"Over 600 Chemicals Within Me" ... chemicals that were not present in any human being before the early 1900s - J. Robert Hatherill, Ph.D.
The latest study done by the Environmental Working Group shows that American babies are born with an average of 287 chemicals in their little bodies : www.ewg.org
Each year 12,000 children are diagnosed with cancer... Childhood cancers are at an all-time high as the #1 cause of death by disease in kids ages 1-15. According to current statistics one in every 400 Americans can expect to get cancer before the age of 15. Across America, a growing number of children are suffering from autism, allergies, asthma, childhood cancers like leukemia, as well as learning and behavioral disabilities including ADD and ADHD. Research suggests that everyday, environmental toxins - what kids eat, drink, and breath are putting them at risk.
In the late 1970 the rate of Autism was about one case in 2000 children. Today is one in 100 children. Today our children face a much more hostile environment as they grow up and develop, compared to kids 30 years ago. The foods they eat, the air they breathe, the water they drink, the soils they play in, the vaccinations they received, even the wooden playground equipment they play on are polluted with heavy metals, chemicals, toxins and gases that are harmful to all of us and especially to growing and developing children. I was horrified to learn that there are now around 70,000 chemicals that we live with and 90% of these have never been tested for safety. We are talking about toxins and gases that are harmful to all of us and especially to a growing child. We can now detect over 600 different chemicals in our bodies that were not present in any human being before the early 1900s - J. Robert Hatherill, Ph.D.
Did you know that Asthma is the 3rd leading cause of hospitalization for children in the United States. And it is the largest single cause of school absenteeism, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Symptoms associated with toxic heavy metal accumulation: tissue aging, adrenal gland dysfunction, dizziness, fatigue, anorexia, depression, dermatitis, hearing loss, hyperactivity in children, birth defects, insomnia, kidney damage, memory loss, migraines, mood swings, nervousness, pain in limbs, skin rashes, schizophrenia, thyroid dysfunction, peripheral vision loss, premature aging, depressed libido, enlarged prostate, chronic fatigue, decrease in bone health, constipation, skin problems, emotional disturbances, anxiety, panic attacks, muscular and skeletal pain, heart disease, cancer, learning disabilities in children, poor wound healing, weight problems, allergies, inflammation, joint pain, bloating and diarrhea.
According to Columbia University School of Public Health,
95% of Cancer is caused by Diet and Environment
Heavy metal accumulation such as aluminum, lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, can cause suppression of the immune system, premature aging, bind receptors sites, inhibit proper enzyme systems, and lead to undesirable increase of free-radical and oxidative functions, learning disorders and degenerative diseases, coronary heart disease, chronic fatigue, tissue aging, depressed libido, memory loss, arthritis, diabetes and cancer.
Indoor Air Pollution is one of the top five environmental risks to public health. The EPA states that indoor air pollution could be 10 times higher than the air outdoors. Most of us will spend a lifetime indoors inhaling the chemicals from our carpet, wall-paint, and our toxic bedroom furniture. Considering how much time we spend indoors, breathing fresh, clean air at home is the greatest single health benefit we can afford by choosing certified green - toxin free products for our home.
CHEMICALS WHITHIN YOU
There is no home, office, institution or manufacturing site where toxins aren’t present. Plastics that continually outgas potentially deadly toxins are found in paints, wall-paper, plywood, lumber, kitchen cabinets, sofas, bedroom furniture, home furnishings, plastic baby bottles, toys, car seats, mattresses, computers, automobile dashboards, carpet backing, cosmetics, clothes and much more. Our homes are built to be more airtight and this tends to increase pollutants and contaminants. Our homes today contain high outagassing synthetics such as dyed nylons, polyesters, foam rubber beds, chairs and floor mats. Any chemical that you can smell makes its way into the bloodstream and eventually reaches every organ of your body. The average carpet outgases over a dozen chemicals. In fact, Anderson Labs demonstrated the health effects of new carpeting; they placed a little patch of carpet in the bottom of a glass jar with some mice. In the morning the mice were dead. Industrial, incinerator and transportation exhaust are the unavoidable dominants of outside air pollutants, while plastics and volatile organic hydrocarbons are among the hundreds of indoor air pollutants such as PBDEs, PHTHALATES, PESTICIDES, PFAs, PCBs, DIOXINS, BISPHENOLS, HEAVY METALS ...
