Penjagaan Kesihatan: Environment & Toxic

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Environment & Toxic

Without Realise:

" We are conducting a vast toxicological experiment, and we are using our children as the experimental animals. Not a single child today is born free of synthetic chemicals."

Facts:

1. 50% of all illness is due to poor indoor air quality.

(Source: 1989 state of Massachusetts Study)

2. 150 chemical found in the home are connected to allergies, birth defects, cancer and psychological disorders

(Source: Consumer Protection Agency (CPA))

3. Liquid dish soap is the leading cause of poisonings in the home for children under the age of six (over 2 million accidental poisonings per year). Most brands of liquid dish soap contain formaldehyde and ammonia.

4. Women who work in the home have a 54% higher death rate from cancer than women who work outside of the home.

5. 3 groups of people are primarily affected by indoor chemical concentrations because they spend more time indoors and their immune systems are weaker. Infants and toddlers, Chronically ill and Elderly.

6. Chemicals found in personal care products:

- 884 are toxic

-146 cause tumors

-218 cause reproductive complications

-778 cause acute toxicity

-314 cause biological mutations

-376 cause skin and eye irritations

Types of toxic that can give risk to our health.