Does Your Child Own This Toy?
October 25, 2009
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By Angie Smith We all know about the recent publicity that toys imported from China have warranted…and it’s not good PR. The word this time though, is asbestos, not lead, found in a toy that was relatively popular this past holiday season: a forensic-type kit modeled after the popular TV series, “CSI: Crime Scene Investigators”. [...]
Nurses At Much Higher Risk For Toxin Exposure, Study Says
October 25, 2009
by Angie Smith WASHINGTON – A first ever national survey of nurses’ exposures to chemicals, pharmaceuticals and radiation on the job suggests there are links between serious health problems such as cancer, asthma, miscarriages and children’s birth defects and the duration and intensity of these exposures. The survey included 1,500 nurses from all 50 states [...]
Nursing Among Most Toxic Professions
October 25, 2009
By Angie Smith Health care workers wash and disinfect their hands sometimes 100-plus times per day with chemical-laced cleansers. They are exposed to housekeeping chemicals, latex, anesthetic gases, and radiation. The people who take care of us when we’re unable to…nurses…may have some of the highest toxin levels of any occupation, according to a just-released [...]
“Lead” Astray: My Toddler Was Toxic
October 25, 2009
By Angie Smith I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, Marshall, in 1996. My baby was perfect…well, at least to me he was! He talked very early. He walked very early. Marshall held fairly reasonable conversations by 18 months. I crowed at his every accomplishment, and I felt like he was an extension of my soul [...]
Gulf War Syndrome: A Valid Disease, A Treatable Disease
October 25, 2009
By Angie Smith Sleep disturbances, body aches, memory loss, and mysterious aches and pains. No, that’s not describing my 85-year-old grandmother’s medical chart. Those are just some of the symptoms Gulf War Syndrome, a real and treatable (we’ll get to that in a moment) disease. Gulf War (and to an extent, more recent veterans) are battling a war [...]
‘Autism Speaks’??? It’s Practically Screaming!
October 25, 2009
By Angie Smith Have you noticed those Ad Council announcements on TV lately…the ones about autism? While many facets of the campaign seem disconcerting (we’ll get to that in a moment), its numbers are accurate: one child out of every 166 is now diagnosed with autism, up from 1 in 10,000 just over a decade ago. With stats [...]
Hey Mom! Give Me Some Lead While I String These Lights!
October 25, 2009
By Angie Smith This morning on tv, I heard a warning about lead in a product that we all usually come in contact with this time of the year, especially children. “Not again,” I thought. Lead in makeup, then toys, now this? For years, it seemed all we parents had to worry with was [...]
National Geographic: ‘Average Joe’ Is Very Toxic
October 25, 2009
Did you know you are a walking toxic storage facility? is a reality, and mainstream science and medicine is becoming more keenly aware of the problem. Recently, National Geographic featured an article on just how poisoned we really are. Beginning at birth, our bodies start storing trace amounts of toxins and other chemicals, first from breast milk, and [...]
Balance Your pH, And You’ll Be ‘pHine’
October 25, 2009
by Angie Smith Ok, corny title there. I’m going to tell you something about your body that you might not know. You’ve heard of “ph balance”…right? But with the phrase injected into so many cosmetic and beauty product commercials, sometimes I think it has lost its “punch”. Flies right over our radar, that “pH balanced” [...]
Acid Reflux: Are You Stuck In “Purple Pill” Hell?
October 25, 2009
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That “miraculous” little capsule otherwise known as the “purple pill”, I was told, would change my life. At age 32, I was suffering from severe acid reflux. My 83-year-old grandmother called it “the family stomach”, meaning that her husband and three of her grown children, my aunts and uncles, all suffered from it (whatever “it” was), and she pretty much [...]
