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lakshmi_mama · 09-21-2006, 06:29 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5366028.stm

I turned on the radio this morning just in time to hear a report on food chemicals and their effects, particulary when combined with each other.

All the things that we are so 'anti' in our food, cookware, home products, etc. ...guess what - turns out they might actually bad for you!

ummm....duh?

okay, yes, I am feeling a bit snarky and iritated by this. I am thankful that they are actually taking these issues seriously enough to take a look at it and issue warrants for further research, and hopefully making it into the media will raise more awareness outside of the health-aware circles that I run in where this is pretty much common knowledge.

But still..... I was waking up in massive pain after a night of very little sleep thanks to this lovely auto-immune disorder that is such a mystery to the medical establishment (fibromyalgia), on my way to physiotherapy for said disorder where I broke down crying because 5 repetitions of standing up without the aid of my arms had me shaking and in pain (using my leg muscles only)....so yeah. I got a big chip on my shoulder for matters like this. I know in all my being that exposure to toxins, likely beginning before I was born and made massively worse by the loads of chemicals that were celebrated as marvelous inventions have at the very least contributed to my illness. (I vividly remember my mom replacing all our cookware with this fabulous new teflon stuff, serving us up a piping hot meal straight from it whilst we lounged around in our funky flame-retardant sleepwear. And gleefully spraying air freshener at the slightest odor...

) and I can't help be bitter.

I just pray that my children are not going to have even worse, more mysterious and near impossible to treat conditions crop up on them. Call me a whacko alarmist all you want, but these are chances I am just not willing to take with my children but I heartbreakingly know that my efforts at home are likely not enough to protect them from the world at large.

BlueRoseMama · 09-21-2006, 01:51 PM

Katie... sometimes it can be SO overwhelming to look back and realise all of the things that could have been done differently. Esp when dealing with intense consequences...

I got a mail servey of shopping habits the other day and the entire thing made me laugh.

Quote:

Do you spend more than $100 a month at any one of these stores?
- Walmart
- Target
- Big 5

Where is the **** NO!! answer, I ask you? Or do they really want to know how many people are opposed to places like this? There were 14 products I could list that I have bought in the last 12 months out of the 400 they had listed. Do they want to know about people like us? I mean really... do they?

I love you sister! I hope that you feel better today, and know that there are MANY people in this fight with you. For our children, for our health, and for the future of the world. We fight the money that those companies would be making off of us if we didn't know better, and every day we vote... we vote with our money.

elfmaker · 09-21-2006, 10:55 PM

big hugs!!!! and right on sister!!!!!

My father was diagnosised with chemical posioning in the early 80's. He was poisoned at work. 20 years for the same company. But he also lived in the Central California farming communities from age 15-20 where they were routinely exposed to 'crop dusters' and the water that that cr*p ran off into. He also grew up in a home where one parent smoked. And they were dirt poor.

Through a series of 'alternative' treatments and healthy living he was able to regain his health and is now a strong and energetic 67yo grandpa......but he has to be very careful what he puts in his body and where he travels. He can tell where toxic dumps are and which restaraunt sauces have MSG in them--- shortly after consuming or being exposed he will develope horrible headaches or lose all energy and sleep for the better part of 48hrs.

We can do better by our children and we are.

Luna