Is the chemical environment effecting children?

A children’s doctor sees a two year old patient who is
small for his age. He is in the 10th percentile. But he is in a family of tall people. Just the runt of the litter? Perhaps. But perhaps not. He was found to be full of flame retardants at concentrations higher than measured anywhere in the world for someone who does not work with flame retardants for a living. Is there a connection? Is he unique?

We think not.

This body burden of chemicals comes from exposure to our environment. For the last 50 years, hundreds of millions of tons of chemicals have been saturating our water, air, and food. It’s in our clothes, our cosmetics, our toys, our food packaging in limitless quantities. And there is no regulation of it and there has been almost no safety testing of it. Only recently are investigators looking into this and the health consequences.

When blood, hair, urine, or fat tissue are checked for these substances, from young children to adults, we find chemicals like PCBs, dioxins, plasticizers, mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic, and chemicals that make Teflon and Gortex in everyone. They are even present in animals in remote areas of the world.

Flame retardants – polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs – are used in everything from the outside of TV sets, to carpets, to foam cushions, to baby clothes.

What can you do?

A few suggestions:

1. Eat organic and drink purified water.
2. Wash all clothes before wearing.
3. Natural fiber clothing, sheets, etc. are best. Avoid plastics in the environment of children.
4. Go to www.nydetox.or and read about the success of the detox program in getting chemicals out of the September 11 firefighters bodies. You should do this program as well.
5. Begin taking Body Detox, a dietary supplement to help keep the toxins and heavy metals from accumulating in your body.

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