Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
a moment of bragging :)
Today I went to Target because they had diapers on sale that I also had coupons for. I spent $41.00. I got 6 packs of diapers and 2 packs of wipes. The wipes were free. Plus I got $10 in gift cards.
So 212 diapers (yes I'm a freak for figuring out how many diapers I bought!) @ $41.00 total = .19 cents a diaper. Pretty good.
But if you figure I would spend $10 at Target sometime later anyways, and take the $10 off the $41.00 (a stretch, I know)
Then 212 diapers @ $31.00 = .14 1/2 cents a diaper. Really good. :)
And I got the free wipes. I don't know how you want to figure those in. They were $3.79 each.
We are mostly using disposables at night only. And when Justin changes him. :) I just bought some new cloth diapers, so we should be set on both cloth and disposables for awhile.Hooray!
Now I can focus my bargain shopping efforts elsewhere. :)
So 212 diapers (yes I'm a freak for figuring out how many diapers I bought!) @ $41.00 total = .19 cents a diaper. Pretty good.
But if you figure I would spend $10 at Target sometime later anyways, and take the $10 off the $41.00 (a stretch, I know)
Then 212 diapers @ $31.00 = .14 1/2 cents a diaper. Really good. :)
And I got the free wipes. I don't know how you want to figure those in. They were $3.79 each.
We are mostly using disposables at night only. And when Justin changes him. :) I just bought some new cloth diapers, so we should be set on both cloth and disposables for awhile.Hooray!
Now I can focus my bargain shopping efforts elsewhere. :)
Monday, October 22, 2007
frustrating
I am trying to make the best decisions for our family in terms of what we eat, what I use to clean our house, etc. I think I am doing a pretty good job. We don't eat processed foods or fast food. I make as much from scratch as possible. I make our cleaning products along with our laundry detergent and dishwasher detergent. I don't want chemicals in our house because I don't think anyone really knows what the risks are. I am learning that just because something is on the shelf to buy doesn't mean that it is safe. I am trying to phase out our use of the microwave. I found some really disturbing studies on its effects. I will try to find those again and link to them. We haven't yet gotten rid of it, but we are mostly hanging onto it out of convenience. We could definitely live without it.
So, I get to a place where I am comfortable with what we are using. I am saving us money and I feel like Judah is not exposed to harmful things. But then I see a video like this:
article and video here
The video is a lot easier to understand than the article. There should be a tab at the top to click to the video.
I just get frustrated when I hear stuff like this. The kids didn't have high levels of chemicals in their systems from things like cleaning products, the food they are eating... the things that I would expect to be harmful to them. Instead it is things like the pans their food is cooked in, mattresses, couches, the carpet. The list goes on. These are everyday things that I just don't know how to avoid.
The government spends so much money researching the cure of diseases, but I think we really need to look at the causes of them. The way our society puts all of these harmful things into their bodies, whether they are aware of it or not, must have long term consequences. Why aren't people making the connection?
I'm not going to make my kids walk around in a bubble. And I'm not a extreme "environmentalist" or whatever category this would fall under. I want to set my kids (along with Justin and I) up for the best chance at success. I want to avoid health problems and take care of our bodies in the best possible ways. Then I see something like that video and I wonder what is the point? Is there anyway in our country in 2007 to live the life that I want to? If it isn't the food we eat then its the couch we sit on, or the lead in the toys, or the pollution from cars.
Is their any point in trying? We're all going to die of something in the end.
So, I get to a place where I am comfortable with what we are using. I am saving us money and I feel like Judah is not exposed to harmful things. But then I see a video like this:
article and video here
The video is a lot easier to understand than the article. There should be a tab at the top to click to the video.
I just get frustrated when I hear stuff like this. The kids didn't have high levels of chemicals in their systems from things like cleaning products, the food they are eating... the things that I would expect to be harmful to them. Instead it is things like the pans their food is cooked in, mattresses, couches, the carpet. The list goes on. These are everyday things that I just don't know how to avoid.
The government spends so much money researching the cure of diseases, but I think we really need to look at the causes of them. The way our society puts all of these harmful things into their bodies, whether they are aware of it or not, must have long term consequences. Why aren't people making the connection?
I'm not going to make my kids walk around in a bubble. And I'm not a extreme "environmentalist" or whatever category this would fall under. I want to set my kids (along with Justin and I) up for the best chance at success. I want to avoid health problems and take care of our bodies in the best possible ways. Then I see something like that video and I wonder what is the point? Is there anyway in our country in 2007 to live the life that I want to? If it isn't the food we eat then its the couch we sit on, or the lead in the toys, or the pollution from cars.
Is their any point in trying? We're all going to die of something in the end.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
edit
I tried to edit my last blog so the video was at the bottom instead of the top. I kept getting error messages. It was my first time posting a video, so now I know for next time. Just wanted to explain why it says "here's the video" at the bottom when the video is at the top.
