Posts Tagged ‘Toxic Chemicals’

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• History
• Uses
• Dangers to the Body
  • Dioxins
  • Chlorine
  • Disinfection Byproducts
    • Trihalomethanes
      • Chloroform
• Alternatives to Chlorine

Links:
History
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/10/01/chlorine-part-one.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/03/19/chlorine-water.aspx
Dangers of Chlorine
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/02/05/tap-water-toxins-is-your-water-trying-to-kill-you.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/11/08/bottled-water-not-so-pure.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/12/03/Avoid-Swimming-Pools-if-You-Have-Allergies-or-Asthma.aspx
Danger of Antibacterial Soap
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/06/04/dish-washing.aspx
Alternatives to Chlorine
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/02/28/chlorine.aspx

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Table of Contents

• What is in Breast Milk/Why Breast Feed
  • Benefits for Child
  • Benefits for Mother
• Recent Infant Formula History
• Reasons for Formula Use
  • Mastitis
  • Other Diseases
  • When a Person has to Take Drugs
  • Inconvenient
  • Misinformation
• How Infant Formula is Made
  • Three Categories
  • Raw Materials
• Health Problems with Formula
  • Source of Milk
    • Cow’s Milk
    • Soy Milk
  • High Fructose Corn Syrup
  • Monosodium Glutamate
  • Perchlorate
  • Fatty Acids
  • Fortified Vitamins
• Homemade Alternatives to Store Bought Formula
  • Milk-based Formula
  • Liver-based Formula
  • Fortified Commercial Formula

Links:
General Information
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/06/18/baby-formula.aspx
Reasons for Formula Use

http://www.breastfeeding.com/reading_room/infections.html

How Formula is Made

http://www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Baby-Formula.html

Health Problems with Formula

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/11/05/Rocket-Fuel-Found-In-Most-Powdered-Infant-Formula.aspx

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/10/22/infant-formula-part-one.aspx

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/06/13/soy-formula-part-one.aspx

Homemade Alternatives

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2005/10/11/healthy-alternative-to-conventional-infant-formula-part-1.aspx

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SHOW NOTES

Table of Contents

• What is Teflon?
• Why you would want to use PTFE
• Common uses of PTFE
• History and accidental discovery of PTFE
• FDA approval
• How PTFE is made
• Harmful effects on the body
  • Bird studies
  • Temperatures when different substances are released from PTFE and their effects
  • Articles and studies
• Alternative cookware

Links:

General Info – http://www.madehow.com/Volume-7/Teflon.html
The history of how Teflon was made - http://www.whitetrout.net/Chuck/Teflon/teflon.htm
EPA Study - http://www.epa.gov/oppt/pfoa/pubs/pfoarisk.pdf
Study about release of toxic chemicals at heated temperature – http://www.ewg.org/reports/toxicteflon
http://www.ewg.org/files/infographic_thermometer.pdf
Cites study finding PFOA in Blood of Newborns - http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_5992225
Dangers of PTFE – http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/08/01/teflon-part-one.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/04/19/teflon-part-two.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/10/23/teflon-part-three.aspx
Washington Post article - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/25/AR2006012502041.html

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