Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  Even waterways that are far away from any ocean, such as the Elkhorn River in Nebraska or the Colorado River in the Western part of the United States, are known to have mercury-contaminated fish. The environmental working group (EWG) issued the following list of high-mercury fish:
1. Swordfish
2. Tuna
3. King mackerel
4. Halibut
5. Sea bass
6. Tilefish
7. Pike
8. Walleye
9. Largemouth bass
10. White croaker
11. Marlin
12. Shark
13. Gulf coast oysters
There are other environmental concerns related to fish farming. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  But the environmental working group states, "BPA is an ingredient in plastics and the epoxy resins that line food cans. Low doses of BPA lead to a range of health problems, including birth defects of the male and female reproductive systems in laboratory animals. Despite the growing evidence of risk to human health, there are no limits on the amount of BPA allowed in canned food.
The tests found that pregnant women and infants who eat even a single serving of some canned foods are exposed to unsafe doses of BPA. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
See book keywords and concepts |  The most telling work detailing what contaminants are entering our bodies and how much toxicity accumulates in our cells and bloodstreams over time comes from a 2003 study by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, in collaboration with the environmental working group (EWG), an advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. Their findings reveal the "body burden" of environmental chemicals and heavy metals carried by the average American. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Given widespread human exposure to BPA and hundreds of studies showing its adverse effects, the FDA and EPA must act quickly to revise safe levels for BPA exposure based on the latest science on the low-dose toxicity of the chemical," according to the environmental working group.
Fred von Saal is a professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri, Columbia and speaks frequently on the lecture and seminar circuit. He is the author of a groundbreaking paper in Environmental Health Perspective on risk assessment concerning low-dose effects of bisphenol A. | | The environmental working group is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of information to protect public health and the environment. They recently completed a study of the toxic chemical and its presence in name-brand canned goods, finding that 50% of those canned goods contained bisphenol A. To make matters worse, the FDA states about 20 percent of the U.S. diet comes from this form of food packaging. Even so, there are no current government safety standards that regulate how much BPA is allowed in canned foods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  In fact, according to the environmental working group (EWG), if the lead contained in a single bullet were totally dissolved in the water supply it could contaminate enough water to affect hundreds of thousands of people. Lead accumulates easily in the human body, since it is one of the few elements not eliminated by the kidneys, liver or skin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  This Loma Linda study is the first large-scale study to use human subjects to test the harmful effects of a water pollutant and is "inherently unethical," according to environmental working group research director Richard Wiles (Goliszek, Envirnomental Working Group).
(2001)
On its website, the FDA admits that its policy to include healthy children in human experiments "has led to an increasing number of proposals for studies of safety and pharmacokinetics, including those in children who do not have the condition for which the drug is intended" (Goliszek).
In Higgins and Grimes v. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
See book keywords and concepts |  However, following their in-depth analysis of the problem, the environmental working group (EWG) has produced a very useful Web site named Skin Deep that provides a safety assessment of ingredients in personal-care products (www.ewg.org/reports/skindeep/browse_ products.php). Here you can type in the brand name of your deodorant, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, and whatever else you may use and the site will tell you how many ingredients the products collectively contain and a calculator will rate the aggregate health threat those ingredients may pose to you. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Two groups, the environmental working group and the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, have asked the FDA to add Gulf Coast oysters and six more types of fish to the list of fish to restrict during pregnancy: tuna, sea bass, halibut, marlin, pike, and white croaker. They also feel that canned tuna, mahimahi, cod, and pollock should not be eaten more than once a month. According to these two research groups, fish considered safe for pregnant women include wild Pacific salmon, farm-raised trout and catfish, shrimp, flounder (summer), mid-Atlantic blue crab, and haddock. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  A 2004 study by the environmental working group identified 287 industrial chemicals in babies’ umbilical-cord blood, including 180 known to cause cancer and 217 that are toxic to the brain and nervous system.
In my research to develop a detoxification system for prospective mothers, I recently learned about a naturally occurring mineral called zeolite, which has a unique, negatively charged, crystalline structure. Zeolite is formed from the fusion of lava and ocean water, and combines all four elements. I feel that zeolite is an alchemical gift from God. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
See book keywords and concepts | | Environmental Working Group showed that 89 percent of the 10,500 ingredients used in personal-care products have not been evaluated for safety by the CIR, the FDA, or any other publicly accountable institution. The absence of government oversight for this $35 billion industry leads to companies routinely marketing products with ingredients that are poorly studied, not studied at all, or worse, known to pose potentially serious health risks.
