Manmade Chemicals in Our Bodies

That old adage, "We are what we eat and drink" was originally intended as a guide to steer us to healthy nutrition and that still is the intent. The reality is, however, that our choices are not ours alone. The foods and fluids that we consume are contaminated by a variety of manmade chemical toxins, many of them are carcinogenic. Others are likely to be harmful but have never been evaluated.

The world-wide chemical industry is virtually unregulated and can produce any new chemical compound without having to prove its safety.Hundreds of thousands of manmade chemicals have been produced since 1930, the advent of "The Manmade Toxic Chemical Age", that never existed in nature. In the US today there are over 75,000 manmade toxic chemicals in use. Many thousands are found in every day products that eventually contaminate the environment and poison us as well.

Herbicides and pesticides that are widely used for agricultural operations contaminate our drinking water and food. Plastics used to package beverages, water, and foods often contain toxic chemicals that leach into their contents. Teflon coated cookware releases toxic chemicals into the foods being prepared. Fire retardants and dirt repellents in carpeting and fabrics slowly release toxic chemicals into the household and automobile air that we breathe. The manufacturing operations that produce toxic chemicals are directly responsible for the release of billions of pounds of carcinogenic toxins annually into the environment. The EPA reported that in 2004 alone more than 4 billion pounds of approximately 650 different carcinogenic toxins the air, water, and lands that we and all other life depend upon. This amounts to over 1,300 pounds of carcinogenic toxins for every person in our country.

The myriad manmade toxic chemicals that literally surround us also enter us and many of them accumulate in our bodies inflicting biological damage resulting in diseases, and death. Toxins also are transferred to newborn infants through their mother's cord blood and amniotic fluid. Miscarriages and birth defects are caused, and these innocents become the victims of our toxic environment.

The unintended consequences of drinking water, eating foods and breathing air must end. Become informed and proactive to protect yourself and the lives of your loved ones. My book, "A Drinker's Guide to Pure Water-Is your Water Safe?" describes the scope of the toxic drinking water problems and what we can do to protect ourselves and our communities from harm.

A DRINKER'S GUIDE TO PURE WATER--IS YOUR WATER SAFE?----AN IMPORTANT NEW BOOK--Madison Area Events

 

A Drinker's Guide to Pure Water—Is Your Water Safe?--Madison Area Events in November

By Zalman P. Saperstein

www.safewaterguide.com

Water, earth's most vital natural resource, is polluted with toxic and carcinogenic manmade chemicals that were commercialized mainly since early 1930s. "The Manmade Toxic Chemical Age" is now in high gear and virtually all water contains toxic manmade chemicals. Bottled water is no exception. The author of this important book describes why and how this has happened with virtually no opposition from the public users of water (essentially everyone). Politicians generally are mute about the water crisis as are the conventional news sources dominated by corporate interests. The public must take action to protect yourself, family, and your communities.

Join the author on Saturday, Nov. 25 at The Spring Green General Store from 2:00--4:00pm or at The Room of One's Own Feminist Book Store in Madison on Sunday from 1:00--3:30pm for discussions and book signings. Listen to WORT FM on Wednesday, Nov.22 on Esty Dinur's "A Public Affair" from 12:05--1:00pm for discussions and audience questions with the author. Become active and demand safe water now.

Drinking water toxicity is steadily increasing because of industrial discharges into the ambient surroundings; treated, but still toxic, sewage effluents that contaminate rivers, lakes, oceans, and aquifers; power plant emissions; excessive land developments that poison ground water and cause harmful storm runoff; agricultural use of toxic pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers; and, our use of manmade products that contain toxic chemical substances.

