Are you too lazy to live?: Pesticides & Chemicals (Part 1)

I know a family, a wealthy family, who owns several huge high class condominiums and a nice car. The husband, particularly has virtually zero believe and faith about organic foods, but I do not blame him, as I respect his mentality and point of view. There are certain people, no matter how hard you bring out the discussion and try to convince him or her, it's either useless or waste of time. It's a fixed mindset! It's like trying to win a losing war. There are people, who would spend huge loads of money on entertainment and other non important stuff, but, spending on healthy clean organic food is definitely not in their list. Some would say, it's a waste of money, and some would point out that foods are all the same, it goes into the mouth and out from the colon and rectum.

I know I have discussed about organic foods, pesticides and chemicals in my previous posts, but today, I would want to share with you guys abit more about these dangerous substances. Although in Malaysia, more and more people are buying organic foods, but vast majority of the population are still clueless and hesitant about investing on organic foods.

Now, let's start of with some discussion about one of the culprits of whole list of health conditions we suffer today. PESTICIDES! From infertility to cancer, poor sexual and cognitive performance to nervous system and endocrine disorders, you name it, it plays a major role in some of the conditions we seen since few decades ago. As we have seen, major questions have not been answered about the toxic effects of aspartame and MSG on the human brain, yet neither the government, nor the industries that use these chemicals, are doing anything to satisfy our rights to know. We have witnessed the same blindness with fluoride, vaccinations and other toxins forced on the public. Question is, how many of us realize and know about this? How long will this continue?

Does any of you know how many chemicals are registered in EPA registry? It's over 75 thousands! And this data is not even up to date. The vast majority of these chemicals have not been tested adequately for potentially toxic nervous system effects, especially higher cortical functions, such as memory, cognitive ability and executive functions of the brain. Because we come into contact with them everyday, food additives and cosmetics ingredients pose a particular concern.

For example, back in the century, face powder contained white lead. Hundreds of incidences of lead poisoning cases later, cosmetics containing the harmful component were removed from the market. What was the fate of women exposed to these substance long term? No one knows and no one seem to care.

How about people like us, you, me and everyone else. You stroll along the valley of supermarkets and try to decipher or read and figure out the ingredient lists in the food products. Well, most of us assume that the unidentifiable ingredients must be safe, or the FDA would have recalled them. We also naively imagine that they must have been carefully tested or our regulatory agencies wouldn't allow food processors use them in the first place. Right? Hell wrong!! The vast majority of these ingredients have never been tested for long term neurological effects. Guess what? You and your family get to be the guinea pigs!

When it comes to food additives, the vast majority have never been tested for long term effects on the brain as well. Even those that have been tested for effects on the body tissues have never been tested in combination with other toxins. For instance, what happens when you combined the two food adiditives in the body? Nobody knows. And that's the real problem. Imagine chewing on a gum which has both dangerous artificial sweetener sucralose and aspartame at the same time. We are the experimental pigs!

Millions of people are exposed to these chemicals and neurotoxins daily, either at workplace or home. Most of us are not even aware that these commonly used chemicals can damage the nervous system. We assume that if they were really dangerous, the FDA and EPA would have told us. We put our trust in those who should not be trusted.

The EPA and FDA simply ignore neurotxocity whenever they can, and in some instances, bureaucrats go out of their way actually to protect the offending industries. Those who blow the whistle can expect a full wrath of the system falling down on them. What a shame!

It is already enormous, and continues to grow unchecked. More than a thousand new compounds are added every year to the existing stock of more then 75 thousand chemicals. Among these chemicals, close to forty thousands pesticides registered with EPA, many of which are neurotoxic. Worldwide, close to five billion pounds are used annually. Approximately up to 80% of livestock are treated with pesticides.

In the past, pesticides allowed us to grow the enormous amounts of food necessary to literally feed the world. There is little question that millions of lives were saved by the use of pesticides, yet things have improved on the bug war front as well. Newer natural methods of controlling incescts have been devised but never implemented on the wide scale. Corporate farms did not want to cut profits for the sake of safety, and smaller family farmers have been brainwashed into believing in the safety of these toxic chemicals.

Check this out. In cancer cases, especially lymphomas and leukemias, the highest incidence in the population occurs in people who work on farms. The same is true for Parkinson's disease. Lured into believing these powerful chemicals were safe, farmers drenched everything in pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, including themselves and their families.

If you think that you are safe because you don't live in a farm, think again. Because of our national obsession with bug-free homes and perfect lawns, these same chemicals are saturating city neighborhoods as well. Lawn treatment spraying from yard to yard, spraying heavy herbicides and weed control toxins over the grass. We had to hide in our homes to wait until the vapor is settled and warn our children not to play in the yards that have been treated.

In the next post, I will discuss more details about pesticides and herbicides and the roles of these chemicals how they affect our host body and health. Stay tuned.

Approximately 6 billions tons of pesticides been sprayed into our food supply annually.

Pesticides on your food?? Bad idea!

Celery, rated as worst ever pesticides contamination with 95%. A single commercial celery contains up to 13 chemicals, while 67 different pesticides were used on the entire group of celery.