Yes, I care too much what other people think. :)
Yes, I care too much what other people think. :)
baby on board
I have always thought that the little yellow signs people have in their car that say "baby on board" were horribly cheesy. But I have encountered so many bad drivers lately that I wish I had a huge sign that told people to be careful around my car! Or I might just have to get bumpers to put all the way around my car so the bad drivers would just bounce off of us! :)
I consider myself a really easygoing parent. I know that I can't protect Judah from everything in this world, and I definitely don't want to be a overprotective parent. I do choose some things to be (some might say) over-cautious in. Who I leave him with and anything having to do with car rides. We got Judah a really good car seat, it was very expensive, but that was something that was really important to us. And Judah (and all our kids to come) will stay rear facing for as long as possible. This is the video that converted me. It is really good. You should watch it. I know lots of people switch their kids to forward facing at 1 year. And that is fine with me, it is perfectly legal and it is completely what the parents are comfortable with. For me, I made the decision in the end to keep him rear facing. We're at 14 months of rear facing and going strong!
Here's the video:
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
top 5
I don't consider myself a materialistic person. The past few years I've had a hard time coming up with lists of what I want for my birthday and Christmas. There just isn't anything that I really want.
But lately I'm realizing there are a few things that I own that I LOVE. I really don't know what I would do without them! Here's my top 5 list:
1. Northface Jacket. love it
2. Kitchen Aid mixer.
3. My digital camera.
4. My computer.
5. Sewing Machine. we're still getting to know each other, but I know it will soon be one of my favorite things.
Lets hear your top 5 lists. I know that everyone loves their family and friends. So for the sake of being really materialistic, lets assume that they would make everyones top 5. :)
But lately I'm realizing there are a few things that I own that I LOVE. I really don't know what I would do without them! Here's my top 5 list:
1. Northface Jacket. love it
2. Kitchen Aid mixer.
3. My digital camera.
4. My computer.
5. Sewing Machine. we're still getting to know each other, but I know it will soon be one of my favorite things.
Lets hear your top 5 lists. I know that everyone loves their family and friends. So for the sake of being really materialistic, lets assume that they would make everyones top 5. :)
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
what would you have done?
Tonight after me and Judah left youth church we stopped at Fred Meyer. I got out of the van and after getting Judah out I noticed a few dollars on the ground. I looked closer and it was a 5 and a 1. I wasn't sure what to do with it, so I just went in and grabbed the things I needed. I considered my options the whole time I was shopping. I could take it and turn it into customer service. But then would anyone really go in search of a missing $6? Or I could pick it up and keep it. I really didn't feel right about that option either. I couldn't picture myself bending over to pick it up and then put it into my pocket or purse.
So...I left it there. I don't really feel that was the "right" decision either. But is there really a "right" decision? I don't know.
What would you have done?
So...I left it there. I don't really feel that was the "right" decision either. But is there really a "right" decision? I don't know.
What would you have done?
i'm going crazy here
Seriously. I am going crazy.
It is now 1:42 a.m. Justin came to bed at midnight and switched the dishwasher on as he came to bed. For some reason our baby monitor decided to stop working the other day, so for now we are sleeping with our door open so we can hear Judah. Well, the dishwasher thought it needed to run on it's wash cycle for over an hour and a half. Yes, at 1:37 I finally went out there and turned it off. I have now realized a dishwasher is a noise that you don't necessarily notice during the day, it's kind of a background noise. Let me assure you it is very annoying at night. Right up there with fingernails on a chalkboard.
As if that wasn't enough...Judah has been awake in his crib for over an hour. Just happily talking away and playing. He likes to run his Larry's along the crib rails. Lovely. :) I finally went and checked on him thinking maybe dirty diaper??? Nope. Just one wide awake Judah ready to play.
So then I come back to bed (mind you the dishwasher was still running at this point) and ask my almost snoring (you know the breathing that isn't quite snoring...but just as annoying?), bed hogging husband what I should do about our wide awake son. His first reply was to roll over and pull the blanket over his head. Nice. I tried again and was informed that I should pick him (Judah, not Justin) up and hold him. I said, "okay. So I should just sit up with our wide awake son?" And he told me, "oh, you can lean back a little if you want, you don't have to sit completely up."
So helpful. I should know by now not to talk to him while he is sleeping. He never makes sense and is usually mean.
Now I am sitting here. Finally without the dishwasher. One problem solved. My son is still running Larry up and down his crib rails. My husband is still hogging the bed. I want to throw a fit (things seem worse in the middle of the night) and kick something. I was thinking Justin...think he would notice that? :)
Edited at 3:00 to add this. Because it is way to funny not to share!
I finally got Judah to sleep and came back to bed. As I was crawling into bed Justin "woke" up and we had this conversation:
Justin: i fixed your problem
Me: what problem?
Justin: the one you were complaining about earlier.
Me: okay...what problem would that be?
Justin: um...i don't know. that one problem.
Me: okay. how did you fix it?
Justin: i beat that level on the game.
Me: oh. i see. good job.
Ha ha! So funny to me. I love my life. :)
It is now 1:42 a.m. Justin came to bed at midnight and switched the dishwasher on as he came to bed. For some reason our baby monitor decided to stop working the other day, so for now we are sleeping with our door open so we can hear Judah. Well, the dishwasher thought it needed to run on it's wash cycle for over an hour and a half. Yes, at 1:37 I finally went out there and turned it off. I have now realized a dishwasher is a noise that you don't necessarily notice during the day, it's kind of a background noise. Let me assure you it is very annoying at night. Right up there with fingernails on a chalkboard.