Governments often fail to protect the public from these toxins and the health harm that they cause. Federal water regulations are inadequate and usually enforced only after health has been compromised. More than 70,000 toxic manmade chemicals are in use today in the USA. Only 119 toxic chemicals are limited according to EPA standards, including some naturally occurring chemicals that also are in manmade products. Even those regulated are as if only one toxic chemical is present at a time. This pretense misleads the public as they normally sip 118 other regulated chemicals with every drink of water (plus many more that are unregulated and unreported in municipal water quality reports). This combination of chemicals is tantamount to a toxic cocktail that we use daily, usually without our knowledge. New regulations are imperative, but unlikely, unless public pressure influences politicians and appointed government bureaucrats. Even so, meaningful remedial actions will probably take many years to accomplish.

Infants entering the world at birth inherit toxic and carcinogenic chemicals transferred from their mothers through their umbilical cords. Consequently, cancer rates among children are now higher than ever recorded. Were it not for new cancer treatments the death rates of children would also be skyrocketing. As it is, only death rates from accidents exceed cancer death rates for children.

Water purification methods can help protect your source of water in your home, but the overall environment is not improved. The toxic backwash from all purification processes return back to earth or sewage systems where they re-contaminate again and again. However, your drinking water will be safer.

Ultimately, we must refuse to buy and use products that contain toxic substances. Economic leverage on producers of these products can induce them to eliminate toxic substances. We must also demand that our elected politicians and top level appointed bureaucrats stop their environmental neglect and acquiescence to corporate interests. The "Manmade Toxic Chemical Age" must come to an end, and we the public must become active to protect ourselves, families, and our communities. The author helps you understand how to accomplish this vital objective and how to protect yourself in "A Drinker's Guide to Pure Water-Is Your Water Safe?"  Listen to WORT FM on Nov.22, and join the author in Madison on Nov. 26 and Spring Green on Nov. 25 for lively discussions and questions. 

 

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Zeep

Survival is in Our Hands

Starting with this blog, my focus will be the environment, and particularly water quality issues. My recently published book, " A Drinker's Guide to Pure Water--Is Your Water Safe?" established my near term direction. We have reached a point in the history of our planet that demands attention and action to rectify our degarding environment. This should not be a political issue, but many have made it one. So be it. My blog, as does my book, scrapes away scabs to reveal the full story and unearth political involvements if any exist.

We are all bedfellows when environment issues raise their head. Earth is our home, and we must sleep in the environmental bed that we make. If bedbugs lurk between the sheets we must flush them out, and find the source. We cannot simply sleep with them and pretend that they will simply go away. Our environmental problems are becoming major crises and as such we must tackle them realistically.

Toxic water is a reality in daily life. We breathe contaminated air with every breath. Tainted food kills. Poisoned land and ladfill waste abounds. Yet we pretend that nothing can harm us or our loved one's other that some unforeseen war, horrible accident, or act of nature. The environment that we allow to surround us is quicly dismissed after a sensational environmental accident occurs, or people die from food poisoining, or a some other disaster causes extensive pollution damage and death.

Yet, we live in an ever increasing toxic world caused by industrial contamination, toxic waste from toxic products, and archaic sewage treatments that poison vast water ways, air, and land. Simple greed counts more to some industrial executives than the safety and health of their workers and the consuming public as they profit from the production of toxic products that spread poisons into the environment. Elected politicians and appointed bureaucrats often dismiss environmental realities to curry favors to their money bags and high-placed supporters.

We, the six billion ordinary people of the world are simultaneously the victims and the enablers of the global environmental spiral downward. Somehow we must grasp the consequences of this duplex folly and awaken. We must demand that the world leaders stop wars against one another and instead join the human race to combat the inevitable environmental disaster that is on the horizon if we fail to act. The toxic world coupled with global warming represent the most compelling reason for world cooperation, rather than continued world hostility. The choice is ours. We, the six billion ordinary people must reach out to each other and create a world that encompasses passion for life and a sustainable environment for all livng things.

This passion for survival must enable us to "Work as One for the Survival of All". Our environment is the common bond that we all share with other life forms as this tiny planet spins and rotates in the endless heavens above. We must not, we cannot, let each other down. Let us all join hands and work for the survival of all species of life. Let us begin this journey now.