| Helping Children Stay Healthy |
| 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 Deborah Elaine Barrie, Published in Vitality magazine In a day and age where we increasingly seek a quick solution to our problems we find ourselves confronted by the cost that we are really paying for convenience. Health and environmental groups around the world are calling for bans and action on everything from pesticides, phthalates in perfumes, arsenic and chromium in CCA pressure treated wood to lead contamination in our homes. Medical groups such as the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment educate their members and lobby for change. Their president, Dr Warren Bell, has expressed his concern that doctors are not educated on the prevention and treatment of environmental illnesses and diseases in our institutions of learning so therefore those effected have little opportunity for treatment. Scientists are conducting studies on the effects of these chemicals and presence in the average person with alarming results. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) just released a study showing 116 chemicals in the blood and urine of subjects, chemicals stored in body fat were not taken into consideration and children showed the highest levels of pesticides..........continued. Click here to read full article References The entire Center for Disease Control (CDC) report is online at www.cdc.gov/exposurereport |
| Organic: A Choice For Our Children Alan Greene MD FAAP As parents, we want to feed our children healthy food. What parent would turn down the chance to give a child delicious, healthy food that is convenient, a good money value, that the child loves – and then responds with a, “Thank you, Mommy, that was great! May I help clean up?” In practice, though, many powerful forces determine our food choices. Our children have tasted artificially flavored, partially hydrogenated, day-glow snack foods and clamor for more. Our kids tell us that their friends’ “parents let them eat” the latest processed food fashion. Huge sums of money pay for artists, musicians, toy manufacturers, psychologists, and marketers to work together to carefully manipulate your child’s food preferences. We’re busy and want something simple, quick, and preferably inexpensive. We return to the ruts of the unhealthy foods we ate ourselves as kids or that we know our own kids will like. We feel guilty because of our busy lifestyles and don’t want to say “no” to our kids – especially if it means yet another battle. And the last straw – we hear conflicting information about what is healthy. High carb or low carb? Low fat is good for kids. Low fat is bad for kids. Sugar doesn’t affect behavior. Sugar causes ADHD. Aspartame is totally safe. Airplane pilots aren’t allowed to eat foods containing aspartame because it affects their judgment. Phew! What’s a parent to do? Thankfully, making healthier food choices is simple and clear. Increasing fruits, vegetables, and whole grains in the diet makes the diet healthier. Especially in our antibiotic-flooded age, eating foods that contain live active cultures of beneficial bacteria makes our diet healthier. Decreasing artificial chemicals in the diet and the environment, makes us all healthier. Nutrition is not an all-or-none activity. The goal is to keep making choices that make the diet a little better.......continued Click here to read full article |
| Appetite For Change: Children's Environmental Health Campaign: The aim of this campaign is to reduce children's exposure to pesticides, toxins and junk food. Click of picture for more information |
| 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. |
Preventing Harm to Children Resource and action center on children and the environment. |
| Mothers Don't Let Your Daughters Get Breast Cancer Sherill Sellman, author of MOTHERS, Prevent Your Daughters From Getting Breast Cancer We live in a synthetic chemical soup. They’re everywhere, in everything and they’re here to stay. How many? It is estimated that since World War II, more than 80,000 synthetic chemicals have invaded our world. About 40 million tons are manufactured worldwide. It is shocking to learn that hardly any of these substances have been tested for safety, but have been added to our food, skin care, water, cleaning products etc. without our consent and, most of all, without warnings of their potential dangers. Approximately 1000 new synthetic chemicals are made each year. Surprisingly, city dwellers use more synthetic chemicals per acre than farmers and spend more than one billion dollars annually. In a lifetime 50 lbs of toxic waste can enter a body from drinking water and at least 450 lbs can enter the body through the skin. Organochlorines are chlorine-based chemicals. They are extremely toxic and lethal and include herbicides, pesticides, including DDT, its metabolite DDE, dieldrin, atrazine, methoxychlor, hetachlor, kepone, chlorine bleach, most disinfectants and vinyl chloride which is used to make plastic products such as bottles and soft toys for babies. They accumulate in our bodies in many ways: from drinking water; from food grown with agricultural chemicals; from plastic migrating into canned and microwaved foods and from food or body contact with chlorine bleached paper products (coffee filters, tampons, paper cups, toilet papers).....continued Click here to read full article |
| Pestfacts.org Sponsored by RISE (Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment), pestfacts.org is a national non-profit trade association representing producers and suppliers of specialty pesticides and fertilizers. This site has safety tips, reports on pest threats, health concerns and a large section on West Nile Virus. |
| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, February 8, 2007 Contacts: Kevin Donegan or Marisa Walker, Breast Cancer Fund, Stacy Malkan, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, David Steinman, author, “Safe Trip to Eden,” ; Sheila Huettl, Freedom Press, . Cancer-causing Chemical Found in Children's Bath Products Women’s Shampoos and Body Wash also Contaminated WASHINGTON — A hidden cancer-causing petrochemical has been found in dozens of children’s bath products and adults’ personal care products, in some cases at levels that are more than twice the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s lenient recommended maximum. Laboratory tests released today revealed the presence of 1,4-Dioxane in products such as Hello Kitty Bubble Bath, Huggies Baby Wash, Johnson’s Baby Wash, Scooby-Doo Bubble Bath and Sesame Street Bubble Bath. The tests also found the carcinogen in Clairol Herbal Essences shampoo, Olay Complete Body Wash and many other personal care products. 1,4-Dioxane is a petroleum-derived contaminant considered a probable human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a clear- cut animal carcinogen by the National Toxicology Program. It is also on California’s Proposition 65 list of chemicals known or suspected by the state to cause cancer or birth defects. Because it is a contaminant produced during manufacturing, the FDA does not require it to be listed as an ingredient on product labels. The problem of 1,4-Dioxane contamination in personal care products is highlighted in a new book, “Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save the Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown,” by David Steinman. The laboratory results were released jointly today at the National Press Club by Steinman and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, a coalition of U.S.-based health and environmental groups working to protect cosmetics consumers from toxic chemicals and hold companies accountable for the safety of their products. click here to read full article |
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| ONE Group is ethical and eco-friendly |
| I love having an organic, home based business with ONE Group. I am able to be actively engaged in my daughter's life, continue to be a stay-at-home mom and have time to pursue my own personal interests . It also affords me the opportunity to help other motivated people make their own dreams a reality. This is all possible because I am working with a company that has the highest standards for their certified organic products and shares my desire for making our planet a safe, clean, toxic free place for future generations. |
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