As if that wasn't enough...Judah has been awake in his crib for over an hour. Just happily talking away and playing. He likes to run his Larry's along the crib rails. Lovely. :) I finally went and checked on him thinking maybe dirty diaper??? Nope. Just one wide awake Judah ready to play.
So then I come back to bed (mind you the dishwasher was still running at this point) and ask my almost snoring (you know the breathing that isn't quite snoring...but just as annoying?), bed hogging husband what I should do about our wide awake son. His first reply was to roll over and pull the blanket over his head. Nice. I tried again and was informed that I should pick him (Judah, not Justin) up and hold him. I said, "okay. So I should just sit up with our wide awake son?" And he told me, "oh, you can lean back a little if you want, you don't have to sit completely up."
So helpful. I should know by now not to talk to him while he is sleeping. He never makes sense and is usually mean.
Now I am sitting here. Finally without the dishwasher. One problem solved. My son is still running Larry up and down his crib rails. My husband is still hogging the bed. I want to throw a fit (things seem worse in the middle of the night) and kick something. I was thinking Justin...think he would notice that? :)
Edited at 3:00 to add this. Because it is way to funny not to share!
I finally got Judah to sleep and came back to bed. As I was crawling into bed Justin "woke" up and we had this conversation:
Justin: i fixed your problem
Me: what problem?
Justin: the one you were complaining about earlier.
Me: okay...what problem would that be?
Justin: um...i don't know. that one problem.
Me: okay. how did you fix it?
Justin: i beat that level on the game.
Me: oh. i see. good job.
Ha ha! So funny to me. I love my life. :)
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
brownback, hunter, huckabee
I found a quiz that you answer 11 questions and it tells you the presidential candidates that you "agree" with the most.
Take it here.
My top 3
Sam Brownback
Duncan Hunter
Mike Huckabee
I've only heard of Huckabee.
If I had to guess I would have thought I agreed more with someone like Barack Obama...I guess not.
I had a hard time with some of the questions. Some things like same sex marriage are things that I am against, but I am not sure that it is the place of our government to put laws on those things. It is (mostly) a christian value and I don't think it is fair of us to hold non-christians to the standards that we set for ourselves.
...I don't know. I found the quiz and results semi-interesting. I'm trying to stay informed about the candidates. I haven't done a very good job so far. I think my vote is probably going to be based on who I don't want in office. I don't have very much respect for politicians these days.
Take it here.
My top 3
Sam Brownback
Duncan Hunter
Mike Huckabee
I've only heard of Huckabee.
If I had to guess I would have thought I agreed more with someone like Barack Obama...I guess not.
I had a hard time with some of the questions. Some things like same sex marriage are things that I am against, but I am not sure that it is the place of our government to put laws on those things. It is (mostly) a christian value and I don't think it is fair of us to hold non-christians to the standards that we set for ourselves.
...I don't know. I found the quiz and results semi-interesting. I'm trying to stay informed about the candidates. I haven't done a very good job so far. I think my vote is probably going to be based on who I don't want in office. I don't have very much respect for politicians these days.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
chocolate pudding
Judah tried using a spoon for the first time last night. I'm not sure how much of it actually made it into his mouth!
Friday, October 5, 2007
Thursday, October 4, 2007
wiki-how of today
I am curious what other people think of the wiki-how of the day.
read it here.
It is titled "How to be just friends with a member of the opposite sex"
I have guys that I guess I would consider friends, but in most cases it is more like I am friends with their wives and therefore friends with them. Don't get me wrong, I like them and enjoy being around them but if I wasn't friends with their wives then we would have no reason to hang out. I just can't imagine at this point in my life being friends with a guy like this article talks about. I also can't imagine being okay with Justin "going out" for the night with a girl. No matter who she is. Maybe I'm just a jealous wife? I don't think I've ever heard of any of my friends husbands (or my friends themselves) hanging out one on one with a member of the opposite sex. Is that just because we are christians and in the "christian community" that isn't really something that is done?
Thoughts and opinions please. :)
read it here.
It is titled "How to be just friends with a member of the opposite sex"
I have guys that I guess I would consider friends, but in most cases it is more like I am friends with their wives and therefore friends with them. Don't get me wrong, I like them and enjoy being around them but if I wasn't friends with their wives then we would have no reason to hang out. I just can't imagine at this point in my life being friends with a guy like this article talks about. I also can't imagine being okay with Justin "going out" for the night with a girl. No matter who she is. Maybe I'm just a jealous wife? I don't think I've ever heard of any of my friends husbands (or my friends themselves) hanging out one on one with a member of the opposite sex. Is that just because we are christians and in the "christian community" that isn't really something that is done?
Thoughts and opinions please. :)
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
interesting read
I found the article below today in my internet reading. I find it very interesting. He is very extreme and pretty obnoxious in his writing. I don't agree with some/most of what he says, but these are all things I have looked at in my own life and though "is it really safe"? I do agree that we are making a big deal out of the lead in toys, and there are plenty of things in our day to day lives that we give to our kids that are probably worse than the lead. It always good to re-examine the products you are using and eating.
