Food Grown in Idaho Can Be High in Fluoride
Fluoride Contaminated Irrigation Water Absorbs into Some Foods
Foods grown in Idaho can contain dangerous levels of fluoride, according to an abstract to be presented at the 2009 National Environmental Public Health Conference on October 26, 2009 in Atlanta Georgia.
Many parts of Idaho have groundwater with naturally-occurring fluoride above the EPA's Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) of 4 milligrams per liter - a level that if consumed daily leads to abnormal bone growth and
stained teeth.
Private wells that serve fewer than 15 connections or 25 individuals are not subject to EPA drinking water standards, according to presenter Kai Elgethun. Thousands of wells in rural Idaho fall into this category.
Transient wells serving schools are also exempt from fluoride standards, he says. Irrigation wells are completely exempt despite the fact that crops can take up significant amounts of fluoride, he writes.
Foods raised using fluoride contaminated water may contribute appreciably to human exposure to fluoride.
"We evaluated the relative contribution of fluoride...affected produce to residents' total exposure in addition to water ingestion alone," writes Elgethun.
Fluoride levels in southwest Idaho drinking water wells that were at or over the MCL averaged around 7 milligrams per liter (range 4 mg/L - 22 mg/L).
Leafy greens can concentrate fluoride in their edible portions. Levels in these crops can add an additional ~5-20% to the total oral dose when compared to water ingestion alone.
Crop uptake and subsequent food ingestion should be considered when calculating total oral dose for water contaminants and when educating the public, Elgethun concludes.
Source: "Safe from the Tap?: Hazards in Drinking Water from Private and Municipal Wells,"
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Monday, May 10, 2010
NCIDEA: President's Cancer Panel
NCIDEA: President's Cancer Panel
CHILDREN
1. It is vitally important to recognize that children are far more susceptible to damage from environmental carcinogens and endocrine-disrupting compounds than adults. To the extent possible, parents and child care providers should choose foods, house and garden products, play spaces, toys, medicines, and medical tests that will minimize children’s exposure to toxics. Ideally, both mothers and fathers should avoid exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals and known or suspected carcinogens prior to a child’s conception and throughout pregnancy and early life, when risk of damage is greatest.
Chemical exposures
2. Individuals and families have many opportunities to reduce or eliminate chemical exposures. For example:
Family exposure to numerous occupational chemicals can be reduced by removing shoes • before entering the home and washing work clothes separately from the other family laundry.
Filtering home tap or well water can decrease exposure to numerous known or suspected • carcinogens and endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Unless the home water source is known to be contaminated, it is preferable to use filtered tap water instead of commercially bottled water.
Storing and carrying water in stainless steel, glass, or BPA- and phthalate-free containers • will reduce exposure to endocrine-disrupting and other chemicals that may leach into water from plastics. This action also will decrease the need for plastic bottles, the manufacture of which produces toxic by-products, and reduce the need to dispose of and recycle plastic bottles. Similarly, microwaving food and beverages in ceramic or glass instead of plastic containers will reduce exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals that may leach into food when containers are heated.
Exposure to pesticides can be decreased by choosing, to the extent possible, food grown • without pesticides or chemical fertilizers and washing conventionally grown produce to remove residues. Similarly, exposure to antibiotics, growth hormones, and toxic run-off from livestock feed lots can be minimized by eating free-range meat raised without these medications if it is available. Avoiding or minimizing consumption of processed, charred, and well-done meats will reduce exposure to carcinogenic heterocyclic amines and polyaromatic hydrocarbons.
Individuals can consult information sources such as the Household Products Database to help • them make informed decisions about the products they buy and use.
Properly disposing of pharmaceuticals, household chemicals, paints, and other materials will • minimize drinking water and soil contamination. Individuals also can choose products made with non-toxic substances or environmentally safe chemicals. Similarly, reducing or ceasing landscaping pesticide and fertilizer use will help keep these chemicals from contaminating drinking water supplies.
Turning off lights and electrical devices when not in use reduces exposure to petroleum • combustion by-products because doing so reduces the need for electricity, much of which is generated using fossil fuels. Driving a fuel-efficient car, biking or walking when possible, or using public transportation also cuts the amount of toxic auto exhaust in the air.
Individuals can reduce or eliminate exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke in the home, auto, • and public places. Most counseling and medications to help smokers quit are covered by health insurance or available at little or no cost.
radiation
3. Adults and children can reduce their exposure to electromagnetic energy by wearing a headset when using a cell phone, texting instead of calling, and keeping calls brief.
4. It is advisable to periodically check home radon levels. Home buyers should conduct a radon test in any home they are considering purchasing.
