AN ALARMING HIT LIST

• In one study, an average of 200 chemicals and pollutants, including a number of pesticides – many known to be carcinogens or developmental toxins – were found in the blood of umbilical cords.4
• Of the approximately 100,000 chemicals on the global market, less than 10 percent have been tested for health effects.5
• 35,000 items found in a typical grocery store are mostly manufactured products; manufactured with a single goal in mind: to bring the companies’ shareholders the highest return.   The power of this profit motive has, in just a few generations, turned food into something else: processed products with sugar, fat, salt, and other additives pumped in. The essential “good stuff” is removed, leaving our products full of genetically modified organisms - nearly ubiquitous despite never having been thoroughly safety-tested for humans or the environment. This has turned food – essential to life – into something that is literally killing us, with estimates of up to 365,000 diet-related deaths and many more suffering every year.6
• Centers for Disease Control research on over-exposure to environmental chemicals has found that most of us are walking around with a significant “body burden” of chemical residues … with known toxicity to humans.7
• More than ¼ of all personal care products sold in the United States may contain 1,4-dioxane (also known as para-dioxane) – a suspected cancer-causing agent.8
• Over 150,000 babies are born with defects each year for reasons unknown. Another 500,000 babies are miscarried early in pregnancy each year with an additional 24,000 miscarried late in pregnancy or stillborn.9 Infertility is increasing and widespread with over 2 million couples who want children and are unable to conceive.10
• The asthma rate has tripled in the last twenty years with over 30 million people currently afflicted.11
• Attention Deficit Disorder in adults and children is rising. In 1993, 2 million children took the drug Ritalin. In 1995, that figure doubled to approximately 4 million.12 In 2000, 17 million prescriptions were written in the US for Ritalin and other drugs to treat ADD.13

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