Let's face it. In spite of everything I've taught you, and everything you have learned about the "The New Biology" and The Alkalarian Lifestyle and Diet, many of you "cheated" BIG-Time for Thanksgiving (and will again for Christmas or Hanukkah). You ate the traditional poisonous, acidic, Holiday dinner of turkey and dressing, mashed potatoes, sugary pumpkin pie, and maybe even a glass or two of wine, and (gasp) a cup or two of eggnog! It's worse even than those college-years, "Night On The Town" binges. BUT, here it is a few "days after". You are remorseful, but still in deep acidic do-do. What can be done?
Well... first of all, quit mentally beating yourself up. You probably messed up. Pick yourself up, and start again. Just like they say in AA ("One Day At A Time").
If you fell off-the-wagon, and ate the traditional, poisonous, acidic Holiday meal, it is CRITICAL to get the acidic damage repaired as quickly as possible. Get into your alkaline supplies and put together what I call the pH Miracle, DO-IT-YOURSELF, Emergency Repair Kit. You MUST begin again to re-alkalize as quickly as possible. Every day counts.
First, dissolve 1 tbs. of pHour Salts in 6 oz. of purified filtered, low ORP, 9.5 alkaline water, and drink it down.
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Second, mix 4 tbs. of pure liquid Chlorophyll into 4 oz. of Filtered, low ORP, 9.5 alkaline pH water, and send it down the hatch with the pHour Salts.
http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-306-liquid-chloropheal.aspx
Third, start spraying pHour salts in your mouth at least every hour.
http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-211-phlavor-2-oz-travel-bottle.aspx
Fourth, take 5 minutes. and BREATHE.... Pranayama Breathing Exercises. Get outside in the fresh air, if possible, and take deep, measured breaths. Lift your arms and breathe deeply. Hold each breath for 10 seconds and exhale. Do this deliberately, precisely for 5 minutes, several time during the day.
We aren't through yet.
Fifth, make up a Liter of Green Water (1 Tbs. of Doc Broc Power Plants or Super Greens to 1 Liter of purified, filtered, low ORP, 9.5 alkaline pH water) with 15 drops of Prime pH and 5 drops of puripHy and send it after the pHour Salts and chlorophyll. Drink it down, remembering to breathe!
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http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-390-puriphy-2-oz.aspx
http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-387-super-greens.aspx
http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-388-prime-ph.aspx
Sixth. Keep your "repair diet" STRICTLY 100% alkaline, and GREEEN! No cheating! You're in trouble already. Let's get the damage repaired as quickly as possible! No recriminations. No "beating yourself up". You messed up. You will again. You are human, and the Holidays are literally MINE FIELDS of temptation. Do your best to resist, and stay alkaline over the Holidays. It's a good teaching opportunity with your non-alkaline friends. They will learn by your behavior, if you eat and drink correctly. But... if you slip and give in to the temptations of cookies and cake (it's like verbal abuse for me to even say it), CORRECT IT... as soon as possible.
Seventh, and lastly, throughout your "emergency recovery day" DRINK lots of filtered, low ORP, high alkaline water...with a pH of 9.5 or better. Drink 1 Liter of alkaline water with greens for each 30 Lbs. of body weight! It's your lifeline to repair the acidic damage being done every minute to your body from the dietary abuse you self-inflicted.
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http://www.phmiracleliving.com/p-175-jupiter-melody-water-ionizer.aspx
It will take at least 24 to 72 hours of diligent repair, following the steps I have outlined, before your body will begin to recover from a single day of Holiday, poisonous acidic eating. IF you had any significant quantity of wine or alcohol, it may take even longer - several more days - for your body to recover. Each day of "emergency repair" should be thought of as a day in the Emergency Room or a day you will not need to spend in the Emergency Room. Count your blessings.
Lastly... the most important advice I can give you.... DON'T DO IT AGAIN! The poisonous, acidic food and drink traditions of the Holidays will quite LITERALLY KILL YOU! You can't recover from that, even with a pH Miracle, Emergency Repair kit!
Remember, all of this acidic food and drink you ingested, if it doesn't kill you it will cause your body to go into preservation mode. In preservation mode the body will induce a fever to activate the lymphatic system and cause the elimination of acids through the pores of the skin and other body openings. Traditional medical savants call this the "Flu." But do not believe it or be deceived! You only have the symptoms of "I Ate Too Much Acidic Sh!! Disease." There is no "FLU" virus and NO NEED for an acidic vaccine. . which by the way can kill or seriously injure you. The "FLU" is NOTHING MORE than the body trying to remove excess acids from your over-indulgence of acidic Holiday foods and drinks. So, start the "Do-IT-Yourself Emergency Alkaline Repair" NOW.
You can order the "Do-It-Yourself Emergency Alkaline Repair Kit" by going to:
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Sunday, November 30, 2008
Sunday Blessings - O Come, O Come Emmanuel
On the Sundays leading up to Christmas I will be posting videos of my favourite Christmas carols.
O Come, O Come Emmanuel is my first choice as it is my best loved carol.The lyrics are pure doctrine and the 12 century music melts my heart. I wish to sing it during a Christmas Eve candle-lit service in a Gothic cathedral or monastery. And also singing it or hearing it sung in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Israel also would be thrilling.
Many years ago one of our church members translated this song into Hindi (our mother tongue) and gave it a very distinct Indian context and connotation. I would like to learn the Latin version.
O Come O Come Emmanuel !
The favourite O Come, O Come Emmanuel carol was originally written in Latin text in the 12th Century. The author of the words and composer to the music of O Come, O Come Emmanuel is unknown. It is , however believed that the melody was of French origin and added to the text a hundred years later. The Latin was translated into English by John Mason Neale in 1851.
How Mumbai attacks unfolded
Investigators are piecing together how the attacks unfolded
New details have been slowly emerging about the early stages of the Mumbai terror attacks. Much of the information has been gleaned after the capture of one of the militants involved, as the BBC's Prachi Pinglay reports from Mumbai.
The story of the Mumbai terror attacks likely began when a private fishing trawler with five crew members set sail from the Arabian sea off the coast of Porbandar in India's western Gujarat state on 13 November.
Sometime during the next 12 days, the trawler was taken over at sea by at least 10 young men, aged between 20 and 23 years, carrying backpacks and bags, according to sources in the Mumbai police, coastguard, and commandos.
Investigators still do not know what the men were sailing on and where they were coming from when they took over the trawler - though suspicion has fallen on the Pakistani port city of Karachi.
What they do know is that the men tied up one of the crew in the trawler's engine room, and slit his throat. The abandoned trawler was found by Indian coastguard ships more than three nautical miles off Mumbai.
GPS co-ordinates
When coastguards boarded the vessel, they found the dead crew member, plus a satellite phone and GPS tracker that possibly belonged to the trawler's crew.
Investigators say that Kasar has told them that their work was to 'take hostages for safe passage'
Investigators told the BBC that the tracker showed "a return mapping for Karachi", leading to speculation that the men who attacked Mumbai had planned to return in the same trawler.
A ferry doing about 20 knots can cover the 506-nautical mile distance between Karachi and Mumbai in a little over 24 hours.
After abandoning the trawler, the men opened the inflatable dinghies they were carrying and sailed into Mumbai waters early on 26 November, a little more than 10 hours before the attack, investigators say.
An abandoned dinghy has been recovered in the sea off one of the many fishing colonies which dot the city's coast.
One of the top investigating officers told the BBC that the gunmen - nine were eventually killed and one arrested - split up into four groups and took the city's rickety black-and-yellow Fiat taxis from the fishing colony at Cuffe Parade to some of the locations they planned to attack.
See a detailed map of the area
They say the men left grenades or bombs inside the taxis before they got out. The taxis exploded soon after, killing two drivers and one bystander.
Militants split into groups, attacking a number of locations
The first round of attacks took place around the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus or the Victoria Terminus railway station, when gunmen entered the platforms and fired on people indiscriminately.
They walked out of the station after the carnage, and shot three policemen and fired at journalists gathered near a cinema to record the event. Then they took a police van and drove off.
A flat tyre forced the gunmen to abandon the police van. The men then stole a Skoda car and drove towards the seafront Marine Drive, just as the other groups of gunmen were attacking a cafe, two luxury hotels and a Jewish cultural centre.
As the Skoda took a zig-zag route through the streets of Mumbai, the men inside opened fire in several locations - including at the Cama and Albless hospital for women and children.
Police say they intercepted the Skoda on the seafront and shot at it, killing one of the gunmen and arresting the other.
Twenty-one-year-old Mohammed Ajmal Mohammed Amir Kasar, who police says hails from Pakistan's Punjab province, is now the investigators' key to unravelling the planning that went into the attacks.
'Senseless violence'
Commandos who fought early pitched battles with the gunmen in the two luxury hotels, the Taj Mahal and Oberoi Trident, say that the lithe attackers moved quickly from room to room and climbed up and down floors to throw them off tracks.
The gunmen set fire to curtains and threw grenades to distract the commandos, according to federal commando chief JK Dutt.
"We found a lot of unexploded grenades inside the hotel. They damaged a lot of property. It was senseless violence," he said.
They also found lots of dry fruits, Indian and American currency, ammunition and fake Mumbai college student identity cards in the bags the gunmen had left behind during the attacks.
"We are checking whether the gunmen had any local support. But what we are sure is that they were not from India, and had trained in and were carrying stuff - AK-56, AK-47 and 9mm revolvers and hand grenades possibly of Chinese make," said an investigator.
The investigators say that Kasar has told them that their work was to "take hostages for safe passage". He also told them their aim was to "create an international incident, and anything big in Mumbai would be noticed all over the world".
O Come, O Come Emmanuel is my first choice as it is my best loved carol.The lyrics are pure doctrine and the 12 century music melts my heart. I wish to sing it during a Christmas Eve candle-lit service in a Gothic cathedral or monastery. And also singing it or hearing it sung in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Israel also would be thrilling.
Many years ago one of our church members translated this song into Hindi (our mother tongue) and gave it a very distinct Indian context and connotation. I would like to learn the Latin version.
O Come O Come Emmanuel !
The favourite O Come, O Come Emmanuel carol was originally written in Latin text in the 12th Century. The author of the words and composer to the music of O Come, O Come Emmanuel is unknown. It is , however believed that the melody was of French origin and added to the text a hundred years later. The Latin was translated into English by John Mason Neale in 1851.
Oh, come, our Dayspring from on high, And cheer us by your drawing nigh, Disperse the gloomy clouds of night, And death's dark shadows put to flight. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to you, O Israel!
Oh, come, Desire of nations, bind In one the hearts of all mankind; Oh, bid our sad divisions cease, And be yourself our King of Peace. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to you, O Israel!
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As the events the the past week unfolded before our eyes
Oh, come, Desire of nations, bind In one the hearts of all mankind; Oh, bid our sad divisions cease, And be yourself our King of Peace. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to you, O Israel!
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As the events the the past week unfolded before our eyes
in what we are calling India 's longest televised horror show , it embedded in our hearts that
Our God Emmanuel is our only hope.
We watched in heart-wrenching pain till
the last battle was won
on Saturday morning.
The song I have chosen is also my prayer to our Dayspring Jesus to come and disperse
The song I have chosen is also my prayer to our Dayspring Jesus to come and disperse
the gloomy clouds of night
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Here is a news report from BBC News
Here is a news report from BBC News
How Mumbai attacks unfolded
Investigators are piecing together how the attacks unfolded
New details have been slowly emerging about the early stages of the Mumbai terror attacks. Much of the information has been gleaned after the capture of one of the militants involved, as the BBC's Prachi Pinglay reports from Mumbai.
The story of the Mumbai terror attacks likely began when a private fishing trawler with five crew members set sail from the Arabian sea off the coast of Porbandar in India's western Gujarat state on 13 November.
Sometime during the next 12 days, the trawler was taken over at sea by at least 10 young men, aged between 20 and 23 years, carrying backpacks and bags, according to sources in the Mumbai police, coastguard, and commandos.
