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ranting of the owl-loving tree-huggers that claim the human race is killing itself.
But the fact of the matter is that we are exposed to hundreds of thousands of toxic
chemicals on a daily basis that our grandfathers were not. It's not bad enough that
we shampoo every day with diesel degreaser (sodium lauryl-sulfate). Or that
toothpaste is so toxic that the label urges us to contact the Center for Poison
Control if we swallow more than enough to brush our teeth. Or that we get that
new-car, new-carpet-smell, dioxin gas in our food every time we microwave in plastic.
Or that the Homer City power plant is the #2 polluter of mercury in the country and
Keystone Power Plant is not far behind, and that we breathe in their heavy metals
like Boston Legal lawyers breathe cigar smoke.
Forget that these things are all carcinogenic and leading us down the path to illness and
death. We all have to die of something, right? Forget killing us. They are making us fat.
Blame it on your liver. It's your liver's job to get rid of toxins. It has other jobs too,
like making cholesterol, converting vitamins to usable form, making sure the nutrients from
our food are properly distributed. All-in-all, your liver is just plain overworked. Now, if
the liver were doing its job, all those toxins we breathe in, swallow, and absorb through
our skin would go on their merry way out into the toilet and back into the community water
system.
The trouble is, when the liver suffers from toxic overload, many of those toxins don't make
it into the toilet. Instead, the body wraps the toxins up in fat cells and surrounds them
with water to lock them up and keep them from affecting your brain, nervous system, other
vital organs and sex drive.
So when we go on our South Beach Atkins Grapefruit Hollywood diets, we are playing a game
of tug-o-war with our bodies. We want to get rid of fat; our body wants to keep the fat to
protect us from the toxins.
Logically, then, it makes sense that to lose weight on a permanent basis, we have to get
rid of the toxins.
How can you reduce the body's toxic load? For starters, increase your daily intake of fiber
to 35 grams a day. Fiber will help tremendously by absorbing toxins in the intestinal tract
and taking them out of the body. Another approach which Americans avoid, but which other
cultures all over the world benefit from, is colon hydrotherapy or colonics. Colon
hydrotherapy can flush out the toxins that have built up in a putrefied slime plastered on
your colon wall for decades. Releasing this smothering layer greatly increases the body's
ability absorb nutrients and deal with toxins. Think of it as cleaning the filter on your
household heating system.
Among the supplements designed to eliminate toxins and heavy metals, nothing shows more
promise than liquid zeolite. A colloidal suspension, zeolite is a natural product from
lava beds. According to Emmy-award-winning journalist and expert on environmental toxins,
Pittsburgher Terri Taylor, zeolite is unique because it carries a negative electrical
charge.
"Think of Nature as one big electrical system," Taylor explained. "Most of the toxins that
make people sick and create chronic disease are positively-charged, including heavy metals,
dioxins, nitrates, radioactive isotopes and many others. Liquid zeolite is like passing a
toxin magnet through the body to take out the trash, and it's safe for pregnant women and
kids, even pets. I've studied environmental toxicity for 20 years, and the devastating truth
is that we're all walking, talking toxic waste dumps. So, liquid zeolite is a very hopeful
development."
Chip Engelmann is a Certified Nutritionist, Master of Iridology, and EFT Practitioner. He
is associate editor of the International Journal of Iridology and Integrative Healthcare. as
well as editor of the weekly national newsletter, HealthEzine.
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