Health and Wellness: And this is progress for you!

I just received these from someone who works in the health profession. Thanks RH for this and all the other things you make available to me. I think readers might want to look further into this information. I do not have time at this moment, but these items strike me as important to you and to your family's health. NJC

Wet Swiffer Solution

Another upsetting revelation is the Wet Swiffer Solution contains a substance very similar to antifreeze. Babies and pet can crawl/walk on a floor and put fingers/paws in their mouths and absorb this substance and since it's excreted in the liver it HAS been found to be fatal. A woman who's pet licked water and food from her kitchen floor regularly died and she couldn't figure it out since the dog was never anywhere where it could be poisoned and her husband decided to check through the house to see what they might have had or used that the dog might have been exposed to and he came up with the Wet Swiffer Solution ingredients that he couldn't identify. He called the company and they told him what was in the solution. The toxicology report verified that what killed their dog was that same ingredient in the Wet Swiffer Solution. Imagine what a job it's doing on children or even worse, what if a parent is charged with poisoning the child!

Plastic and the Microwave

Plastic and the Microwave! It's amazing what a curious student can learn. As a seventh grade student, Claire Nelson learned that diethylhexyladepate (DEHA), considered a carcinogen, is found in plastic wrap. She also learned that the FDA had never studied the effect of microwave cooking on plastic-wrapped food. Claire began to wonder: Can cancer-causing particles seep into food covered with household plastic wrap while it is being microwaved?

Three years later, with encouragement from her high school science teacher, Claire had an idea for studying the effect of microwave radiation on plastic-wrapped food, but she did not have the equipment.

Eventually, Jon Wilkes at the National Center for Toxicological Research in Jefferson Arkansas agreed to help her. The research center, which is affiliated with the FDA, let her use its facilities to perform her experiments, which involved microwaving plastic wrap in virgin olive oil.

Claire tested four different plastic wraps and found not just the carcinogens but also xenoestrogen was migrating into the oil.

Xenoestrogens are linked to low sperm counts in men and to breast cancer in women.

Throughout her junior and senior years, Claire made a couple of trips each week to the research center, which was 25 miles from her home, to work on her experiment. An article in Options reported her analysis found that DEHA was migrating into the oil at between 200 parts and 500 parts per million. The FDA standard is 0.05 parts per billion.
Her summarized results have been published in science journals. Carcinogens - At 10,000,000 Times FDA Limits" Options May 2000.

Published by People Against Cancer, 515-972-4444.

Claire Nelson received the American Chemical Society's top science prize for students during her junior year and fourth place at the International Science and Engineering Fair (Fort Worth, Texas) as a senior.

On Channel 2 (Huntsville, AL this morning [I do not know the date. NJC] they had a Dr. Edward Fujimoto from Castle Hospital on the program. He is the manager of the Wellness Program at the hospital. He was talking about dioxins and how bad they are for us.

He said that we should not be heating our food in the Microwave using plastic containers. This applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the ombination of fat, high heat and plastics releases dioxins into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Dioxins are carcinogens and highly toxic to the cells of our bodies.

Instead, he recommends using glass, Corning Ware, or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results without the dioxins. So such things as TV dinners, instant Raimin and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper Just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc.

He said we might remember when some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to the reasons. To add to this: Saran wrap placed over foods as they are nuked, with the high heat, actually drips poisonous toxins into the food! Use a paper towel!

You might want to pass this on to your friends and relatives.