Last week, I spoke about how different types of contaminants (chemicals, additives, excess fluoride, toxins…) reach children without the awareness of parents. Sometimes parents know about them, but do not realize the extent of their dangers since authorities and regulating agencies like the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or Saudi FDA neither object to their use nor regulate the amounts used in baby food, wear, toys, furniture, and body care products; let alone what surprises are kept hidden for adults. Even more concerning is that the industry is not required to list the chemicals or their amounts on food packages or products. What is left for individuals, parents, patients, and the public is to become hawks, keeping their eyes wide-open and antennas alert.

Toxic chemicals have become universal. They are found in children’s wear (flame retardant…), food, utensils (baby bottles and nipples), baby care products (shampoos, lotions, toothpaste…), furniture, textile, toys, paint, sprayed homes, and everywhere. Children ingest them, absorb them through their skin, and inhale them.

The purpose of these series of articles about the poisoning effect of chemicals is to make parents and the public aware of the toxins their kids are exposed to. We must know that chemicals and additives are dangerous to their brains, neurodevelopment, and physical health. I wrote in Part 1 about some of the disorders and cancers that toxins expose children to. Now, I will elaborate.

Because children and teenagers are still in their physiological and mental developmental stages, their physical and mental growth can be disrupted and damaged through toxic exposure, resulting in mental and behavioral disorders, learning disabilities, and physical deformities, abnormalities, and other ailments. Through compromised immunities, they also develop allergies, contract infectious diseases, and childhood tumors and cancers, which leave them maimed and crippled physically and mentally as seen in Iraqi babies and children after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, caused by depleted uranium and other chemicals. Another example, heavy metals impact children’s development and health and leave heavy marks on them due to the critical growth periods of childhood and adolescence. Children end up living with disabilities and chronic disorders and suffer longer than adults, as they become sick younger and have a lifetime ahead of them.

Because of their incomplete and rapid growth inside their mothers’ wombs, foetuses are the most susceptible to congenital disorders. They undergo the most damage to their physical growths as well as their mental and behavioral developments. What mother eats, drinks, inhales, smokes, and touches affect the growing fetus positively or negatively.

Parents’ awareness is very important long before conception (at least three months prior to pregnancy). This is the reason why parents-to-be (before the conception period) and pregnant mothers should be extra careful with their own chemical exposure during both periods especially to cigarette and drug smoking and secondhand smoke (it is not less harmful!). Such exposure damages the brain with toxins (tar, nicotine…) and restricts oxygen that goes to the brain of the fetus and children, maiming them for life. Therefore, the state of health of parents-to-be is critical to the sperm and ova. The healthier the parents are; the healthier their children turn out to be.

Fetuses are the most affected by toxins, alcohol, smoking, and secondhand smoke, and medical (antibiotics…) and recreational drugs taken by their mothers and fathers or in their environment, impairing their mental, behavioral, and physiological developments as well as the formation of their immune systems, which can leave them with permanent physical and mental disabilities, especially their growing brains and the nervous systems. Because different areas of a child’s or fetal brain develop at different ages, toxins at any developmental stage can disrupt the healthy development of that specific area at a specific age.

In toddlers and children too, the developing brain is very susceptible to toxins, cigarette smoking, secondhand smoke, alcohol, heavy metals, preservatives (in vaccines, processed foods…) and medical drugs, limiting their intellect and affecting the development of their emotional intelligence and learning and social skills. It can be one single culprit or multiple ones.

According to Dr. Daniel Amen, the brain and the myelin sheath that envelops and protects the exterior of nerves are not fully developed until the age of 25. Smoking cigarettes or marijuana, drugs, alcohol, or other toxins during adolescence can interfere with the adequate development of the brain and myelin sheath, affecting the intellect as well as emotional intelligence, common sense, reasoning, and good judgment. It is not only limited to that; such harmful factors change the physiological appearance of the brain, which can be seen in SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) scans.

What seems to concern scientists as well is that toxic chemicals can change gene expression in children, starting diseases early in life; therefore lasting longer years and becoming chronic for decades. Moreover, when exposed repeatedly to toxins in early infancy or childhood, the ways genes function can be altered in such a manner that raises the risk of developing specific diseases. It is suspected that toxic exposure during times of early growth can increase the possibility of disease, permanent disabilities, abnormalities, and brain damage that can eventually lead to early Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and other degenerative disorders.

What is worrisome is that the drug industry and manufacturers are not required by the American food and drug administration (FDA) to test or study the effects of chemicals, drugs, vaccines, and toxic products on the development or health of children. Thus, they are given full allowance to use hundreds of synthetic chemicals in the forms of preservatives, artificial sweeteners, colorings, and tastes and add the quantities that please them without restrictions. Additives enhance the taste, sweetness, color, texture, and shelf-life to get the consumer and children, in particular, addicted to the product and keep the consumer coming back for more, regardless of toxins. This is the way of maximizing sales and profits.

With the help of a few conscientious scientists who speak out, health conscious and proactive parents have shown concern about toxicity that is directed toward their children in food, water, drink, wear, air, environment, and others. Even though it was not the trend to test for chemical poisoning then in the early 2000s, awareness started to appear. Because of fear of contamination in children, random testing was born. The Oakland Tribune in California started the campaign.

The first children to be tested then were Rowan Holland, who was one year and a half at the time, and Mikaela, his sister, was five years. The random “cutting edge” study measured the amount of toxic chemicals in children’s bodies. What started, as a casual experiment, revealed unexpected results that made the parents of Mikaela and Rowan apprehensive and angry and other parents start thinking. The two children’s results showed high levels of toxins, seven folds of those of their parents. Rowan, the toddler, had three times the accepted level of flame retardant chemicals commonly used in baby clothes, which showed in studies to produce thyroid dysfunction in rats.

Unfortunately, such chemicals were not tested before use. The amount of toxins the two children had was shocking and way above acceptable levels; what environmentalist call ”body burden” and scientists call this type of tests “biomonitoring.”

We may not have heard of “body burden” testing or biomonitoring, but concerned environmentalists and public health experts are familiar with such terms and are sounding their sirens about chemicals, which have not been tested on humans and have become part of the body composition and in the bloodstream of children, jeopardizing their health, lives, and futures.

Next week will mark the beginning of the Holy Month of Ramadan, the month of fasting. I will be writing something about it to celebrate its return for this year. I will discuss the health benefits of this special month. I have surprising information for those who fast the way we should.

References:

• Chemical in Everyday Products and Children’s Health by Philip J. Landrigan, MD

• Planet in Peril by Anderson, Animal Planet’s Jeff Corwin, and Sanjay Gupta for CNN

• Interview with vaccine researcher (refused to be named) by Jon Rappoport (www.nomorefakenews.com)

• Autism Statistics – mindspec.org

• Why the manufactured food supply is designed to keep you addicted, not nourished by Mike Adams

http://m.naturalnews.com/news/045514_food_addictions_chemical_ingredient...

N.B.:

Individuals with medical conditions or on medication should consult their physicians when they decide to introduce anything new in their diet even if it is natural.

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