RE: Researcher Dispels Myth of Dioxins and Plastic

[Guest guest]

RE: Researcher Dispels Myth of Dioxins

and Plastic Water Bottles

 

 

Hmmmm.....this guy can't seem to decide if plastic that leaches is

reallyall that big of a health concern because after all, we are

bombarded with toxins every day. Well, he is absolutely correct

about being bombarded with toxins! So, logically, we as the consumer

should then ask the question: Then *why* put *more* toxic load on

the body?

 

DOW, Monsanto, Bayer and the likes of them are not and will not ever

tell the consumer or the manufacturer the truth about plastic or

anything else for that matter. While I agree that the safest place

to use plastic is in the freezer, why even use it at all if there is

even one chance that you will be ingesting toxins? We are bombarded

with toxins on a daily basis from toxic food, toxic air, chemicals

in all the products that we put on our skin and hair, toxic water

and even toxic emotions from the junk we watch on

TV and listen to on the radio. We are choosing to accept something

that is unacceptable to our health. We don't have to!

 

So this guy says, go ahead and drink the water from those plastic

bottles that sit on hot trucks 6-8 hours/day and in hot warehouses

in 95+ degree heat. A little more toxins added to the body won't

hurt. And he even alludes to the fact that there is a possibility

that bottled water is not all that clean to begin with. Yikes!

 

This kind of thinking is exactly why we are seeing so much

disease---especially auto-immune diseases. Even as recent as 15

years ago

plastics were considered so safe---remember when you first put that

Tupperware bowl in the microwave and when you pulled it out there

was a ring

of melted plastic around the ingredients? After a while Tupperware

decided

that using their plastic in the microwave wasn't recommended and

that they

wouldn't replace if the bowl melted. I never heard a warning from

them

about the plastic that leached into the food, they just didn't want

to have

to replace product. Remember when using plastic wrap in the

microwave was

OK and even encouraged? Now, it's not. Remember T-Fal? You see, we

must

realize that this industry is not going to tell the truth---because

it's all

about money--not your health or my health. They " knew " the truth

about all

of this but decided to lie by omission. Therefore their track record

for

" being truthful " stinks!

 

Many of us are trying to educate the natural supplement industry

about the

importance of putting liquids into glass containers. Too much

breakage in

shipping they say---and this from an industry that is supposed to

care about

health and well-being. Certainly we have wonderful technology that

can

solve shipping concerns. However, the good news is that slowly but

surely

many supplement companies are coming around. Oxygen drops in plastic

bottles (which we still see a lot of) is highly unacceptable as are

essential oils used as ingredients and packaged in a plastic bottle.

There

will be a reaction---yes, it may be small. But if you get too

many " smalls "

then soon your body will begin to break-down. Considering that many

products have 3-5 year shelf lives, what kind of condition will that

product

be in by the time you buy it?

 

Those are the negatives. What are some solutions? Use glass, heavy-

grade

stainless steel or cast iron to cut in and eat out of. Refuse to buy

anything liquid that will be consumed into the body (either orally

or by

skin) that is not packaged in glass. Do not ever cook in any type of

plastic. Use stainless utensils for cooking. Use glass for drinking.

Yes,

it breaks but it is cheap to replace. This is what was used way

before the

debut of plastic and it worked just fine.

 

When study and research is done on the properties of water it is

realized

quickly how important clean water is to the function of every cell

in the

body. There are great filtration systems out there and there is

actually one

company, Mountain Valley Spring, that provides water (distilled and

spring)

in glass bottles (5-gallon and also the individual bottles).

 

Don't accept the faulty logic that just because you are bound to get

toxins

that it's ok to add more. Each of us has a toxic threshold. Yours

may be

higher than mine which means that your body will process a higher

amount of

toxins before breaking down and my body may break down with just a

small

amount of toxins. The concern is that none of us know how much is

too much

for our body---until it may be too late. This guy just rides the

fence a

little bit too much for me. Remember that people who work in the

chemical

industry including scientists, doctors, PhD's, etc. have been taught

that

chemicals are ok.

 

Take Care--

Loretta

 

 

 

Unless you are drinking really bad water, you are more likely to

suffer from

the adverse effects of dehydration than from the minuscule amounts of

chemical contaminants present in your water supply. Relatively

speaking, the

risk from exposure to microbial contaminants is much greater than

that from

chemicals.

And here's one more uncomfortable fact. Each of us already carries a

certain

body burden of dioxins regardless of how and what we eat. If you

look hard

enough, you'll find traces of dioxins in pretty much every place on

earth.

 

Paracelsus the famous medieval alchemist, used to put it straight and

simple: it's the dose that makes the poison.--Tim Parsons

 

Public Affairs media contacts for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School

of

Public Health: Tim Parsons or Kenna Lowe at 410-955-6878 or paff-

.

 

http://www.jhsph.edu/publichealthnews/articles/halden_dioxins.html