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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Yesterday, before I started juicing some veggies and fruits, I became a bit annoyed at those little stickers on the fruits. I noticed the numbers and wondered what they meant. Turns out there is a lot of information in those numbers. Here is a brief description of the numbers: Conventionally grown fruits have four digits […]
An Apollo Program for Clean Energy?
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Back in the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy proposed the Apollo plan to land a man on the moon. Back then, energy was cheap, pollution wasn’t a big issue so he had us focus, as a nation, on a project to get us in space. We need that type of program when it comes […]
Smog and Premature Death – Science Has Linked Them, The White House Denies It
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008If the White House wants to look any dumber, I honestly cannot see how after reading a report on MSNBC.com about the link between the ozone in smog and premature deaths. The National Academy of Sciences review of the data clearly shows that people are dying because of effects of short-term exposure to pollution. The […]
Another Con Job by the President On Global Warming
Friday, April 18th, 2008I guess if you take the U and the H out of President George Bush’s name you get the two letters that match his rhetoric when it comes to the environment. The nonsense that spews from the White House about Mr. Bush’s “concern” about the environment and the issue of glabal warming is piled so […]
Bisphenol A – The Time To Ban Is Now!!!
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008Bisphenol A, a compound found in numerous plastic products has been found to be harmful to the brain and cause damage to reproductive organs in children. It was also found to be mildly estrogenic which can affect the thyroid and other hormonal systems. In my book, Achieving Victory Over a Toxic World, I talk about […]
Connecticut Training – PowerPoint Presentation
Monday, April 14th, 2008For those of you who are interested in laboratory testing related to health, go to my other blog site at MarkSchauss.com and you can download my two presentations done on April 12 and 13, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency in Old Greenwhich, Connecticut.
Diseases and Toxins – The Links are There
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008There is a lot of data out there on the links between disease and environmental toxins. Problem is, there is a LOT of data on the links. Where to go if you need to see how strong the data is? Well look no further than The Collaborative on Health and the Environment’s – CHE Toxicant […]
My Latest Presentation on Lab Testing and Environmental Health
Monday, April 7th, 2008I’d like to thank the people who came to my presentation I did with Robert Crayhon this past weekend in San Francisco and Los Angeles. It was fun to see old friends and make new ones. The enthusiasm to help people that everyone had was invigorating and inspiring. To get my presentation from this past […]
Ignoring the Supreme Court Ruling – Bush Administration Flaunts the Law On the Environment
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008In a stunning, yet common place occurance, the EPA under Steven Johnson, has refused to abide by a Supreme Court ruling over a year ago that stated that they had the authority and that it had to control green house gas emissions. The total lack of care for our environment and the amazing audacity of […]
Chemicals to Avoid in Cleaning Products
Friday, March 28th, 2008Which ones should you stay away from? This question comes up a lot when I lecture on environmental health issues. Here are a few. Ammonia Chlorine Monoethanolamine (MEA) Glycol ethers Alkyphenol ethoxylates Phthalates Triclosan Bottom line is you need to switch to the product lines that are greener. Even the people who made Clorox have […]
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