Investigators still do not know what the men were sailing on and where they were coming from when they took over the trawler - though suspicion has fallen on the Pakistani port city of Karachi.
What they do know is that the men tied up one of the crew in the trawler's engine room, and slit his throat. The abandoned trawler was found by Indian coastguard ships more than three nautical miles off Mumbai.
GPS co-ordinates
When coastguards boarded the vessel, they found the dead crew member, plus a satellite phone and GPS tracker that possibly belonged to the trawler's crew.
Investigators say that Kasar has told them that their work was to 'take hostages for safe passage'
Investigators told the BBC that the tracker showed "a return mapping for Karachi", leading to speculation that the men who attacked Mumbai had planned to return in the same trawler.
A ferry doing about 20 knots can cover the 506-nautical mile distance between Karachi and Mumbai in a little over 24 hours.
After abandoning the trawler, the men opened the inflatable dinghies they were carrying and sailed into Mumbai waters early on 26 November, a little more than 10 hours before the attack, investigators say.
An abandoned dinghy has been recovered in the sea off one of the many fishing colonies which dot the city's coast.
One of the top investigating officers told the BBC that the gunmen - nine were eventually killed and one arrested - split up into four groups and took the city's rickety black-and-yellow Fiat taxis from the fishing colony at Cuffe Parade to some of the locations they planned to attack.
See a detailed map of the area
They say the men left grenades or bombs inside the taxis before they got out. The taxis exploded soon after, killing two drivers and one bystander.
Militants split into groups, attacking a number of locations
The first round of attacks took place around the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus or the Victoria Terminus railway station, when gunmen entered the platforms and fired on people indiscriminately.
They walked out of the station after the carnage, and shot three policemen and fired at journalists gathered near a cinema to record the event. Then they took a police van and drove off.
A flat tyre forced the gunmen to abandon the police van. The men then stole a Skoda car and drove towards the seafront Marine Drive, just as the other groups of gunmen were attacking a cafe, two luxury hotels and a Jewish cultural centre.
As the Skoda took a zig-zag route through the streets of Mumbai, the men inside opened fire in several locations - including at the Cama and Albless hospital for women and children.
Police say they intercepted the Skoda on the seafront and shot at it, killing one of the gunmen and arresting the other.
Twenty-one-year-old Mohammed Ajmal Mohammed Amir Kasar, who police says hails from Pakistan's Punjab province, is now the investigators' key to unravelling the planning that went into the attacks.
'Senseless violence'
Commandos who fought early pitched battles with the gunmen in the two luxury hotels, the Taj Mahal and Oberoi Trident, say that the lithe attackers moved quickly from room to room and climbed up and down floors to throw them off tracks.
The gunmen set fire to curtains and threw grenades to distract the commandos, according to federal commando chief JK Dutt.
"We found a lot of unexploded grenades inside the hotel. They damaged a lot of property. It was senseless violence," he said.
They also found lots of dry fruits, Indian and American currency, ammunition and fake Mumbai college student identity cards in the bags the gunmen had left behind during the attacks.
"We are checking whether the gunmen had any local support. But what we are sure is that they were not from India, and had trained in and were carrying stuff - AK-56, AK-47 and 9mm revolvers and hand grenades possibly of Chinese make," said an investigator.
The investigators say that Kasar has told them that their work was to "take hostages for safe passage". He also told them their aim was to "create an international incident, and anything big in Mumbai would be noticed all over the world".
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QUESTION?
Is there any special place you would like to sing O come, O come Emmanuel?
Pulang Raker dan Othniel
Hari ini baru pulang dari rapat kerja dewan paroki gereja...
Lelahnya, tapi belajar banyak dari senior-senior di gereja =)
Kemarin itu pernah membaca alkitab tentang seorang yang bernama Othniel atau Otniel (Indo Version).
Dengan latar belakang kemarahan Tuhan terhadap umat israel yang ingkar janji. (secara angkatan Yosua telah meninggal semua, dan muncul lah generasi baru yang gak mengenenal peperangan terdahulu).
Tuhan mengijinkan bangsa ini kalah berperang dan di jajah selama 8tahun...
Kemudian mereka berseru-seru (cryed out)... dalam imajinasi saya mereka menangis gak berdaya kepada Tuhan... Benar-benar pasrah...
Akhirnya Tuhan mengangkat seorang pahlawan... eng ing eng... Othiel...
Dia yang membebaskan bangsa ini kembali dan mereka hidup dalam damai selama 40tahun hingga Othiel meninggal...
Bayangkan... Ingat... Latar belakangnya, Tuhan lagi marah loh... Tapi dia mau juga mengangkat seorang pahlawan dan membebaskan mereka lagi...
Jadi inspirasi buat kita... JANGAN MENYERAH!!! apapun kondisi kita... JANGAN MENYERAH!!!
Tuhan memberkati,
Ferdy D. Savio
Friday, November 28, 2008
Organochlorine and Acidic Cancerous Breasts
"Every 13 minutes another woman dies from the environmental, dietary and metabolic acids that cause breast cancer, an acidic condition of the breast tissue that has more than tripled in incidence over the past 50 years," states Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of the pH Miracle Living Center, in San Diego County, California.
One in seven women in the US have the probability of developing cancerous acidic breasts over their lifetime. Breast cancer is one of the most important health issues facing women today. It is the second leading cause of acidic cancer deaths in women and is the most common acid cancer among women. According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million women will be diagnosed with cancerous breasts this year worldwide.
Studies have linked the accumulation of chlorine compounds in acidic breast tissue to cancerous breasts. Chlorine, a recognized pesticide, has been added to our municipal water supply since the late 1800s. When chlorine combines with organic compounds (our bodies), the result is an organochlorine.
Organochlorines react with acidic human tissue and are often associated with the causation of cancer. A study conducted in Hartford, Connecticut found, "women with breast cancer have 50 to 60 percent higher levels of organochlorines (chlorination byproducts) in their breast tissue than women without breast cancer."
Organochlorines can pose a serious health threat and are found in many areas of our lives. Up to 2/3 of our harmful exposure to chlorine happens while showering. The skin is the largest organ of the body, and every time we shower or bathe, chlorine is absorbed through the pores of our skin. The steam we inhale while showering can contain up to 50 times the level of chemicals than when drinking tap water, and the toxic gases we inhale goes directly into the blood stream.
The following article published by Greenpeace in 1993 outlines the health risks associated with chlorine. The article is called, "Chlorine, Human Health, and the Environment: The Breast Cancer Warning."
An emerging body of evidence suggests that contamination of the environment with chlorine-based synthetic chemicals may be an important factor in the epidemic of breast cancer taking place across the world.
These chemicals-called organochlorines-are building up absolutely everywhere on the planet-in the air and water, in the food chain, in the tissues of wildlife, and in our own bodies. Universal organochlorine contamination has already been implicated in regional and global disease epidemics in people and wildlife, including impaired reproduction, development, immune function and behavior. The new evidence that now links these chemicals to breast cancer reinforces the fact that organochlorines pose a serious threat to human health and the environment and should be phased out.
Organochlorines are by no means the only risk factor for breast cancer, and their role in incidence of the disease has not yet been proven, beyond a doubt, according to strict scientific standards. But the evidence is strongly suggestive, and it is not practical, responsible, or ethical to wait for proof before taking action to protect women's health. Enough is known now about the effects of organochlorines on human health to justify preventive action now.
The Breast Cancer Epidemic
In virtually every nation in the world, breast cancer incidence is rising, especially among older women. Since about 1930, the disease has been increasing steadily at a rate of 1 to 2 percent annually in industrialized countries. These increases are mirrored by rising rates of many other cancers. More recently the breast cancer epidemic has spread to developing nations, as well.
In the last decade, breast cancer incidence in many nations has shot up even more rapidly, increasing by 4 percent annually in the U.S., making breast cancer now the most common of all cancers among women. In many developing nations, incidence rates of the disease have begun to increase, as well. By the year 2000, breast cancer is expected to kill 1 million women each year.
Breast Cancer Risk Factors
Recognized risk factors for breast cancer-genetic inheritance, reproductive and hormonal factors, and diet-account for an estimated 20 to 30 percent of all breast cancer incidence. Other factors, including alcohol consumption and exposure to radiation from nuclear tests and mammograms, also appear to play a role, but the majority of breast cancer remains unexplained.
There is clearly a relationship between sex hormones-especially elevated levels of estrogen-and increased breast cancer risk. Further, the types of breast cancer rising most rapidly are those that respond to estrogen. Changes in reproductive behavior and other hormonal factors-number of children and age at first and last childbirth, use of contraceptives and estrogen replacement therapy, for example-account for a portion of breast cancer risk but do not explain changes in hormonal status that would lead to the large-scale increases in breast cancer that are taking place. Exposure to industrial chemicals, including organochlorines-some of which mimic or interfere with the action of natural hormones-may explain some of the increase.
The role of dietary fat in breast cancer risk is controversial. Nations with high per capita fat intake also have high breast cancer rates, and increased fat consumption seems to be associated with modest increases in breast cancer risk. But fat consumption tends to rise with the degree of industrialization, pollution, and other confounding factors; correlations of national fat intake and breast cancer rates may indicate an underlying cause other than the fat itself. And none of the epidemiological studies that have investigated the role of fat consumption in breast cancer have considered the role of chemical contaminants that concentrate in the fat, including organochlorines.
Just as identified risk factors account for only a small portion of breast cancer incidence, the epidemic increases in incidence of the disease are not explained by changes in these factors. Changes in diet, reproductive habits, and contraceptive use may have contributed but do not explain the entire increase.
Researchers have begun to suspect that exposure to "zeno-estrogens"-industrial, agricultural, and pharmaceutical chemicals that mimic estrogen in the body-may play an important role in the increasing incidence rates of cancer of the breast and certain other sites and reproductive and development impairment. Environmental factors that cause genetic mutations or suppress the immune system may also be important.
Organochlorines: Priority Poisons
The evidence indicates that carcinogenic and hormonally-active chemicals in the environment may play a significant role in breast cancer. Among the suspects are the organochlorines, a class of industrial chemicals made from chlorine and carbon-based organic matter. Although these chemicals were first produced around the turn of the century, production did not reach a large scale until the decades following World War II. Now, the chemical industry produces about 40 million tons of chlorine annually.
Organochlorines include such highly persistent and toxic substances as dioxin, DDT, PCBs, the ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), plus thousands of lesser known chemicals. Almost 80 percent of all chlorine is used in the chemical industry to produce PVC (vinyl) and other plastics, pesticides, industrial solvents and other chemicals; use of chlorine bleach in the pulp and paper industry is another important use, while much smaller amounts are used to disinfect wastewater and drinking water. Incinerators that burn chlorine-containing trash and hazardous wastes are an additional source of organochlorine discharges to the environment.
Many organochlorines persist in the environment for decades or even centuries. Many also accumulate in the tissues of living things, multiplying in concentration as they move up the food chain. Over the decades, they have built to higher and higher levels in the ecosystem, in the food chain, and in the bodies of wildlife and people. Industrial organochlorines can now be found in ecosystems absolutely everywhere on the planet-in the deep oceans, in Arctic polar bears, in Antarctica.
Organochlorines also now contaminate the bodies of all people: 177 organochlorines have been found in the tissues and fluids of people in North America, including a wide range of pesticides, solvents, chemical by-products, and other compounds. Hundreds more organochlorines are known to be present but have not yet been individually identified.
Organochlorines tend to be very toxic, often in tiny doses. Effects include reproductive and developmental impairment, hormonal disruptions, genetic mutations, cancer, birth defects, immune suppression, neurological and behavioral toxicity, and damage to the liver, kidneys, skin.
A growing body of evidence indicates that organochlorine pollution is already severe enough to be a major hazard to the health of people and wildlife. Organochlorines have been linked to large-scale hormonal disruptions, population declines, infertility and other reproductive problems, birth defects, impaired development, neurological and behavioral alteration, immune suppression and some types of cancer among people and wildlife.
