Measures to Avoid Environmental Pollutants
The Top Pollutants and Sources:
  1. Food:
  • PCBs: Farm-raised Salmon
  • Processed Foods: additives, preservatives, pesticides (also in bug sprays), herbicides, artificial flavouring, chemical colors, MSG,
    carrageenan, nitrates, sulphites.
  • Sugar, Brown Sugar, and all substitutes
  • Table Salt.
  • Improperly Prepared grains, seeds, nuts, legumes.
  • Man-made vegetable oils and fats (margarine, fake butter, and all vegetables oils, except extra virgin olive oil), and any foods that
    contain them, i.e. salad dressing, mayonnaise, canned meats, soup, milk substitutes, etc.
  • Soy: Soybean oil, Soy milk, soy sauce.
  • Mold and Fungus: Foods like peanuts, wheat, corn, alcohol.
  • Genetically Modified foods, irradidated foods (including mircowave), commercial meat (vaccines, hormones, antibiotics), pasteurized
    foods.

  1. Electromagnetic fields (EMFs), such as those found in overhead power lines or emanating from any electrical device or wiring,
    including computers, cell phones, TVs, microwaves ovens, etc.
  2. Mold and Fungus: Contaminated Buildings.
  3. Phthalates: Plastic (never put hot food in plastic for left-overs).
  4. Volatile Organic Compounds: Drinking water, carpet, paints, deodorants, cleaning fluids, varnishes, cosmetics, dry cleaned clothing,
    moth repellants, air fresheners.
  5. Dioxins: Over 95 percent of exposure comes from eating commercial (non-organic) animal fats.
  6. Asbestos: Insulation on floors, ceilings, water pipes and heating ducts from the 1950s to 1970s.
  7. Heavy Metals: Drinking water, [some] fish, vaccines, pesticides, preserved wood, antiperspirant, building materials, dental
    amalgams, chlorine plants, etc.
  8. Chloroform: Air, food, water.
  9. Chlorine: Household cleaners, drinking water (in small amounts), air when living near an industry (such as a paper plant) that uses
    chlorine in industrial processes.
  10. Fluoride: Fluoridated Water (almost all treated water); toothpaste; green and black tea; processed foods; pesticides.
  11. Medical drugs and over-the-counter drugs.
  12. Fabric Softeners and Dryer Sheets.

Ways to Avoid Pollutants (further stated below)
  1. Buy and eat, as much as possible, organic produce and free-range, organic foods. If you can only purchase one organic product it
    probably should be free range organic eggs.
  2. Avoid processed foods, artificial food additives of all kind, including artificial sweeteners and MSG
  3. Only use natural cleaning products, detergents, toiletries, including shampoo, toothpaste, antiperspirants and cosmetics.
  4. Avoid using artificial air fresheners, dryer sheets, fabric softeners or other synthetic fragrances as they can pollute the air you are
    breathing.  
  5. Get plenty of safe sun exposure to boost your vitamin D levels and your immune system (you'll be better able to fight disease)
  6. Filter Water (best is to remineralized distilled water); buy filter for shower water (chlorine).
  7. Avoid synthetic drugs, which are chemicals, and  will leave residues and accumulate in your body over time.
  8. Buy many house plants (1 plant per 100square feet).
  9. EMFs - see below on how to avoid them.


             1.Health Hazards of Mercury
             2.Troubled Waters - Mercury Build-Up in the Seas: Where it Comes From and What It's Doing to the Food Chain
             3.Perilous Pathways–Environmental Chemicals and Environmental Illness: A Major Role for Vitamin A
             4.Fluoridation: The Fraud of the Century
             5.Fluoride: Worse than We Thought



