The mainstream media is amusingly irrational when it comes to
reporting scare stories. The latest example involves the lead content of Mattel
toys made in China. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a third
recall of Mattel toys involving over 700,000 toys containing unacceptably high
levels of lead paint (over .06 percent lead). Irrational parents are rushing
back to retailers in droves, turning in their Mattel toys to "save their
children" from the dangers of lead paint. Mattel, for its part, is being
rightly blasted in the media for selling shoddy products made with toxic heavy
metals.
But here's the interesting part in all this: Parents directly poison their children every
day with products far more dangerous than Mattel toys. Don't believe me? I'll name twenty things in this article that
are far more dangerous to children than Mattel toys. It doesn't mean Mattel toys
are safe, of course. They apparently do contain unacceptably high levels of
lead, and there's no question about the toxicity of lead. But children don't
eat toys nearly as often as they eat some other toxic substances given to them
by their parents, and even as parents are herding back into retailers to refund
their toxic lead-laden toys, they're returning home and poisoning their
children with many other products that are far worse.
The press, of course, reports nothing about these other toxic
products. And why? Because
they're made in America.
American products poisoning American children
American products, you see, are often given
blanket immunity by the U.S. press. While the media is happy to jump on toxic
lead found in Chinese products, they completely ignore (for example) the toxic
mercury that dentists continue to place into the mouths of young children all
across the country. Why is it considered highly dangerous for a child to merely touch a toy with .06
percent lead paint while it is considered perfectly safe for a child to chew on a filling made
with 40 percent mercury? Mercury is far more toxic than lead in many
ways, yet the media has nothing to say about the mass poisoning of children through the
outmoded dental work still being performed on children today. Mercury fillings
were invented before the Civil War, and they're just as toxic now as they were
then!
Of course, if dental fillings were made in
China, the U.S. press would be screaming about their toxicity! But since
they're installed by crazed U.S. dentists -- many of whom still manage to seem
convincingly sane -- there's zero coverage in the mainstream media.
Reporting the truth about dangerous
chemicals, heavy metals
and other threats to children is extremely
selective. The public never hears the real truth about what's
dangerous -- they only hear what the media want them to think is dangerous!
But I've had it with popular media
distortions. Here, I'm going to reveal the top 20 things that are more
dangerous to children than the lead
paint in Mattel toys. Interestingly, most of these are things that parents
intentionally give their children (or feed to them!). If you're worried about
lead paint, you should be far more worried about these 20 things...
The top 20 things that are more dangerous to children than lead
paint in Mattel toys
1. Mercury fillings
Often called "silver fillings" to
hide the fact that they're made from mercury, these highly toxic fillings are
placed directly into the mouths of children where they are inhaled (mercury
vapor) and swallowed, causing systemic mercury poisoning to the child and
leading to long-term neurological damage. Visit www.IAOMT.org and watch the "Smoking Teeth = Poison
Gas" video to learn more.
2. Vaccines
Think vaccines are safe? You've been
hoodwinked by the popular media parroting drug company propaganda. Vaccines are
preserved with methyl
mercury, one of the most dangerous chemical forms of the toxic
heavy metal. This mercury is injected directly into the bodies of children
where it causes severe neurological damage. And yes, it does cause Autism,
despite what you've read in the dumbed-down press. Only a fool would inject
their child with mercury-preserved vaccines.
3. Hot dogs
Hot dogs are made with horrifying processed
meat parts (click
here to see shocking photos of processed meat products, then preserved with
a cancer-causing ingredient called sodium
nitrite. As detailed in my book Grocery Warning, this ingredient
causes brain tumors in children, not to mention leukemia, pancreatic cancer,
colon cancer and other cancers. Hot dogs are far more dangerous to a child's
health than lead paint in my opinion, and yet parents keep feeding them to
their children!
4. Antibacterial soap
How about a little nerve toxin in your soap?
That's what's found in antibacterial soap. It's a toxic cocktail of chemicals
designed to kill life. That's how it kills bacteria. The problem is that it
also harms people -- especially infants and children who are trying to develop
healthy nervous systems. Avoid all products claiming to be
"antibacterial." You're better off using natural soap (like Dr.
Bronner's soap, www.DrBronner.com
) and letting your child's immune system fight off common bacteria. The world
isn't sterile, after all. You can't turn your house into a germ-free bubble.
