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in focus: toddler

Are chemicals and
preservatives slowly

killing our kids?

From the foods we feed our children to the chemicals in the air,
modern life comes at the price of a body burden of pollutants.What
we use is amazingly light, pliable, tough, tiny, shatter-proof, stain-proof,

waterproof, spongy, fire-resistant, explosive, clear, brilliant, fragrant,
sleek, silky or some of the above because it’s made of complex
mixtures of chemicals — that end up in us. Is our toxic overload

actually endangering their health and wellbeing?

Disease North American diet for years, of toxins will increase the risk of mother, baby & child April 2011
without serious harm to your becoming a host to disease or
Most young children today health, it is due to your body’s premature death,” she says, and
know all too well a diet of outstanding resistance.” The unfortunately that resistance
sausages, chicken nuggets human body consists of billions to disease diminishes as the
and burgers. Besides the of microscopic living cells, abuse continues. “Disease is
fact that these foods can composed of perfectly balanced like heating a pot of water.
eventually lead to unhealthy quantities of water and organic When the water becomes too
weight gain, Brenda Saunders, substances, yet genetic hot, it quickly boils over,” she
a homeopath at Dubai Herbal weaknesses may be hidden by notes and the biochemistry of
and Treatment Centre says: “If youth. “The cumulative effect the body will absorb toxins only
you have eaten the standard to a point. There is a boiling
point—illness!

List

The list of chemicals and
preservatives is long; from
dyes, bleaches, antioxidants,
preservatives, chemical
flavours, buffers, noxious
sprays, alkalisers, acidifiers,
deodorants, moisteners,
drying agents, expanders,
modifiers, emulsifiers,
stabilisers, thickeners, clarifiers,
disinfectants, defoliants,
fungicides, neutralisers,
anticaking and antifoaming
agents, hydrolysers,
hydrogenators, herbicides,
pesticides, synthetic hormones,
antibiotics, steroids and four

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