On a (kind of) side note: I bought some Comet cleaner at the store because there were a few spots my usual solution of baking soda, dish soap, and vinegar weren't getting all the way clean. Well I used it today to clean the bathroom, and wow. I was gagging the whole time and I think I may be high from the fumes. If you haven't looked into making your own cleaning supplies or buying natural products, you definitely should. You would be amazed at the difference!
The article is pretty long, but it is a worthwhile read.
Top 20 things that are more dangerous to children than lead paint in Mattel toys
by Mike Adams
The mainstream media is amusingly irrational when it comes to reporting scare stories. The latest example involves the lead content of Mattel toys made in China. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a third recall of Mattel toys involving over 700,000 toys containing unacceptably high levels of lead paint (over .06 percent lead). Irrational parents are rushing back to retailers in droves, turning in their Mattel toys to "save their children" from the dangers of lead paint. Mattel, for its part, is being rightly blasted in the media for selling shoddy products made with toxic heavy metals.
But here's the interesting part in all this: Parents directly poison their children every day with products far more dangerous than Mattel toys. Don't believe me? I'll name twenty things in this article that are far more dangerous to children than Mattel toys. It doesn't mean Mattel toys are safe, of course. They apparently do contain unacceptably high levels of lead, and there's no question about the toxicity of lead. But children don't eat toys nearly as often as they eat some other toxic substances given to them by their parents, and even as parents are herding back into retailers to refund their toxic lead-laden toys, they're returning home and poisoning their children with many other products that are far worse.
The press, of course, reports nothing about these other toxic products. And why? Because they're made in America.
American products poisoning American children American products, you see, are often given blanket immunity by the U.S. press. While the media is happy to jump on toxic lead found in Chinese products, they completely ignore (for example) the toxic mercury that dentists continue to place into the mouths of young children all across the country. Why is it considered highly dangerous for a child to merely touch a toy with .06 percent lead paint while it is considered perfectly safe for a child to chew on a filling made with 40 percent mercury? Mercury is far more toxic than lead in many ways, yet the media has nothing to say about the mass poisoning of children through the outmoded dental work still being performed on children today. Mercury fillings were invented before the Civil War, and they're just as toxic now as they were then!
Of course, if dental fillings were made in China, the U.S. press would be screaming about their toxicity! But since they're installed by crazed U.S. dentists -- many of whom still manage to seem convincingly sane -- there's zero coverage in the mainstream media.
Reporting the truth about dangerous chemicals, heavy metals and other threats to children is extremely selective. The public never hears the real truth about what's dangerous -- they only hear what the media want them to think is dangerous!
But I've had it with popular media distortions. Here, I'm going to reveal the top 20 things that are more dangerous to children than the lead paint in Mattel toys. Interestingly, most of these are things that parents intentionally give their children (or feed to them!). If you're worried about lead paint, you should be far more worried about these 20 things...
1. Mercury fillings Often called "silver fillings" to hide the fact that they're made from mercury, these highly toxic fillings are placed directly into the mouths of children where they are inhaled (mercury vapor) and swallowed, causing systemic mercury poisoning to the child and leading to long-term neurological damage. Visit www.IAOMT.org and watch the "Smoking Teeth = Poison Gas" video to learn more.
2. Vaccines Think vaccines are safe? You've been hoodwinked by the popular media parroting drug company propaganda. Vaccines are preserved with methyl mercury, one of the most dangerous chemical forms of the toxic heavy metal. This mercury is injected directly into the bodies of children where it causes severe neurological damage. And yes, it does cause Autism, despite what you've read in the dumbed-down press.
3. Hot dogs Hot dogs are made with horrifying processed meat parts (click here to see shocking photos of processed meat products, then preserved with a cancer-causing ingredient called sodium nitrite. As detailed in my book Grocery Warning, this ingredient causes brain tumors in children, not to mention leukemia, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and other cancers. Hot dogs are far more dangerous to a child's health than lead paint in my opinion, and yet parents keep feeding them to their children!
4. Antibacterial soap How about a little nerve toxin in your soap? That's what's found in antibacterial soap. It's a toxic cocktail of chemicals designed to kill life. That's how it kills bacteria. The problem is that it also harms people -- especially infants and children who are trying to develop healthy nervous systems. Avoid all products claiming to be "antibacterial." You're better off using natural soap (like Dr. Bronner's soap, www.DrBronner.com ) and letting your child's immune system fight off common bacteria. The world isn't sterile, after all. You can't turn your house into a germ-free bubble.
5. ADHD drugs Would you give your child street drugs like speed or meth? Probably not, but what if your doctor wrote you a prescription for speed and said your child needed it because he was ADHD? If you're like most parents, you'd fall in step and start giving your child speed. But wait, you say: ADHD drugs are not speed, are they? But of course they are. They belong to a class of drugs called amphetamines. They used to be illegally sold as speed. Now they're prescription drugs, and they're given to children in schools all across America (and elsewhere). Psychiatrists and drug companies are making a killing dosing up kids and infants on substances that used to be considered illegal street drugs (and that have no legitimate medical use whatsoever).