A More Detailed Look at Pollutants
Electromagnetic Pollution - We are electrical beings and can be polluted electromagnetically. EM pollution produces free radicals within
the body. This is the most neglected form of pollution; and, unfortunately is as serious, if not more so, than heavy metal, pesticide, air
etc. pollution.
  • Click on the link above to learn of the sources of Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) and Radiation (EMR).
  • Buy a (very cheap) ear-piece for your cell phone (NOT bluetooth, get the kind that is an earphone like you'd use to listen to music).
    It is definitely not wise to put a high electromagnetically emitting device to your ear--which provides a direct pathway to the
    delicate tissue of your brain. Talking for long periods of time on a cell phone without an ear piece empty causes me to become over-
    heated, and caused ear wax to build in the ear. We will see a "brain tumor bonanza" in a matter of 10 tot 20 years. Prevent this
    with a $2 dollar investment.
  • Keep at least 2 feet from all electrical appliances, including computers (unless you are using the battery only). If you use a laptop
    never put it on your lap with AC current. Buy an external keyboard and mouse
  • Never stand in front of an operating microwave. Never put a clock-radio next to your head when sleeping.
  • A car polarizer is recommended if one does long-distance traveling. I definitely notice the difference using it. Absent structural
    damage it will work effectively for a life-time.
  • Wear a multi polar magnet if you work around many electric devices, or an area with a high amount of EM radiation. Email me if you
    desire to buy one.



Hygiene
  • Do not use deodorant with aluminum. You can order a crystal ammonium salt deodorant from tccd.com. It will last you over a year
    and works just as well as commercial deodorant.
  • Do not use listerine or other mouth washes, especially ones that contain fluoride. They are poison. White tea and thyme were just
    as well as antiseptics.
  • Do not use soaps with sodium laurel sulfate and other chemicals. I use Dr. Bronner's for soap, body wash, shampoo, shaving
    cream, cleaning the bathrooms, cleaning non-wood floors and for washing the dishes.
  • Do not buy toothpaste with fluoride.



Cookware:
  • Cookware to avoid and why:
  1. Teflon: PFOA induced potential health hazards -- from your immune system to birthing activities
  2. Aluminum: A reactive metal and suspected casual factor in Alzheimer's disease
  3. Stainless steel: Potential likelihood of metal leaching into your food and allergen issues
  4. Copper: Due to the possibility of copper caused discomfort, recommended to never have direct contact with your food.
Most foods are best eaten raw; but if you do cook, use glass, or new high tech cermaic.  



Food
  • Buy organic grass-fed meat, as factory-raised meat are injected with antibiotics, vaccines, are fed grains which they were never
    intended to eat, are raised in cramped living quarters, and are basically tortured. Mass-produced poultry and eggs have an
    unhealthy Omega 3:6 ratio (much higher in Omega 6). Such meat is unfit for human consumption.
  • Buy organic whenever possible. Soils are very depleted of nutrients such as minerals due to over-farming. They are also laden with
    pesticides, herbicides and fungicides. Organic soils may lack the latter but may still be depleted. Thus it is important to get minerals
    for supplements and bone stock.
  • Never never never use a microwave to cook or re-heat food. A stove-top works just as well and the food tastes much better
  • Try to avoid all food packaged in aluminum (cans). Never scrape an aluminum can. Avoid using aluminum foil.
  • Do not put hot foods into a plastic container for storage. Wait for it to cool down.



Water
  • For drinking water see the diet page.
  • Buy a chlorine filter for your shower. A $35 filter has lasted me well over a year. You can buy one from freedrinkingwater.com



House
  • Ventilate as often as possible.
  • Buy many house plants (1 plant per 100square feet).



Light
  • Avoid exposure to (eyes, skin, air) fluorescent lights (unless they are full-spectrum which are actually beneficial as they mimic the
    spectrum of sun-light) whenever possible, especially exposed soft-white plug-in tubes.
They emit high levels of "radio active" energy containing the frequencies of x-ray, gamma and cosmic rays, mercury vapour energies,
represent a highly distorted portion of the visible spectrum, have a high flicker frequency which hyper-stimulates the eyes and causes
oxidative damage to the retina, and ionizes the particles of air, which are damaging (I don't know why, I just fell it) to the body. If one
breaks it releases mercury into the room. The panels over the fluorescent reduce all of these things somewhat; however, if exposed for 8
or hours a day, its damaging properties will slowly accumulate.