5. To reduce exposure to radiation from medical sources, patients should discuss with their health care providers the need for medical tests or procedures that involve radiation exposure. Key considerations include personal history of radiation exposure, the expected benefit of the test, and alternative ways of obtaining the same information. In addition, to help limit cumulative medical radiation exposure, individuals can create a record of all imaging or nuclear medicine tests received and, if known, the estimated radiation dose for each test.
6. Adults and children can avoid overexposure to ultraviolet light by wearing protective clothing and sunscreens when outdoors and avoiding exposure when the sunlight is most intense.
SELF-ADVOCACY
7. Each person can become an active voice in his or her community. To a greater extent than many realize, individuals have the power to affect public policy by letting policymakers know that they strongly support environmental cancer research and measures that will reduce or remove from the environment toxics that are known or suspected carcinogens or endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Individuals also can influence industry by selecting non-toxic products and, where these do not exist, communicating with manufacturers and trade organizations about their desire for safer products.
CHILDREN
1. It is vitally important to recognize that children are far more susceptible to damage from environmental carcinogens and endocrine-disrupting compounds than adults. To the extent possible, parents and child care providers should choose foods, house and garden products, play spaces, toys, medicines, and medical tests that will minimize children’s exposure to toxics. Ideally, both mothers and fathers should avoid exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals and known or suspected carcinogens prior to a child’s conception and throughout pregnancy and early life, when risk of damage is greatest.
Chemical exposures
2. Individuals and families have many opportunities to reduce or eliminate chemical exposures. For example:
Family exposure to numerous occupational chemicals can be reduced by removing shoes • before entering the home and washing work clothes separately from the other family laundry.
Filtering home tap or well water can decrease exposure to numerous known or suspected • carcinogens and endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Unless the home water source is known to be contaminated, it is preferable to use filtered tap water instead of commercially bottled water.
Storing and carrying water in stainless steel, glass, or BPA- and phthalate-free containers • will reduce exposure to endocrine-disrupting and other chemicals that may leach into water from plastics. This action also will decrease the need for plastic bottles, the manufacture of which produces toxic by-products, and reduce the need to dispose of and recycle plastic bottles. Similarly, microwaving food and beverages in ceramic or glass instead of plastic containers will reduce exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals that may leach into food when containers are heated.
Exposure to pesticides can be decreased by choosing, to the extent possible, food grown • without pesticides or chemical fertilizers and washing conventionally grown produce to remove residues. Similarly, exposure to antibiotics, growth hormones, and toxic run-off from livestock feed lots can be minimized by eating free-range meat raised without these medications if it is available. Avoiding or minimizing consumption of processed, charred, and well-done meats will reduce exposure to carcinogenic heterocyclic amines and polyaromatic hydrocarbons.
Individuals can consult information sources such as the Household Products Database to help • them make informed decisions about the products they buy and use.
Properly disposing of pharmaceuticals, household chemicals, paints, and other materials will • minimize drinking water and soil contamination. Individuals also can choose products made with non-toxic substances or environmentally safe chemicals. Similarly, reducing or ceasing landscaping pesticide and fertilizer use will help keep these chemicals from contaminating drinking water supplies.
Turning off lights and electrical devices when not in use reduces exposure to petroleum • combustion by-products because doing so reduces the need for electricity, much of which is generated using fossil fuels. Driving a fuel-efficient car, biking or walking when possible, or using public transportation also cuts the amount of toxic auto exhaust in the air.
Individuals can reduce or eliminate exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke in the home, auto, • and public places. Most counseling and medications to help smokers quit are covered by health insurance or available at little or no cost.
radiation
3. Adults and children can reduce their exposure to electromagnetic energy by wearing a headset when using a cell phone, texting instead of calling, and keeping calls brief.
4. It is advisable to periodically check home radon levels. Home buyers should conduct a radon test in any home they are considering purchasing.
5. To reduce exposure to radiation from medical sources, patients should discuss with their health care providers the need for medical tests or procedures that involve radiation exposure. Key considerations include personal history of radiation exposure, the expected benefit of the test, and alternative ways of obtaining the same information. In addition, to help limit cumulative medical radiation exposure, individuals can create a record of all imaging or nuclear medicine tests received and, if known, the estimated radiation dose for each test.
6. Adults and children can avoid overexposure to ultraviolet light by wearing protective clothing and sunscreens when outdoors and avoiding exposure when the sunlight is most intense.
