Some Ways to Avoid Toxic Chemicals In Our Daily Lives
It is very clear that the US government falls short when it comes to protecting its citizens from potentially dmaging toxic chemicals.
Within this dysfunctional system, you are the best person to keep your family safe. Although no one can successfully steer clear of all chemicals and toxic agents.
You can minimize your exposure by keeping some Key principles in mind, as follows:
1. Eat real food, ideally that is locally grown, fresh, and organic. Processed and packaged foods are a common source of chemicals such as BPA and phthalates. Wash fresh produce well, especially if it’s not organically grown.
2. Choose grass-pastured, sustainably raised meats and dairy to reduce your exposure to hormones, pesticides, and fertilizers. Avoid milk and other dairy products that contain the genetically engineered recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH or rBST).
3. Do not eat conventional or farm-raised fish, which are often heavily contaminated with PCBs and mercury, eat fish that is wild-caught and lab tested for purity, such as wild caught Alaskan salmon.
4. Buy products that come in glass bottles rather than plastic or cans, as chemicals can leach out of plastics and plastic can linings, into the contents; be aware that even “BPA-free” plastics typically leach other endocrine-disrupting chemicals that are just as bad for you as BPA.
5. Store your food and beverages in glass, rather than plastic, and avoid using plastic wrap.
6. Use glass baby bottles.
7. Replace your non-stick pots and pans with ceramic or glass cookware.
8. Filter your tap water for both drinking and bathing. If you can only afford to do one, filtering your bathing water may be more important, as your skin absorbs contaminants. To remove the endocrine disrupting herbicide Atrazine, make sure your filter is certified to remove it. According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), perchlorate can be filtered out using a reverse osmosis filter.
9. Look for products made by companies that are Earth-friendly, Animal-friendly, Sustainable, certified Organic, and GMO-free. This applies to everything from food and personal care products to building materials, carpeting, paint, baby items, furniture, mattresses, and others.
10. Use a vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter to remove contaminated house dust. This is one of the major routes of exposure to flame retardant chemicals for you, your children and your pets.
11. When buying new products such as furniture, mattresses, or carpet padding, consider buying flame retardant-free varieties, containing naturally less flammable materials, such as leather, wool, cotton, silk, and Kevlar.
12. Avoid stain and water-resistant clothing, furniture, and carpets to avoid perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs).
13. Make sure your baby’s toys are BPA-free, such as pacifiers, teething rings, and anything your child may be prone to suck or chew on — even books, which are often plasticized. It’s advisable to avoid all plastic, especially flexible varieties.
14. Use natural cleaning products or make your own. Avoid those containing 2-butoxyethanol (EGBE) and methoxydiglycol (DEGME) — two toxic glycol ethers that can compromise your fertility and cause fetal harm.
15. Replace your vinyl shower curtain with a fabric one.
16. Replace feminine hygiene products (tampons and sanitary pads) with safer alternatives.
17. Switch over to Organic toiletries, including shampoo, toothpaste, antiperspirants, and cosmetics. EWG’s Skin Deep Cosmetics Database ( http://www.ewg.org) can help you find personal care products that are free of phthalates and other potentially dangerous chemicals.
18. Look for fragrance-free products. Just 1 artificial fragrance can contain hundreds, thousands of potentially toxic chemicals. Avoid fabric softeners and dryer sheets, which contain a lots of synthetic chemicals and fragrances.
Please be aware that more than 80,000 synthetic chemicals surround you every day. Synthetic chemicals are in our air, food, water, and in most of the products you use, many going straight into your body or your child’s body, even before birth.
Our body cells interact with about 200 industrial chemicals every day. Recently, modern science has grasp what this exposure could mean to our health.
Many of these environmental chemical levels are low, but they do add up, it is the cumulative effect over time to pay attention to. Tiny amounts can have disastrous effects, acting like drugs but in ways you cannot control.
90% of our food is chemically processed today with flavorants, colorants, texturants, and preservatives, and typically loaded with processed sugar and highfructose corn syrup. Between processing, agricultural chemicals and toxic sludge, you can understand how a multitude of chemicals can accumulate in your body to damage your health over time.
So, be alert, take charge, eat healthy, be healthy and live lively.
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Paul Ebeling
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