Toxins are everywhere and we
cannot avoid them. Toxins are in the air, water, food,
cosmetics—everything we touch or come into contact with. Yet it has only
been in the last few years that science has begun to look at the
effects these toxins are having on us.
Environmental toxins can predispose
children before or after birth to severe learning and health problems.
Most of the over 80,000 chemicals in pesticides, herbicides, drugs,
cosmetics, food additives, fertilizers, and industrial substances have
not been tested for their neurotoxin effects. To date, occupational
standards have been set for only about 600 chemicals. Of these, about
one-third is known to have negative effects on the central nervous
system. Educators need to be aware of these hazards and help children
and families avoid exposures that may deter learning.
A recent study on new born infants’ cord
blood, conducted in conjunction with the American Red Cross, found that
an average of 287 toxic chemicals were detected in the cord blood of
these new born infants. Toxins included mercury, iodine, arsenic,
herbicides and pesticides, flame retardants and trace of gasoline
by-products.
Many of these toxins can cause birth
defects and cancer in humans. If these new born infants are this toxic
how toxic do you think we are?
Many public health surveys show that adults
averaged between 300 and 800 toxic chemicals in their bodies. It’s hard
to imagine that the chemicals in our bodies are welcome. The human body
is reacting to these chemicals and scientists and researchers are
becoming alarmed.
A recent study of university students in China found that nearly 70 percent of the students tested were infertile.
It is now estimated that 50 percent of males in the U.S. would be rejected at sperm banks because their sperm counts are so low.
We see boys in middle school over six feet tall.
Some research now shows that two out of
every one hundred girls born are showing signs of sexual development at
three years of age.
At three years of age?
Do you really think this is normal?
New evidence is now linking toxins to the pandemic of obesity around the world.
In North America, it is now estimated that
two-thirds of the population is overweight. Thirty percent are obese. In
fifteen years, researchers estimate that 50 percent of our population
will be obese, and in twenty-five years one hundred percent will be
overweight.
This is horrible! Researchers say being
overweight contributes to over sixty known diseases. Fact: In 1930,
about 3000 people died of heart attacks. In 2012, it will be one
million. One out of every three babies will develop diabetes in their
lifetime. In 1990, one in fifteen women got breast cancer. In 2012, it
is one in eight. If the current trend continues, in ten years it will be
one in three.
In 1990, one in every 10,000 children was
born autistic. As of 2012, it is now one in eighty three. We are getting
sicker and sicker and fatter and fatter at younger and younger ages. It
is estimated that up to 50 percent of kids may be overweight in just
the next ten years. If this does not scare us silly, what will? Toxins
are now believed to be major contributing factor to disease and obesity.
The human body does not recognize these
chemical invaders. The immune system ventures out to destroy these
foreign invaders and quickly realizes it cannot fight them. Researchers
now say that a huge increase in auto-immune disease is being exacerbated
by toxins. We are experiencing more and people with strange
auto-immune diseases, which may be linked to toxins, according to
researchers. Now let’s look at the relationship between toxins and our
pandemic of weight gain. The American Society of Endocrinologists
identified these toxins and has given them a name.
They call these chemical Obesogens.
In their study, they say that these
Obesogens are altering our hormones and reprogramming the human body to
gain weight as a defense mechanism against the toxins by storing them in
fat cells. We are literally evolving to adapt to the toxic world we
live in. Further evidence on the relationship between toxins and weight
gain is offered by Dr. Paula Bailey Hamilton in her book “Toxic
Overload.”
She says in her book: “When researching my
first book, which examines the effects synthetic chemicals have on our
weight, I was absolutely staggered to learn the effect which toxic
chemicals appear to be able to damage virtually every part of our
musculoskeletal system. It seems that our muscles, bones, and joints are
prime targets for many dangerous toxins.
What appears to be happening is that our
natural- slimming system is being poisoned by the toxic chemical, we
encounter in our everyday lives, and this damage is making it
increasingly difficult for our bodies to control our weight. The end
result is that we gain weight in the form of fat and not muscle, as
chcmica1ls tend to cause muscles to shrink and body fat to accumulate.
The hormones that control our body shape
are also targeted by the Toxins. And this damage equals smaller muscles
and more fat, particularly around the stomach. In women this appears to
be translating into accumulating around the stomach, waist, and
thighs. Virtually all chemicals we are exposed to in our food and
environment
Possess some sort of weight-altering
effect, even at very low levels. It really doesn’t matter how you are
exposed, whether it is from a can of fly spray or from pesticide
residues in food. Once the chemicals get into your body the chances an;
your weight-control systems will be · damaged, making it just that
little bit harder to lose weight.
Lastly, chemicals also lower the levels of
one of the brain’s most in portent natural get-up-and-go hormones,
dopamine. · dopamine lowering has the effect of reducing your ene1rgy
drive so that you don’t.
Research is making it clearer and clearer
that trying to lose weight with conventional diets, which do not assist
the body in removing toxins, is a method basically doomed to failure.
Let me know if you are ready to Rid your Body of
Toxins and Lose Weight and Keep it Off!!