5. ADHD drugs
5. ADHD drugs
Would you give your child street drugs like
speed or meth? Probably not, but what if your doctor wrote you a prescription
for speed and said your child needed it because he was ADHD? If you're like
most parents, you'd fall in step and start giving your child speed. But wait,
you say: ADHD drugs are not speed, are they? But of course they are. They
belong to a class of drugs called amphetamines. They used to be illegally sold
as speed. Now they're prescription drugs, and they're given to children in
schools all across America (and elsewhere). Psychiatrists and drug companies
are making a killing dosing up kids and infants on substances that used to be
considered illegal street drugs (and that have no legitimate medical use
whatsoever).
6. Sports drinks
For some reason, parents irrationally believe
sports drinks are healthy because they contain the word "sports."
Didn't they notice the neon green artificial coloring? Sports drinks are, in my
opinion, a nutritional joke. Made from salt water, processed sweeteners and
petrochemical coloring, many of their ingredients are actually harmful.
Drinking water would be smarter, and feeding your child some healthy trace
minerals would be even better. Low on potassium? Eat a banana.
7. Cough syrup and over-the-counter medicines
Nearly all children's over-the-counter
medicines contain multiple toxic substances such as chemical sweeteners,
preservatives and additives. Cough syrup, in particular, has been
scientifically proven to be absolutely worthless in preventing coughs. Many
"children's" medicines are actually more toxic than their adult
counterparts because they're sweetened up and cosmetically enhanced with
artificial colors made from petrochemicals. Yet parents poison their children
every day with over-the-counter medicine.
8. Sunscreen
The sunscreen industry is a huge scam. Most
popular sunscreen products actually cause skin cancer due to the numerous toxic
chemicals they contain (which are quickly absorbed into the skin where they
cause DNA mutations that lead to cancer). Even worse, sunscreen blocks the UV
radiation that allows the skin to manufacture all-important vitamin D -- the
most powerful anti-cancer nutrient yet known to modern science. It prevents
over a dozen different cancers, yet parents block it by slathering toxic
sunscreen on their children, all while mistakenly believing they're
"protecting their children from cancer!" What a scam.
9. Fluoride in the water
9. Fluoride in the water
I've always found it amazing that city water
officials were dumb enough to actually buy a toxic waste substance and arrange
to have it dripped into the public water supply where it would be ingested by
infants and children. The result? Mass fluorosis and toxicity to children
everywhere. Didn't these people realize that fluoride only works topically?
(That is, it only works if you rub it on your teeth, then spit it out, and even
that only works if you're using natural fluoride, not the chemicals spit out as
byproducts of the fertilizer industry, which is what city water departments are
buying and dripping into the water supply.) Click here to see my CounterThink
cartoon on this topic.
Whoever heard of drinking a topical
medication in the first place? It's like swallowing sunscreen to prevent
sunburn. Even worse, putting this into the public water supply effectively mass
medicates everyone with a bioactive chemical substance that no one has been
given a prescription for. This is all done with no regard for the level of
natural fluoride children might already be ingesting from other sources. The
situation is so crazy that it's difficult to find a more insane example of
medical tyranny than the mass fluoridation of public water supplies. The fact
that doctors and dentists so vehemently support it demonstrates just how crazy
they really are.
10. Processed milk
Children as young as 10 years old are now
being diagnosed with heart disease and clogged arteries. Ever wonder how it
happened? It's due in part, I believe, to all the processed milk children are
swallowing these days. Not only is the milk contaminated with pus, blood and
detectable levels of pesticides and other chemicals, it's also homogenized,
meaning the fats are artificially modified in a way that makes them stay in
suspension. This homogenization also makes milk fats dangerous to
cardiovascular health. While I support the consumption of raw, unprocessed
milk, I think that consuming processed, homogenized milk is dangerous to the
health of infants, children and adults alike!
11. Fast food
11. Fast food
Fast food is extremely unhealthy for
children. Not only are the foods often fried, homogenized, hydrogenated and
otherwise altered, they're also laced with chemical additives, taste enhancers,
processed sugars, petrochemical food coloring and other unhealthy substances.
Strangely, many parents actually reward their children for good behavior by
buying them unhealthy fast food meals, thereby creating a psychological
association between good feelings and junk food. (Fast food restaurants further
exploit this psychological link by building playgrounds and running feel-good
advertisements that emphasize friends and fun, then link those good vibes to
their food products.)
12. Antidepressant drugs
Children as young as six months old are now
being put on psychotropic drugs such as SSRIs (antidepressants). These drugs,
we now know, cause suicidal thoughts and violent behavior, especially in young
boys. They imbalance brain chemistry and even alter the body's metabolism of
sugar, promoting diabetes and leading to rapid weight gain. These drugs are so
dangerous that feeding them to children should be considered a crime. Every
single school shooting involving a child in the United States in the last 15
years has been linked to antidepressant drug use. Need I say more?