SELF-ADVOCACY
7. Each person can become an active voice in his or her community. To a greater extent than many realize, individuals have the power to affect public policy by letting policymakers know that they strongly support environmental cancer research and measures that will reduce or remove from the environment toxics that are known or suspected carcinogens or endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Individuals also can influence industry by selecting non-toxic products and, where these do not exist, communicating with manufacturers and trade organizations about their desire for safer products.
Americans Continually Exposed to Carcinogens: Report
Americans Continually Exposed to Carcinogens: Report
Americans Continually Exposed to Carcinogens: Report
SustainableBusiness.com News
In a landmark report issued Thursday, the President’s Cancer Panel asserts that public health officials have “grossly underestimated” the likelihood that environmental contaminants trigger a large proportion of the cancers diagnosed in 1.5 million Americans annually.
“The grievous harm from this group of carcinogens has not been addressed adequately by the National Cancer Program,” the panel told President Obama. “The American people—even before they are born—are bombarded continually with myriad combinations of these dangerous exposures.”
"The panel urges you most strongly to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air that needlessly increase healthcare costs, cripple our nation's productivity, and devastate American lives." the panel said.
The panel’s findings are expected to intensify pressure on the chemical industry and its allies in Congress to endorse toxic chemicals policy reforms.
Last month, both the US House and Senate unveiled legislation to overhaul the nation’s outdated chemical law, the Toxic Substances Control Act. That law has been widely criticized for preventing EPA from regulating even the small group of known human carcinogens, while also failing to keep pace with more recent science. Though the bills differ, each would require chemicals to be assessed for safety as a condition of remaining on the market. Each would also enact a program for “hot spots”- communities in the country that are especially hard-hit by chemical pollution.
However, both pieces of legislation fall short of public health goals in three critical areas, according to the group Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families (SCHF): 1) New chemicals would be allowed on the market without having to be proven safe; 2) Action on the most dangerous chemicals, persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals, is deferred; 3) Scientific best practices recommended by the National Academy of Sciences to modernize and improve the methods EPA uses to assess chemical safety, are not incorporated.
Many of the policy recommendations issued by the President’s Cancer Panel align with principles of the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition. The report criticized current federal policy for allowing cancer-causing chemicals to proliferate in the marketplace and called for strengthening the chemical regulatory system in the U.S. The report found that agencies responsible for promulgating and enforcing regulations related to environmental exposures are “failing to carry out their responsibilities,” and recommended upgrading the system of environmental regulations to be “driven by science and free of political or industry influence” to protect public health.
Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the U.S., exceeded only by heart disease. More than 1.5 million people were diagnosed with new cases of cancer in 2009. In 2008 the direct Medical costs of cancer were $93.2 billion and the overall costs were $228.1 billion. Medical costs for pediatric cancers alone in 1997 totaled an estimated $3.9 billion.
Over the past two decades, the rates of some cancers rose significantly, including:
- Kidney, liver, thyroid, esophageal and testicular cancer, as well as melanoma in men.
- Non-Hodgkin’s, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, melanoma and cancers of the thyroid, liver, and kidney in women.
- Childhood cancers overall, especially childhood leukemia and brain cancer
Website: pcp.cancer.gov
Case Index, October Term 2010 - ScotusWiki
Case Index, October Term 2010 - ScotusWiki
Cases to be argued and/or decided during October Term 2010, by sitting.
Cases to be argued and/or decided during October Term 2010, by sitting.
