Excerpts from "Innocent Exposures--The Most Deadly of All"
By Carole Wolfsen United States Publishing Date 2008

Our Toxic!!!!!!!!
World


I often think, that in these modern times Babies need to come with warning labels on their Birth Certificates, "Caution Life Is Hazardous to your Health," as we are now living in a Globally Toxic World. The EPA reports that there are more than 20,000 chemicals that our bodies cannot metabolize. Chemicals not metabolized are stored in the fat cells throughout our bodies where they continue to accumulate. Unable to excrete from the body, those too are stored. Chemicals and heavy metals make up our "total toxic burden." This bioaccumulation compromises our physiological and psychological health and leads to chronic disease.



Chemical pollution is an area of our life where we must now think globally and act locally. Alarming test have shown that when pesticides are sprayed in North Africa on a Monday, they can be detected in Florida by Wednesday and some portions of those pesticides will be detected in London a little time later.



Chemical fumes do not just stay where they are created or sprayed. In order to make our lives easier we have invited into our homes products that are poisoning us daily, slowly and without regards to our health and well being. This may be shocking, but it is true. The good news is that once we know how to take care of ourselves we can.



To start thinking locally and learn how to protect and take good care of ourselves and our families, we need to educate ourselves on how to survive in this toxic world. We at Inspired 5 call this "Personal Environmental Health" and we would like to share with you how you can take charge of your personal environment and body to make the necessary changes to protect yourself from future exposures and detoxify your current state of health, while learning to make good healthy choices and return to balanced health.



Our bodies have become a virtual dumping ground for the hundreds of thousands of toxic compounds that invade our air, water, food supply, our home and work place. More than 77,000 chemicals are in active production in North America alone. More than 3,000 chemicals are added to our food supply and more than 10,000 chemicals in the form of solvents, emulsifiers, and preservatives are used in food processing, packaging, wrapping and storage. Every day, all of us ingest tiny amounts of these chemicals. As these chemicals build up, they alter our metabolism, cause enzyme dysfunction and nutritional deficiencies, create hormonal imbalances, damage brain chemistry and cause cancer. Because the chemicals accumulate in different parts of the body and at different rates and in different combinations, there is a disturbingly large variety of different chronic illnesses that can result.



Early warning signs of toxic overload include headaches, skin conditions, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue and more. Chemicals change how we function, how our brain works, how well we can resist disease. Chemicals have worked their way into our blood-streams, our cells, and our brains and they are here to stay. You can do something about it! Learn how to help yourself and create your own "Personal Environment Health."

All Text - Copyright 2005 by Carole Wolfsen