13. Chemical laundry detergents
Parents are shown fancy ads on television
depicting how wonderful and clean their clothes will be if they wash them in
brand-name laundry detergent. What they're not shown, however, is the toxicity
of all the synthetic chemicals that go into most laundry detergent products.
The fragrance chemicals alone are often carcinogenic, and they're just as bad
for the environment as they are children's health.
A new alternative has appeared, however: Soap berries! It's laundry soap that
grows on trees. We offer it at www.BetterLifeGoods.com
14. Flame retardant chemicals
Did you know that new mattresses for infants
and children are often sprayed with extremely toxic flame retardant chemicals?
These are easily absorbed through the skin of infants and children where they
contribute to numerous neurological disorders and immune suppression. Many
clothing products are also sprayed with flame retardants, as are some carpeting
products. In the push to make everything fireproof, state regulators (who have
mandated the flame retardant chemicals in states like California) have created
a toxic environment for everyone. I suppose if you're a politician, it's always
better for a million people to die of a mysterious disease that can't be linked
to you than to have one baby burning up on the evening news with fingers of
blame pointed directly at you.
15. Soda
15. Soda
Aside from directly promoting diabetes and
obesity, sodas also contain high amounts of phosphoric acid, a substance that
dissolves bones and causes a loss of bone mineral density. This causes massive
tooth decay as well as a shrinking jaw bone and overall skeletal fragility.
Diet sodas are even worse, since they contain chemical sweeteners linked to
neurological disorders and learning disabilities.
16. Air fresheners
Air fresheners contain cancer-causing
chemicals. Unleashing them in the house exposes children to these chemicals,
promoting asthma and other respiratory problems. If you value the health of
your children, avoid air freshener products and just use essential oils or
citrus peels instead. (Peel an orange and hang the peel in your kitchen.)
17. Synthetic vitamins
Many children's vitamins are made with cheap,
synthetic "vitamin" chemicals that actually harm people who take
them. Plus, many are loaded up with artificial colors, sucrose and chemical
sweeteners. Avoid cheap, store-bought children's vitamins or anything
containing cyanocobalamin (a toxic form of vitamin B12). Quality
children's vitamins are available through sources like Nordic Naturals (fish
oils) and www.IntegratedHealth.com
(also check www.WellnessResources.com
for high-quality supplements).
18. Dryer sheets
18. Dryer sheets
Most popular dryer sheets and fabric
softeners are made with toxic synthetic chemicals that are not safe to use on
children's clothing. The fragrance chemicals alone are often highly
carcinogenic, and the other chemicals contribute additional toxicity to the
clothing. Children's clothes should never be washed or dried in chemicals. Only
use natural detergents and fabric softeners, or avoid the fabric softeners
altogether.
19. Bacon
19. Bacon
Most bacon and sausage are processed meat
products made with sodium nitrite (like the hot dogs, above) and contaminated
with various chemicals lodged in the animal fats. Conventionally-raised beef, pork
and chicken products are, in my opinion, extremely toxic to the human body and
contribute to colon cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer and many other
diseases and disorders. If you make meat for your children, shop for 100%
organic, free-range, antibiotic-free meats that have no nitrites or nitrates.
20. Shampoo and bath products
Virtually all popular shampoo and bath
products sold on the market contain cancer-causing chemicals. The ingredients
read like a top-40 list of toxic chemicals. Virtually none of these chemicals
have ever been tested or approved for use on humans (they are simply ignored
because the FDA astonishingly believes the skin won't absorb chemicals). If you
want healthy products, use the shampoo I recommend: Pure Essentials Fragrance-Free Shampoo from Earth
Science (www.TheNewES.com)
Keeping your health priorities straight
So that's the list of 20 items that are more dangerous to the
health of children than the lead paint in Mattel toys. Most parents have no
concern whatsoever for any of these 20 things, but they're going
ape-shoot-crazy over the tiny amounts of lead in their Barbie toys and Elmo
stuffed animals. It all just goes to show you that the sheeple will think
anything the mainstream media tells them to think (and they'll ignore
everything else).
It's classic American contradiction: Returning a Mattel toy at the local toy store while taking your child to a dentist to have mercury implanted in the cavities caused by all the soda the kid consumed at home (because the parents keep buying Coke and Pepsi). If it all weren't so downright tragic, it would almost be funny
It's classic American contradiction: Returning a Mattel toy at the local toy store while taking your child to a dentist to have mercury implanted in the cavities caused by all the soda the kid consumed at home (because the parents keep buying Coke and Pepsi). If it all weren't so downright tragic, it would almost be funny
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