February 4, 2003
Our bodies as toxic waste sites?
The Environmental Working Group has just released their findings on "body burden" in a report Body Burden - the Pollution in People. They did a body burden test (a blood test looking for the presence of chemicals and toxic materials in one's body) on nine individuals. The report lists the cumulative and individual findings along with a more detailed analysis. ALL of them had what I would think are high levels of toxic elements.
What the report points to is that we live in a "chemical soup" and that can have dramatic effects on our health. Looking at body burden issues is a relatively new, and perhaps more personal approach to a major environmental issue.
This report is well worth the time to examine.
Posted by rowan at February 4, 2003 9:04 AM | [eMail this article!] |Boy oh boy, combine this with the GE foods glut in the market, and people are probably more toxed out now than ever in human history. The funny (not really) thing is, people wonder why we have high rates of cancer and heart disease and other diseases and don't even think to look at the amount of artificiality we come into contact with in our daily lives. Instead, we pump more money into R&D, prescriptions, lab experiments, etc... all to cure these illnesses which could be prevented in the first place. Often it seems it's all band-aid in our society, I'll tell you.
Posted by: Emily P. at February 5, 2003 2:23 PMBut we can rest assured that "technology will save us." Save us from our toxic environment, save us from nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare, save us from environmental degradation, save us from global warming.
As many folks think, perhaps we will be saved by moving to a different planet. Or as other folks seem to think, we will be saved by the "second coming." Both very attractive as neither requires much of us.
Posted by: rowan at February 5, 2003 2:46 PM"neither requires much of us" - good call! All about avoiding any responsibility...
Posted by: Emily at February 6, 2003 11:25 AMok dokie
Posted by: ip address at May 3, 2003 11:42 PM