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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 by: Mike Adams
A test of air freshener products recently conducted by the Natural Resources Defense Council found that 12 out of 14 popular air freshener products contained a chemical known to be harmful to the health of humans. Phthalates, known to cause reproductive problems and hormone disruption in humans, were found in virtually all air freshener brands, including several Walgreens-branded air fresheners that the popular retailer has now pulled off its shelves.
Neither the FDA nor the EPA conducts any safety testing or spot checking of toxic chemicals in air freshener products. Essentially, consumers could be exposed to any number of toxic airborne chemicals from air freshener products, with no warning whatsoever. The safety of chemicals used in these products is utterly ignored by the FDA in much the same way that perfumes and cosmetic products containing cancer-causing chemicals are routinely ignored by the agency. The FDA makes virtually no effort to protect American consumers from cancer-causing or hormone-disrupting chemicals in tens of thousands of consumer products, and were it not for the efforts of consumer advocacy groups and environmental protection groups like the NRDC, no one would be protecting consumers at all. (U.S. government agencies usually have to be sued by groups like the CSPI or Public Citizen before they will take any pro-consumer action…)
Only two products tested by the NRDC — Febreze Air Effects and Renuzit Subtle Effects — contained virtually no detectable levels of phthalates, yet the twelve other products tested positive for the chemical even though some were labeled “unscented” and none of them listed phthalates as an ingredient. Some products were even labeled “All natural!” (Which just goes to demonstrate, yet again, that the “All natural” claim is meaningless.)
Walgreens pulls its air freshener products
According to the NRDC, the air freshener products with the highest levels of detectable phthalates were Walgreens Air Freshener, Walgreens Scented Bouquet, and Ozium Glycolized Air Sanitizer. Walgreens has since pulled its air freshener products from its shelves, apparently out of this newly revealed health concern.
Four consumer advocacy groups (and environmental groups) are now filing a petition with the EPA and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), calling for the agency to start testing air freshener products for this toxic chemical. The four groups include the Sierra Club, Alliance for Healthy Homes and the National Center for Healthy Housing.
All this brings to mind an important question: Why hasn’t some government agency taken steps to test these toxic chemicals in air freshener products before?
Toxic products for the home are found everywhere
The sad truth is that you can walk down the aisle of just about any popular retailer (Walgreens, Wal-Mart, etc.) and find literally hundreds of different products that contain dangerous chemicals, many of which are well known to promote cancer. These chemicals are openly added to laundry detergents, skin creams, cosmetics, pet products, household cleaners, car cleaners, dish soap, perfumes, shampoos and many other products regularly used by consumers. Of course, most consumers have no idea they’re consuming cancer-causing ingredients, and most retailers seem to have no interest whatsoever in testing their products for dangerous chemical substances.
Why was Walgreens selling products if it didn’t know what was in them? And what about retailers like Wal-Mart, Costco and Sam’s Clubs? Aren’t they also aware that many of their consumer products contain cancer-causing chemicals?
The sad truth is that most brand-name consumer products contain at least one toxic chemical, and that’s true for food as much as it is for home care products. Unless you’re shopping at a health food store and buying truly natural, organic, unscented and environmentally responsible products, you can bet there are toxic chemicals all over your home (and in your body) right now.
The average American consumer uses close to 100 toxic chemicals before she even leaves the house in the morning. Many of those chemicals are encountered in the morning during showering, shaving, skin care, hair care and application of cosmetics. Other chemicals are encountered in breakfast foods, including bacon, sausage, processed milk, breads and other processed foods. By the time the average consumer leaves their home in the morning, they’ve already poisoned their liver, pancreas, kidneys, heart, lungs and brain. A typical American consumers has over 300 different synthetic chemicals in their body right now. Is it any wonder degenerative disease rates have skyrocketed in the U.S. over the last several decades?
I think the U.S. population is suddenly waking up to the fact that the vast majority of popular products marketed to them and sold at retailers are, in one way or another, dangerous to their health.