Organochlorines are not the only widespread, toxic, or carcinogenic pollutants in the environment. Nor are they the only ones that may contribute to breast cancer. Organochlorines are a priority for phase-out, however, for two reasons. First, they tend to dominate officials lists of priority pollutants, typically making up half or more of chemicals of concern, precisely because they tend to be so persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic, and widespread.
Second, organochlorines are preventable: alternatives are available now for all major uses of chlorine. This report focuses on organochlorines not because they are the only cause of breast cancer, but because they may be an important one and they are highly preventable.
Organochlorines and Breast Cancer
Several lines of evidence suggest that organochlorines contribute to breast cancer among the general population.
1) Experimental evidence. Hundreds of organochlorines have been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals and/or humans. Of the thousands that have not yet been tested, at least some are likely to turn out to be carcinogenic, as well.
2) At least 16 organochlorines or groups of organochlorines have been found specifically to cause mammary cancers in laboratory animals, despite the fact that only a few have been tested for this effect. Some are pesticides-such as DDT, aldrin, dieldrin, and chlordane-that have already been restricted but remain common environmental contaminants and are still used in other nations. But other organochlorines identified as mammary carcinogens are still in common use, including the following:
- Atrazine: one of the most widely-used herbicides in North America and Europe and an extremely common contaminant of groundwater and surface water;
- Vinyl chloride, ethylene dichloride, and vinyledene chloride: feedstocks for the common plastics polyvinyl chloride (PVC, or vinyl) and polyvinylidene chloride (Saran wrap);
- Methylene chloride: a common solvent and paint-stripper;
- Dichlorobenzidines, dichloropropane and trichloro-propane: intermediates used in the chemical industry to produce dyes and other chemicals.
3) Most organochlorines have not been tested for a link to breast cancer; it is likely that some of these, particularly those that are structurally or toxicologically similar to those already identified as mammary carcinogens, will turn out to cause the same effect.
4) Biological mechanisms. Recent research into the behavior of organochlorines in the body shows how these chemicals could contribute to breast cancer in people. Organochlorines have been shown to cause genetic mutations, suppress the immune system, and disrupt the body's natural controls on cell growth and replication.
Some organochlorines are known to be "hormonally active": they mimic or otherwise disrupt the natural action of the body's natural sex hormones, including estrogen. Since estrogen is a known risk factor for breast cancer, chemicals that act like estrogen are also likely to increase risk of the disease. Exposures to these chemicals during adulthood may cause estrogen-like effects and promote breast cancer. And in utero exposure to hormonally active chemicals can cause lifelong changes in the endocrine system that may lead to breast cancer risk many years later.
5) Breast cancer in women with high exposures. Women exposed to higher-than-normal levels of synthetic chemicals-including organochlorines-have been found to have significantly elevated rates of breast cancer. These groups include women chemical industry workers exposed to dioxin, women living near hazardous waste sites, women chemists, and women workers exposed to chlorinated and non-chlorinated solvents.
6) Tissue studies. Important new research has linked organochlorines to breast cancer risk among women from the general population-those with no unusual chemical exposures. Several studies have found a relationship between the levels of certain organochlorines in a woman's blood, fat, or breast tissues and her risk of breast cancer. Women with the highest concentrations of certain organochlorine pesticides in their bodies have been found to have breast cancer risks 4 to 10 times higher than women with lower levels. If future research confirms that the effect of these chemicals is indeed that strong, organochlorines would be among the most important breast cancer risk factors ever identified.
7) The case of Israel. In Israel, national policies to ban organochlorines appear to have helped reduce breast cancer rates. Until the mid-1970s, both breast cancer rates and contamination levels by several organochlorine pesticides were among the very highest in the world. Following an aggressive phase-out program of those chemicals, contamination levels dropped to the levels found in other countries, and breast cancer mortality quickly followed, dropping to a rate similar to that in other nations. This decline, which was distributed across age groups in a "dose-response" pattern, is especially notable, given the rapid increases in breast cancer that were taking place in other nations during the same period. Further, all other dietary and reproductive risk factors in Israel actually grew worse during the period in question.
8) Related effects in people and wildlife. Emerging evidence implicates global organochlorine contamination in an array of other health effects among humans and wildlife. Current contaminants levels are in the range at which hormonal disruptions and other effects are known to occur. Exposure to these compounds has been linked to infertility, reproductive failure, developmental impairment, immune suppression, and possible other cancers-notably testicular cancer-among marine mammals, other species of fish and wildlife, and humans. If environmental levels of organochlorines are high enough to cause these effects, it is plausible that they are also high enough to cause breast cancer.
9) Trends in breast cancer incidence rates are consistent with increasing contamination by organochlorines. Industrialized nations, with more severe pollution, also tend to have much higher breast cancer rates than less industrialized countries.
Proof or Precaution: When Do We Act?
Do these studies PROVE that organochlorines are causing increased breast cancer rates? If proof is defined as evidence, beyond any doubt, of a cause-effect link between individual chemicals and the disease, in which all possible confounding influences have been eliminated, the answer is no.
But this standard of proof will never be fulfilled, because of the complex reality of global chemical contamination and the limited tools available to epidemiologists and toxicologists. It is unethical, irresponsible and unrealistic to require strict proof, because such an approach takes preventative action only after irreversible damage to health and the environment have taken place.
We need a new standard of proof. In the fields of health and environmental protection, the Precautionary Principle should be the basis for evaluating scientific information and formulating public policy.
The Precautionary Principle requires preventive action and places the burden of proof on those who would cause pollution rather than on those who would prevent it. Because we cannot predict the precise impacts that chemicals will have on the environment and on human health, the Precautionary Principle requires that we err on the side of caution. We should not wait for scientific proof of harm before we take action: the use and discharge of chemicals that MAY cause harm should be avoided. The precautionary framework allows us to take action to prevent disease before it is too late.
Many National governments, including that of the U.S., have agreed in international fora, such as the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), that precautionary, preventive action must be taken when there is reason to believe that harm may occur, without waiting for scientific proof of cause-effect relationships. Many governments that have committed to this approach, however, have yet to put action behind their words.
There is no reason to dismiss scientific evidence linking pollution to human health impacts simply because it does not reach the level of formal scientific proof. Rather, we should take a holistic approach to the data on the characteristics of chemical classes, and studies on laboratory animals, wildlife, and humans. The precautionary framework considers the effects of chemical mixtures, accepts the limits of epidemiological and toxicological studies to untangle cause-effect linkages, admits information that may be indirect or suggestive, and applies evidence from one species or disease to another, when appropriate. The Precautionary approach evolved from the recognition that even the most sophisticated environmental impact assessment models cannot cope with the diversity, quantity and complexity of chemical compounds and of environmental and human biological processes.
Seen in such a framework, the studies presented in this report indicate that organochlorines are likely to contribute to breast cancer rates in the general population. This does not mean that organochlorines play their role in isolation; presumably, they have acted in combination with other changing risk factors to produce the increasing breast cancer rates now apparent across the world. Nor does it mean that every single organochlorine contributes to breast cancer; current evidence implicates many individual organochlorines, and it is likely that at least some of the thousands more that have not yet been investigated will also turn out to be involved as well. Many organochlorines that do not contribute to breast cancer can cause other health effects in people and wildlife.
Research should continue to further identify the relationship between breast cancer, organochlorines, and other risk factors. But enough is known now to justify action to protect women's health: no further organochlorine pollution should be permitted.
Recommendations: Phasing-Out Chlorine and Organochlorine
There is more than enough evidence to conclude that the class of organochlorines may pose serious hazards to health and the environment: members of this class tend to be toxic, persistent, and/or bioaccumulative and to produce even more dangerous organochlorine by-products at some point during their life-cycles. The Precautionary Principle-and common sense-thus requires that the burden of proof be reversed and that organochlorines be phased out. A phase-out of the production, use and discharge of these chemicals into the environment should begin immediately.
It would take centuries to phase-out the thousands of organochlorines in commerce on a chemical-by-chemical basis. Further, organochlorines are never made in isolation but are always formed in complex mixtures of products and by-products, so there is no effective way to regulate them one-by-one. Phase-outs should focus not on individual chemicals but on the major industrial sectors and processes that use and produce these compounds. Chlorine-free alternatives are available now for all major uses of chlorine, including PVC and other chlorinated plastics, chlorinated bleaches, pesticides, solvents, disinfectants, and chemical intermediates.
Several international bodies have already concluded that organochlorines should be phased-out as a class, including the International Joint Commission on the Great Lakes-a bi-national advisory body to the U.S. and Canadian governments-and the Paris Commission on Land Based Sources of Pollution to the North Atlantic, a ministerial convention of fifteen European nations. The IJC recommended that the U.S. and Canadian governments begin a scheduled phase-out of industrial processes that use chlorine and organochlorines begun in the U.S. and Canada. The parties to the Paris Commission agreed that discharges of organohalogens should be reduced with the aim of their elimination and that measures should be adopted to prohibit the use of organohalogens and substitute alternative processes and substances where those compounds are now produced and used.
The emerging evidence on the relationship between organochlorine contamination and breast cancer provides compelling new support for these calls to phase-out chlorine and related chemicals. A public health policy that emphasizes dis-ease prevention must lead to environmental policies that prohibit environmental discharges of dis-ease-causing chemicals, particularly organochlorines.
One in seven women in the US have the probability of developing cancerous acidic breasts over their lifetime. Breast cancer is one of the most important health issues facing women today. It is the second leading cause of acidic cancer deaths in women and is the most common acid cancer among women. According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million women will be diagnosed with cancerous breasts this year worldwide.
Studies have linked the accumulation of chlorine compounds in acidic breast tissue to cancerous breasts. Chlorine, a recognized pesticide, has been added to our municipal water supply since the late 1800s. When chlorine combines with organic compounds (our bodies), the result is an organochlorine.
Organochlorines react with acidic human tissue and are often associated with the causation of cancer. A study conducted in Hartford, Connecticut found, "women with breast cancer have 50 to 60 percent higher levels of organochlorines (chlorination byproducts) in their breast tissue than women without breast cancer."
Organochlorines can pose a serious health threat and are found in many areas of our lives. Up to 2/3 of our harmful exposure to chlorine happens while showering. The skin is the largest organ of the body, and every time we shower or bathe, chlorine is absorbed through the pores of our skin. The steam we inhale while showering can contain up to 50 times the level of chemicals than when drinking tap water, and the toxic gases we inhale goes directly into the blood stream.
The following article published by Greenpeace in 1993 outlines the health risks associated with chlorine. The article is called, "Chlorine, Human Health, and the Environment: The Breast Cancer Warning."
An emerging body of evidence suggests that contamination of the environment with chlorine-based synthetic chemicals may be an important factor in the epidemic of breast cancer taking place across the world.
These chemicals-called organochlorines-are building up absolutely everywhere on the planet-in the air and water, in the food chain, in the tissues of wildlife, and in our own bodies. Universal organochlorine contamination has already been implicated in regional and global disease epidemics in people and wildlife, including impaired reproduction, development, immune function and behavior. The new evidence that now links these chemicals to breast cancer reinforces the fact that organochlorines pose a serious threat to human health and the environment and should be phased out.
Organochlorines are by no means the only risk factor for breast cancer, and their role in incidence of the disease has not yet been proven, beyond a doubt, according to strict scientific standards. But the evidence is strongly suggestive, and it is not practical, responsible, or ethical to wait for proof before taking action to protect women's health. Enough is known now about the effects of organochlorines on human health to justify preventive action now.
The Breast Cancer Epidemic
In virtually every nation in the world, breast cancer incidence is rising, especially among older women. Since about 1930, the disease has been increasing steadily at a rate of 1 to 2 percent annually in industrialized countries. These increases are mirrored by rising rates of many other cancers. More recently the breast cancer epidemic has spread to developing nations, as well.
In the last decade, breast cancer incidence in many nations has shot up even more rapidly, increasing by 4 percent annually in the U.S., making breast cancer now the most common of all cancers among women. In many developing nations, incidence rates of the disease have begun to increase, as well. By the year 2000, breast cancer is expected to kill 1 million women each year.
