemicals or live near industry for 210 pollutants and found traces of 167 of them. Since World War II there has been a huge increase in chemicals, some 750,000 have been introduced. Increases in many diseases have also risen since that time at alarming rates. In 1998, nearly 800 kids in Ontario, younger than 6 were newly diagnosed with the neurological disorder autism, a 53 per cent jump over the same period two years earlier, stated a study released at Queen's Park by Michael Gravelle in March 2000. Science magazine has reported that "As science progresses, large numbers of epidemiological studies continue to find evidence that short-term and long-term exposures to low concentrations of particles are associated with sizable numbers of morbidity and mortality events in developed urban areas around the world." Hilary Stead of the Guelph Mercury staff published an article quoting Patrick Kehoe as stating that as owner of Halton lawn care company he sees first hand how pesticides caused illness in those who worked in the industry and that he supported a ban. On Feb. 7 2003 the Consumer Product Safety Commission released it's Health risk assessment on the dangers of CCA treated wood to children. Among their findings were that children had a 2 to 100 chance in one million of developing cancer from playing on these structures. A one in a million risk is usually the cause for the government to take notice. As the CPSC meets in March to decide on whether to seek a total ban on CCA in playground equipment you might feel like sticking your head in the sand. Not a good idea. The warnings of Dr.Dieter Riedel of Health Canada and Dr David Stilwell of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station have been confirmed once again by a cross Canada study of playgrounds released in January by Environmental Defence Canada, the sand is full of arsenic. References The entire Center for Disease Control (CDC) report is online at www.cdc.gov/exposurereport |
| Mothers, Keep Your Daughters From Getting Breast Cancer, By Sherill Sellman: Excellent article about toxins and breast cancer and how organics can help. Click here to read this article online |
| Click here to learn more about how Miessence products can benefit your children. |
| As Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D.MA) stated at 1997 Hearings on the FDA Reform bill: "The cosmetics industry has borrowed a page from the play book of the tobacco industry by putting profits ahead of public health." click here to read entire article |
| Chemical Body Burden.org Before we are even born, synthetic chemicals and heavy metals of all kinds begin building up in our bodies. This chemical "body burden" is the focus of the information you will find in this website. Worth a visit. |
| Children's Risk To Pesticides Children are not simply little adults. Early developmental stages of the organs, nervous systems, and immune systems, greater rates of cell division, and their lower body weight increase their susceptibility to pesticide exposure.....read more. |



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