6. Sports drinks For some reason, parents irrationally believe sports drinks are healthy because they contain the word "sports." Didn't they notice the neon green artificial coloring? Sports drinks are, in my opinion, a nutritional joke. Made from salt water, processed sweeteners and petrochemical coloring, many of their ingredients are actually harmful. Drinking water would be smarter, and feeding your child some healthy trace minerals would be even better. Low on potassium? Eat a banana.
7. Cough syrup and over-the-counter medicines Nearly all children's over-the-counter medicines contain multiple toxic substances such as chemical sweeteners, preservatives and additives. Cough syrup, in particular, has been scientifically proven to be absolutely worthless in preventing coughs. Many "children's" medicines are actually more toxic than their adult counterparts because they're sweetened up and cosmetically enhanced with artificial colors made from petrochemicals. Yet parents poison their children every day with over-the-counter medicine.
8. Sunscreen The sunscreen industry is a huge scam. Most popular sunscreen products actually cause skin cancer due to the numerous toxic chemicals they contain (which are quickly absorbed into the skin where they cause DNA mutations that lead to cancer). Even worse, sunscreen blocks the UV radiation that allows the skin to manufacture all-important vitamin D -- the most powerful anti-cancer nutrient yet known to modern science. It prevents over a dozen different cancers, yet parents block it by slathering toxic sunscreen on their children, all while mistakenly believing they're "protecting their children from cancer!" What a scam.
9. Fluoride in the water I've always found it amazing that city water officials were dumb enough to actually buy a toxic waste substance and arrange to have it dripped into the public water supply where it would be ingested by infants and children. The result? Mass fluorosis and toxicity to children everywhere. Didn't these people realize that fluoride only works topically? (That is, it only works if you rub it on your teeth, then spit it out, and even that only works if you're using natural fluoride, not the chemicals spit out as byproducts of the fertilizer industry, which is what city water departments are buying and dripping into the water supply.)
Whoever heard of drinking a topical medication in the first place? It's like swallowing sunscreen to prevent sunburn. Even worse, putting this into the public water supply effectively mass medicates everyone with a bioactive chemical substance that no one has been given a prescription for. This is all done with no regard for the level of natural fluoride children might already be ingesting from other sources. The situation is so crazy that it's difficult to find a more insane example of medical tyranny than the mass fluoridation of public water supplies. The fact that doctors and dentists so vehemently support it demonstrates just how crazy they really are.
10. Processed milk Children as young as 10 years old are now being diagnosed with heart disease and clogged arteries. Ever wonder how it happened? It's due in part, I believe, to all the processed milk children are swallowing these days. Not only is the milk contaminated with pus, blood and detectable levels of pesticides and other chemicals, it's also homogenized, meaning the fats are artificially modified in a way that makes them stay in suspension. This homogenization also makes milk fats dangerous to cardiovascular health. While I support the consumption of raw, unprocessed milk, I think that consuming processed, homogenized milk is dangerous to the health of infants, children and adults alike!
11. Fast food Fast food is extremely unhealthy for children. Not only are the foods often fried, homogenized, hydrogenated and otherwise altered, they're also laced with chemical additives, taste enhancers, processed sugars, petrochemical food coloring and other unhealthy substances. Strangely, many parents actually reward their children for good behavior by buying them unhealthy fast food meals, thereby creating a psychological association between good feelings and junk food. (Fast food restaurants further exploit this psychological link by building playgrounds and running feel-good advertisements that emphasize friends and fun, then link those good vibes to their food products.)
12. Antidepressant drugs Children as young as six months old are now being put on psychotropic drugs such as SSRIs (antidepressants). These drugs, we now know, cause suicidal thoughts and violent behavior, especially in young boys. They imbalance brain chemistry and even alter the body's metabolism of sugar, promoting diabetes and leading to rapid weight gain. These drugs are so dangerous that feeding them to children should be considered a crime. Every single school shooting involving a child in the United States in the last 15 years has been linked to antidepressant drug use. Need I say more?
13. Chemical laundry detergents Parents are shown fancy ads on television depicting how wonderful and clean their clothes will be if they wash them in brand-name laundry detergent. What they're not shown, however, is the toxicity of all the synthetic chemicals that go into most laundry detergent products. The fragrance chemicals alone are often carcinogenic, and they're just as bad for the environment as they are children's health. A new alternative has appeared, however: Soap berries! It's laundry soap that grows on trees. We offer it at www.BetterLifeGoods.com
14. Flame retardant chemicals Did you know that new mattresses for infants and children are often sprayed with extremely toxic flame retardant chemicals? These are easily absorbed through the skin of infants and children where they contribute to numerous neurological disorders and immune suppression. Many clothing products are also sprayed with flame retardants, as are some carpeting products. In the push to make everything fireproof, state regulators (who have mandated the flame retardant chemicals in states like California) have created a toxic environment for everyone. I suppose if you're a politician, it's always better for a million people to die of a mysterious disease that can't be linked to you than to have one baby burning up on the evening news with fingers of blame pointed directly at you.
15. Soda Aside from directly promoting diabetes and obesity, sodas also contain high amounts of phosphoric acid, a substance that dissolves bones and causes a loss of bone mineral density. This causes massive tooth decay as well as a shrinking jaw bone and overall skeletal fragility. Diet sodas are even worse, since they contain chemical sweeteners linked to neurological disorders and learning disabilities.