People have suddenly come to realize that brand-name dog food is so toxic that it will kill your dog, that toys from China contain dangerous levels of lead, that perfume products can contain as many as 21 different cancer-causing chemicals and that even popular laundry detergent products wash your clothes in a toxic brew of synthetic chemicals and artificial fragrances. Sites like NewsTarget and the Organic Consumers Association (www.OrganicConsumers.org) are, of course, trying to do something about this by educating consumers. We’ve even gone out of our way to acquire thousands of kilograms of natural laundry detergent to replace the toxic, brand-name detergents sold in stores (watch for an announcement in the next two days, or click here to see our new soap nuts product). Our aim is to eliminate chemicals in 500,000 loads of laundry in the next 90 days, protecting consumers from cancer and protecting the environment from the downstream toxicity caused by the use of commercial laundry detergents (which are dangerous to aquatic ecosystems).
The bottom line to all this is that corporations are selling consumers a cocktail of toxic chemicals found in tens of thousands of different products, none of which are effectively regulated by any government agency. Across the industry, there seems to be no concern whatsoever for the safety of consumers, and that’s why everything from pet food to perfume is now manufactured with chemicals that are well known to cause cancer, infertility, neurological disorders and many other serious health problems.
Believe me: The discovery of phthalates in air freshener products is just the tip of the iceberg. What other chemicals lurk in these same air freshener products? And can you imagine all the toxic chemicals found in high-fragrance shampoos, nail polish, makeup remover and dryer sheets? When the truth comes out about those products someday, consumers are going to shocked to discover just how toxic their homes (and bodies) have become thanks to the relentless use of synthetic chemicals by commercial product manufacturers.
This stuff gets absorbed intothe food at the grocery store!
Oh,and here’s another huge “Wow” realization that, I guarantee you, nobody else is talking about these days: Many of these toxic fragrance chemicals escape from their product bottles, circulate in the air at grocery stores, and get absorbed by other food products sold in the same store.
I’m not kidding: That’s why the peaches I once bought at Costco smell like Tide laundry detergent. It’s because the peaches have soaked up some chemicals from the Tide! It’s why fresh produce sold at grocery stores sometimes tastes like soap, or why water sold in cheap plastic jugs easily soaks up fragrance chemicals and tastes like Bounce dryer sheets. Any food item you buy from a retailer that sells toxic cleaning products is, itself, slightly toxic.
Right now, nobody is talking about this. This risk of chemical cross-contamination hasn’t even been admitted to by mainstream scientists, the FDA, the EPA or any government agency. And yet it’s a huge issue that impacts virtually all consumers; even healthy consumers who think they’re reading labels and making smart shopping choices. If they’re buying food or beverages under the same roof as a store that sells garden pesticides, toxic air fresheners, chemical-soaked dryer sheets or other products containing dangerous chemicals, then they’re buying chemically contaminated food!
It’s yet another reason to buy from local farmers’ markets or co-op stores. Support Community-Supported Agriculture organizations (CSAs) and grow what you can yourself, in your own back yard, where the food goes from your garden to your plate, without being subjected to toxic chemicals in the air. And get some detox products to get rid of these chemicals. Some great sources include Heavy Metal Detox from www.DetoxMetals.com and Metal Magic from www.BaselineNutritionals.com (another interesting product is Natural Cellular Defense which I recommend through a friend Jason Groode at http://www.mywaiora.com/195399 )
Trust me on this issue: We’ve only heard the beginning of all this. Just wait until scientists someday wake up and start realizing that virtually everything sold at most retailers is contaminated with toxic chemicals — even when those chemicals are not added to the products during manufacturing! Just remember this:
Products sitting on the shelves at retailers exchange molecules. Fruits and vegetables absorb molecules in the air, and solvent chemicals can go right through plastic containers. When you buy something at a store, you’re buying a little bit of everything in the store! It’s another reason to stop shopping at retailers that sell pesticides, toxic soaps, laundry products, solvents and cleaners. Get your food from a FOOD store, and make sure it’s real food (not that processed garbage).
By the way, you can read the original NRDC press release at:
http://www.nrdc.org/media/2007/070919.asp
I told you about a CDC report that showed how junk food so easily gets into the hands of 
your children thanks to vending machines parked conveniently at their schools. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar signed landmark legislation that will enforce the toughest nutritional guidelines for public schools in the nation.
