Will toxins turn your daughter into a pregnant teen?

Or will they give you or her breast cancer?

Recent research is showing that all sorts of toxins mimic estrogen - and when young children are exposed to them they mature way before their time.

It can mean reaching puberty as young as 7 to 9 years old. The short term effects can mean early pregnancy - because children of this age have not yet developed the social skills to over-ride their raging hormones. But who knows what the long term effects may be? New studies are pointing to a higher incidence of breast cancer in women who are exposed to these toxins. And if you start exposing your children from birth - what then?

The Society of Toxicology will address this issue this week, but will anything change?

From what I'm reading, some of the worst offenders are found in non-stick cookware, and in plastics. So please, get some glass containers to store food in the refrigerator. And when you re-heat things, do it in glass. Replace that handy non-stick stuff with some stainless steel, or a good old iron frying pan. You know, if you season an iron frying pan properly, it's almost as non-stick as Teflon.

But... it's also in our food supply and in the household chemicals and cosmetics we use. You can go back to natural things for cleaning, but you can't control the hormones that are pumped into the meat you eat and the toxins sprayed on the fruits and vegetables. The only thing you can do is try to find organic food. Not always easy, but always more expensive.

Here's the report from one health newsletter I receive:

In a major study of 17,000 American girls, seven percent of
Caucasians girls and a shocking 27 percent of African-American
girls were either growing breasts or pubic hair by age seven.
Even more upsetting, precocious puberty was seen in three
percent of African-Americans and one percent of Caucasians by
age three!

What are the consequences of this bizarre phenomenon? Studies
have shown that girls who go through puberty too soon also:

a.. Have sex earlier
b.. Run greater risk of pregnancy
c.. Suffer from behavioral problems
d.. Have a lower IQ
e.. Are more likely to drink, smoke and
f.. Are more likely to commit suicide
They're also more likely to develop breast and ovarian cancer
later in life, and to become infertile.

But big pharm has the answer: Yet another dangerous drug.

Lupron, their drug to treat precocious puberty, blocks production of
your own natural sex hormones and has 265 known side effects,
including convulsions and cancer.

So first the FDA will allow you to be attacked by toxins in your food and household supplies, and then they'll allow big pharm to attack you yet again - in the guise of a "cure." Somehow, I think this agency is not protecting us, but the big companies that pay them off.

So... stay away from toxins all you can, and look for natural ways to good health.

One more thing you can do - fill your home with green living things - because they can filter toxins coming into the air from your carpeting, curtains, etc. For instance, Boston ferns can detoxify 1,000 micrograms of formaldehyde from the air in one hour.

Be safe...