Grace’s Blog

You’ve just cleaned your house and have a good feeling that everything is clean and fresh.  Or is it?

Sorry to spoil all those warm fuzzy feelings, but you may have made your home dirtier.

Would you let your kids play with toxic chemicals?  Then why do you let your baby crawl all over a floor that has been wiped with them?  There are more dangerous things than a little juice or jelly on the floor.

Take a look at these statistics:

Over 90% of poisons exposures happen at home.

Common bleach is the #1 household chemical involve in poisoning.

Many common cleaners and even air fresheners contain organic pollutants and are 2 to 5 times higher inside your home than out.

Spend 15 minutes cleaning scale off shower walls and you could inhale three times the “acute one-hour exposure limit” for glycol ether-containing products.

Increase the risk of your kids developing asthma, the most common chronic childhood disease, by using cleaners that give off fumes linked to the risk of getting asthma.

1 in 13 school age children have asthma.  From 1980-1994, the rate of children under five increased more than 160%.

Pound for pound of body weight, children drink more water, eat more food and breathe more air than adults, making them substantially more vulnerable to chemical toxicants that are present in water, food or air.

If you have an average home in the U.S., you generate more than 20 pounds of household hazardous waste each hear in the form of toilet cleaners, tub and tile cleaners, oven cleaners, and bleach products.

Educate yourself about what you bring into your home.

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Take action and make your home the safest, healthiest, cleanest place in the world and “Welcome Healthy”  into your home.

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Did you read the reports of the twenty-one horses that died from a supplement prepared for them?

How very sad.  But as humans we do some of the same things.  Our bodies are very forgiving, but for how long?

We’re smart people aren’t we?  Then why do we think we can build strong healthy bodies on the foods we eat?

Think about it.  Our food has been chemically produced, processed, refined, cooked to death, frozen and canned. 

Preserved with chemicals, sprayed with pesticides and herbicides; treated with antibiotics and hormones, loaded down with fat and sugar; flavored and colored artificially, our food arrives at our tables claiming to be nutritious and delicious.

We are in such a hurry to please our pallets we forget about feeding our cells.

We fall for all the marketing hype about new “man made” foods loaded with toxic additives, synthetic vitamins, sugar and fat leaving no room for nutrition.

We are eating fake food most of the time.  Mother Nature provided really nutritious foods for all of us, but for the most part, we aren’t eating it. 

We try to correct our state of malnutrition by adding more toxic chemicals in the form of drugs, synthetic vitamins and medications that wreck havoc instead of giving our bodies the nutrients they need to grow, repair and heal.

Would you put dirty gas in your car’s fuel tank, or how about soda?  It wouldn’t run very well, if at all.

Yet everyday we humans go about our lives, dumping toxins in and wondering why we feel the way we do.

It can be argued that our modern ways of producing food helps feed the world, and rightly so.  Our bellies may be full but our health is on the decline.

The ever rising rate of obesity and chronic health problems is evidence of the path we have taken.

One man saw the problem, decided to make a difference and formed a company to provide healthy food based supplements, unlike the ones fed to the horses. 

This company has the highest quality control standards in the industry.

Too bad the company that made the horse’s supplements severely lacked in that department.

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Scientists have struggled for years trying to figure out why rates of some cancers and childhood brain disorders are increasing.

You’ve probably seen the ads that one out of 150 children will be diagnosed with autism.  Besides autism, learning disabilities, breast and prostate cancer are increasing.

 Possible reasons are emerging.

There are certain industrial chemicals at really low levels causing laboratory rodents to have altered brain behavior, gene and hormone changes and birth defects.

These same chemicals are causing problems in humans.  These include genital abnormalities in infants, pre-term birth, early puberty in girls, and thyroid effects in adults.

These chemicals include bisphenol A, used in plastic baby bottles and in the lining inside food cans.

Plastic water bottles with the # 2, 4 or 5 recycling symbol are fine.  Bottles of water are usually sold in #1 plastic bottles.  These are for a one time use only.  Do not leave these full of water in the sun or a hot car.

Plastic bottles with the # 7 symbol may leach BPA…bisphenol A.

Phthalates are used in toys, building materials, drug capsules, cosmetics, perfumes and nail polish.

Perchlorate, used in munitions, is now found in drinking water, fruits, veggies and breast milk.

These and many other chemicals are called “endocrine disrupters” that may in tiny doses interfere with hormonal signals that regulate human organ development, metabolism and other bodily functions.

Governments are banning some of these substances.  Once these chemicals are used in products and released into the environment, it sometimes takes years, if ever, to get them cleaned up.

Consumers must be vigilant in protecting themselves and their families.

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A 15-year study presented at the Toronto Indoor Air Conference found that women who work at home have a 54% higher death rate from cancer than those who work away from home

According to the study, it was concluded that this was a direct result of the increased exposure to toxic chemicals, many of which are found in common household products.

Over 25 pounds of toxic, hazardous waste is generated from the average home each year.  Much of this waste can be attributed to household cleaning products.

In the U.S., Chlorine is the most frequently involved chemical household poisonings.

More than 9 out of 10 suspected poison exposures occur at home with household products.

Toilet Bowl Cleaners are among the most dangerous cleaning products.  They can contain chlorine and hydrochloric acid.  Simply breathing these chemicals are harmful to health.

Only a fraction of the more than 75,000 registered chemicals have gone through testing for human health concerns says the EPA.

What are the dangers hiding under your sink?  Is it important to you to use safe environmental products?

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