| Sitting | Docket | Title (link to Wiki page) | Issue | Argument (link to transcript) | Decision (link to opinion) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unscheduled | 09-479 and 09-7073 | Abbott v. United States; Gould v. United States | Application of mandatory minimum sentences to multiples charges | Unscheduled | Undecided |
| Unscheduled | 09-350 | Los Angeles County v. Humphries | Conditions for declaratory relief against a local public entity | Unscheduled | Undecided |
| Unscheduled | 09-587 | Harrington v. Richter | Right to the effective assistance of counsel | Unscheduled | Undecided |
| Unscheduled | 09-150 | Michigan v. Bryant | Use of witness statement to the police as testimony at trial | Unscheduled | Undecided |
| Unscheduled | 09-152 | Bruesewitz v. Wyeth | National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 | Unscheduled | Undecided |
| Unscheduled | 09-751 | Snyder v. Phelps | Damages for infliction of emotional distress; balancing freedom of speech and freedom of religion; what constitutes a "captive audience"? | Unscheduled | Undecided |
| Unscheduled | 09-530 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration v. Nelson | Federal contract employee’s constitutional right to informational privacy | Unscheduled | Undecided |
| Unscheduled | 09-571 | Connick v. Thompson | Local government liability for prosecutor's failure to share evidence favorable to the defense | Unscheduled | Undecided |
| Unscheduled | 09-658 | Belleque v. Moore | Standard for federal habeas courts in reviewing failure of defense lawyer to challenge client's confession to crime | Unscheduled | Undecided |
| Unscheduled | 09-834 | Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. | Protection of worker against retaliation over complaints about illegal workplace actions, if complaints were not in writing | Unscheduled | Undecided |
| Unscheduled | 09-5801 | Flores-Villar v. United States | Constitutionality of treating fathers different from mothers in transferring their U.S. citizenship to a child born overseas | Unscheduled | Undecided |
| Unscheduled | 09-846 | United States v. Tohono O'odham Nation | Jurisdiction of the Court of Federal Claims | Unscheduled | Undecided |
| Unscheduled | 09-907 | Ransom v. MBNA, America Bank | Vehicle ownership deductions in a debtor's "projected disposable income" | Unscheduled | Undecided |
| Unscheduled | 08-1423 | Costco v. Omega | Application of copyright law to foreign-made and imported goods | Unscheduled | Undecided |
| Unscheduled | 09-400 | Staub v. Proctor Hospital | Liability of an employer for discriminatory intent of a person who merely influenced an employment decision | Unscheduled | Undecided |
| Unscheduled | 08-1448 | Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association | Constitutionality of limits on content of violent video games | Unscheduled | Undecided |
| Unscheduled | 09-737 | Ortiz v. Jordan | Timing of appeals of orders denying summary judgment | Unscheduled | Undecided |
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
NaturalNews.com
NaturalNews.com:
Saturday, May 01, 2010
Hundred Year Lie, Organic Food, Alternative Medicine, Natural Products
Hundred Year Lie, Organic Food, Alternative Medicine, Natural Products:
"I began learning how chemically toxic we each have become, and how, as a result of the body burden of chemicals we are constantly absorbing, the reproductive future of our entire species is now imperiled.
* Why are studies showing that 12% of American couples are unable to conceive?
* Why are studies showing that the number of children being born with both male and female sex organs tripled in the last decade?
* Why is the incidence of testicular cancer in 2000 four times higher than 1950?
* Why are more and more men seeking breast-reduction surgery as a result of drinking tap water?
* Why is the U.S. spending more than twice as much on health care than any other industrialized nation?"
"I began learning how chemically toxic we each have become, and how, as a result of the body burden of chemicals we are constantly absorbing, the reproductive future of our entire species is now imperiled.
* Why are studies showing that 12% of American couples are unable to conceive?
* Why are studies showing that the number of children being born with both male and female sex organs tripled in the last decade?
* Why is the incidence of testicular cancer in 2000 four times higher than 1950?
* Why are more and more men seeking breast-reduction surgery as a result of drinking tap water?
* Why is the U.S. spending more than twice as much on health care than any other industrialized nation?"
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The Assault on Autistic Children and their Parents...
The Assault on Autistic Children and their Parents...:
Parents with Autistic children in the US have come to a rude awakening. They have found that, not only would the US drug industry lie to them, but so will the government agencies “We the People” put in place to protect us from harm. More, they find, there is an apparatus in place to keep those parents from finding real solutions and changing the paradigm in the way Americans usually act when something goes wrong.
There is no question in any thinking person’s mind that Autism has its roots in environmental issues, the first and foremost of which, of course, is the US Vaccine program. Anyone who says different is simply lying and deserves to finish out their rotten life in a prison – in a third world country.
The US drug industry completely controls every federal agency that is supposed to regulate them, and they pour money into Congress to keep their own coffers full. They completely control our TV news. No question about that. So far, they’ve had their way, in the information wars. They even have information systems in place to mislead the public on the internet about health care. Look, for instance, at how much time and effort is put into controlling the health articles on Wikipedia.
There are more than a couple problems that have developed for them - and frankly, the drug industry is running in panic mode. That’s why you are seeing now, and have been seeing, desperate moves to generate money – so they can keep the system running. Without money, and I mean LOTS of money, coming in constantly, the drug companies’ control system begins to look like a house of cards, with someone about to open a window on a windy day.
And there are plenty of people heading over to open those windows. Even more since the drug industry started making desperate money grab moves – like creating the fake H1N1 pandemic. They telegraphed, with that, their weakness. In short, vaccine manufacturers, I believe, are on their ass, and that sort of “fake pandemic” move was a last ditch effort to make some bucks. I suspect that wise investors in those companies rode the high up to a point and then sold their interests quickly, knowing that “fake pandemic” won’t happen again.
