A new study says that regular consumption of canned soup may be associated with an increase in levels of bisphenol A (BPA), which has been associated with a number of harmful health effects. Bisphenol A is an industrial chemical used to make polycarbonate plastic for water bottles and food containers as well as the protective … [Read more…]
Environmentally friendly (also eco-friendly, nature friendly, and green) are terms used to refer to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies claimed to inflict minimal or no harm on the environment. Climate change, Oceanic dead zones, deforestation, collapsing fisheries, unbreathable air, undrinkable water, vanishing species, and toxic mother’s milk are just a few of the … [Read more…]
Consumers hearing that some U.S. communities will no longer add fluoride to their drinking water, such as Florida’s Pinellas County, may wonder whether this cavity fighter is safe. The short answer: Most health professionals say yes, as long as people don’t ingest too much of it. Studies in the 1930s found tooth decay was less … [Read more…]
LOS ANGELES — The California attorney general’s office on Wednesday sued three companies over allegations they misled consumers by marketing plastic water bottles as biodegradable. The lawsuit – said to be the first government action to enforce the state’s environmental marketing law – accuses ENSO Plastics of Mesa, Ariz., of falsely claiming their bottles would … [Read more…]
Will Tar Sands Pipeline Threaten Groundwater? Proposed Keystone XL pipeline would carry diluted bitumen, or “dilbit.” More than a million gallons of dilbit leaked into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River in July 2010. Photograph courtesy Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Mason Inman for National Geographic News Published September 19, 2011 This story is part of a … [Read more…]
Why you should look for TCE in your drinking water -by Britt Mittemeijer Our local paper today carried an article about the suffering TCE (trichloroethylene) in the drinking water supply has caused many inhabitants of Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. TCE is a known human cancer-causing chemical (EPA). Fuel leaks and other sources of pollution … [Read more…]
Susan G. Komen for the Cure is fighting every minute of every day to finish what we started and achieve our vision of a world without breast cancer. Fulfilling the Promise Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In … [Read more…]
Comparing Water Filter Systems Concerned about the safety of your drinking water? Don’t really know how to compare the quality of various brands of water filters on the market today? More than 30 years after the passage of the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act, the safety of our drinking water is often in the news … [Read more…]
The New Message In The Water by Multi-Pure Multi-Pure and the amazing Executive Marketing Team led by Vice President of Network Marketing, Regina M. Noriega, invite you to discover the “New Message in the WATER.” This motivational message of health and hope explains how to become partof the Multi-Pure Business Opportunity to transform and improve your … [Read more…]
Help Clean Up Florida Waterways Bottled water does serious damage to our environment, and it should pay its fair share of the cleanup. Ask the Florida Legislature to pass SB 118, a bill that will use a surcharge on bottled water to fund a new program to clean up bottled water trash from the environment. … [Read more…]
Recent coverage of hexavalent chromium (also known as chromium 6) in some of our nation’s water supplies vilified the wrong institutions: our municipal water utilities. The real culprits are the industries that dump this and other pollutants into our drinking water sources, and the elected officials who are short-sightedly failing to fund our drinking and … [Read more…]
How Much Chlorine Is In Your Drinking Water? Kenton Jones from Multipure takes us on a demonstration with OTO, a swimming pool chemical that measures chlorine in water. Check out this awesome demonstration on dry foods such as pasta, jasmine rice and pinto beans when added to chlorinated water. OTO can be purchased at any pool … [Read more…]
Fluoride: Sodium fluoride (silicofluoride), is an industrial-grade hazardous waste material made during the production of fertilizer. Its past history includes patented use as rat poison and insecticide. Dr. Paul Connett is leading the fight against mandatory water fluoridation. People are finally waking up to the hazards and are now demanding that governments remove this deadly … [Read more…]
Glacier Water Services, the largest seller in California and the U.S. of filtered water from vending machines, claims its machines dispense chemical-free drinking water. But the first statewide tests of vended water for chemical contaminants found that one-third of Glacier machines sell water that fails state health standards, and two-thirds fail to live up to … [Read more…]
Readers Digest, that is! This is a photo of David Green and longtime Multi-Pure Master Builder Ron Kafker, sharing a copy of the August 2011 Readers Digest. The lead article is called “How Safe is Our Water?” It focuses on the contamination from fracking, perchlorate, rainwater runoff, and pharmaceuticals in the water. You might ask, … [Read more…]
News reports say a parasite known as the “brain-eating amoeba” has claimed its second young American victim this month. Christian Strickland, a 9-year-old from Henrico County in Virginia contracted an infection after visiting a fishing camp in his state. He died of meningitis on August 5. This week, health department officials confirmed that the deadly amoeba–officially … [Read more…]
Plastic is forever Plastic creates toxic pollution at every stage of its existence: manufacture, use, and disposal. Plastic is a material that the Earth cannot digest. Every bit of plastic that has ever been created still exists, including the small amount that has been incinerated and has become toxic particulate matter. Plastic poisons our food … [Read more…]
By The Fluoride Action Network No matter who you are, you can change local fluoride policy. In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that 72.4 percent of the U.S. population—nearly 200 million people—were using public water systems with fluoridated water. Since this report was published, the CDC’s Oral Health Division has … [Read more…]
Is Arsenic In Your Drinking Water? A one-time oral dose of 60,000 ppb of arsenic will kill you. That’s no more than 1/50 the weight of a penny, which shows how dangerous arsenic really is. It’s unlikely you won’t be exposed to that much arsenic at one time. However, there’s a very good chance you … [Read more…]
How to Make Your Own Soda by Meg Favreau – Wisebread.com I will admit that I am not a huge soda drinker; most of the time, it makes my teeth hurt. But when I do drink soda, I want it to be worth it. I’d much rather drink a bracing, sinus-opening ginger beer or a … [Read more…]