Last week, a small group of parents won their court case against Corby Council, who they claimed were responsible for the birth defects in their children. The mothers alledged they were  unwittingly exposed to toxic chemicals during pregnancy, and all the children were born with missing fingers or webbed feet.

You can read the full story here

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1202931/Toxic-soup-birth-defect-children-win-contamination-case-council.html

It  seems when the council undertook the clear up of what used to be the town’s former British Steel plant, between 1985 and 1999, they made a complete mess of the land reclamation program.

The area used to be one of the largest steelworks in Western Europe and covered 680 acres. Until the plant closed in 1980, British Steel had put toxic materials into holes in the ground where it was relatively safe.

During the clear up, it was moved to sealed containers at a quarry north of the town, but this ‘wet waste’ containing cancer-causing dioxins, and heavy metals such as cadmium, lead and chromium, was transported in open-backed lorries.

It’s  been claimed particles blew out, and anyone travelling behind the lorries, out walking, or living close to the site were vulnerable. It’s believed the dust blew into the kitchens and onto the food eaten by the then pregnant women.

The chemicals subsequently passed through the bloodstream into the unborn children.

I  know all about that scenario, but in my case I believe it was dental amalgam work during pregnancy, and mercury passing into my unborn child, which partly contributed to his autism.

Like the mothers in this story, I was blissfully unaware of the dangers of toxic chemicals. I thought  if items were for sale in the supermarket shelves, or if experts didn’t warn me of any possible harmful side effects or contra indications when I had medical or dental procedures done, everything must be just fine.

Silly me.

We all like to think we’re invincible and things only happen to other people, but life has an annoying habit of proving us wrong. Now, I question everything.

Toxins are everywhere and you can’t escape them. They’re in the air you breathe, the food you eat and the water you drink. You’ll find them in your clothes, your furnishings, your household and skincare products so unless you make a conscious stand to eliminate at least some, then health problems at some point are inevitable.

It’s only recently scientists have realised the umbilical cord

carries not only the building blocks of life, but also a steady stream of industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides”

and I’m not at all surprised a study commissioned by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) revealed babies in the womb are exposed to hundreds of dangerous chemicals.

The blood analysed from the umbilical cords of 10 babies revealed 287 chemicals including pesticides, consumer product ingredients and wastes from burning coal, gasoline and garbage. They found mercury, fire retardants and PFOA, which is the constituent found in your Teflon non-stick pans.

You can read the full report here http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/newsrelease.php but the researches said of the chemicals discovered -

We know that 180 cause cancer in humans or animals, 217 are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 208 cause birth defects or abnormal development in animal tests”

I’m not here to tell you what to do, but obviously if you care about your health and that of your loved ones you might just want to take control over the areas of your life where toxins can be reduced.

Here’s a report entitled Mad As A Hatter How To Avoid Toxic Metals And Clear Them From Your Body, which is well worth a read, and if anyone is still in any doubt where these chemicals come from, how they accumulate, and why they ought to do something about it, I suggest you have a look at the Toxins And Our Children video featuring Anderson Cooper of CNN Planet In Peril at http://tinyurl.com/chwxxc

Oh, and don’t forget to grab your copy of my FREE  report about skincare, which may just surprise you.

It did me and I wrote it!

Take care,

Jean Shaw

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