We all know that there are chemicals present in most aspects of our lives.  Cleaning products in our homes, processed foods, and even fresh foods are all potential culprits for adding unnatural substances to our lives. Fresh foods might be a surprising one, but packaged salads/vegetables/produce are often washed in chlorinated water before being sold.

Here is some helpful information about why you should consider carefully what you decide to use on your body, on your furniture, and even what you’re ingesting.

The chemicals, toxins, metals, or other additives we find in day to day products and foods have supposedly been tested and approved as “safe” in certain quantities.  However, this should not give you a warm and fuzzy feeling.  How can anyone say what a safe level is for you?  Firstly, all of us are different.  Each person’s body copes with environmental factors in different ways.  So, the fact that a body of people has decided that x amount of y is okay for all us doesn’t necessarily mean it is safe.

Secondly, when substances are tested, they are tested individually.  Substance A is not tested in combination with substance B and substance C.  So, even if substance A is relatively harmless in low quantities, we don’t know how it reacts with a medley of other substances that we are exposed to on a regular basis.

Additionally, we can’t underestimate the strength of the food, pharmaceutical, and other big interested industries.  They are always involved in lobbying against or for certain government bills.  They have representatives liaising with government officials constantly.  And they’ve got money.   I’d like to say that money and political influence don’t impact the decisions that impact our health, but that just isn’t the case.

The bottom line is that there is no known safe level of chemicals, metals, or toxins.  Yet, all of these substances are constantly around us, whether we know it or not.

I could write a whole other book about what chemicals, metals, and other toxins do to you, but to keep it more succinct, here is a list of potential problems:

- Birth defects

- Breathing problems

- Cellular damage

- Colitis

- Constipation

- Digestive issues

- Eyesight problems

- Fatigue

- Hair Loss

- Liver damage

- Lung damage

- Neurological damage

- Tumors

And the list could go on.  Some of those are possibly not that important to you, but some of those problems are very severe and life changing (or life ending.)  Clearly exposure to unnatural substances can have a huge impact on your health.

So, please think carefully about what you’re buying and what you’re eating!  It isn’t possible to avoid chemicals completely, but you can certainly take little steps to remove some of them from your life.

To your health,

Kimberly