74% of the studies examined showed a significant relationship between an ASD diagnosis and toxic metal exposure. These investigators concluded that the balance of studies support a link between ASD diagnoses and toxic metal exposure.
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Note further down that they also link heavy metals such as cadmium, arsenic and lead (from coal dust).
Okay, can we now stop drugging up our children with psychotropic drugs to help control symptoms and start addressing the real problem–our toxic environment and toxic amalgams?? It’s truly heartbreaking how many children have been misdiagnosed as autistic when they are displaying symptoms of heavy metal toxicity and acting out because they’re toxic…
More on mercury causing brain damage:
How many times do they have to find a correlation between mercury and neurological damage? When do they stop “studying” and start putting solutions in action?
They ought to take this three-story, one-block long pile of coke and dump it on the Koch’s front lawn. And for every shipment afterward, dumped on every Tea Party supporter’s front lawn who denies the pollution coming from oil and its byproducts.
More here on the residents’ concerns. Same stonewalling over health concerns for residents living around this poison. They say they’re sending in samples to find out if it’s hazardous. Here’s the Material Data Safety Sheet (MSDS) on Petroleum Coke. It’s pretty evident from this that it IS a serious health concern. One of the warnings is not to breathe the dust. Wonder how many residents breathe in particulate every single freaking day?
From the sheet:
Inhalation of excessive dust concentrations may be irritating to the upper respiratory
system. Repeated chronic inhalation exposure may cause impaired lung function.
There is no evidence that such exposures cause pneumoconiosis, carcinogenicity,
or other chronic health effects.
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I would question the last sentence–anything that can cause impaired lung function is causing inflammation…inflammation kills cells over a period of time.
Note that is is a combustible dust….just laying around….which the MSDS specifically states this is not proper storage–it states it should be in containers. (Not that I personally believe containers are any better. The stuff is toxic, toxic,toxic, creating problems of disposal…in somebody’s neighborhood.)
Anybody wanna bet this is located in a poor neighborhood in Detroit?
So…now BP wants to start operations for processing this filthy sludge in Whiting, Indiana, which is near Gary and Hammond and Chicago….right on Lake Michigan. Um-hmmm…Anybody wanna guess if the toxic environment is a factor in Gary Indiana being the murder capital of the United States. Note the article stating this area is one of the worst in air quality in the U.S.
And here we have the latest in *cough* BP cares….about our profits over your health and safety…
A video of yet another explosion in Whiting, Indiana:
Indiana has a sad history of putting business over its environment. Just look at the lack of trees compared to, say, Ohio. You can actually tell the air quality difference once you leave Indiana and venture into Ohio. Nevermind the beauty of all the trees, but the air is breathable. Anyway, Indiana’s own Dept. of Environmental Management *cough* has told manufacturers several years ago that once they were given a good report, they could slack off, er I mean, they could continue their good environmental practices until the IDEM inspected them three years later.
The Indiana Dunes, which we used to go to nearly every summer, have been polluted by the lack of concern of the environment. Lake Michigan was once reasonably clean. I took my kids up there after many years and was depressed to see the condition of the water. It was no longer clear and had that polluted look to it. I saw nuclear cooling towers off to my left. At least, I thought they were nuclear cooling towers…turns out they were from another power plant–the one thing Indiana has going for it is that we don’t have nuclear power plants here. I don’t hold my breath that they won’t eventually appear, especially with Mike Pence and the ALEC team now in charge here. Besides, there are nuclear plants in Illinois and Ohio bordering our state, so…yeah…we’re still susceptible to nuclear radiation or the China Syndrome. All it would take is one of the reactors melting down and we’re done.
And then there’s the curious case of radiation in Delaware, Indiana that is mentioned in this blog.
Has this at the New York Times on having a double mastectomy. First, I want to say that I hope she is doing well and on her way to healing and recovery. It must have been a difficult decision to make.
My grandmother died of breast cancer. There is a lot of cancer in my family. But I would not make the same choice as Angelina has done, even if I knew that I had the “breast cancer gene”. There are too many unknowns about genes and their impact on disease. As I have posted about before, there are factors about genes and the expression of their purpose that is *still* not understood by scientists.
More here on genes and the nutrition of the mother. Very interesting. The usual focus is treating the problem after it occurs (or in Angelina’s case, before it occurs, but with drastic measures)…instead of turning the focus to the toxic soup we’re living in that is the root cause of the disease. Also, it does not focus on the understanding that diet of organic fruits and vegetables are key to good health and allowing the body to do what it miraculously does: fight disease.
Why is that so hard to do?
Why can’t we be more proactive in trying to eliminate the causes instead of allowing it?
…even if your voice shakes.” (quote by Maggie Kuhn.) ( Oh, those uppity Presbyterian women… :p –I was raised Presbyterian.)