Breast Cancer Risk Factors
Recognized risk factors for breast cancer-genetic inheritance, reproductive and hormonal factors, and diet-account for an estimated 20 to 30 percent of all breast cancer incidence. Other factors, including alcohol consumption and exposure to radiation from nuclear tests and mammograms, also appear to play a role, but the majority of breast cancer remains unexplained.
There is clearly a relationship between sex hormones-especially elevated levels of estrogen-and increased breast cancer risk. Further, the types of breast cancer rising most rapidly are those that respond to estrogen. Changes in reproductive behavior and other hormonal factors-number of children and age at first and last childbirth, use of contraceptives and estrogen replacement therapy, for example-account for a portion of breast cancer risk but do not explain changes in hormonal status that would lead to the large-scale increases in breast cancer that are taking place. Exposure to industrial chemicals, including organochlorines-some of which mimic or interfere with the action of natural hormones-may explain some of the increase.
The role of dietary fat in breast cancer risk is controversial. Nations with high per capita fat intake also have high breast cancer rates, and increased fat consumption seems to be associated with modest increases in breast cancer risk. But fat consumption tends to rise with the degree of industrialization, pollution, and other confounding factors; correlations of national fat intake and breast cancer rates may indicate an underlying cause other than the fat itself. And none of the epidemiological studies that have investigated the role of fat consumption in breast cancer have considered the role of chemical contaminants that concentrate in the fat, including organochlorines.
Just as identified risk factors account for only a small portion of breast cancer incidence, the epidemic increases in incidence of the disease are not explained by changes in these factors. Changes in diet, reproductive habits, and contraceptive use may have contributed but do not explain the entire increase.
Researchers have begun to suspect that exposure to "zeno-estrogens"-industrial, agricultural, and pharmaceutical chemicals that mimic estrogen in the body-may play an important role in the increasing incidence rates of cancer of the breast and certain other sites and reproductive and development impairment. Environmental factors that cause genetic mutations or suppress the immune system may also be important.
Organochlorines: Priority Poisons
The evidence indicates that carcinogenic and hormonally-active chemicals in the environment may play a significant role in breast cancer. Among the suspects are the organochlorines, a class of industrial chemicals made from chlorine and carbon-based organic matter. Although these chemicals were first produced around the turn of the century, production did not reach a large scale until the decades following World War II. Now, the chemical industry produces about 40 million tons of chlorine annually.
Organochlorines include such highly persistent and toxic substances as dioxin, DDT, PCBs, the ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), plus thousands of lesser known chemicals. Almost 80 percent of all chlorine is used in the chemical industry to produce PVC (vinyl) and other plastics, pesticides, industrial solvents and other chemicals; use of chlorine bleach in the pulp and paper industry is another important use, while much smaller amounts are used to disinfect wastewater and drinking water. Incinerators that burn chlorine-containing trash and hazardous wastes are an additional source of organochlorine discharges to the environment.
Many organochlorines persist in the environment for decades or even centuries. Many also accumulate in the tissues of living things, multiplying in concentration as they move up the food chain. Over the decades, they have built to higher and higher levels in the ecosystem, in the food chain, and in the bodies of wildlife and people. Industrial organochlorines can now be found in ecosystems absolutely everywhere on the planet-in the deep oceans, in Arctic polar bears, in Antarctica.
Organochlorines also now contaminate the bodies of all people: 177 organochlorines have been found in the tissues and fluids of people in North America, including a wide range of pesticides, solvents, chemical by-products, and other compounds. Hundreds more organochlorines are known to be present but have not yet been individually identified.
Organochlorines tend to be very toxic, often in tiny doses. Effects include reproductive and developmental impairment, hormonal disruptions, genetic mutations, cancer, birth defects, immune suppression, neurological and behavioral toxicity, and damage to the liver, kidneys, skin.
A growing body of evidence indicates that organochlorine pollution is already severe enough to be a major hazard to the health of people and wildlife. Organochlorines have been linked to large-scale hormonal disruptions, population declines, infertility and other reproductive problems, birth defects, impaired development, neurological and behavioral alteration, immune suppression and some types of cancer among people and wildlife.
Organochlorines are not the only widespread, toxic, or carcinogenic pollutants in the environment. Nor are they the only ones that may contribute to breast cancer. Organochlorines are a priority for phase-out, however, for two reasons. First, they tend to dominate officials lists of priority pollutants, typically making up half or more of chemicals of concern, precisely because they tend to be so persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic, and widespread.
Second, organochlorines are preventable: alternatives are available now for all major uses of chlorine. This report focuses on organochlorines not because they are the only cause of breast cancer, but because they may be an important one and they are highly preventable.
Organochlorines and Breast Cancer
Several lines of evidence suggest that organochlorines contribute to breast cancer among the general population.
1) Experimental evidence. Hundreds of organochlorines have been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals and/or humans. Of the thousands that have not yet been tested, at least some are likely to turn out to be carcinogenic, as well.
2) At least 16 organochlorines or groups of organochlorines have been found specifically to cause mammary cancers in laboratory animals, despite the fact that only a few have been tested for this effect. Some are pesticides-such as DDT, aldrin, dieldrin, and chlordane-that have already been restricted but remain common environmental contaminants and are still used in other nations. But other organochlorines identified as mammary carcinogens are still in common use, including the following:
- Atrazine: one of the most widely-used herbicides in North America and Europe and an extremely common contaminant of groundwater and surface water;
- Vinyl chloride, ethylene dichloride, and vinyledene chloride: feedstocks for the common plastics polyvinyl chloride (PVC, or vinyl) and polyvinylidene chloride (Saran wrap);
- Methylene chloride: a common solvent and paint-stripper;
- Dichlorobenzidines, dichloropropane and trichloro-propane: intermediates used in the chemical industry to produce dyes and other chemicals.
3) Most organochlorines have not been tested for a link to breast cancer; it is likely that some of these, particularly those that are structurally or toxicologically similar to those already identified as mammary carcinogens, will turn out to cause the same effect.
4) Biological mechanisms. Recent research into the behavior of organochlorines in the body shows how these chemicals could contribute to breast cancer in people. Organochlorines have been shown to cause genetic mutations, suppress the immune system, and disrupt the body's natural controls on cell growth and replication.
Some organochlorines are known to be "hormonally active": they mimic or otherwise disrupt the natural action of the body's natural sex hormones, including estrogen. Since estrogen is a known risk factor for breast cancer, chemicals that act like estrogen are also likely to increase risk of the disease. Exposures to these chemicals during adulthood may cause estrogen-like effects and promote breast cancer. And in utero exposure to hormonally active chemicals can cause lifelong changes in the endocrine system that may lead to breast cancer risk many years later.
5) Breast cancer in women with high exposures. Women exposed to higher-than-normal levels of synthetic chemicals-including organochlorines-have been found to have significantly elevated rates of breast cancer. These groups include women chemical industry workers exposed to dioxin, women living near hazardous waste sites, women chemists, and women workers exposed to chlorinated and non-chlorinated solvents.
6) Tissue studies. Important new research has linked organochlorines to breast cancer risk among women from the general population-those with no unusual chemical exposures. Several studies have found a relationship between the levels of certain organochlorines in a woman's blood, fat, or breast tissues and her risk of breast cancer. Women with the highest concentrations of certain organochlorine pesticides in their bodies have been found to have breast cancer risks 4 to 10 times higher than women with lower levels. If future research confirms that the effect of these chemicals is indeed that strong, organochlorines would be among the most important breast cancer risk factors ever identified.
7) The case of Israel. In Israel, national policies to ban organochlorines appear to have helped reduce breast cancer rates. Until the mid-1970s, both breast cancer rates and contamination levels by several organochlorine pesticides were among the very highest in the world. Following an aggressive phase-out program of those chemicals, contamination levels dropped to the levels found in other countries, and breast cancer mortality quickly followed, dropping to a rate similar to that in other nations. This decline, which was distributed across age groups in a "dose-response" pattern, is especially notable, given the rapid increases in breast cancer that were taking place in other nations during the same period. Further, all other dietary and reproductive risk factors in Israel actually grew worse during the period in question.
8) Related effects in people and wildlife. Emerging evidence implicates global organochlorine contamination in an array of other health effects among humans and wildlife. Current contaminants levels are in the range at which hormonal disruptions and other effects are known to occur. Exposure to these compounds has been linked to infertility, reproductive failure, developmental impairment, immune suppression, and possible other cancers-notably testicular cancer-among marine mammals, other species of fish and wildlife, and humans. If environmental levels of organochlorines are high enough to cause these effects, it is plausible that they are also high enough to cause breast cancer.
9) Trends in breast cancer incidence rates are consistent with increasing contamination by organochlorines. Industrialized nations, with more severe pollution, also tend to have much higher breast cancer rates than less industrialized countries.
Proof or Precaution: When Do We Act?
Do these studies PROVE that organochlorines are causing increased breast cancer rates? If proof is defined as evidence, beyond any doubt, of a cause-effect link between individual chemicals and the disease, in which all possible confounding influences have been eliminated, the answer is no.
But this standard of proof will never be fulfilled, because of the complex reality of global chemical contamination and the limited tools available to epidemiologists and toxicologists. It is unethical, irresponsible and unrealistic to require strict proof, because such an approach takes preventative action only after irreversible damage to health and the environment have taken place.
We need a new standard of proof. In the fields of health and environmental protection, the Precautionary Principle should be the basis for evaluating scientific information and formulating public policy.
The Precautionary Principle requires preventive action and places the burden of proof on those who would cause pollution rather than on those who would prevent it. Because we cannot predict the precise impacts that chemicals will have on the environment and on human health, the Precautionary Principle requires that we err on the side of caution. We should not wait for scientific proof of harm before we take action: the use and discharge of chemicals that MAY cause harm should be avoided. The precautionary framework allows us to take action to prevent disease before it is too late.
Many National governments, including that of the U.S., have agreed in international fora, such as the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), that precautionary, preventive action must be taken when there is reason to believe that harm may occur, without waiting for scientific proof of cause-effect relationships. Many governments that have committed to this approach, however, have yet to put action behind their words.
There is no reason to dismiss scientific evidence linking pollution to human health impacts simply because it does not reach the level of formal scientific proof. Rather, we should take a holistic approach to the data on the characteristics of chemical classes, and studies on laboratory animals, wildlife, and humans. The precautionary framework considers the effects of chemical mixtures, accepts the limits of epidemiological and toxicological studies to untangle cause-effect linkages, admits information that may be indirect or suggestive, and applies evidence from one species or disease to another, when appropriate. The Precautionary approach evolved from the recognition that even the most sophisticated environmental impact assessment models cannot cope with the diversity, quantity and complexity of chemical compounds and of environmental and human biological processes.
Seen in such a framework, the studies presented in this report indicate that organochlorines are likely to contribute to breast cancer rates in the general population. This does not mean that organochlorines play their role in isolation; presumably, they have acted in combination with other changing risk factors to produce the increasing breast cancer rates now apparent across the world. Nor does it mean that every single organochlorine contributes to breast cancer; current evidence implicates many individual organochlorines, and it is likely that at least some of the thousands more that have not yet been investigated will also turn out to be involved as well. Many organochlorines that do not contribute to breast cancer can cause other health effects in people and wildlife.
Research should continue to further identify the relationship between breast cancer, organochlorines, and other risk factors. But enough is known now to justify action to protect women's health: no further organochlorine pollution should be permitted.
Recommendations: Phasing-Out Chlorine and Organochlorine
There is more than enough evidence to conclude that the class of organochlorines may pose serious hazards to health and the environment: members of this class tend to be toxic, persistent, and/or bioaccumulative and to produce even more dangerous organochlorine by-products at some point during their life-cycles. The Precautionary Principle-and common sense-thus requires that the burden of proof be reversed and that organochlorines be phased out. A phase-out of the production, use and discharge of these chemicals into the environment should begin immediately.
