Ian Blair Hamilton's HealtheMail
Alkaline Ionized water, its benefits and science and its stories
I noticed Cassie soaking all our vegetables in a big bowl of water. Obviously, I don’t spend enough time in the kitchen, because I asked her what she was doing. She replied that she is soaking them in high alkaline water from our AlkaWay water ionizer. They keep better and longer in the fridge, stay crisper and even taste better.
Give
it a try and let me know!
As you would be aware, living in the country has its own risks. In some of the most intensely farmed regions of Australia it’s almost accepted that you will have pesticide overspray on your roof, usually as a result of aerial cropdusting. The Darling Downs area is renowned for health problems in farmers as a result of pesticide residue. This report I was sent today on the effect on male hormones by a broad range of pesticides, therefore, is timely.
Many agricultural pesticides – including some previously untested and commonly found in food – disrupt male hormones, according to new tests conducted by British scientists. The researchers strongly recommended that all pesticides in use today be screened to check if they block testosterone, which is critical to men’s and boys’ reproductive health.
Thirty out of 37 pesticides tested by the University of London altered male hormones, including 16 that had no known hormonal activity until now.
Here’s the report.
And yet it can be so easily prevented. Simple carbon filters have excellent pesticide adsorption abilities and truly.. every farm should have one.. because if they don’t, we’ll have no more little farmers!
Organophosphates and carbamates are the more common active ingredients of household, garden, and farm insecticides, and are highly toxic to all animals and humans. What do they do to the heart? In a 2004 study, 37 adults were admitted to a Singapore hospital with acute pesticide poisoning (organophosphates or carbamate) over a three-year period, and 62 percent of these patients later developed cardiac complications. But just to give you an idea of how these chemicals can be prevalent without you even knowing it, consider the work of Theo Colborn, Ph.D., who found that the herbicide 2,4 D (the most widespread herbicide) was detected in 50 percent of semen samples from a group of Canadian men ages 20 to 59. He also found that the pesticide CPF was detected in 82 percent of urine samples tested. These are just two pesticides that were tested out of more than 1,400 known pesticides that have been developed! And you thought you were pretty safe from environmental toxins? They are quite likely contributors to the outrageous rates of heart attacks and cancers seen in younger aged people each year.
Organophosphates and carbamates are the more common active ingredients of household, garden, and farm insecticides, and are highly toxic to all animals and humans. What do they do to the heart? In a 2004 study, 37 adults were admitted to a Singapore hospital with acute pesticide poisoning (organophosphates or carbamate) over athree-year period, and 62 percent of these patients later developed cardiac complications. But just to give you an idea of how these chemicals can be prevalent without you even knowing it, consider the work of Theo Colborn, Ph.D., who found that the herbicide 2,4 D (the most widespread herbicide) was detected in 50 percent of semen samples from a group of Canadian men ages 20 to 59. He also found that the pesticide CPF was detected in 82 percent of urine samples tested. These are just two pesticides that were tested out of more than 1,400 known pesticides that have been developed! And you thought you were pretty safe from environmental toxins? They are quite likely contributors to the outrageous rates of heart attacks and cancers seen in younger aged people each year.
