Category: Chemical World

I don’t trust chemicals because they are being abused everywhere. Enough already! Put the gunk away!

  • The Hulda Clark Food Zappicator

    Did you know that the low 1 kHz frequency from a Dual Frequency Hulda Clark Zapper can be sent through a speaker instead of copper handles? It’s a great way to zap food, meat, fruit, vegetables, water and beverages. Hulda Clark calls this a Food Zappicator. It’s also great for zapping pets, or anything that can’t hold handles.

  • No More Hand Sanitizer

    No more hand sanitizers - wash with waterIt’s back to school season and I always find it a bit stressful. I feel like I’m sending my child off to a place where very few people understand our nontoxic lifestyle. Call me crazy, but I don’t like to give my kid poison. If it’s toxic, I’d rather she didn’t have it.

    Here’s a simple example. When you and I were kids hand sanitizer ran hot and cold from the sinks and we called it water. Now because of convenience they glob out the chemical goo onto each kid’s hands as they pass into the lunch room. The chemical companies love this generation of kids because they don’t even question this practice. Neither do their parents.

    From my experience the last thing an over worked, stressed out parent wants to do is spend time thinking, and trying to reach them using science or sense rarely gets their attention. It’s sad. The FDA even agrees that washing with water is more effective, and are presently testing hand sanitizers to see if they are safe to use on a daily basis. But why wait an eon for the FDA to tell you that you were poisoning your kid their entire childhood? Simply wash with water. You know water is the safest way. There is no disputing it. The CDC agrees.

    Sure you could read all the studies done on the ingredients in most hand sanitizers showing how toxic solvents, petroleum, and antibacterial stuff like triclosan and preservatives like parabens are poisonous, may cause cancer, and help create super bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. But why wear yourself out? Make things easy on yourself, and do the simple and right thing.

    If you have a kid you care about, ask your school to allow your child to wash her hands with water instead of toxic chemical hand sanitizer. My rule is, if I wouldn’t let my child eat it, I don’t want it on her skin (which is her largest organ). Anything on her skin must be detoxed by her liver, and her immune system doesn’t need the extra burden. Immune systems are designed to kill living germs, not modern chemicals. If the bathroom is too far away, fill a small spray bottle with water and put it in her backpack or lunchbox along with a paper towel or cotton hand towel. You’ll feel like a better parent, and when you do, watch how many others will start to do the same.

  • Treating Health

    Somewhere I read, “No disease – short life, One disease – long life.” I think it was in a book about Chinese herbal medicine. Anyway, the concept at first confused me, and I thought about it for a while until I figured that it means if we do not observe and recognize our own personal weakness, we cannot focus on it to strengthen and protect ourselves. By admitting and seeing one’s own personal weakness can lead to overcoming and winning out over it with a plan to action.

    I have always felt badly when I see people desperate and ailing, who only took action after the damage had become very great. Treating disease can be very difficult and depressing. This is why I suggest treating health instead of disease. That’s right. The best health care is preventive health care. To boost one’s body with healthy food, air, and life style seems to be more and more important as we move into a more crowded and polluted world.

    If the kind folk over at the NCI and American Cancer Society predict that one out of every two Americans will have cancer in their life time, it is a good indicator that it is time to treat the healthy, and do our best to keep them that way.

    Studies on how our polluted environment effects our lives are hard to conduct. I don’t believe that we will ever see much information on these subjects that is considered conclusive. I try to avoid chemicals in my day to day life, especially chemicals in my every day life. It is amazing how many toxic chemicals people live with in their home. Honestly think about it. If you have a can of spray paint, floor cleaner, and oven cleaner under your sink, you are also living with their fumes in your living space. Even worse if you live on the East Coast, as you are inside with the windows closed all winter breathing the Freon from your refrigerator, the petroleum from the oil heat, ash from a fireplace or wood stove, and the laundry belt in your dryer may actually be made of asbestos, sending that into your air every time you do a load of wash.