16. Air fresheners Air fresheners contain cancer-causing chemicals. Unleashing them in the house exposes children to these chemicals, promoting asthma and other respiratory problems. If you value the health of your children, avoid air freshener products and just use essential oils or citrus peels instead. (Peel an orange and hang the peel in your kitchen.)
17. Synthetic vitamins Many children's vitamins are made with cheap, synthetic "vitamin" chemicals that actually harm people who take them. Plus, many are loaded up with artificial colors, sucrose and chemical sweeteners. Avoid cheap, store-bought children's vitamins or anything containing cyanocobalamin (a toxic form of vitamin B12).
18. Dryer sheets Most popular dryer sheets and fabric softeners are made with toxic synthetic chemicals that are not safe to use on children's clothing. The fragrance chemicals alone are often highly carcinogenic, and the other chemicals contribute additional toxicity to the clothing. Children's clothes should never be washed or dried in chemicals. Only use natural detergents and fabric softeners, or avoid the fabric softeners altogether.
19. Bacon Most bacon and sausage are processed meat products made with sodium nitrite (like the hot dogs, above) and contaminated with various chemicals lodged in the animal fats. Conventionally-raised beef, pork and chicken products are, in my opinion, extremely toxic to the human body and contribute to colon cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer and many other diseases and disorders. If you make meat for your children, shop for 100% organic, free-range, antibiotic-free meats that have no nitrites or nitrates.
20. Shampoo and bath products Virtually all popular shampoo and bath products sold on the market contain cancer-causing chemicals. The ingredients read like a top-40 list of toxic chemicals. Virtually none of these chemicals have ever been tested or approved for use on humans (they are simply ignored because the FDA astonishingly believes the skin won't absorb chemicals). If you want healthy products, use the shampoo I recommend: Pure Essentials Fragrance-Free Shampoo from Earth Science (www.TheNewES.com)
Keeping your health priorities straight So that's the list of 20 items that are more dangerous to the health of children than the lead paint in Mattel toys. Most parents have no concern whatsoever for any of these 20 things, but they're going ape-shoot-crazy over the tiny amounts of lead in their Barbie toys and Elmo stuffed animals. It all just goes to show you that the sheeple will think anything the mainstream media tells them to think (and they'll ignore everything else).
It's classic American contradiction: Returning a Mattel toy at the local toy store while taking your child to a dentist to have mercury implanted in the cavities caused by all the soda the kid consumed at home (because the parents keep buying Coke and Pepsi). If it all weren't so downright tragic, it would almost be funny.
On a (kind of) side note: I bought some Comet cleaner at the store because there were a few spots my usual solution of baking soda, dish soap, and vinegar weren't getting all the way clean. Well I used it today to clean the bathroom, and wow. I was gagging the whole time and I think I may be high from the fumes. If you haven't looked into making your own cleaning supplies or buying natural products, you definitely should. You would be amazed at the difference!
The article is pretty long, but it is a worthwhile read.
Top 20 things that are more dangerous to children than lead paint in Mattel toys
by Mike Adams
The mainstream media is amusingly irrational when it comes to reporting scare stories. The latest example involves the lead content of Mattel toys made in China. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a third recall of Mattel toys involving over 700,000 toys containing unacceptably high levels of lead paint (over .06 percent lead). Irrational parents are rushing back to retailers in droves, turning in their Mattel toys to "save their children" from the dangers of lead paint. Mattel, for its part, is being rightly blasted in the media for selling shoddy products made with toxic heavy metals.
But here's the interesting part in all this: Parents directly poison their children every day with products far more dangerous than Mattel toys. Don't believe me? I'll name twenty things in this article that are far more dangerous to children than Mattel toys. It doesn't mean Mattel toys are safe, of course. They apparently do contain unacceptably high levels of lead, and there's no question about the toxicity of lead. But children don't eat toys nearly as often as they eat some other toxic substances given to them by their parents, and even as parents are herding back into retailers to refund their toxic lead-laden toys, they're returning home and poisoning their children with many other products that are far worse.
The press, of course, reports nothing about these other toxic products. And why? Because they're made in America.
American products poisoning American children American products, you see, are often given blanket immunity by the U.S. press. While the media is happy to jump on toxic lead found in Chinese products, they completely ignore (for example) the toxic mercury that dentists continue to place into the mouths of young children all across the country. Why is it considered highly dangerous for a child to merely touch a toy with .06 percent lead paint while it is considered perfectly safe for a child to chew on a filling made with 40 percent mercury? Mercury is far more toxic than lead in many ways, yet the media has nothing to say about the mass poisoning of children through the outmoded dental work still being performed on children today. Mercury fillings were invented before the Civil War, and they're just as toxic now as they were then!
Of course, if dental fillings were made in China, the U.S. press would be screaming about their toxicity! But since they're installed by crazed U.S. dentists -- many of whom still manage to seem convincingly sane -- there's zero coverage in the mainstream media.
Reporting the truth about dangerous chemicals, heavy metals and other threats to children is extremely selective. The public never hears the real truth about what's dangerous -- they only hear what the media want them to think is dangerous!
