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Environmental Toxins - If you can never seem to get truly well.
Are diet sodas making you fat?
What are the side effects of different medications?
Toxins in Your Environment- what they do to the body.

 

Environmental Toxins - If you can never seem to get truly well.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/07/20/dr-doris-rapp-on-mold.aspx 

Are diet sodas making you fat?

Low-calorie drinks were never a miracle weight-loss drug, but it turns out they may actually be costing you victory in the battle of the bulge

Two new studies have linked diet soda to poorer health.

In one study, people who drank two or more diet sodas a day experienced waist size increases that were six times greater than those of people who didn't drink diet soda. A second study that found that aspartame (NutraSweet) raised blood sugar levels in diabetes-prone mice.

For the full story:  http://theweek.com/article/index/216838/are-diet-sodas-making-you-fat 

For more information about sodas and diet soda go to http://www.mcvitamins.com/Health%20Opponents/soda.htm 

Side Effects of Drugs

One advise is that in taking any drug, make sure you know what the possible side effects are.   You can check yourself.   There are two good websites - www.rxlist.com and www.drugs.com.     

On RXList.com you search for the drug you are interested in and you will find a link for "side effects and drug interactions" on the left hand side of the page.   With Drugs.com, you go to the drug name and read down for the subtitle of sideeffects.   

Both sites have a wealth of information on a drug you are taking or plan to take.

Toxins in your Environment

Even if you live in the country, you are probably breathing polluted air. From campfires to jet engine exhaust, the obvious polluter - automobile exhaust fumes - there are cigarette smoke and chemicals emitted by industry - as well as ozone.. (Ozone is a form of oxygen that is a bluish irritating gas of pungent odor and it is a major agent in the formation of smog.) Many pollutants can be airborne over long distances, and all can enter your system. 

Smog contains a long lineup of chemical nasties, including ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and tiny particles of everything from asbestos to soot, that can settle deep in the lungs and cause general havoc. 

You should be especially aware of this fact if you work outdoors in a large city. You may be exposing yourself to more than one ton of pollutants - including heavy metals, carbon monoxide, and ozone - every year. 

A high concentration of or long exposure to any one of these chemicals can cause shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing, bronchitis, pneumonia, headaches, inability to concentrate, chest pain and, in some cases, lung cancer. Breathing polluted air changes the way that the lung cells do business. 

Smog can make the lung cells vulnerable to attack by bacteria and viruses. Smog can kill cells, making the lungs less efficient at doing their job of gas exchange (absorbing oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide). 

Many of the harmful interactions between the noxious substances in smog and lung cells happened during the chemical process known as oxidation. During oxidation, free radicals, which are unstable molecules of harmful chemicals, snatch electrons from the healthy molecules that compose the cells in order to balance themselves. This starts a chain reaction of electron stealing. The end result is serious damage to cells. 

The hormone system is very sensitive to environmental chemicals. These contaminates can mimic hormones.  The body gets confused and the artificial "hormone" connects to the cell receptors.  When the cell receptors are full up with these false hormones, the real hormone cannot find a place to connect to the cell (sort of like trying to find a parking space in NYC).  As time goes by,  these receptor get full.   The glands don't have a place to send their hormones to and the body can weaken.   One of the main symptoms of this is accumulation of fat as the cells cannot burn it anymore. This is not only when you get older as younger people exposed to these environment toxicity develop the same problems    Weight gain is a symptom of a physical problem. It is not the problem.   Finding the correct problem can be found in these pollutants.   

There are such things as Endocrine disruptors.  The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) is doing research on this.   And endocrine disruptor is and environmental poison that mimics, blocks or otherwise disrupts the normal function of hormones.   These disruptors are pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, plastics, solvents, heavy metals,  The EPA found that 90-95% of all pesticide residues are found in meat and dairy products.  

For a book about the effects on the body of chemical toxins, its effects on the body including weight gain and what to do about it:  Dr. Berg's The 7 Principles of Fat Burning

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