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Modern World
Modern Problems
and Band-Aid Solutions
We live in a modern
world with modern issues. Our air is polluted with smog, carbon
monoxide and diesel fumes. Our planet's lakes and oceans contain
contaminants such as mercury, petroleum products and industry by-products
and waste.
Farmland is being
treated with chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and
fungicides, which are in turn carried off by agricultural and erosion
runoff to end up in chlorine-filled drinking water supplies. Our
food supply is being laced with chemical additives, preservatives and
synthetic hormones. Genetically modified foods, the long-term
effects of which are completely unknown, are being solid to us in
grocery stores daily without labeling. Even common household
cleaning products, plastics, dry cleaning solutions, carpeting and paints
contain chemicals that can be toxic. We are surrounded.
Unless we protect and cleanse our bodies,
these harmful substances find their way into our system and begin to
create toxicity and ill health. In fact, approximately 40% of the
world's deaths are due to environmental factors. Nearly 20% of the
chemicals in use around the world today are known to cause cancer.
The U.S. alone uses at least 20 billion kilograms of hazardous chemicals
each year and currently, deaths and chronic illnesses worldwide due
to pesticide poisoning number about 1 million per year.
As much as 95% of untreated sewage from
developing nations is dumped directly into the world's rivers, lakes and
oceans that are eventually used as a source of drinking and bathing water.
Air pollution levels in the world's 20 largest cities have far overshot
regulatory standards and exposure to the carcinogens found in automobile
exhaust may be as much as 5,000 times greater than Environmental
Protection Agency limits.
Unless we protect and cleanse our bodies
harmful substances find their way into our system and begin to create
toxicity and ill health.
Modern Disease
There are many symptoms that result from
living in a toxic environment. Varying from mild to severe,
occasional to chronic, annoying to debilitating; they are the warning
signs of modern disease. Lack of energy, headaches, skin conditions,
digestive difficulties, weight control issues, PMS, infertility, attention
deficit and hyperactivity disorders, asthma, allergies, lowered immunity,
high cholesterol and poor elimination are some of the symptoms that if
allowed to continue, can evolve into life threatening illnesses including
cardiovascular disease, liver disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's' and cancer.
Band-Aid Solutions
Modern medicine concentrates on alleviating
symptoms instead of correcting the nutritional deficiencies and toxicities
that are at the root of most health problems. These modern "band-aid
solutions" can cause more problems than they solve, resulting in a
drug-induced nutritional deficiencies and unwanted, even dangerous side
effects. How many times have we heard "Use of this medication may
cause side-effects such as headaches, vomiting, loss of sex drive,
bleeding ulcers, seizures or heart damage"? It has become common to
take another drug to alleviate the side effects of the first one and so on
until we don't know which symptoms are caused by which drug. The
magic pill of the day may provide temporary relief from the symptoms of
disease, but at which cost to our health and health care system? And
what of the original concern that cause us to take the drug in the first
place. It's all but impossible to tell where the real problem lies
anymore.
Fortunately, we have options. We can
look back to the basics for Grassroots Solution to correct the
deficiencies and toxicities that are at the root of disease.
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