Environmental Toxins: Industrial pollutants, pesticides, lea

A great percentage of pesticides and insecticides used on fruit and vegetables are known to be carcinogenic. Pesticide residues have been detected in up to 75% of U.S. foods. Industrial pollution from car fumes, factories and combustion pollutants, cannot be ignored.

Industrial pollutants cause the poor air quality in big cities and industrial zones, which we know as smog and soot. Most of the 20 million people suffering from asthma also live in areas with poor air quality. Over one hundred and seventy million people currently live in counties where air quality standards are not met, facing increased risks of heart and lung disease and premature mortality.

How to get Well: Handbook of Natural Healing. Dr. Paavlo Airola:

"These health-destroying environmental factors bring about inevitable derangement in all the vital bodily functions, with consequent biochemical imbalance in the tissues; autotoxemia; chronic under-supply of oxygen to the cells; poorer digestion, ineffective assimilation of nutrients...and, of course, gradually lowered resistance to disease."

Lead poisoning is one of the foremost environmental health threats to children. Those living in industrial and metropolitan areas have enough lead in their blood to reduce intelligence and attention span, cause learning disabilities, ADD, and permanently damage a child's brain and nervous system.

Going for breaks and long walks in nature, especially forests whenever possible, while making a conscious effort to breathe deeply, will re-supply the body cells and blood with vital oxygen.