| Each year the Environmental Protection Agency | | | | hyperactivity in children. |
| (EPA) reviews about 1700 new compounds that | | | | Given these facts, don't you think it's time to reduce |
| industry is seeking to introduce. Only a quarter of the | | | | the number of toxins in your environment? Here's |
| 82,000 chemicals in use in the US have ever been | | | | how... |
| tested for toxicity. The ones that have been examined, | | | | 6 Tips to Help You Cleanse Your Body and Eliminate |
| have not been tested in combination with all the other | | | | Toxins So You Can Lose Weight & Keep You |
| toxins in our bodies. And it's doing harm. | | | | and Your Children Healthy |
| Environmental toxins and pollutants are having a drastic | | | | 1. Drink only filtered water-and plenty of it-at least 8 |
| effect on you and your children. Consider these facts... | | | | glasses per day. A carbon filter is fine, but reverse |
| 5 Ways Toxins Are Hurting You & Your Family | | | | osmosis is the best. |
| - Obesity in proliferating in the United States. 3.8 million | | | | 2. Read labels, if you need a chemistry degree to |
| people are over 300 pounds, over 400,000 people | | | | figure out an ingredient, it does not belong in your body. |
| (mostly males) carry over 400 pounds and the | | | | The FDA will not protect you. Remember, New York |
| average adult female weighs an unprecedented 163 | | | | City removed dangerous hydrogenated oils from our |
| pounds! And, it's not all because of fast food places | | | | diets-not the FDA. |
| like McDonalds. Our bodies protect us from the cell | | | | 3. Buy organic. Yeah, I know it is expensive, but the |
| damaging effects of toxins by surrounding them with | | | | lack of poisons and the increased nutritional value will |
| fat. The more toxins-the more fat. Remove the toxins | | | | offset the price. |
| and you will have a dramatic loss of fat-especially | | | | 4. Throw out your nonstick pans. Perfluorinated acids |
| visceral fat. This is the fat that surrounds your organs | | | | damage the liver, affect thyroid hormones, cause birth |
| and glands and gives you a "gut." | | | | defects, and cause cancer in animal studies. |
| - Animal studies show that flame retardants | | | | 5. Do not eat farm fish. Believe it or not, they are |
| (polybrominated diphenyl ethers) that save hundreds of | | | | loaded with antibiotics and chemical dyes |
| lives each year, also impair thyroid function and cause | | | | 6. Do not eat wild fish more than once per week. They |
| reproductive and neurological problems. When thyroid | | | | are loaded with mercury. Children suffering from IQ |
| function goes down, blood lipids go up. How many | | | | losses have been linked to high mercury levels found |
| prescriptions for cholesterol lowering statins could be | | | | especially in canned tuna. |
| avoided if we just got these toxins out of our bodies? | | | | Your chances of getting some form of cancer in your |
| - In the past 10 years, the number of children | | | | lifetime 50 years ago were 1 in 14. Today, the chances |
| diagnosed with bipolar disorder has increased 40 fold. | | | | are 1 in 2. The World Health Organization reports that |
| Based on the sale of psychotropic medications, other | | | | environmental toxins can cause every chronic disease |
| forms of mental illness have also sky rocketed. | | | | including cancer. Don't wait for a disease to steal your |
| - Autism has increased 10-fold. | | | | health and well being. Get the toxins out today and the |
| - An article in the Lancet, a leading British Medical | | | | fat will follow. |
| Journal links preservatives and food dies to | | | | |