The three bills signed into law:
Schwarzeneggar has good reason to be concerned: San Diego and Los Angeles led a list of urban areas across the nation selling the most junk food through vending machines in their school districts.
As you can imagine, the American Beverage Association blasted the new laws, saying the obesity epidemic won’t be solved by “unnecessary restrictions,” although that very same group recommended limiting the availability of soft drinks in elementary schools last month.
In fact, the caffeine content in soft drinks has recently been compared to nicotine in cigarettes, another reason young children don’t need them.
Perhaps, hinting of more bad news on the way, Dr. Lester Crawford resigned from the FDA
unexpectedly and without comment last Friday, after being confirmed by the Senate just two months ago. To show you just how serious the federal government is about reforming the FDA — or not — Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, already director of the National Cancer Institute, was appointed to succeed Crawford as acting director and claims to have “a 100 percent commitment” to both posts.
Is von Eschenbach an improvement over Crawford? Some believe von Eschenbach, a cancer survivor, may support relaxed standards on drug approvals, a big change from the current safety worries over toxic drugs like Vioxx.
Even worse has been von Eschenbach’s highly debatable goal for the National Cancer Institute: Eliminating suffering and death due to cancer by 2015 due, in part, to new drugs.
Despite all of von Eschenbach’s best efforts, however, cancer recently passed up heart disease as the leading killer of Americans, with 65 patients dying every hour of every day from it.
If you want to reduce your odds of becoming a cancer victim exponentially , I strongly urge you to review my recent piece that shows you how to virtually eliminate your risk by making some lifestyle changes.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 by: Mike Adams
The U.S. Congress has reached agreement on a House / Senate compromise regarding the recently passed FDA reform legislation that aims to improve the safety of pharmaceuticals. The bill will now move to the White House where it is expected to be signed by the President.
While this new FDA reform bill still lacks crucial safety provisions for U.S. consumers (such as banning direct-to-consumer drug advertisements), it at least kept two key provisions intact that may help prevent drug companies from engaging in the routine deceptions that have propped up industry profits at the expense of public safety:
1) Big Pharma will not have immunity to lawsuits brought by consumers harmed by dangerous prescription drugs. As you may know, drug companies (and even the White House and FDA) have lobbied for granting drug companies blanket immunity from all injury lawsuits. This would have been the ultimate insult to American consumers, but a huge victory for drug companies (whose products arguably are the most dangerous products currently being consumed by Americans, with the exception of tobacco products).
2) Drug companies will eventually be required to publicly disclose the results of drug trials by publishing them on the internet. As NewsTarget reported in an article published yesterday, the White House strongly opposed this provision, and drug companies, of course, are terrified by the idea that they might actually have to disclose the results of their drug trials. They would rather keep consumers ignorant of the safety of pharmaceuticals, it seems. But this new agreement by the House and Senate will, it is claimed, require drug companies to start publishing these clinical trial results online.
Of course, all this doesn’t mean that drug companies won’t find some new way to game the system, deceive consumers and block meaningful FDA reform. Nearly every clinical trial published today is already rigged to deliver results that favor drug companies, and it is a well known fact in the drug testing industry that individuals and companies who don’t deliver favorable results quickly end up jobless or blackballed from the industry. Thus, there’s a huge flaw in this idea that publicly publishing clinical trial results will instantly make drug companies honest. The science is dishonest in the first place, and clinical trials are rigged from the start to produce favorable results while minimizing the emergence of dangerous side effects.
Even worse, there’s really not much reform in the FDA reform bill in the first place. There’s no call for a criminal investigation of the crimes that have been committed against the American people by top FDA officials, nor is there any attempt to use RICO Act laws (racketeering laws) to investigate the organized crime ring currently being run by Big Pharma and the FDA. There’s no call for the FTC to investigate the monopoly pharmaceutical pricing practices that now require Americans to pay as much as 550,000% markups on pharmaceuticals (the highest prices in the world, by far). It’s interesting that the FTC will sue Microsoft for monopoly marketing practices but won’t touch Big Pharma for monopoly pricing on prescription drugs.
