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["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

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paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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The top 20 things that are more dangerous to children than lead paint in
Mattel toys
http://www.newstarget.com/022014.html

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
http://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. Only a fool would
inject their child with mercury-preserved vaccines.

3. Hot dogs

Hot dogs are made with horrifying processed meat parts. 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.

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.)

[My son was commenting on how men these days have less se
xual drive than women.  I think it is because they don't take care
of their health as well, and eat more of these damaging fast
foods. No wonder they need viagra, etc...]

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.

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). [I use the Miracle stuff from
the health food store]

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.

Almost....