Quotes About Toxins

Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

Fake fat, fake colours, fake flavours, fake sweeteners: this is poison.

If there is even a possibility that BPA may be disrupting the endocrine systems of children, adolescents, and adults, and may be carcinogenic for humans as it is for mice, it should be removed from consumer products.

In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.

Shrimp and scallops are also healthy forms of seafood low in toxins and high in good quality protein and minerals.

The average American consumes ten pounds of chemical additives a year.

environmental pollutants in your food (such as BPA) may injure the epigenome—and your health—as much as, and sometimes even more than, a poor diet.

Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.

My energy levels are off the charts. I can run all day, I breathe well, and I sweat a lot, so the toxins and impurities come out of my body.

For generations, black children have been brought up to have a critical race consciousness, a framework for dealing with prejudice and discrimination, which helps inoculate them against the spiritual toxins they will almost certainly encounter as they come of age in our society.

Agency (EPA) estimates that coal-fired power plants account "for over 40% of all domestic human-caused mercury emissions." Furthermore, the EPA says, "about one quarter of US emissions from coal-burning power plants are deposited within the contiguous US and the remainder enters the global cycle."6 In addition, the ash that comes out of coal-fired power plants is usually contaminated with heavy metals.

I will be very sad when global warming and toxins kill off all the toads and frogs and salamanders. Here's hoping we, as humans, figure out a way to be less stupid.

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

Standard issue helmets are designed to filter out smoke, not toxins.

Ciertos alimentos aumentan la capacidad del hígado de desintoxicar toxinas dañinas; alimentos como el wasabe, el brócoli, la col, las coles de bruselas, la col rizada y la coliflor. (El wasabe es la pasta de especias verdes que normalmente se sirve con el sushi.) Los alimentos verdes, incluyendo las microalgas, las verduras y las algas marinas, son también estupendos desintoxicadores. Los suplementos que son importantes

Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.

As a kid, I was always sick. I had pneumonia, I had really severe allergies. And it wasn't until I got older, that I realized some of that was caused by toxins in things like detergent. That made me crazy, because it's supposed to help get things clean!

There's absolutely no reason why we should continue poisoning our children's health with processed foods.

Maintaining one's health in today's toxic rich environment requires proper rest, hydration, an abundant intake of nutrients, and regular internal cleansing practices

los PCB eran fluidos que nunca dejaban de lubricar; los PBDE, aislantes que nunca dejaban de evitar que el plástico se derritiera, y el DDT, un pesticida que nunca dejaba de matar. Como tales, ahora resultan difíciles de destruir; algunos, como los PCB, apenas muestran signo alguno de biodegradarse.

Excess aspartame and glutamate may be able to gradually destroy neuronal pathways, causing memory loss, brain lesions, and dementia often well before any chronic illness is apparent.

Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion actually mobilizes our immunity.

Our bodies have a mechanism to get rid of things that are toxic. Tears are how we purge toxins from the soul.

Food can be the greatest form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison.