Environmental toxins poison us in our ecosystem. Reduce your exposure. Chronic conditions: liver toxicity, kidney/bladder disease, colon disease, neurological disease, mental illness, genetic mutation, cancer.

— CHALLENGES

Approximately 10 million tons of toxic chemicals are released into our environment by industries each year. Of these, over 2 million tons per year are recognized carcinogens. Others are neurotoxins. Can we change fast enough?

— PREVENTION

Green everything. Read labels. Make conscious choices about food, water, toiletry products, cleaning products, indoor furniture, paint, carpet and flooring. Green your pest control in gardens and with pets. Think twice about non-stick pots and pans. If it's toxic, avoid it. Don't buy it. Don't invest in it. Don’t breathe it, put it in your mouth or rub it on your skin. Accept the reality of bioaccumulation, and start eliminating daily exposures you can control. Get real about nuclear tech. Visualize a future world with zero tolerance for radioactivity, carcinogens, endocrine disruptors and neurotoxins.

— OVERVIEW

Reduce your exposure to toxic chemicals at home and work. Start with daily exposures first.

The real cause of our chronic illness epidemic is not genetic. It's epigenetic, meaning it's caused by environmental factors. We know that because genes don't change fast enough to explain the spike in chronic diseases in industrialized societies. But the explosion in environmental toxins explains it quite easily.

The problem stems from a pervasive belief that risky practices are safer than they are. As a result, our society has acquiesced to widespread use of toxic substances in our food, water and environment. We spray pesticides, herbicides and fungicides on food crops, inject newborns and infants with aluminum-laden vaccines, eat and drink from toxic plastic, slather petrochemical foamers and sudsers on our skin, put mercury amalgam fillings in our teeth, burn dirty coal and gas for energy, and create radioactivity incompatible with health and life. These are all risks to human health that only we can heal—because we created them.

Something needs to change. Start with cleaning up your personal environment—from the flame retardant in the mattress you sleep on every night to the paint on the walls to the EMF exposure to the toxins substances in your food and water, and in the air you breathe.

Get to work cleaning up what is in your control to stop poisoning yourself. Wake up and turn the lights on. Just make sure they're not mercury-laden compact fluorescent lightbulbs. If they are, you need to get those out of your house or business. And you cannot throw them in the trash. Please do not do that; they have mercury in them. They need to be safely transported to a hazardous waste recycling center. If the bulb breaks in a room, you're supposed to call a haz mat team and evacuate. How many people know that who bought those CFL bulbs when they were being marketed as a green solution?

That's just one example of what we're all up against. Change starts with awareness. Get informed and be a conscious consumer.

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Reduce Toxins

— CHALLENGES

Approximately 10 million tons of toxic chemicals are released into our environment by industries each year. Of these, over 2 million tons per year are recognized carcinogens. Others are neurotoxins. Can we change fast enough?

— PREVENTION

— OVERVIEW

Reduce your exposure to toxic chemicals at home and work. Start with daily exposures first.

— FURTHER READING