It would take centuries to phase-out the thousands of organochlorines in commerce on a chemical-by-chemical basis. Further, organochlorines are never made in isolation but are always formed in complex mixtures of products and by-products, so there is no effective way to regulate them one-by-one. Phase-outs should focus not on individual chemicals but on the major industrial sectors and processes that use and produce these compounds. Chlorine-free alternatives are available now for all major uses of chlorine, including PVC and other chlorinated plastics, chlorinated bleaches, pesticides, solvents, disinfectants, and chemical intermediates.
Several international bodies have already concluded that organochlorines should be phased-out as a class, including the International Joint Commission on the Great Lakes-a bi-national advisory body to the U.S. and Canadian governments-and the Paris Commission on Land Based Sources of Pollution to the North Atlantic, a ministerial convention of fifteen European nations. The IJC recommended that the U.S. and Canadian governments begin a scheduled phase-out of industrial processes that use chlorine and organochlorines begun in the U.S. and Canada. The parties to the Paris Commission agreed that discharges of organohalogens should be reduced with the aim of their elimination and that measures should be adopted to prohibit the use of organohalogens and substitute alternative processes and substances where those compounds are now produced and used.
The emerging evidence on the relationship between organochlorine contamination and breast cancer provides compelling new support for these calls to phase-out chlorine and related chemicals. A public health policy that emphasizes dis-ease prevention must lead to environmental policies that prohibit environmental discharges of dis-ease-causing chemicals, particularly organochlorines.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
India 's 9/11
I got an email from Vishal Mangalwadi whose ARTICLE I posted earlier. He was interviewd on Fox News LA about religious hatred. I searched for a video clipping but did not find any. Here is the news story they had
Faces of Terror - courtesy FOX NEWS LA
UPDATED @ 9:35 a.m. EST — Indian officials say commandos are engaged in a fierce gunfight with terrorists holding an unknown number of hostages inside the luxury Oberoi-Trident hotel complex in Mumbai.
Police have taken at least seven people out of the two-hotel complex, one of three buildings where gunmen are still holding hostages in country's financial capital.
The roof of the Oberoi hotel was ablaze as a result of explosions inside the building.
Commandos reportedly were sweeping through the adjoining Trident hotel, checking to see if terrorists were using it as an escape route.
A FOXNews.com correspondent traveling in the region reports that some of the terrorists may have fled Mumbai in stolen government Jeeps, and that police and military forces were setting up checkpoints and roadblocks around the city, according to local media reports.
The Associated Press reports one of the rescued hostages told reporters he had seen many bodies inside the hotel. He did not give his name.
Indian TV, meanwhile, reports government officials fear the death toll at the Taj Mahal hotel could be high, with as many as 80-90 bodies inside. Some of the dead appear to have been killed by the gunmen, while others may have died in subsequent explosions and fires.
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Among the bodies removed are those of Australian, Japanese and British nationals.
A senior U.S. State Department official told FOX News that it could not yet confirm whether any Americans are among the casualties.
Meanwhile, Indian police reportedly are negotiating with gunmen holding hostages at the ultra-orthodox Jewish Chabad Lubavitch Center.
There were unconfirmed reports that some of the hostages at the Oberoi hotel are Israeli nationals.
Reuters reports a militant at the Lubavitch Center phoned an Indian TV station with an offer to talk with government officials about the release of hostages.
The caller reportedly also complained about abuses in Indian Kashmir.
"Are you aware how many people have been killed in Kashmir?" the caller asked, speaking in Urdu. "Are you aware how your army has killed Muslims. Are you aware how many of them have been killed in Kashmir this week?"
A previously unknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attacks in e-mails to several media outlets. While there was no way to verify that claim, security experts in India and U.S. speculated the group either is an Al Qaeda faction, or has the backing the Muslim terrorist group.
Dozens of people are still trapped or held captive, nearly a day after teams of heavily armed gunmen invaded two five star hotels, a popular restaurant, a crowded train station and a Jewish center, killing at least 104 people in coordinated attacks on India's commercial center.
Pradeep Indulkar, a senior official at the Maharashtra state Home Ministry said 101 people were killed and 314 injured.
Officials said the bodies of nine militants were removed from the scene.
The gunmen appeared to be part of coordinated attacks on at least 10 sites that began around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday local time.
Gunmen also seized the Mumbai headquarters of the ultra-orthodox Jewish outreach group Chabad Lubavitch. Indian commandos surrounded the building Thursday morning and witnesses said gunfire was heard from the building.
Click to view photos from the attack sites
Police loudspeakers declared a curfew around Mumbai's landmark Taj Mahal hotel, and black-clad commandos ran into the building as fresh gunshots rang out from the area, apparently the beginning of an assault on gunmen who had taken hostages in the hotel.
Soldiers outside the hotel said forces were moving slowly, from room to room, looking for gunmen and traps. At noon, two bodies covered with white cloth were wheeled out of the entrance and put in ambulances.
A series of explosions rocked the Taj Mahal just after midnight. Screams were heard and black smoke and flames billowed from the century-old edifice on Mumbai's waterfront. Firefighters sprayed water at the blaze and plucked people from balconies with extension ladders. By dawn, the fire was still burning.
At the nearby upscale Oberoi hotel, soldiers could be seen on the roof of neighboring buildings. A banner hung out of one window read "save us." No one could be seen inside the room from the road.
Officials at Bombay Hospital, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a Japanese man had died there and nine Europeans had been admitted, three of them in critical condition with gunshots. All had come from the Taj Mahal, the officials said.
At least three top Indian police officers — including the chief of the anti-terror squad — were among those killed, said and A.N. Roy, a top police official.
The attackers specifically targeted Britons, Americans and Israelis at the hotels and restaurant, witnesses said.
Alex Chamberlain, a British citizen who was dining at the Oberoi, told Sky News television that a gunman ushered 30 to 40 people from the restaurant into a stairway and, speaking in Hindi or Urdu, ordered everyone to put up their hands.
Click to view photos from the attack sites
"They were talking about British and Americans specifically. There was an Italian guy, who, you know, they said: 'Where are you from?" and he said he's from Italy and they said 'fine' and they left him alone. And I thought: 'Fine, they're going to shoot me if they ask me anything — and thank God they didn't," he said.
Chamberlain said he managed to slip away as the patrons were forced to walk up stairs, but he thought much of the group was being held hostage.
The White House, meanwhile, said President Bush expressed condolences to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the attacks.
Press secretary Dana Perino said the president had the conversation with the Indian leader while spending Thanksgiving Day with his family at the Camp David mountaintop retreat in Maryland.
Perino said that Bush offered Singh "support and assistance" as he works to restore order in the populous and growing Southwest Asian nation. The president also wished Singh success as Indian officials investigate "these despicable acts" in Mumbai.
The motive for the onslaught was not immediately clear, but Mumbai has frequently been targeted in terrorist attacks blamed on Islamic extremists, including a series of bombings in July 2006 that killed 187 people.
Mumbai, on the western coast of India overlooking the Arabian Sea, is home to splendid Victorian architecture built during the British Raj and is one of the most populated cities in the world with some 18 million crammed into shantytowns, high rises and crumbling mansions. The Taj Mahal hotel, filled with Oriental carpets, Indian artifacts and alabaster ceilings, overlooks the fabled Gateway of India that commemorated the visit of King George V and Queen Mary.
A spokesman for the Lubavitch movement in New York, Rabbi Zalman Shmotkin, said attackers "stormed the Chabad house" in Mumbai.
"It seems that the terrorists commandeered a police vehicle which allowed them easy access to the area of the Chabad house and threw a grenade at a gas pump nearby," he said.
Around 10:30 a.m., three people were led from the building and escorted away by police: a woman, a child and an Indian cook, said one witness, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.
He said he did not know the status of occupants of the house, which serves as an educational center and a synagogue.
Early Thursday, state Home Secretary Bipin Shrimali said four suspects had been killed in two incidents in Mumbai when they tried to flee in cars, and Roy said four more gunmen were killed at the Taj Mahal. State Home Minister R.R. Patil said nine more were arrested. They declined to provide any further details.
"We're going to catch them dead or alive," Patil told reporters. "An attack on Mumbai is an attack on the rest of the country."
Indian authorities ordered schools and colleges and the Bombay Stock Exchange closed Thursday.
Blood smeared the grounds of the 19th century Chhatrapati Shivaji railroad station — a beautiful example of Victorian Gothic architecture — where attackers sprayed bullets into the crowded terminal.
Photos in the Mumbai Mirror newspaper showed a young gunman — dressed like a college student in cargo pants and a black T-shirt — walking casually through the station, an assault rifle hanging from one hand and two knapsacks slung over a shoulder.
Nasim Inam, a witness said four of the attackers gunned down scores of commuters. "They just fired randomly at people and then ran away. In seconds, people fell to the ground."
Other gunmen attacked Leopold's restaurant, a landmark popular with foreigners, and the police headquarters in southern Mumbai, the area where most of the attacks took place. The restaurant was riddled with bullet holes and there was blood on the floor and shoes left by fleeing customers. Gunmen also attacked Cama and Albless Hospital and G.T. Hospital, though it was not immediately clear if anyone was killed.
Early Thursday, several European lawmakers were among those who barricaded themselves inside the Taj, a century-old seaside hotel complex and one of the city's best-known destinations.
"I was in the main lobby and there was all of a sudden a lot of firing outside," said Sajjad Karim, part of a delegation of European lawmakers visiting Mumbai ahead of a European Union-India summit.
As he turned to get away, "all of a sudden another gunman appeared in front of us, carrying machine gun-type weapons. And he just started firing at us ... I just turned and ran in the opposite direction," he told The Associated Press over his mobile phone.
Hours later, Karim remained holed up in a hotel restaurant, unsure if it was safe to come out.
Since May a militant group calling itself the Indian Mujahideen has taken credit for a string of blasts that killed more than 130 people. The most recent was in September, when explosions struck a park and crowded shopping areas in the capital, New Delhi, killing 21 people and wounding about 100.
Relations between Hindus, who make up more than 80 percent of India's 1 billion population, and Muslims, who make up about 14 percent, have sporadically erupted into bouts of sectarian violence since British-ruled India was split into independent India and Pakistan in 1947
Faces of Terror - courtesy FOX NEWS LA
UPDATED @ 9:35 a.m. EST — Indian officials say commandos are engaged in a fierce gunfight with terrorists holding an unknown number of hostages inside the luxury Oberoi-Trident hotel complex in Mumbai.
Police have taken at least seven people out of the two-hotel complex, one of three buildings where gunmen are still holding hostages in country's financial capital.
The roof of the Oberoi hotel was ablaze as a result of explosions inside the building.
Commandos reportedly were sweeping through the adjoining Trident hotel, checking to see if terrorists were using it as an escape route.
A FOXNews.com correspondent traveling in the region reports that some of the terrorists may have fled Mumbai in stolen government Jeeps, and that police and military forces were setting up checkpoints and roadblocks around the city, according to local media reports.
The Associated Press reports one of the rescued hostages told reporters he had seen many bodies inside the hotel. He did not give his name.
Indian TV, meanwhile, reports government officials fear the death toll at the Taj Mahal hotel could be high, with as many as 80-90 bodies inside. Some of the dead appear to have been killed by the gunmen, while others may have died in subsequent explosions and fires.
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Among the bodies removed are those of Australian, Japanese and British nationals.
A senior U.S. State Department official told FOX News that it could not yet confirm whether any Americans are among the casualties.
Meanwhile, Indian police reportedly are negotiating with gunmen holding hostages at the ultra-orthodox Jewish Chabad Lubavitch Center.
There were unconfirmed reports that some of the hostages at the Oberoi hotel are Israeli nationals.
Reuters reports a militant at the Lubavitch Center phoned an Indian TV station with an offer to talk with government officials about the release of hostages.
The caller reportedly also complained about abuses in Indian Kashmir.
"Are you aware how many people have been killed in Kashmir?" the caller asked, speaking in Urdu. "Are you aware how your army has killed Muslims. Are you aware how many of them have been killed in Kashmir this week?"
A previously unknown group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attacks in e-mails to several media outlets. While there was no way to verify that claim, security experts in India and U.S. speculated the group either is an Al Qaeda faction, or has the backing the Muslim terrorist group.
