101. Forum: Taking On The Toxins Forum Taking on the toxins. Western Pennsylvania women especially can take This was adapted from her keynote address to an environmental health http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05128/500471.stm

Opinion Previous Articles Editorials Letters ... PostScript Forum: Taking on the toxins Western Pennsylvania women especially can take the lead in a new environmental health protection plan, declares Teresa Heinz: fighting the accumulation of chemicals in nature and in our bodies Sunday, May 08, 2005 On this day when families throughout Western Pennsylvania gather to celebrate mothers and honor the nurturing power of women in our society, I can't think of a better occasion for recognizing the contributions that women of earlier generations in this region have made to better our environment cleaner air and water and healthier living conditions for children. Teresa Heinz is chair of the Howard Heinz Endowment and of the Heinz Family Philanthropies. This was adapted from her keynote address to an environmental health conference held here in Pittsburgh last month.Teresa Heinz is chair of the Howard Heinz Endowment and of the Heinz Family Philanthropies. This was adapted from her keynote address to an environmental health conference held in Pittsburgh last month. Many younger residents don't know the story of how a group of mothers, trying to raise families in 1890s smoke-choked Pittsburgh, were so angered about rising rates of respiratory ailments in their children that they set out to organize the first smoke abatement campaign in the city.

102. Infochange India News Features Agenda Bearing The Body Burden Bearing the body burden Environmental toxins and women s health. •, REACHChemicals under the microscope. •, 6000 kilometres on the toxic trail http://www.infochangeindia.org/agenda1_08.jsp

103. Eliminating Avoidable Toxins - HealingWell.com diet, nutrition, toxins, healing, disease, disorder, autoimmune disease, chemicalsensitivity, environmental toxins. http://www.healingwell.com/library/health/thompson1.asp

HOME VIDEOS RESOURCES NEWSLETTER ... SEARCH Search Site: Search Archives: HealingWell Conditions Library Article Eliminating Avoidable Toxins by Jini Patel Thompson, Listen To Your Gut Imagine your typical day: You get up in the morning and brush your teeth with toothpaste. Then you have a shower; you use shower gel or soap, shampoo, conditioner and shaving cream. After you've dried yourself off, you apply moisturizer to your skin, makeup to your face and perhaps some hair gel, mousse or hairspray. A final spritz of perfume or cologne, an application of deodorant, and you're ready for breakfast. You have your usual breakfast of cereal with milk and grab an apple for the road. You're feeling pretty good and refreshed, you're clean, you smell nice and you've just kicked off your metabolism for the day with a nutritious and healthy breakfast. Well, that's one way of looking at it. What you're probably not aware of is the phenomenal amount of toxins you've just absorbed or ingested in your body within your first hour of waking. When you realize how very efficient the skin is at absorbing and integrating into the body anything it comes into contact with, you might also want to take a second look at exactly what elements you're introducing to your body via your skin. Every single product that you've used during your sample morning outlined above likely contains toxic and carcinogenic elements - from your toothpaste to your deodorant. In addition, many of the products available in North America contain chemicals that have been completely banned in numerous other countries. It's beyond the scope of this article to go into exactly what each of these chemicals are and which products they're found in, but rest assured if you didn't buy all your toiletry products from a reputable health pharmacy, you're likely absorbing toxic and carcinogenic elements from every single product you use.

104. Protecting The Health Of Women And Children From Environmental Toxins The effects of environmental toxins on women s and children s health should becarefully monitored and evaluated by scientific experts, government agencies, http://www.awhonn.org/awhonn/?pg=875-4810-5620-7270

105. The Dose Makes The Poison—Or Does It? By Nancy Trautmann environment health of humans and ecosystems To protect human and environmentalhealth in spite of this uncertainty, some governments adhere to the http://www.actionbioscience.org/environment/trautmann.html

home search author directory updates signup ... education author bio Nancy Trautmann, M.S., directs Cornell University’s Environmental Inquiry program, which focuses on enriching secondary science through helping students ... environment health of humans and ecosystems The Dose Makes the Poison—Or Does It? By Nancy Trautmann An ActionBioscience.org original article article highlights How should the degree of toxicity of substances be determined? There are two opposing views: “the dose makes the poison” maintains that all chemicals are toxic at high enough doses the counterargument is that chemical sensitivity varies considerably, depending on species and life stages.

