Body Pollution - Epidemic Illness
By Alisa Battaglia, B.D.,
C.H., EFT.
As part of
the evolutionary process our bodies have learned to defend themselves
from naturally occurring toxins when fighting infections, bio-chemical
after-effects of fighting stress and natural toxins produced in
the body from internal repair and maintenance. These toxins are
discharged in stools, mucous and bile; in urine, sweat and tears;
through our skin and even in our hair and nails. In order to maintain
life the internal biochemical process must be able to monitor and
protect against harmful organisms.
Our bodies
are in a constant bio-chemical process to detoxify an ever-growing
quantity of known and unknown toxins, which has overloaded the body's
ability to properly detoxify that lowers the immune system. This
produces an accumulation of waste build up producing myriad of symptoms
that affect the quality of life that are determined by interactions
with physical, chemical, biological and social factors. The human
body is not equipped to handle the toxic onslaught we encounter
on a daily basis.
Since the middle of the twentieth century we have increasingly been
exposed to a vast number of new substances produced by chemical
industry in the West. US food producers knowingly maintain profit
by creating low-cost quantity at the cost of quality and consumer
health. With diabetes and obesity rising at an alarming rate it
is clear that quality for convenience has been sacrificed. For example,
the fresh produce section of the grocery store seems to get smaller
and smaller. Processed foods filled with genetically modified ingredients
without labeling line the grocery shelves riddled with enough chemicals
to barely be called "food" anymore. Laced with artificial
sweeteners that claim to be healthy, cheap hydrogenated oils, corn
syrups, sugar, preservatives, monosodium glutamate (MSG), cysteine,
aspartic acid, artificial colors (red dye #40, which is made from
coal and banned in other countries) and a list of toxins that goes
on and on. What is left is of little nutrient value on any level.
This is from food, not to mention the products that we use on our
skin, the clothes we wear and the homes we live in. Surely, when
we cannot pronounce the words on the ingredient label we should
not be eating it, wearing it or living in it.
Toxic
Food and Water Supplies
For low-cost
quantity, foodstuffs are grown in under rotated dematerialized lands
using fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides that degrade the quality
of soil producing less nutrient dense food. This contaminated pesticide-embedded
food makes its way into our kitchen. This quantity over quality
mentality is quickly overturning natural and organic farming practices
with experimental genetically modified crops that not only erode
the soil and alter environmental ecology, but is often the source
of unspecified allergies. Animals for slaughter have also become
part of the processed food chain. Raised for consumption they are
fed abnormal feed (animal by-products) and confined to small containers
that they cannot even turn around. They are pumped with steroid
hormones and antibiotics to treat infections caused from standing
in their own defecation. Aside from this being an inhuman practice,
slaughter animals are soon to be cloned and will be part of the
next generation food supply.
Our water
source is in crisis with agricultural and factory runoff as the
leading cause of water quality impact to rivers, lakes and ground
water pollution. Our water supply protects us from contaminants
by adding in more chemicals such as chlorine, fluoride and arsenic,
etc. that are known to be toxic to the human body. Our skin is the
largest organ in the body and absorbs these chemicals when we bathe,
hydrate and wash our fruits and vegetables. Gone are the days of
fresh water leaving future generations with a dark legacy from the
effects of over consumption.
Our ocean waters are contaminated with oil spills and is a dumpsite
for chemical waste that fish are now contaminated with mercury.
We thought that farm raised seafood was the answer to contaminated
fish from ocean waters, but now deadly PCB's and dioxins have found
their way into farm-raised seafood from waste-water and factory
runoff.
Air pollution
is a problem especially in large cities that rely on diesel-powered
buses, automobiles, industrial operations and power plants. The
fumes have devastating effects that are evident in a variety of
health problems especially in children from learning disabilities
to asthma. Asthma is now one of the nations most devastating diseases
and Cancer diagnosis today is one out of every six people occurring
in children and early adulthood at an alarming rate. Is there no
wonder that one out of every two Americans is chronically ill? Whether
it is from food, water, pollution, electro-magnetic sources, or
modern lifestyle stress, toxic overload has compromised our immune
systems causing an immunodeficiency syndrome where we fall victim
to dis-ease in greater and greater numbers.
Like the empty calories consumed in non-nutrient food, the bargain
to value ratio (our health) is null and void leaving us to live
in the threat of disease. Diabetes, obesity and cancer considered
diseases for the elderly population have now become common diseases
with no age marker.
How can
toxins be driven out of the body to optimize health and vitality?
Disease originates
in the colon, so colon care and cleansing is critical to healing
and keeping the body healthy. Colon health means that the intestines
are free of toxins, waste material and unhealthy organisms that
accumulate on the walls that prevent food from being properly absorbed
and there is ease in elimination. When waste cannot be properly
eliminated it accumulates in the colon and backs up the rest of
the intestinal tract then to the liver and kidneys providing a breeding
ground for parasites, yeast and viruses. Toxic waste accumulation
impairs physical elimination of feces or chronic diarrhea that prevents
friendly bacteria from colonizing, which is essential for immune
health. Since disease originates in the colon it makes sense that
healing begins through the colon.
To restore
intestinal health and immunity use Green Cell Therapy™for
body-detoxification therapy, which can be purchased in the
online
store.
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