Dozens of people are still trapped or held captive, nearly a day after teams of heavily armed gunmen invaded two five star hotels, a popular restaurant, a crowded train station and a Jewish center, killing at least 104 people in coordinated attacks on India's commercial center.
Pradeep Indulkar, a senior official at the Maharashtra state Home Ministry said 101 people were killed and 314 injured.
Officials said the bodies of nine militants were removed from the scene.
The gunmen appeared to be part of coordinated attacks on at least 10 sites that began around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday local time.
Gunmen also seized the Mumbai headquarters of the ultra-orthodox Jewish outreach group Chabad Lubavitch. Indian commandos surrounded the building Thursday morning and witnesses said gunfire was heard from the building.
Click to view photos from the attack sites
Police loudspeakers declared a curfew around Mumbai's landmark Taj Mahal hotel, and black-clad commandos ran into the building as fresh gunshots rang out from the area, apparently the beginning of an assault on gunmen who had taken hostages in the hotel.
Soldiers outside the hotel said forces were moving slowly, from room to room, looking for gunmen and traps. At noon, two bodies covered with white cloth were wheeled out of the entrance and put in ambulances.
A series of explosions rocked the Taj Mahal just after midnight. Screams were heard and black smoke and flames billowed from the century-old edifice on Mumbai's waterfront. Firefighters sprayed water at the blaze and plucked people from balconies with extension ladders. By dawn, the fire was still burning.
At the nearby upscale Oberoi hotel, soldiers could be seen on the roof of neighboring buildings. A banner hung out of one window read "save us." No one could be seen inside the room from the road.
Officials at Bombay Hospital, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a Japanese man had died there and nine Europeans had been admitted, three of them in critical condition with gunshots. All had come from the Taj Mahal, the officials said.
At least three top Indian police officers — including the chief of the anti-terror squad — were among those killed, said and A.N. Roy, a top police official.
The attackers specifically targeted Britons, Americans and Israelis at the hotels and restaurant, witnesses said.
Alex Chamberlain, a British citizen who was dining at the Oberoi, told Sky News television that a gunman ushered 30 to 40 people from the restaurant into a stairway and, speaking in Hindi or Urdu, ordered everyone to put up their hands.
Click to view photos from the attack sites
"They were talking about British and Americans specifically. There was an Italian guy, who, you know, they said: 'Where are you from?" and he said he's from Italy and they said 'fine' and they left him alone. And I thought: 'Fine, they're going to shoot me if they ask me anything — and thank God they didn't," he said.
Chamberlain said he managed to slip away as the patrons were forced to walk up stairs, but he thought much of the group was being held hostage.
The White House, meanwhile, said President Bush expressed condolences to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the attacks.
Press secretary Dana Perino said the president had the conversation with the Indian leader while spending Thanksgiving Day with his family at the Camp David mountaintop retreat in Maryland.
Perino said that Bush offered Singh "support and assistance" as he works to restore order in the populous and growing Southwest Asian nation. The president also wished Singh success as Indian officials investigate "these despicable acts" in Mumbai.
The motive for the onslaught was not immediately clear, but Mumbai has frequently been targeted in terrorist attacks blamed on Islamic extremists, including a series of bombings in July 2006 that killed 187 people.
Mumbai, on the western coast of India overlooking the Arabian Sea, is home to splendid Victorian architecture built during the British Raj and is one of the most populated cities in the world with some 18 million crammed into shantytowns, high rises and crumbling mansions. The Taj Mahal hotel, filled with Oriental carpets, Indian artifacts and alabaster ceilings, overlooks the fabled Gateway of India that commemorated the visit of King George V and Queen Mary.
A spokesman for the Lubavitch movement in New York, Rabbi Zalman Shmotkin, said attackers "stormed the Chabad house" in Mumbai.
"It seems that the terrorists commandeered a police vehicle which allowed them easy access to the area of the Chabad house and threw a grenade at a gas pump nearby," he said.
Around 10:30 a.m., three people were led from the building and escorted away by police: a woman, a child and an Indian cook, said one witness, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.
He said he did not know the status of occupants of the house, which serves as an educational center and a synagogue.
Early Thursday, state Home Secretary Bipin Shrimali said four suspects had been killed in two incidents in Mumbai when they tried to flee in cars, and Roy said four more gunmen were killed at the Taj Mahal. State Home Minister R.R. Patil said nine more were arrested. They declined to provide any further details.
"We're going to catch them dead or alive," Patil told reporters. "An attack on Mumbai is an attack on the rest of the country."
Indian authorities ordered schools and colleges and the Bombay Stock Exchange closed Thursday.
Blood smeared the grounds of the 19th century Chhatrapati Shivaji railroad station — a beautiful example of Victorian Gothic architecture — where attackers sprayed bullets into the crowded terminal.
Photos in the Mumbai Mirror newspaper showed a young gunman — dressed like a college student in cargo pants and a black T-shirt — walking casually through the station, an assault rifle hanging from one hand and two knapsacks slung over a shoulder.
Nasim Inam, a witness said four of the attackers gunned down scores of commuters. "They just fired randomly at people and then ran away. In seconds, people fell to the ground."
Other gunmen attacked Leopold's restaurant, a landmark popular with foreigners, and the police headquarters in southern Mumbai, the area where most of the attacks took place. The restaurant was riddled with bullet holes and there was blood on the floor and shoes left by fleeing customers. Gunmen also attacked Cama and Albless Hospital and G.T. Hospital, though it was not immediately clear if anyone was killed.
Early Thursday, several European lawmakers were among those who barricaded themselves inside the Taj, a century-old seaside hotel complex and one of the city's best-known destinations.
"I was in the main lobby and there was all of a sudden a lot of firing outside," said Sajjad Karim, part of a delegation of European lawmakers visiting Mumbai ahead of a European Union-India summit.
As he turned to get away, "all of a sudden another gunman appeared in front of us, carrying machine gun-type weapons. And he just started firing at us ... I just turned and ran in the opposite direction," he told The Associated Press over his mobile phone.
Hours later, Karim remained holed up in a hotel restaurant, unsure if it was safe to come out.
Since May a militant group calling itself the Indian Mujahideen has taken credit for a string of blasts that killed more than 130 people. The most recent was in September, when explosions struck a park and crowded shopping areas in the capital, New Delhi, killing 21 people and wounding about 100.
Relations between Hindus, who make up more than 80 percent of India's 1 billion population, and Muslims, who make up about 14 percent, have sporadically erupted into bouts of sectarian violence since British-ruled India was split into independent India and Pakistan in 1947
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They say watching the news and reading newspapers makes you insensitive and you just shrug away the woes of the world around you. But not for me I just could not prevent myself from crying as I watched the news.
Thank you friends for asking about our well being and safey and for your prayers.
We just can 't help feeling more and more vulnerable and insecure. as each new terror episode unfolds in our country.When I was growing up terror attacks only happened in distant lands and they were few and far inbetween.But now they are right at our doorstep.
My mother is so scared when I leave the house for business.We lock the front door when we are not outside. All this was unthinkable a few years ago.
We are living in the days of pre-flood Noah.
What Is Causing Ocean Acidification?
Since the beginning of the industrial revolution the release of the acid carbon dioxide (CO2) from human activities has resulted in atmospheric CO2 concentrations that have increased from approximately 280 to 385 parts per million (ppm). The atmospheric concentration of CO2 is now higher than experienced on Earth for at least the last 800,000 years and probably over 20 million years, and is expected to continue to rise at an increasing rate, leading to significant temperature increases in the atmosphere and oceans in the coming decades. The oceans have absorbed approximately 525 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, or about one third of the anthropogenic carbon emissions released. This absorption has benefited humankind by significantly reducing the greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere and minimizing some of the impacts of global warming. However, the ocean's uptake of carbon dioxide is having negative impacts on the chemistry and biology of the oceans. Hydrographic surveys and modeling studies have revealed that the chemical changes in seawater resulting from the absorption of carbon dioxide are lowering seawater pH. The pH of ocean surface waters has already decreased by about 0.1 units from an average of about 8.21 to 8.10 since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Estimates of future atmospheric and oceanic carbon dioxide concentrations, based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) CO2 emission scenarios and coupled ocean-atmosphere models, suggest that by the middle of this century atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could reach more than 500 ppm, and near the end of the century they could be over 800 ppm. This would result in an additional surface water pH decrease of approximately 0.3 pH units by 2100.
The ocean absorbs approximately 1/3rd of the CO2 emitted to the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels (1). However, this valuable service comes at a steep ecological cost - the acidification of the ocean. As CO2 dissolves in seawater, the pH of the water decreases, which is called "acidification".
Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, ocean pH has dropped globally by approximately 0.1 pH units.
Past and present variability of marine pH. Future predictions for years shown on the right-hand side of the figure are model-derived values based on IPCC mean scenarios. From Pearson and Palmer (2), adapted by Turley et al. (3) and from the Eur-Oceans Fact Sheet No. 7, "Ocean Acidification - the other half of the CO2 problem", May 2007 (4).
While these pH levels are not alarming in themselves, the rate of change is cause for concern. To the best of our knowledge, the ocean has never experienced such a rapid acidification. By the end of this century, if concentrations of CO2 continue to rise exponentially, we may expect to see changes in pH that are three times greater and 100 times faster than those experienced during the transitions from glacial to interglacial periods. Such large changes in ocean pH have probably not been experienced on the planet for the past 21 million years (5).
When the acid CO2 reacts with seawater, the reduction in alkaline seawater pH also reduces the availability of alkalizing carbonate ions, which play an important role in shell formation for a number of marine organisms such as corals, marine plankton, and shellfish. This phenomenon, which is commonly called "ocean acidification," could have profound impacts on some of the most fundamental biological and geochemical processes of the sea in coming decades. Some of the smaller calcifying organisms are important food sources for higher marine organisms. Declining coral reefs due to increases in temperature and decreases in carbonate ion would have negative impacts on tourism and fisheries. Abundance of commercially important shellfish species may also decline and negative impacts on finfish may occur. This rapidly emerging scientific issue and possible ecological impacts have raised serious concerns across the scientific and fisheries resource management communities.
When CO2 dissolves in seawater, it forms carbonic acid, which releases hydrogen ions into solution. Acidity is a measure of the hydrogen ion concentration in the water, where an increase in hydrogen leads to an increase in acidity (and a decrease in the pH scale used to quantify acidity). These hydrogen ions then combine with carbonate ions in the water to form bicarbonate. Carbonate ions are the basic building blocks for the shells of many marine organisms. Thus the formation of bicarbonate through this chemical reaction removes carbonate ions from the water, making them less available for use by organisms. The combination of increased acidity and decreased carbonate concentration has implications for many functions of marine organisms, many of which we do not yet fully understand.
The details of the reactions look like this:
When CO2 dissolves in seawater, carbonic acid is produced via the reaction:
This carbonic acid dissociates in the water, releasing hydrogen ions and bicarbonate:
The increase in the hydrogen ion concentration causes an increase in acidity, since acidity is defined by the pH scale, where pH = -log [H+] (so as hydrogen increases, the pH decreases). This log scale means that for every unit decrease on the pH scale, the hydrogen ion concentration has increased 10-fold.
One result of the release of hydrogen ions is that they combine with any carbonate ions in the water to form bicarbonate:
This removes carbonate ions from the water, making it more difficult for organisms to form the CaCO3 they need for their shells.
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The oceans are not, in fact, acidic, but slightly basic. Acidity is measured using the pH scale, where 7.0 is defined as neutral, with higher levels called "basic" and lower levels called "acidic". Historical global mean seawater values are approximately 8.16 on this scale, making them slightly basic. To put this in perspective, pure water has a pH of 7.0 (neutral), whereas household bleach has a pH of 12 (highly basic) and battery acid has a pH of zero (highly acidic). However, even a small change in pH may lead to large changes in ocean chemistry and ecosystem functioning. Over the past 300 million years, global mean ocean pH values have probably never been more than 0.6 units lower than today (6). Ocean ecosystems have thus evolved over time in a very stable pH environment, and it is unknown if they can adapt to such large and rapid changes.