In short, the world public knows, at this point, that you simply cannot believe a word the vaccine industry says. Not one word. If an executive for a vaccine manufacturer say that it is a bright sunny day outside – take your raincoat.
More, our public agencies have been usurped. It has become almost impossible to find anyone who regulates any aspect of health care at the national level that is not corrupt. The US FDA is beyond reality. The CDC is a propaganda machine for the drug industry.
Then too, there is that well-funded misdirection agency that operates out of New York City. The ones who have Stephen Barrett on a leash.
So, wait a minute. If the drug industry controls our Congress, our TV networks, our regulatory agencies, and affects information flow in the media and on the internet, why would they be afraid of anything?
Easy answer – for despite all that, it’s not working. Things are coming to a head – fast.
Fast…
The juggernaut is in trouble for several little known reasons:
(1) Most drug company patents run out in 2011 or 2012. The generic manufacturers are breathing down their financial necks. Why bother to advertise on TV when the generic is selling for eight cents on the dollar. The gravy train of protected price is about over.
(2) Attempts to register old drugs as “orphan” drugs, to maintain price level are having limited success – not enough to protect the industry.
(3) Shifting investments from chemical drugs to Embryonic Stem Cell applications is not proceeding. Universities and Foundations involved in Embryonic Stem Cell research have grabbed most of the important patents ahead of time, and the material reality isn’t coming to the fore. Americans value their children and are appalled at the “throw-a-baby-in-a-blender” medical concept. “Adult” Stem Cell applications are being studied, and they show far more potential then Embryonic, and there is very little to patent.
(4) The idea of redesigning old drugs by changing one molecule, and claiming a new version, is not doing well.
(5) Designing new drugs to increase penis size and endurance has been done. It was about as successful as the Edsel. They’ve run out of novelty ideas.
(6) It is costing more, and more, to maintain the system; bribing Congress, hiring people to target doctors, trips to exotic place for doctors, TV advertising, etc. There is no end to the cash outflow. All this is costing them a fortune. They are beginning to look like the Soviet Union before they locked the front doors and turned out the lights.
(7) Scientists are finding that the big, scary, viruses (H1N1, Avian Flu, SARS) coming down the pike have all the earmarks, under a microscope, of having been designed, and manufactured, in a laboratory – and that raises new questions like ”Is someone making dangerous viruses and turning them loose to force us to buy a vaccine?”
(8) Keeping really useful drugs off the market - like HgH, intentionally., because if you use HgH you won't need any other drugs. Separate article coming.
But none of this compares to their biggest mistake – they pissed off the smarter people of middle America, treating them as though they were totally stupid and of no consequence. They woke up the sleeping giants who found, upon that awakening, that the sleazy drug industry had poisoned their children. The drug industry, through their incessant greed, gave Autism to the children of those that hold the positions of power in America. More they gave us learning disabilities (1 in 6 children), asthma (1 in 9 children, and diabetes (1 in 450 children).
Oops.
There is no question that the US health care system is trash. It is. But most Americans, as long as they and their offspring are healthy, ignore issues that are not part of their immediate day. Why? We live in a busy world, and we need to focus on what is important at hand. So, we do.
So, what woke up the sleeping giant? Autism - and all of the denials, and cover-ups, about what’s causing it.
Of course Autism is caused by environmental issues. I’ve never met Barbara Loe-Fisher, the originator of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC.org), but what she says strikes right to the heart of the issues. It is this:
“Why are so many of our highly vaccinated children so sick?
Vaccination rates with multiple vaccines in America are at an all-time high and, with 1 in 6 vaccinated child in America now learning disabled \; 1 in 9 suffering with asthma; 1 in 150 developing autism, and 1 in 450 becoming diabetic, this is a legitimate question. America spends more than 75 percent of the $2 trillion price tag for health care to treat the chronically ill and disabled, and it is estimated that, by 2025, 1 in 2 Americans will be chronically ill or disabled. “
You can read the rest of this interesting article by clicking here.
So, let's open some more windows...
If anything, the situation is getting worse for the drug industry. More people are taking a hard look at vaccinations - and they should. You simply cannot trust these people at all. Not at all.
The Autism Community isn't the same group of people as the North American Health Freedom activists. The Autism Community, for the most part, is made up of victims - parents of children whose lives have been damaged by the vaccine industry, and other environmental issues.
But, I see a merger coming, beneficial to both groups. It is already happening. The www.4dconference.com in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin May 8th and 9th, 2010 is a primary example of a blend of science and activism. It is this sort of scientific conference that will be the destruction of the vaccine industry. The organizers actually invited vaccine promoters to attend and debate the issues - and of course, they all seem to be busy that weekend..
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