But I've had it with popular media distortions. Here, I'm going to reveal the top 20 things that are more dangerous to children than the lead paint in Mattel toys. Interestingly, most of these are things that parents intentionally give their children (or feed to them!). If you're worried about lead paint, you should be far more worried about these 20 things...
1. Mercury fillings Often called "silver fillings" to hide the fact that they're made from mercury, these highly toxic fillings are placed directly into the mouths of children where they are inhaled (mercury vapor) and swallowed, causing systemic mercury poisoning to the child and leading to long-term neurological damage. Visit www.IAOMT.org and watch the "Smoking Teeth = Poison Gas" video to learn more.
2. Vaccines Think vaccines are safe? You've been hoodwinked by the popular media parroting drug company propaganda. Vaccines are preserved with methyl mercury, one of the most dangerous chemical forms of the toxic heavy metal. This mercury is injected directly into the bodies of children where it causes severe neurological damage. And yes, it does cause Autism, despite what you've read in the dumbed-down press.
3. Hot dogs Hot dogs are made with horrifying processed meat parts (click here to see shocking photos of processed meat products, then preserved with a cancer-causing ingredient called sodium nitrite. As detailed in my book Grocery Warning, this ingredient causes brain tumors in children, not to mention leukemia, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and other cancers. Hot dogs are far more dangerous to a child's health than lead paint in my opinion, and yet parents keep feeding them to their children!
4. Antibacterial soap How about a little nerve toxin in your soap? That's what's found in antibacterial soap. It's a toxic cocktail of chemicals designed to kill life. That's how it kills bacteria. The problem is that it also harms people -- especially infants and children who are trying to develop healthy nervous systems. Avoid all products claiming to be "antibacterial." You're better off using natural soap (like Dr. Bronner's soap, www.DrBronner.com ) and letting your child's immune system fight off common bacteria. The world isn't sterile, after all. You can't turn your house into a germ-free bubble.
5. ADHD drugs Would you give your child street drugs like speed or meth? Probably not, but what if your doctor wrote you a prescription for speed and said your child needed it because he was ADHD? If you're like most parents, you'd fall in step and start giving your child speed. But wait, you say: ADHD drugs are not speed, are they? But of course they are. They belong to a class of drugs called amphetamines. They used to be illegally sold as speed. Now they're prescription drugs, and they're given to children in schools all across America (and elsewhere). Psychiatrists and drug companies are making a killing dosing up kids and infants on substances that used to be considered illegal street drugs (and that have no legitimate medical use whatsoever).
6. Sports drinks For some reason, parents irrationally believe sports drinks are healthy because they contain the word "sports." Didn't they notice the neon green artificial coloring? Sports drinks are, in my opinion, a nutritional joke. Made from salt water, processed sweeteners and petrochemical coloring, many of their ingredients are actually harmful. Drinking water would be smarter, and feeding your child some healthy trace minerals would be even better. Low on potassium? Eat a banana.
7. Cough syrup and over-the-counter medicines Nearly all children's over-the-counter medicines contain multiple toxic substances such as chemical sweeteners, preservatives and additives. Cough syrup, in particular, has been scientifically proven to be absolutely worthless in preventing coughs. Many "children's" medicines are actually more toxic than their adult counterparts because they're sweetened up and cosmetically enhanced with artificial colors made from petrochemicals. Yet parents poison their children every day with over-the-counter medicine.
8. Sunscreen The sunscreen industry is a huge scam. Most popular sunscreen products actually cause skin cancer due to the numerous toxic chemicals they contain (which are quickly absorbed into the skin where they cause DNA mutations that lead to cancer). Even worse, sunscreen blocks the UV radiation that allows the skin to manufacture all-important vitamin D -- the most powerful anti-cancer nutrient yet known to modern science. It prevents over a dozen different cancers, yet parents block it by slathering toxic sunscreen on their children, all while mistakenly believing they're "protecting their children from cancer!" What a scam.
9. Fluoride in the water I've always found it amazing that city water officials were dumb enough to actually buy a toxic waste substance and arrange to have it dripped into the public water supply where it would be ingested by infants and children. The result? Mass fluorosis and toxicity to children everywhere. Didn't these people realize that fluoride only works topically? (That is, it only works if you rub it on your teeth, then spit it out, and even that only works if you're using natural fluoride, not the chemicals spit out as byproducts of the fertilizer industry, which is what city water departments are buying and dripping into the water supply.)
Whoever heard of drinking a topical medication in the first place? It's like swallowing sunscreen to prevent sunburn. Even worse, putting this into the public water supply effectively mass medicates everyone with a bioactive chemical substance that no one has been given a prescription for. This is all done with no regard for the level of natural fluoride children might already be ingesting from other sources. The situation is so crazy that it's difficult to find a more insane example of medical tyranny than the mass fluoridation of public water supplies. The fact that doctors and dentists so vehemently support it demonstrates just how crazy they really are.
10. Processed milk Children as young as 10 years old are now being diagnosed with heart disease and clogged arteries. Ever wonder how it happened? It's due in part, I believe, to all the processed milk children are swallowing these days. Not only is the milk contaminated with pus, blood and detectable levels of pesticides and other chemicals, it's also homogenized, meaning the fats are artificially modified in a way that makes them stay in suspension. This homogenization also makes milk fats dangerous to cardiovascular health. While I support the consumption of raw, unprocessed milk, I think that consuming processed, homogenized milk is dangerous to the health of infants, children and adults alike!
