Environmental Toxicity Seeping Through

In a recent study led by Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, in collaboration with the Environmental Working Group, researchers at two major laboratories found an average of 91 industrial compounds, pollutants, and other chemicals in the blood and urine of nine volunteers, with a total of 167 chemicals found in the group. Like most of us, the people tested do not work with chemicals on the job and do not live near an industrial facility. Scientists refer to this contamination as a person's 'body burden'. Of the 167 chemicals found, 76 cause cancer in humans or animals, 94 are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 79 cause birth defects or abnormal development. The dangers of exposure to these chemicals in combination has never been studied. What environmental contaminants are inside you or around you every day? For the full report, go to
http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden/es.php
To do your own test, go to http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden/usertest/

CTM COMMENT: This research adds weight to the information contained in the Credence title Health Wars. In this book, readers concerned at the general levels of toxicity in the environment can find a way through the maze.