    I am fanatical about keeping my home as non-toxic as I can. All our cleaning products are food grade, so nothing is toxic. Our soaps, cleaning supply, shampoo, body products are all made from edible ingredients. I figure if it goes on your skin, it’s going through one’s liver after it absorbs through the skin. It’s also cheaper than store bought products. We use 20 Mule Team Borax for all our soap needs. We just mix it with warm water and shake. It’s great shampoo, soap, floor wash, and a cup of the powder cleans our laundry. To sanitize counter tops, hands etc. I fill a spray bottle with 5 parts water to 1 part vodka. We do not use isopropyl rubbing alcohol because it is a petroleum based alcohol, and not food grade. Vodka is drinkable, so it is food grade. I bought a decorative bottle that I transfer my vodka into so my friends don’t drink it on me, as I only use it for cleaning!

    The earth is 2/3 water, your body is 2/3 water, and your food should be 2/3 water. Fruits and vegetables are the trick to a healthy life. Although it is thought one should drink eight 8 ounce glasses of water a day, I believe that we actually hydrate from eating fruits and vegetables more than from drinking water. Drinking water seems to flush out the body, but digesting fruits and vegetables brings the water into the cellular level, and keeps our body lubricated and youthful.

    I don’t seem to worry about food as much as I do chemical avoidance. At my home we cook two meals a day from scratch with organic vegetables from the farmers’ market. We also have produce delivered. Check in your area if you have a local organic farm with a website, as there is nothing better than receiving a weekly box of farm fresh organic vegetables and fruits on your door stoop once a week to keep one eating healthy. Because I have good eating habits, I do not deprive myself of any yummy snack, cake, cookie, or chip. I eat what I want, and sometimes I want Chocolate Ring-Dings, so I indulge. I think I get away with this because of all the other healthy habits I have.

    I love to walk for some fresh air. I come up with errands just so I can go out for a daily walk. It’s my “creative healthstyle”. Be sure to invent one task a day that involves a 15 minute walk or more. I have never had a drivers license. I walk a lot. Bring a bottle of water with you, and drink some.

    Define the things you hate in your life, and figure out a creative strategy to remove them. If you hate your job, do one thing every day to get out of it. It could be finding another. It could be starting a small home business or dot com. Work at it a little every day. You’d be amazed at how much gets done if you do just a little every day. Being happy is the most important thing to do for your health. Make your life the one you want to live, and live it you will.

    So these are some of the ways I treat health. I suggest that everyone that is feeling healthy to take good care of their health. Do not wait until you are ill to learn about healthy living. It is so difficult to read and research when one is ill. Many people are afraid of change. I say do not do anything drastic over night. Take it slower. Add one new healthy habit to your life every week, and pretty soon you will have made some major changes. After all, there is no hurry when one is treating health.

  • Lifestyle vs Deathstyle

    Do you ever think about your lifestyle as something that was created by a bunch of suits around an advertising agency table somewhere? For as long as any of us have been alive, culture has been created by ad agencies all over the world. If you sneeze and say, hand me a Kleenex, they’ve got you. Corporations are well aware if they can get their product to be part of a culture, they have a life long winner. Coke, Pepsi, Jello, Kleenex, ChapStik, and Rollerblades are all words we use even if the product is something else.

    The thing about culture is that many people don’t realize there is any kind of alternative. They grew up with their parents using certain products and doing things a certain way. Without ever giving it any thought, we accepted many items our parents used. This is all well and good, unless the products bring with them dangerous toxins.

    The large chemical companies have done their best to get their products into the cleaning culture of America. Ever dust your home with toxic chemical sprays? Ever clean with toxic germ killers? It is so insane to me that people will introduce toxic chemicals into a living area they are “cleaning”. Our body has an immune system to take care of bacteria, viruses, and other germs, but our system is taxed heavily by dangerous chemicals. It is not an even swap.