The story isn’t clear on what exactly was happening, other than the teacher handed him a packet as educational instruction. I’ll presume, then, it is the brainless edumucation of No Child Left A Mind that he is actually protesting….a mindless program that takes away the teacher’s creativity and ability to teach intuitively…rather, she/he must teach to the test. If they don’t…the child doesn’t do well on the test…their school loses funding…and the teacher loses his/her job. The child, though, is the one that loses the most–their most creative years for exploring their world are lost—all based on a false premise that the testing is a true assessment of the child’s aptitude and abilities.
They put into words what a celiac goes through with the *cough* medical profession….clueless doctors who charge $$ to tell you that it’s all in your head.
I like the one who told the patient she couldn’t feel pain in the gut…say what??
I’d like to see the Wisconsin Tea Party legislators tangle with these gals. Pass the popcorn. (Ooh, wait, what was I thinking??…Um, pass the gluten free snack. 🙂 Still not used to the idea of not having some things…<sigh> )
I have a gorgeous photo of a group of Golden Stingrays on my calendar this month–somewhat similar to this.
National Geographic has this piece describing them.
A nice video here on them:
Ocean Conservancy has this up on the possible threat to rays. There are some species that are endangered, according to this. I guess the question is…does it make sense to keep pushing the envelope until a species is endangered, or is it better to pull back and not push it to the edge? Why is it so hard for us to keep the balance?
A member posted they did not take kelp supplements because of the high arsenic content. I was aware of the possible contamination with heavy metals, but it’s always good to check and re-check supplements to see the latest.
I have been taking Solgar brand kelp, because Solgar is a good brand…but that doesn’t mean I should slack off….so…
I went on a search this morning trying to find out the exact content of arsenic in kelp. I found a disturbing study out of UC Berkeley…that tested several brands of kelp and found arsenic in all of them but one. The aggravating part of the story is that they did not name the brands! WTH? (One also needs to keep in mind that universities are not islands in the $$ funding arena, so their “studies” may be heavily influenced by donations from corporations. Supplements have been the target of Big Pharma for years…they would love nothing better than to destroy the supplement industry because it cuts into their $$ billion dollar profits. Greed. Greed. Greed.) (also–many pharmaceuticals are derived from plant properties. Another site here.)
Doing a search, I came up empty on Solgar when looking for specific data stating arsenic content.
I found these links: Vegan health on supplementing with iodine. I notice they recommend potassium iodide by Nature’s Plus because it isn’t made from kelp, thus avoiding arsenic contamination. I am always skeptical about sites that recommend a specific brand. I saw this on three different sites that had the same format–a red flag is raised. Not that I think Nature’s Plus is a bad brand, only that the authors of these sites perhaps are receiving some sort of compensation for the recommendation, which would influence their judgment and perhaps they would not state adverse problems with the product.
This article recommends Lugol’s for replacing iodine. Lugol’s is a popular supplement on the mercury support group.
This page states that Solgar, among others, is a good brand that is not loaded with toxic heavy metals. The connection of fluoride displacing iodine in the thyroid….and yet they continue putting fluoride in public drinking water. Also note his assertion that kelp is superior due to the minute minerals it adds plus the bioavailability (it isn’t going to do you much good if your body doesn’t recognize it and absorb it). He recommends against Lugol’s because of… possible toxicity in the liver…this is especially worrisome for heavy metal poisoned folks like moi--the liver and kidneys take direct hits from the stupid mercury poison and therefore have a tough time processing toxins like they would normally–care needs to be taken.
I like that he also considers kelp a balancing food between yin and yang (not that I understand yin and yang to a deep degree–just know that it’s an Asian approach to medicine of balance).
Another police shooting—the fourth in four months–of a Fort Wayne citizen: indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/Mayor-Henry-on-205796441.html
This isn’t even counting the ones shooting each other. You know it’s bad when California sits up and takes notice….as they did with the third shooting just a few days ago…
The news reported that the latest shooter “should not have had access to a gun with his prior history…” It left out the details about why this person should not have had a gun….but since he claimed to be Jesus and just randomly started shooting people (rather than a specific target), I would guess mental issues. And yes, I would wonder about the chem trails and the toxic environment of FW–they had terrible air quality last year on many, many days. And this shows air quality is once again questionable. All I can say is that I notice a change in people’s behavior when there has been heavy chem trail spraying and when the air quality is already bad. I know that when I tried jogging in the A.M. on bad air quality days, I started wheezing afterwards. Not good.
Here’s another map showing particulate matter as being moderately high. This is not good, either, as particulate is known to be the cause for health conditions–scientists just don’t know how it affects health, only that it does affect heart, lungs, and brain health.
The poster that I blogged about here is apparently okay, as s/he is posting again. Perhaps didn’t see the post asking if s/he was okay. Some good news for a change…and yes, we have lost people to suicide in this group…I posted about one a while ago, but it has been lost. <sigh> She was mercury toxic, without a job, money, or health insurance, and living out of a car. She took her life in her despair.
Meanwhile….corporations get welfare while they ponder cutting Medicare, Social Security, and food stamps….
I found this website that informs the public of the toxins in their area and who is doing the polluting. A good resource to see what’s happening in your area and the pollution around you that is likely responsible for health issues. (hat tip to Rodale website).
Eagle 
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