106. Center For Environmental Health | Toxins/Toxicants In Food The Center for Environmental Health at the University of Connecticut, locatedwithin the Department of Animal Science of the College of Agriculture http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~an226vc/classroom/toxins.html

CEH HOME ABOUT THE CENTER GENERAL INFORMATION LABORATORY ... HELPFUL LINKS Toxins/Toxicants in Food WWW Virtual Library Public Health - Food Safety The Big Picture Book of Viruses Foodborne Diseases Foodborne Illness Causes and sources of foodborne illness Common Causes of Foodborne illness Food storage, food spoilage, and foodborne illness Long-term sequelae to food borne diseases The "Bad Bug Book" - Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Foodborne disease Foodborne Illness Information Center Parasites Foodborne Parasites WEB pages Infections Outbreaks of shigella sonnei infection associated with eating fresh parsley Bacterial infections Viral infections Viral food poisoning "Natural" foodborne toxins Natural toxins - in sea food Natural Toxins in Food Mycotoxins Mycotoxin Information and Studies Mycotoxins Questions and Answers about Mycotoxins Fusarium Mycotoxins Mycotoxins - short description Mycotoxins - quick definition. Aflatoxins Aflatoxins-Home Page Aflatoxins - Definition Aflatoxin - National Food Safetly database. Trichothecene Zearalenone Mushrooms MykoWeb: Mushrooms, Fungi, Mycology

107. PBS : Trade Secrets : Transcript You lived in some locale where PCBs were in the environment, and you got theminto you through A couple of years ago, the environmental Defense Fund, http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/transcript.html

TRADE SECRETS: A MOYERS REPORT PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT TEASE: NARRATION: They are everywhere in our daily lives - often where we least expect them. DR. PHILIP LANDRIGAN, CHAIRMAN, PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, MT. SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: We are conducting a vast toxicologic experiment, and we are using our children as the experimental animals. NARRATION: Not a single child today is born free of synthetic chemicals. AL MEYERHOFF, FORMER ATTORNEY FOR THE NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: With chemicals, it's shoot first and ask questions later. NARRATION: We think we are protected but, in fact, chemicals are presumed safe - innocent - until proven guilty. SANDY BUCHANAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, OHIO CITIZEN ACTION: Years of documents have shown that they knew they were hurting people, much like the tobacco industry. PROFESSOR GERALD MARKOWITZ Ph.D, JOHN JAY COLLEGE: Historians don't like to use broad political terms like "cover-up," but there's really no other term that you can use for this. NARRATION: In this special investigation, we will reveal the secrets that a powerful industry has kept hidden for almost fifty years.

108. Discovery Of Toxins In Newborn Blood Causes Alarm, Spurs Activism Discovery of toxins in Newborn Blood Causes Alarm, Spurs Activism According toa study released last week by the Environmental Working Group, http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=2128

109. VLS Press Release: Pollution’s Progeny: The Impact Of Environmental Toxins On O Pollution’s Progeny The Impact of Environmental toxins on Our Reproductive Health.South Royalton, VT (March 11, 2005) Environmental toxins are having a http://www.vermontlaw.edu/media/emp_medpre_template.cfm?doc_id=1064

110. Tufts E-News -- Are Environmental Toxins Causing Breast Cancer? Tufts ENews Are Environmental toxins Causing Breast Cancer? More emphasismust be placed on environmental factors in the fight against breast cancer, http://enews.tufts.edu/stories/102802AreEnvironmentalToxinsCausingBreastCancer.h

PRINT THIS ARTICLE SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS Are Environmental Toxins Causing Breast Cancer? More emphasis must be placed on environmental factors in the fight against breast cancer, says a Tufts medical expert. San Francisco [10-28-02] In the 1940s, a woman's lifetime risk of breast cancer was 1 in 22. Today, the risk has risen to 1 in 8. The swift increase, says Tufts scientist Ana Soto M.D. , cannot be attributed to just genetics long believed to be the largest factor in whether women develop breast cancer. It's time to examine our environment for causes of this deadly disease, says the Tufts expert. "This increase [in breast cancer] can't be attributed totally to genetic causation, and yet genetic causes remain the focus of most research," Soto a breast cancer researcher at Tufts' School of Medicine told Reuters . "I believe it is high time to seriously consider environmental chemicals as the most likely cause of this sudden increase in risk."

111. The Indoor Air Quality And Environmental Toxins Page Chiro.Org is your access to chiropractic news, articles, research, patientinformation, and link categories, arranged by topic. http://www.chiro.org/LINKS/Environmental_Toxins.shtml

The Indoor Air Quality and Environmental Toxins Page This section is maintained by Frank M. Painter, D.C. Send all comments or additions to: Frankp@chiro.org If there are terms in these articles you don't understand, you can get a definition from the Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary . If you want information about a specific disease, you can access the Merck Manual . Search PubMed for more abstracts on this topic. Jump to: IAQ Resources Articles of Interest Asthma and Allergens Immune Response to Allergens ... Systemic Fungal Diseases Introduction The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has determined that indoor air pollution is a major health risk –– indoor air pollutants can accumulate at 2 to 100 times higher concentrations than outdoor pollution. Why is that? Because modern homes have been built to be "leak-proof" –– with tighter seals on our doors and windows. The average person spends 90% of their time indoors, surrounded by a vast array of modern chemicals –– including the glues and coatings on our furniture and walls, the plastic cases on our electronic toys, synthetic fabrics, disinfectants, soaps, perfumes, insecticides, lubricants and more. All these products "breath" out some level of pollution –– as described by the term out–gas Did you see Bill Moyers recent documentary about the chemical industry? It was pretty scary! By the time there have been enough clinical studies to confirm the health risks of any particular substance, it may be too late for the generation of people who have been exposed and are at risk.