11. Fast food Fast food is extremely unhealthy for children. Not only are the foods often fried, homogenized, hydrogenated and otherwise altered, they're also laced with chemical additives, taste enhancers, processed sugars, petrochemical food coloring and other unhealthy substances. Strangely, many parents actually reward their children for good behavior by buying them unhealthy fast food meals, thereby creating a psychological association between good feelings and junk food. (Fast food restaurants further exploit this psychological link by building playgrounds and running feel-good advertisements that emphasize friends and fun, then link those good vibes to their food products.)
12. Antidepressant drugs Children as young as six months old are now being put on psychotropic drugs such as SSRIs (antidepressants). These drugs, we now know, cause suicidal thoughts and violent behavior, especially in young boys. They imbalance brain chemistry and even alter the body's metabolism of sugar, promoting diabetes and leading to rapid weight gain. These drugs are so dangerous that feeding them to children should be considered a crime. Every single school shooting involving a child in the United States in the last 15 years has been linked to antidepressant drug use. Need I say more?
13. Chemical laundry detergents Parents are shown fancy ads on television depicting how wonderful and clean their clothes will be if they wash them in brand-name laundry detergent. What they're not shown, however, is the toxicity of all the synthetic chemicals that go into most laundry detergent products. The fragrance chemicals alone are often carcinogenic, and they're just as bad for the environment as they are children's health. A new alternative has appeared, however: Soap berries! It's laundry soap that grows on trees. We offer it at www.BetterLifeGoods.com
14. Flame retardant chemicals Did you know that new mattresses for infants and children are often sprayed with extremely toxic flame retardant chemicals? These are easily absorbed through the skin of infants and children where they contribute to numerous neurological disorders and immune suppression. Many clothing products are also sprayed with flame retardants, as are some carpeting products. In the push to make everything fireproof, state regulators (who have mandated the flame retardant chemicals in states like California) have created a toxic environment for everyone. I suppose if you're a politician, it's always better for a million people to die of a mysterious disease that can't be linked to you than to have one baby burning up on the evening news with fingers of blame pointed directly at you.
15. Soda Aside from directly promoting diabetes and obesity, sodas also contain high amounts of phosphoric acid, a substance that dissolves bones and causes a loss of bone mineral density. This causes massive tooth decay as well as a shrinking jaw bone and overall skeletal fragility. Diet sodas are even worse, since they contain chemical sweeteners linked to neurological disorders and learning disabilities.
16. Air fresheners Air fresheners contain cancer-causing chemicals. Unleashing them in the house exposes children to these chemicals, promoting asthma and other respiratory problems. If you value the health of your children, avoid air freshener products and just use essential oils or citrus peels instead. (Peel an orange and hang the peel in your kitchen.)
17. Synthetic vitamins Many children's vitamins are made with cheap, synthetic "vitamin" chemicals that actually harm people who take them. Plus, many are loaded up with artificial colors, sucrose and chemical sweeteners. Avoid cheap, store-bought children's vitamins or anything containing cyanocobalamin (a toxic form of vitamin B12).
18. Dryer sheets Most popular dryer sheets and fabric softeners are made with toxic synthetic chemicals that are not safe to use on children's clothing. The fragrance chemicals alone are often highly carcinogenic, and the other chemicals contribute additional toxicity to the clothing. Children's clothes should never be washed or dried in chemicals. Only use natural detergents and fabric softeners, or avoid the fabric softeners altogether.
19. Bacon Most bacon and sausage are processed meat products made with sodium nitrite (like the hot dogs, above) and contaminated with various chemicals lodged in the animal fats. Conventionally-raised beef, pork and chicken products are, in my opinion, extremely toxic to the human body and contribute to colon cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer and many other diseases and disorders. If you make meat for your children, shop for 100% organic, free-range, antibiotic-free meats that have no nitrites or nitrates.
20. Shampoo and bath products Virtually all popular shampoo and bath products sold on the market contain cancer-causing chemicals. The ingredients read like a top-40 list of toxic chemicals. Virtually none of these chemicals have ever been tested or approved for use on humans (they are simply ignored because the FDA astonishingly believes the skin won't absorb chemicals). If you want healthy products, use the shampoo I recommend: Pure Essentials Fragrance-Free Shampoo from Earth Science (www.TheNewES.com)
Keeping your health priorities straight So that's the list of 20 items that are more dangerous to the health of children than the lead paint in Mattel toys. Most parents have no concern whatsoever for any of these 20 things, but they're going ape-shoot-crazy over the tiny amounts of lead in their Barbie toys and Elmo stuffed animals. It all just goes to show you that the sheeple will think anything the mainstream media tells them to think (and they'll ignore everything else).
It's classic American contradiction: Returning a Mattel toy at the local toy store while taking your child to a dentist to have mercury implanted in the cavities caused by all the soda the kid consumed at home (because the parents keep buying Coke and Pepsi). If it all weren't so downright tragic, it would almost be funny.
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