Figure reproduced from the Pew Charitable Trust Policy Brief "Carbon Dioxide and Our Ocean Legacy", by Feely, Sabine, and Fabry (7). |
What can we expect in the future ?
Based on the emissions scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and general circulation models, we may expect a drop in ocean pH of about 0.4 pH units by the end of this century, and a 60% decrease in the concentration of calcium carbonate, the basic building block for the shells of many marine organisms (8).
Changes in atmospheric CO2 under the "business as usual" scenario to the year 2100 and associated changes in ocean pH and carbon chemsitry. Adapted from Wolf-gladrow et al., 1999 (9).
Today, the surface ocean is saturated with respect to calcium carbonate (including its several mineral forms, i.e., high-magnesium calcite, aragonite, and calcite), meaning that under present surface conditions these minerals have no tendancy to dissolve and that there is still enough calcium and carbonate ions available for marine organisms to build their shells or skeletons. Colder and deeper waters are naturally undersaturated with respect to calcium carbonate, where the water is corrosive enough to dissolve these minerals. The transition between saturated surface waters and undersaturated deep waters is called the saturation horizon. Because of the increase in CO2 entering into the ocean from the atmosphere, the saturation horizons for calcium carbonate have shifted towards the surface by 50-200 meters compared with their positions before the industrial revolution (10). This means that the zone occupied by undersaturated deep waters is growing larger and the zone occupied by the saturated surface waters is growing smaller.
By 2050, this saturated surface zone will begin to completely disappear in some areas of the ocean. High-latitude surface waters, already naturally low in calcium and carbonate ion concentration, will be the first to have undersaturated surface waters with respect to aragonite, with undersaturations for the calcite phase of calcium carbonate expected to follow 50-100 years later (11).
The figure below by Feely et al. (12) shows aragonite saturation levels from before the industrial revolution to 2100 and how these saturation levels affect the growth of both shallow and deep corals (models based on the work of Orr et al., 2005, (11)). Before the industrial revolution, we see large bands of the tropical ocean that are optimal for growth. By 2040, these same bands are only adequate, and by 2100 most areas are only marginal at best.
Many scientists believe that stabilizing atmospheric CO2 concentration at 550 parts per million (ppm) may avoid the worst impacts from climate change. Atmospheric concentration of CO2 is currently ~380 ppm and, if no precautionary action is taken, is expected to reach 550 ppm by the middle of this century. However, if we consider the impacts of CO2 on ocean chemistry and ecosystems rather than on climate considerations alone, there are strong arguments to be made for a lower stabilization target of 450 ppm.
In order to prevent changes that would lead to undersaturation of aragonite and put marine ecosystems at risk, it has been suggested that the average pH of surface waters should be prevented from dropping by more than 0.2 units below the pre-industrial value. Stabilization of atmospheric CO2 concentrations at 450 ppm by the year 2100 would lead to a pH decrease of about 0.17; stabiliztaion at 540 ppm by the year 2100 would lead to a decrease of 0.23 pH units. With stabilization at 450 ppm, about 7% of the Southern Ocean will still become undersaturated with respect to aragonite. At 550 ppm, about half of the Southern Ocean will be undersaturated (13, 14, 15).
(1) Sabine, C.L., et al. (2004), The Oceanic Sink for Anthropogenic CO2, Science, v305, 367-371.
(2) Pearson, P. and M. Palmer (2000), Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 60 million years, Nature, 406, 695 - 699.
(3) Turley, C., et al. (2006), Reviewing the Impact of Increased Atmospheric CO2 on Oceanic pH and the Marine Ecosystem, in Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, 65-70, Cambridge University Press.
(4) Eur-Oceans Fact Sheet No. 7 (2007), "Ocean Acidification - the other half of the CO2 problem".
(5) Priorities for Research on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World (2004) from the international science symposium The Ocean in a High-CO2 World.
(6) Caldeira, K. and M.E. Wickett (2003), Anthropogenic carbon and ocean pH, Nature, 425, 365.
(7) The Pew Charitable Trust Science Brief (2006), "Carbon Dioxide and Our Ocean Legacy", by R.A. Feely, C.L. Sabine, and V.J. Fabry.
(8) Feely, R.A. et al. (2004), Impact of Anthropogenic CO2 on the CaCO3 System in the Oceans, Science, v305, 362-366.
(9) Wolf-Gladrow et al. (1999) Direct effects of CO2 concentration on growth and isotopic composition of marine plankon. Tellus B, 51, 461-476.
(10) Doney, S.C. (2006), The Dangers of Ocean Acidification, Scientific American, 58-65.
(11) Orr, J.C. et al. (2005), Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms, Nature, 437, 681-686.
(12) Feely, R.A., J. Orr, V.J. Fabry, J.A. Kleypas, C.L. Sabine, and C. Landgon (2006): Present and future changes in seawater chemistry due to ocean acidification. AGU Monograph on "The Science and Technology of Carbon Sequestration," in press.
(13) The Future Oceans - Warming up, Rising High, Turning Sour (2006), A Special Report of the German Advisory Council on Global Change.
(14) Cao, L. and K. Caldeira (2007), Ocean acidification and atmospheric CO2 stabilization, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 34, L05607, doi: 10.1029/2006GL028605.
(15) Caldeira, K. and M.E. Wickett (2005), Ocean model predictions of chemistry changes from carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere and ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 110, C09S04, doi: 10.1029/2004JC002671.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Can Breast Cancer Tumors Disappear?
The following article by Kathleen Doheny, entitled, "Can Breast Cancer Disappear?" is significant because it supports my theory that tumors of the breast are not the cancer and can and do disappear just like the scab from a cut disappears as it becomes the new skin.
We need to understand that cancer is not the cell but an acidic environmental, metabolic, and/or a dietary liquid. With this understanding we can then stop treating the cells or the encapsulated cells that form the tumor and start treating the fluids that surround the cells of the body.
All cancers of the cell(s) or tissue(s) is a dis-ease of the fluids not a dis-ease of the cell(s) or tissue(s). Cancer is a four letter word - ACID! Cancer is a systemic condition that expresses itself in the weakest parts of the body. Cancer is not a localized cellular condition that metastasizes but a systemic acidic condition that localizes. Given time the tumor like the scab will disappear in a proper alkaline environment. Tumors of the breast are encapsulated acidic cells. Given time in an alkaline environment breast tumors will crystallize or harden, breakdown and disappear as new healthy tissue reappears. This is the case for any tumor wherever it may be found in the body, i.e., the lung, brain, liver, pancreas, etc.
The treatment for any cancerous condition to be ultimately successful must focus on the environment - the fluids around the cell(s) that make up the affected tissue(s) and not the cell(s) or tissue(s) themselves. A cancerous condition is what is happening to the cell(s) and tissue(s) and is not the cause but the affect of an acidic toxic environment.
So Can Breast Cancer Disappear?
One study shows some cancers detected by mammograms can regress on their own. The American Cancer Society Disagrees. Dr. Robert O. Young agrees that cancerous tumors, like the scab, can and do disappear in the proper alkaline environment.
Nov. 24, 2008 -- Can breast cancer disappear? The question may sound ridiculous, but some breast cancers detected on mammography may have spontaneously disappeared if they had not been found and treated, according to a team of researchers from Norway and Dartmouth Medical School.
But a spokesman for the American Cancer Society calls that conclusion an "overreaching leap in logic" and stresses that the benefits of regular mammograms far outweigh the potential harms.
"Some breast cancers will not continue to behave as cancers, even though they look like cancer under the microscope, and they grow and reach a size where they can be detected on mammograms," Jan Maehlen, MD, PhD, a study co-author, tells WebMD. "But if they had been left intact [instead of treated after detection], some will stop growing and shrink and disappear over a course of perhaps two years."
He calls these growths "pseudo-cancers." Even so, Maehlen says, "the message for women is go to screening."
In the study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Maehlen's team looked at breast cancer rates among women in Norway, all ages 50 to 64, who had a single mammogram or three mammograms.
The multiple-screened group included nearly 120,000 women, screened three times between the years 1996 and 2001. The comparison group included nearly 110,000 women, screened once at the end of the observation period.
After the final screening, breast cancer rates were 22% higher in the multiple-screened group. While 1,909 of every 100,000 women in the multiple-screened group had breast cancer, 1,564 of every 100,000 women in the comparison group screened only once did.
Breast Cancer Screening
Maehlen's team concludes that some breast cancers detected by repeat mammograms would not persist at the end of six years, because the total incidence of breast cancer among the comparison group never equaled that of the regularly screened group.
"Breast cancer screening is a two-sided sword," Maehlen says. "Our results shift the balance towards harm and away from benefits. On one hand, a malignant tumor may be detected and treated somewhat earlier and this may decrease the risk to die by a few percent. On the other hand there is a considerable risk that a screening-detected lesion is a pseudo cancer."
He says the results imply that as many as two out of three screenings detected lesions -- including invasive cancers and the noninvasive ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) -- may be pseudo cancers.
Maehlen expects the conclusion to spark debate. "The majority of the people in the field would be skeptical," he says.
As to which women might be more likely to have breast cancers that spontaneously regress, Maehlen says that is not known. "It could be the immune system is the cause for the disappearance of some cancers," he says, presumably with the healthiest immune systems most likely to fight off cancers.
Or, he says, it could depend on the biology of the individual cancer as to whether it regresses.
The American Cancer Society took issue with the thinking that cancer may regress on its own. "The conclusion that more than 1 in 5 invasive breast cancers is destined to regress without incident if not detected by mammography [the 22% figure cited in the study] is nothing more than an overreaching leap in logic," Robert A. Smith, PhD, director of cancer screening for the American Cancer Society, says in a prepared statement.
Other studies have found that "over-diagnosis" -- not the same as regression -- probably occurs in less than 5% of all screen-detected cancer cases if it exists at all, Smith says.
He says the benefits of regular mammograms far outweigh any limitations, such as false-positive results and "possibly a small rate of over-diagnosis."
The study has weaknesses, but also strengths, says Robert Kaplan, PhD, the Wasserman Distinguished Professor and chair of the department of health services at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health, in an editorial accompanying the study.
As a result, he writes, "the findings should not be dismissed."
The study, Kaplan says, points out how little experts know about the natural history of breast cancer.
The concept of breast cancer spontaneously regressing is worth further study, Kaplan writes.
To learn more about the acidic cause of ALL cancerous conditions may I suggest the following:
The pH Miracle by Dr. Robert and Shelley Young
The pH Miracle for Weight Loss by Dr. Robert and Shelley Young
Sick and Tired by Dr. Robert and Shelley Young
The pH Miracle for Cancer CD's by Dr. Robert O. Young
The Harvard Lecture by Dr. Robert O. Young
The pH Miracle DVD by Dr. Robert and Shelley Young
The Sexy Crazy Cancer DVD
Dropping A Ton and Having Fun - Cancer Made Simple produced by Mr. Rick Larenzi. To be released 2009
http://www.phmiracleliving.com/c-25-books-dvds-audios.aspx
We need to understand that cancer is not the cell but an acidic environmental, metabolic, and/or a dietary liquid. With this understanding we can then stop treating the cells or the encapsulated cells that form the tumor and start treating the fluids that surround the cells of the body.
All cancers of the cell(s) or tissue(s) is a dis-ease of the fluids not a dis-ease of the cell(s) or tissue(s). Cancer is a four letter word - ACID! Cancer is a systemic condition that expresses itself in the weakest parts of the body. Cancer is not a localized cellular condition that metastasizes but a systemic acidic condition that localizes. Given time the tumor like the scab will disappear in a proper alkaline environment. Tumors of the breast are encapsulated acidic cells. Given time in an alkaline environment breast tumors will crystallize or harden, breakdown and disappear as new healthy tissue reappears. This is the case for any tumor wherever it may be found in the body, i.e., the lung, brain, liver, pancreas, etc.