Products such as fragrances are not regulated at all. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Reports from the Natural Resources Defense Council (1989) and the environmental working group (1998) found that millions of American children are exposed to levels of pesticides through their food that surpass limits considered safe. Some of these pesticides are known neurotoxins with the potential to harm a developing brain and nervous system. Others, with carcinogenic activity, may wreak even more damage in children and adolescents, whose higher growth rates equal higher rates of cell turnover, particularly as their sexual organs develop.
• Safeguard the health of the environment. | | Pesticide Content of Popular Fruits and Vegetables
Appendix C
The environmental working group (EWG) is a nonprofit consumer advocate group composed of professionals in various areas, e.g., scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers, and computer programmers, bound together to expose threats to our health and the environment and to find solutions.
One of the documents that this organization has put together is "The Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Environmental Working Group (EWG). "One Million Kids a Day Exposed to Unsafe Levels of Toxic Pesticides in Fruit, Vegetables, and Baby Food: Report Urges Ban on Dangerous Insecticides Download Overexposed." 1998, Washington, DC. www.ewg.org.
143 Alternate Food and Pesticide Reference: "Pesticides Residues in Food," 1996, Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR), Evaluations 1996, Part II-Toxicological, pp.45-96, Rome 16-25 September 1996, WHO Geneva 1997.
144 Cavieres, M., et al., "Developmental Toxicity of a Commercial Herbicide Mixture in Mice: I. |
Walter Last
See book keywords and concepts |  For more advice on pollutants in fish of different species and from various locations, see the website of the Environmental Working Group: www.ewg.org.
For most degenerative diseases and especially cancer and raised blood pressure, a high-potassium and low-sodium diet is required; therefore, food should not be salted. The absence of iodized salt in the diet may cause thyroid problems, which can be avoided by using additional kelp. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | A full page ad in the New York Times by the environmental working group listed pesticides in and on apples, and stated that a child eating an apple a day could be exposed to a total of 30 pesticides in one year.21a~c'27a Apples and apple products account for over half of the unsafe organophosphate exposures in children less than six years of age.21a-c'27a'30b
It is possible for a two year old child to have ingested more than the lifetime tolerated amount of pesticides by eating only half of a non-organic pesticided apple. | | The environmental working group (EWG) concluded in 1998, that one million children under five years of age consume foods that contain unsafe levels of organophosphates, including apples, pears and grapes.23'38
Reports in 2002 indicate that Dursban® was found in star fruit. (This is the pesticide linked to brain defects in young rats.)'23a-b
The average 25 pound one year old can eat certain fruits such as two grapes or three bites of some apples, pears or peaches and that amount will exceed the EPA safe adult exposure level to organophosphate pesticide. | | Overexposed: Organophosphate Insecticides in Children's Food," January 1998, environmental working group, Washington, DC.
112b Cook, Sally and Joseph Amodio, "Why Buy Organic?" Healthy Living Magazine.
113 www.earthsbest.com/concernoverpesticides.asp
114a Pimentel, David, "Silent Spring Revisited," J of Royal Society of
Chemistry, Pesticide Outlook, October 2002.
114b Pimentel, D. and K. Hart, 2001, "Pesticide use; ethical, environmental, and public health implications." In: New Dimensions in Bioethics: Science. Ethics and the Formulation of Public Policy, pp. 79-108. | | Environmental Working Group, "Warning: Teflon Can Cause Birth Defects and Infertility," March 2003.
187 Woolf, Norma Bennett, "Canine Thyroid Disease Can Be Tough to Diagnose," Dog Owner's Guide Online Magazine, http:// www.canismajor.com/dog/thyroid.html
188 Scott-Clark, Cathy and Adrian Levy, "Spectre Orange - Nearly 30 Years after the Vietnam War, a Chemical Weapon Used by US Troops is Still Exacting a Hideous Toll on Each New Generation," Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003. March 2003.
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148 environmental working group, "How Bout Them Apples? Pesticides in Children's Foods 10 Years After," Alar. Washington DC, October 18, 1999.
149a www.care2.com
149b www.nrdc.org/legislation/rollbacks.pdf
149c http://enn.com/news/wire- stories/2002/10/1012002/ ap_48678.asp
150 Pesticide News, Pesticide Trust, December 1994, pg. 22.
151 www.sustainablecotton.org/PESTICIDES/sttstcsS.html
152 U.S. Geological Survey National Water Summary 1984, Water Supply Paper 2275, 1985, pg. 120. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
See book keywords and concepts |  A 2001 report by USPIRG and the environmental working group, a not-for-profit research organization, found that fish contamination is already so high that eating fish such as bluefish, grouper, king mackerel, shark, swordfish, and tilefish can expose a pregnant woman to levels of mercury that could threaten a developing fetus.