112. Why? Despite mounting evidence of environmental causes for the breast cancer explosion, cancer almost never know whether environmental toxins played a role, http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1994/05/castleman.html

Advertisement Advertisement HOME NEWS COMMENTARY ARTS ... SUBSCRIBE NOW CRAZY PRICE! 1 year just $10 Click Here Sundays on Air America Radio THIS WEEK Learn More... Learn about subscriber content Why? News: Despite mounting evidence of environmental causes for the breast cancer explosion, our scientific and political establishments have avoided investigating them. . . The answer is worth knowing because, in this case, knowledge could be powerthe power to redirect the nation's research priorities toward a theory that might save thousands of women. By Michael Castleman May/June 1994 Issue Conflict Studies From filibustering Frist to taking a stand on Darfur: Our annual roundup of college campus activism. Advertisements Your Ad Here Your Ad Here Your Ad Here Your Ad Here Advertisements Scientists can't find what they don't look foror what they ignore. Maybe that's why it's taken so long for the cancer research community to acknowledge that environmental pollutants may play a key role in the current breast cancer epidemic. As long as 30 years ago, researchers showed that organochlorines, a family of compounds including the pesticide DDT and the industrial chemicals known as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), could induce mammary tumors in laboratory animals, a red flag suggesting they might do the same in women. But for more than a decade, the cancer establishmentthe National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, and researchers at the nation's leading cancer research centerslargely ignored these findings.

113. The Scientist :: Toxins Harm Descendant Fertility, Jun. 6, 2005 environmental toxins can be passed down to subsequent generations. such asthe United Kingdom, has been caused by environmental toxins. http://www.the-scientist.com/news/20050606/01

Please login or register DAILY E-MAIL RSS HANDHELD CURRENT ISSUE DAILY NEWS UPFRONT FEATURE ... ARCHIVES Jun. 6, 2005 Previous Archive Next DAILY NEWS Toxins harm descendant fertility Epigenetic effects of endocrine disruptors pass down four generations in rats By Philip Hunter US researchers have reported firm evidence that damage to mammalian male fertility caused by transient exposure of embryos to endocrine-disrupting environmental toxins can be passed down to subsequent generations. Their finding is published this week by Science Investigators from Washington State University, Pullman, exposed female rats in mid gestation to two endocrine disruptors, the anti-androgenic vinclozolin and the estrogenic methoxychlor, both at higher doses than normally encountered in the environment. More than 90% of male offspring had low sperm counts and abnormal sperm production, with 10% being completely infertile. An almost identical pattern of male fertility impairment was passed down to second-, third-, and fourth-generation males whose parents were not exposed to the toxins. The critical process causing the loss of fertility was the DNA remethylation that always occurs at the time of gonadal sex determination shaping the patterns of gene expression in the offspring, said

114. HON - News : Toxins In Farm-Raised Salmon Pose Health Risk toxins in FarmRaised Salmon Pose Health Risk To learn more about PCBcontamination in fish, visit the Environmental Working Group or the Environmental http://www.hon.ch/News/HSN/516856.html

What is it? Speech: On / Off HONcode sites All Web sites HONselect News ... X Y Z Browse archive: S A J J ... J Posting date: 08-JAN-2004 Other news for: Neoplasms Poisons Food Resources from HONselect Toxins in Farm-Raised Salmon Pose Health Risk PCB levels unacceptably high, report says; industry attacks finding By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Jan. 8 (HealthDayNews) Chemical contaminants in farm-raised salmon are at unacceptably high levels and may dramatically increase the risk of cancer, a new report claims. The key contaminant, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB), has been banned in the United States since the late 1970s. It is among the "dirty dozen" chemical contaminants to be eliminated under the United Nations treaty on persistent organic pollutants. PCBs have been linked to cancer and impaired fetal brain development. "Levels of 14 different chemical contaminates pesticides are higher in farmed salmon than in wild salmon," says co-researcher Dr. David O. Carpenter, a professor of environmental health and toxicology and director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the State University of New York at Albany. In the current study, the largest to date, Carpenter's team tested more than 2 metric tons of farmed and wild salmon from around the world.

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