Hazardous
Waste Dump.
It
just might be your home.
One
hell of a title! In most homes, it is absolutely true. We live in a
hazardous waste dump and most don’t even know it. This has been
going on for years and years; we bring home products from the store
that we use every day - for cleaning our homes or doing laundry and
we have no idea that we are slowly poisoning ourselves and our
families.
Why
are we poisoning ourselves? Why would we take the risk? So we use
these products to keep our homes free from viruses, bacteria, and
anything else that can make us sick, but yet over time, these
products can be the very cause of our illnesses. But how can this be?
How are the very elements that are supposed to keep us heathy, at the
same time, be harmful to our health? You may not like the answer to
this question but the truth must be revealed.
We
live in a country that is in the midst of chemical warfare and most
don’t even know anything about it the products we use each and
every day like cleaning supplies, laundry detergent, shampoo, air
fresheners, hand soaps, and the list goes on.
One
example of a toxic substance used frequently is bleach, a laundry
room staple. For decades, customers have mistakenly equated chorine
bleach with the words like “clean” and “safe,” but the
reality is far from it. The bottle of chlorine bleach in your laundry
room, may contain something far more sinister than a simple germ
killer. (Leadership in Action, December 2013). We all know that
bleach contains chlorine, right? In WW1, the Germans released chorine
gas on their enemies- marking the first full-scale deployment of
deadly chemical weapons (Leadership in action December 2013).
A lovely little thought isn't it? So as we walk down the cleaning
supply isle in our local supermarket, and as we take a big deep
breath, we inhale all of the chemicals that are in those cleaning
products. That chemical smell is known as outgassing. Do you honestly
think that those chemicals are going to stay in those nice airtight
containers? Nope. They are leaking out of those bottles at a
surprising rate and going into your lungs and vital organs. Just
think about that the next time you walk through that isle of cleaning
products!
Medical
studies have revealed that chlorine bleach specifically aggravates
the membranes in the lower respiratory system, causing shortness of
breath and wheezing. And studies also show that a person with asthma
who cleans in there home with chlorine bleach once a day will have a
5% increase in asthma attacks in a year (Leadership in Action,
December 2013). So are you willing to wash your asthmatic or allergic
child's clothing in bleach after learning this important tidbit? I
would bet not.
Ok...this
part is particularly important. Even though all these products are
contained in glass or plastics, we bring them home and the same
outgassing is happening in our homes. No matter where your cleaning
products are stored, outgassing is happening every second, and each
and every day we breath in these chemicals. Little by little, these
chemicals gradually build up in our systems. Anyone that cleans in
there home twice a day will quadruple this figure- they will
experience 28% more asthma attacks. These are just adult statistics.
Think of your children who are in the house also; they are breathing
the same air. If your child is asthmatic or allergic, they are in
trouble (Leadership in Action, December 2013).
Chorine
Bleach is only just the tip of the iceberg; it is used in a lot of
other products. Just go and read the labels of your favorite products
and google those chemicals, but be prepared, your findings may shock
you. There is an infinite amount of information on Hazardous wastes
in your home, which I will post in a later blog. I don’t want to
overwhelm you and I want you to think about this for a while.
Live
long, healthy and prosper.
Tad
Gogolin
Just
a Tad Healthier
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