Chronic diseases and conditions often take years and decades to develop. They have their roots in childhood, when disease processes begin and eating habits are formed. Toxic substances and allergens found indoors usually go unseen and yet they pose the single greatest threat to your child’s immune system. Every year more than 1000 new and exotic chemicals are added to a current stockpile of 60,000 to 80,000 industrially marketed chemicals. The widespread use of these chemicals has revised our bodies’ internal chemistry as well. It is now possible to detect over 600 different chemicals in our bodies that were not present in any human being before the early 1900s - J. Robert Hatherill, Ph.D.
If you think these chemicals are not betraying your health, think again! Actually Indoor Air Pollution can be 10 times worse than L.A. on a bad day, no matter where you live. Thanks to the wonders of modern chemistry, you’re being poisoned as you read this. Right now, for instance, your walls are outgassing formaldehyde and 1,1,1, trichloroethane, which cause flu-like symptoms: headache, nausea, fatigue and sore throat. Your carpet is releasing an alphabet soup of unpronounceable compounds, most of which chew away at your immune system and make you feel run-down. Many of these pollutants are “volatile organic compounds”. That means they are chemically unstable. They turn into gas, or combine with other chemicals. Then, you breathe them. And they are everywhere. They’re in cabinets. Wood finishes. Paints, stains, and varnishes. Cleaning supplies. Anything made of plastic or vinyl. According to Columbia University School of Public Health, 95% of Cancer is caused by Diet and Environment.
Outgassing is like evaporation, only with solid materials. It happens because even the densest solid building materials aren’t really solid. There are spaces between the molecules. And molecules can work their way into the air, just like they do in evaporation. All of which would be fine if the evaporating molecules were, say, water molecules. Unfortunately, they’re usually something a lot more noxious. Like formaldehyde molecules. They’re also constantly bubbling away, into the air you breathe. To make matters worse, today’s energy efficient buildings seal in all the toxic gasses so they accumulate, creating a toxic stew. Plywood and Particleboard are loaded with acetone and formaldehyde. These toxins evaporate, or “outgas” causing flu-like symptoms. Polyurethane wood finishes contain 2-ethoxyethanol, a chronic toxin that builds up until you reach your limit. Most stain, varnishes and sealers contain acetone, lead, methanol, and (take a deep breath) pentachlorophenol. On second thought, don’t take that deep breath. The distinctive smell of paint is actually diethyl phthalate, and a host of other compounds that causes nausea, dizziness, and severe headaches. Everywhere you look, there’s formaldehyde. Even where you can’t look, there’s still formaldehyde. Besides irritating your nose, throat, and lungs, formaldehyde is a known carcinogen. Ahhh, that new carpet smell. But what are you smelling? 1,3-butadiene, 1,2-dichlorobenzene, toluene, 1,1,1 trichloroethane, and number of other narcotics. Yes narcotics!
Why are these dangerous compounds inside my home anyway? Well, because they’re cheap. And because no one has the time or resources to study the long-term affects of even the 50,000 most commonly used chemicals (there is about 85,000 chemicals used in America ). Therefore, there’s no toxicity data for 4 out of 5 of them! Actually, one thing is known. Some are fatal. The EPA estimates that indoor air pollution kills thousands of people each year. Looking for a cure? The Cure is in The Cause.
Our mission is to improve children’s health by creating hazardless habitat, through research and implementation of environmentally friendly technologies and products. Saving the global environment is a task too hard to achieve for our agency, but the health of our children is within our reach. Let’s start today by transforming our own micro world, our own homes, into a toxin free “Green Oasis”, before these flu-like symptoms turn into something worse like cancer or kidney failure. Considering how much time we spend indoors, breathing fresh, clean air is the greatest single health benefit we can afford to protect our children’s health. The Children Environmental Health Agency has the answers. We have small goals, changing the world where you and your child live in. Would you join us?