    Cleansers, solvents, soaps are all big business. Chemicals make huge profits. It is their interest to sell as much of it as they can. I just do not believe that it’s smart to use toxic chemicals in one’s living space. I wish more people realized that one possible reason for the huge increase of disease is due to our willingness to embrace toxic chemicals in our everyday life. My simple rule is, if you would not eat it, do not use it or store it in your home.

    Petroleum, gasoline, isopropyl alcohol, solvents all make up our everyday body products, household cleaners, and car care products. How often do you wear gloves when you pump gas? The glove compartment was invented to keep gloves in. The gloves are to protect you when you pump toxic gasoline. We get so used to the everyday chemicals, we have forgot how toxic they are and forget to protect ourselves when we contact them.

    So clean with pure soap and water. Put cheap vodka in a spray bottle, and clean glass, counters etc. with the ‘food grade’ alcohol cleanser. There is no need to use anything in your home that is not food grade. Everything you clean with has a food grade alternative. When one is no longer slowly killing themselves with toxic sprays, cleaners, lotions, shampoos, deodorants, perfumes, and have replaced them all with simple all natural products one can change their ‘deathstyle’ into a lifestyle. When you pass on these new healthy habits to your children, a whole new happier and healthier culture will come of it. Every move you make has an effect on the future.

    With all this in mind, I try to stock the purest body products on earth at our store NaturalHealthSupply.com. If you know of a better product, let me know, I’ll look into it.

  • Chemtrails Across America

    Chemtrails Across America

    Look up. What are they spraying into the air?

    Order your very own: Chemtrails Across America Yard Sign by J.E.Moores

  • Who Cares About Health?

    I’ll tell you who cares about health, it’s the ill. The sick, the down trodden, the crippled. The sweaty little guy with a sniffle. It’s rarely the smiling laughing folk frolicking at the beach. They’re having too much fun and feel too good to even think about health.

    I’m no different. I tend to over work, and after I often crash or get ill. I do want to maintain my health, and I follow some personal life style choices in order to preserve what I have. I often talk about how I avoid chemicals. It’s true. For over 10 years there has never been a toxic chemical of any kind in my home. I borrowed some 3 in 1 oil to fix up our sewing machine from a neighbor once. Let the neighbors live with toxic chemicals. That’s what they’re for!

    My simple rule, if you wouldn’t eat it, don’t use it. Using food-grade products is like living like a king. If an item is not food grade, it’s sub-par. I figure those products are manufactured to kill off the idiots and poor. Food-grade products cost a bit more, and most are not sold to be used the way I use them.

    Vodka in a spray bottle. Nothing better than plopping down the biggest cheapest bottle of vodka I can find when checking out. Here in California they sell liquor in the grocery store, and the check out person is always amused by the gigantic bottle of cheap vodka. Makes me feel cool just to buy it. I put it in an HDPE spray bottle I purchase new, not some old bottle of chemical spray I’ve rinsed out. Use the spray vodka anywhere you’d use a spray to clean. It’s also great as a hand sanitizer after changing diapers or some other gross thing. Once the vodka is in a spray bottle, it looks like a household cleanser, but beware, your large bottle can attract sleazy friends, and other fun people, so I often contain the whole bottle in an old milk bottle as a disguise. You wouldn’t believe how many times I’ve had to rescue my cleaning products from guests!

    We wash our laundry in 20 Mule Team Borax. It works great, has no weird chemicals or blue crystals, or scents. Gadzooks I hate scented laundry detergents!!! Borax works fine. I learned about it at a summer camp in Maine. They used Borax there because they were cleaning laundry with the local lake water, and the lake water was what the camp drank. The ladies there told me that the old settlers cleaned with Borax because it’s a natural mineral, which precipitates in the water without polluting it like detergents and soaps. 20 Mule Team Borax works, look for it near the detergents. WalMart carries it as well.

    So there’s a couple ideas for now. I really believe that if you avoid as many daily chemicals as possible, your immune system will not have to remove those toxins. Go food-grade with all natural soaps, deodorants, shampoo, household cleansers, laundry soap, detergent and so on.

    Here’s to your HEALTH!