Overall, there’s really not much reform in today’s FDA reform bill. There’s not even a ban on direct-to-consumer drug advertising — an unjustifiable practice that’s directly responsible for the huge increase in drug side effects (adverse events reporting) and drug deaths over the last few years. As I have stated on this website many times, it is no exaggeration to say that the number of Americans killed by FDA-prescription drugs each year greatly exceeds the number of Americans killed in the entire Vietnam War. Big Pharma and the FDA, it seems, have declared war on the American people, and while the body bags keep mounting up, the best that Congress can come up with is blocking Big Pharma’s attempts to acquire legal immunity from all drug deaths. That’s not exactly progress.
Fascinating, isn’t it? What’s clear in this bill is that Big Pharma is still running Congress. Not entirely, though. Members of Congress have been able to desperately latch on to a couple of provisions in the bill in order to proclaim that they have worked diligently to protect the health and safety of the American people. But all they’ve done is rearranged the chairs on the deck of the Titanic. The cruise liner of American health has a gaping hole in its hull, and it’s taking on water and sinking fast. Congress can proclaim victory while it heads for the life rafts, but the truth is that most Americans are going down with the ship. We are the least healthy advanced nation in the world, and we’re not getting any healthier.
Big Pharma and the FDA (with a little help from processed food manufacturers) have destroyed the health of this nation, and they are working hard on destroying its economy, too. It will take America three generations to recover from the damage done by this criminal-minded industry, and history will judge Congress harshly for its blatant unwillingness to put a stop to this system of modern medicine that has become the No. 1 threat to the American people.
No war, no terrorist action and no viral pandemic has even come close to the number of Americans killed by FDA-approved prescription drugs. Medicine has, in fact, become the pandemic. Health care has become a threat to health, and the FDA now operates as the enemy of the people it once vowed to protect.
Reform the FDA? Don’t be silly. There will never be any serious reform effort as long as the Big Pharma puppeteers continue to control both Congress and the White House. Much like the TSA attempts to create the illusion of airport security, the U.S. Congress has only created the illusion of FDA reform. The same criminals are still in charge, and the same drugs are still killing our fellow citizens by the tens of thousands.
If this is FDA reform, God help us all when the next President starts talking about health care reform.
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Ingredients
Ingredients 
8 ounces Buckwheat Pasta
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 Tablespoons Sesame Oil
1 1/2 cups button mushrooms, stems removed and sliced into quarters
1 cup carrots, julienned
1 1/2 cups kale, chopped
1/4 cup scallions, finely chopped
1 1/2 Tablespoons Soy Sauce, or to taste
3 or 4 Tablespoons water
Cook the pasta as package directs, about 8 to 9 minutes. Do not over cook as the pasta tends to fall apart easily. Heat the oil in a skillet and sauté the garlic for 1 minute. Add the mushrooms, carrots and 1/2 tablespoon shoyu soy sauce. Sauté for 2 minutes. Place the noodles on top of the vegetables. Set the kale on top of the noodles, add the water and remaining shoyu. Cook about 3 to 5 minutes until the kale is tender, but still bright green, and the soba is warm. Toss gently to mix and sprinkle the scallions on top for garnish.
Per serving: 241 Calories, 7g Fat (24% calories from fat), 7g Protein, 40g Carbohydrate, 3g Fiber, 0mg Cholesterol, 380mg Sodium
Insulin resistance — also called syndrome X — is so pervasive today that we evaluate nearly every woman who visits our clinic to determine her level of risk. Most are taken aback when they learn they either already have insulin resistance syndrome (some are even pre-diabetic) or are well on their way to developing it. Experts estimate that 25% of all Americans suffer from insulin resistance. We believe the percentage is much higher among premenopausal women.
(NewsTarget Citizen Journalism Report) A new line of convenience foods recently became available that is targeted to an even younger market. Lunchables Jr., part of the popular snack combinations from Kraft, hit store shelves across the country last month. With 
three varieties, Kraft has specifically targeted “Mom’s little ones” who “are always on the go.”
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