Lead and Other Heavy Metals
People ingest lead, one of the most toxic metals known, due to water treatment procedures, industrial releases, older plumbing systems, lead-based paint, and other sources associated with old housing. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
See book keywords and concepts |  A more detailed selection is available from the environmental working group (www.ewg.org).
Dettimental effects are also seen from a high intake of sugar and fat. A diet that is high in sugar increases the risk of developing Parkinson's disease threefold (Hellenbrand et al. 1996), although a diet that includes high levels of animal fat is associated with a fivefold increase (Logroscino et al. 1996). The detrimental effect of a high-fat diet might be as simple as that it can reduce blood flow to the brain, thereby causing oxygen deficiency. |
Carol Simontacchi
See book keywords and concepts |  According to the environmental working group (EWG), a watchdog environmental organization, nine out of ten children under the age of five are exposed to thirteen different neurotoxic insecticides in their baby foods. While these chemicals rarely cause acute illness, they have the potential to cause long-term damage to the brain and nervous system, which are rapidly growing and are extremely vulnerable to injury during this formative period. For infants from six to twelve months of age, commercial baby food is the dominant source of unsafe levels of organophosphate insecticides (OPs). |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children, issued by the National Academy of Sciences, and Pesticides in Children's Food, prepared by the environmental working group, a Washington-based nonprofit research organization, both concluded that infants and children are at high risk for future cancers because of their exposure to carcinogenic pesticides, quite apart from neurotoxic, teratogenic, and other toxic effects. |
Marcia Zimmerman, C.N.
See book keywords and concepts |  Now we simply have the proof to back it up.
The environmental working group, a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C., released a study in January 1998 with an alarming conclusion. The study declared that one million American children age five and under are exposed to unsafe levels of pesticide residues in fruits, vegetables, and commercial baby food. |
Earl Mindell and Hester Mundis
See book keywords and concepts |  According to the environmental working group (EWG), a series of new analyses of government pesticide records show that every day 610,000 children (ages one through five) eat a dose of neurotoxic organophosphate unsafe at any meal insecticides (OPs) that the government deems unsafe. And more than half of these children get that dose by eating an apple, applesauce, or apple juice! |
Michael Castleman
See book keywords and concepts |  According to a study of 15,000 produce samples by the environmental working group, a Washington, D.C.-based consumer organization, pesticide residues contaminate a large portion of the American fruit and vegetable supply. The dirtiest dozen: apples, apricots, bell peppers, cantaloupe, celery, cherries, cucumbers, grapes, green beans, peaches, spinach, and strawberries.
To minimize pesticide exposure, which some research has linked to increased cancer risk, more Americans are opting for organic produce. Organic produce is grown without the aid of chemical pesticides. It usually costs more, too. |
Sandra Steingraber
See book keywords and concepts |  One research institution, the environmental working group, places this estimate higher. In their review of FDA monitoring data, EWG staff discovered that many more violations were detected by FDA chemists than were reported by FDA enforcement personnel. The actual violation rate, according to their reanalysis, is 5.6 percent—nearly double the FDA's offical claim—and involves sixty-six different pesticides, including many banned or restricted for use. Green peas showed a violation rate of nearly 25 percent, pears 15.7 percent, apple juice 12.5 percent, blackberries 12. |
D. Lindsey Berkson
See book keywords and concepts |  In 1997 the environmental working group (ewg) came out with a booklet called Tough to Swallow: How Pesticide Companies Profit from Poisoning America s Tap Water. They found that 104 communities of 3.3 million people across the corn belt drank tap water contaminated with five or more toxic weed killers, years after a number of water utilities had begun special treatment to clean pesticide levels out of the water. An earlier ewg study found that weed killers came right out of the tap in twenty-eight of
I CORN-FED GOODNESS
How about drinking a popular pesticide? | | According to the environmental working group, a nonprofit national research organization whose work has been generally accepted by the scientific community, "You eat small amounts of numerous pesticides, you quite likely eat them every day, and quite possibly in nearly every meal." Even pesticides that are now banned in this country, such as ddt, are still used in other countries and carried across global currents to our own soil or end up on our grocery shelves in foods imported from these countries. |
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