The treatment for any cancerous condition to be ultimately successful must focus on the environment - the fluids around the cell(s) that make up the affected tissue(s) and not the cell(s) or tissue(s) themselves. A cancerous condition is what is happening to the cell(s) and tissue(s) and is not the cause but the affect of an acidic toxic environment.
So Can Breast Cancer Disappear?
One study shows some cancers detected by mammograms can regress on their own. The American Cancer Society Disagrees. Dr. Robert O. Young agrees that cancerous tumors, like the scab, can and do disappear in the proper alkaline environment.
Nov. 24, 2008 -- Can breast cancer disappear? The question may sound ridiculous, but some breast cancers detected on mammography may have spontaneously disappeared if they had not been found and treated, according to a team of researchers from Norway and Dartmouth Medical School.
But a spokesman for the American Cancer Society calls that conclusion an "overreaching leap in logic" and stresses that the benefits of regular mammograms far outweigh the potential harms.
"Some breast cancers will not continue to behave as cancers, even though they look like cancer under the microscope, and they grow and reach a size where they can be detected on mammograms," Jan Maehlen, MD, PhD, a study co-author, tells WebMD. "But if they had been left intact [instead of treated after detection], some will stop growing and shrink and disappear over a course of perhaps two years."
He calls these growths "pseudo-cancers." Even so, Maehlen says, "the message for women is go to screening."
In the study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Maehlen's team looked at breast cancer rates among women in Norway, all ages 50 to 64, who had a single mammogram or three mammograms.
The multiple-screened group included nearly 120,000 women, screened three times between the years 1996 and 2001. The comparison group included nearly 110,000 women, screened once at the end of the observation period.
After the final screening, breast cancer rates were 22% higher in the multiple-screened group. While 1,909 of every 100,000 women in the multiple-screened group had breast cancer, 1,564 of every 100,000 women in the comparison group screened only once did.
Breast Cancer Screening
Maehlen's team concludes that some breast cancers detected by repeat mammograms would not persist at the end of six years, because the total incidence of breast cancer among the comparison group never equaled that of the regularly screened group.
"Breast cancer screening is a two-sided sword," Maehlen says. "Our results shift the balance towards harm and away from benefits. On one hand, a malignant tumor may be detected and treated somewhat earlier and this may decrease the risk to die by a few percent. On the other hand there is a considerable risk that a screening-detected lesion is a pseudo cancer."
He says the results imply that as many as two out of three screenings detected lesions -- including invasive cancers and the noninvasive ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) -- may be pseudo cancers.
Maehlen expects the conclusion to spark debate. "The majority of the people in the field would be skeptical," he says.
As to which women might be more likely to have breast cancers that spontaneously regress, Maehlen says that is not known. "It could be the immune system is the cause for the disappearance of some cancers," he says, presumably with the healthiest immune systems most likely to fight off cancers.
Or, he says, it could depend on the biology of the individual cancer as to whether it regresses.
The American Cancer Society took issue with the thinking that cancer may regress on its own. "The conclusion that more than 1 in 5 invasive breast cancers is destined to regress without incident if not detected by mammography [the 22% figure cited in the study] is nothing more than an overreaching leap in logic," Robert A. Smith, PhD, director of cancer screening for the American Cancer Society, says in a prepared statement.
Other studies have found that "over-diagnosis" -- not the same as regression -- probably occurs in less than 5% of all screen-detected cancer cases if it exists at all, Smith says.
He says the benefits of regular mammograms far outweigh any limitations, such as false-positive results and "possibly a small rate of over-diagnosis."
The study has weaknesses, but also strengths, says Robert Kaplan, PhD, the Wasserman Distinguished Professor and chair of the department of health services at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health, in an editorial accompanying the study.
As a result, he writes, "the findings should not be dismissed."
The study, Kaplan says, points out how little experts know about the natural history of breast cancer.
The concept of breast cancer spontaneously regressing is worth further study, Kaplan writes.
To learn more about the acidic cause of ALL cancerous conditions may I suggest the following:
The pH Miracle by Dr. Robert and Shelley Young
The pH Miracle for Weight Loss by Dr. Robert and Shelley Young
Sick and Tired by Dr. Robert and Shelley Young
The pH Miracle for Cancer CD's by Dr. Robert O. Young
The Harvard Lecture by Dr. Robert O. Young
The pH Miracle DVD by Dr. Robert and Shelley Young
The Sexy Crazy Cancer DVD
Dropping A Ton and Having Fun - Cancer Made Simple produced by Mr. Rick Larenzi. To be released 2009
http://www.phmiracleliving.com/c-25-books-dvds-audios.aspx
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Woke up this morning with this news.
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Mumbai Gunmen killed at least 101 people in a series of attacks in India's financial capital Mumbai and troops began moving into two five-star hotels on Thursday where Western hostages were being held, local television said.
Gunfire and explosions were heard at the landmark Taj Mahal hotel and thick plumes of smoke rose from the building, witnesses said. There were also explosions at the Oberoi hotel and firing at a hospital where gunmen were surrounded.
"The terrorists are throwing grenades at us from the rooftop of the Taj and trying to stop us from moving in," Ashok Patil, a police inspector said.
Police said at least 300 people were wounded in the attacks which also targeted a railway station and the Cafe Leopold, perhaps the most famous restaurant and hang-out for tourists in the city.
An organisation calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen said it was behind attacks, television channels said. The previously little known group sent an email to news organisations claiming responsibility.
"I guess they were after foreigners, because they were asking for British or American passports," said Rakesh Patel, a British witness who lives in Hong Kong and was staying at the Taj Mahal hotel on business. "They had bombs."
"They came from the restaurant and took us up the stairs," he told the NDTV news channel, smoke stains all over his face. "Young boys, maybe 20 years old, 25 years old. They had two guns."
India has suffered a wave of bomb attacks in recent years.
The latest attack, apparently aimed at least partly at prosperous Western tourists, is bound to spook investors in one of Asia's largest and fastest-growing economies.
Hemant Karkare, the chief of the police anti-terrorist squad in Mumbai, was killed during the attacks, police said.
"We have shot dead four terrorists and managed to arrest nine suspected terrorists," PD Ghadge, a police officer at Mumbai's central control room, told Reuters.
Japan's Foreign Ministry said one of its nationals was killed in the Mumbai attacks and one injured.
TRAPPED HOTEL GUESTS
Mark Abell, a British lawyer, said he had locked himself inside his Oberoi hotel room after hearing two explosions.
Several hundred people had been evacuated from the Taj hotel, one witness said, but many more remained inside, some calling for help from the fifth floor. Firefighters broke windows to reach trapped guests.
"We came down the fire exit, but I think they took some more people, they are trying to get to the roof," one foreigner told local television. "I think about 15 people (have been taken hostage), about half of them are foreigners."
In Washington, the White House and US President-elect Barack Obama condemned the attacks, as did France, current President of the European Union, and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
A European official was among the wounded.
"My hotel is surrounded by police and there are gunmen inside," European lawmaker Ignasi Guardans told Spanish radio from the Taj. "We are in contact with some deputies inside the hotel, with one in a room and another hidden in the kitchen. There's another official hurt and in hospital."
Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil said there were around four or five attackers in each of the two hotels.
"They have attacked hotels, they have attacked the hospitals, they have attacked the railway station," he said.
KOREANS, EUROPEANS CAUGHT UP IN ATTACKS
A driver told Reuters at least 50 Koreans were stuck inside the Taj with their drivers waiting outside.
"We were just getting ready to pick them up, when we heard the first blast, police did not let us get past and they (the Koreans) are not answering the phones," Deepak Aswar, the driver said. Europeans were also caught up in the attacks.
"I was in the restaurant inside Oberoi and I saw this series of gunshots and death which I don't want to see again," a Spaniard who declined to give his name told Reuters.
"I crawled out into the kitchen and waited there, until I sensed it was all quiet and seemed over."
Maharashtra state police chief A.N. Roy said attackers had fired automatic weapons indiscriminately, and used grenades, adding that they were still holed up in some buildings.
Sourav Mishra, a Reuters reporter, was with friends at the Cafe Leopold when gunmen opened fire around 9:30 p.m. He was injured and is in St George's Hospital.
"I heard some gunshots around 9:30. I was with my friends. Something hit me. I ran away and fell on the road. Then somebody picked me up. I have injuries below my shoulder," Mishra said from a hospital bed he was sharing with three other people.
Another Reuters reporter saw a hospital ward full of injured people with bullet and shrapnel wounds. Many people were crying as the injured were brought in on trolleys.
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Mumbai Gunmen killed at least 101 people in a series of attacks in India's financial capital Mumbai and troops began moving into two five-star hotels on Thursday where Western hostages were being held, local television said.
Gunfire and explosions were heard at the landmark Taj Mahal hotel and thick plumes of smoke rose from the building, witnesses said. There were also explosions at the Oberoi hotel and firing at a hospital where gunmen were surrounded.
"The terrorists are throwing grenades at us from the rooftop of the Taj and trying to stop us from moving in," Ashok Patil, a police inspector said.
Police said at least 300 people were wounded in the attacks which also targeted a railway station and the Cafe Leopold, perhaps the most famous restaurant and hang-out for tourists in the city.
An organisation calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen said it was behind attacks, television channels said. The previously little known group sent an email to news organisations claiming responsibility.
"I guess they were after foreigners, because they were asking for British or American passports," said Rakesh Patel, a British witness who lives in Hong Kong and was staying at the Taj Mahal hotel on business. "They had bombs."
"They came from the restaurant and took us up the stairs," he told the NDTV news channel, smoke stains all over his face. "Young boys, maybe 20 years old, 25 years old. They had two guns."
India has suffered a wave of bomb attacks in recent years.
The latest attack, apparently aimed at least partly at prosperous Western tourists, is bound to spook investors in one of Asia's largest and fastest-growing economies.
Hemant Karkare, the chief of the police anti-terrorist squad in Mumbai, was killed during the attacks, police said.
"We have shot dead four terrorists and managed to arrest nine suspected terrorists," PD Ghadge, a police officer at Mumbai's central control room, told Reuters.
Japan's Foreign Ministry said one of its nationals was killed in the Mumbai attacks and one injured.
TRAPPED HOTEL GUESTS
Mark Abell, a British lawyer, said he had locked himself inside his Oberoi hotel room after hearing two explosions.
Several hundred people had been evacuated from the Taj hotel, one witness said, but many more remained inside, some calling for help from the fifth floor. Firefighters broke windows to reach trapped guests.
"We came down the fire exit, but I think they took some more people, they are trying to get to the roof," one foreigner told local television. "I think about 15 people (have been taken hostage), about half of them are foreigners."
In Washington, the White House and US President-elect Barack Obama condemned the attacks, as did France, current President of the European Union, and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
A European official was among the wounded.
"My hotel is surrounded by police and there are gunmen inside," European lawmaker Ignasi Guardans told Spanish radio from the Taj. "We are in contact with some deputies inside the hotel, with one in a room and another hidden in the kitchen. There's another official hurt and in hospital."
Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil said there were around four or five attackers in each of the two hotels.
"They have attacked hotels, they have attacked the hospitals, they have attacked the railway station," he said.
KOREANS, EUROPEANS CAUGHT UP IN ATTACKS
A driver told Reuters at least 50 Koreans were stuck inside the Taj with their drivers waiting outside.
"We were just getting ready to pick them up, when we heard the first blast, police did not let us get past and they (the Koreans) are not answering the phones," Deepak Aswar, the driver said. Europeans were also caught up in the attacks.
"I was in the restaurant inside Oberoi and I saw this series of gunshots and death which I don't want to see again," a Spaniard who declined to give his name told Reuters.
"I crawled out into the kitchen and waited there, until I sensed it was all quiet and seemed over."
Maharashtra state police chief A.N. Roy said attackers had fired automatic weapons indiscriminately, and used grenades, adding that they were still holed up in some buildings.
Sourav Mishra, a Reuters reporter, was with friends at the Cafe Leopold when gunmen opened fire around 9:30 p.m. He was injured and is in St George's Hospital.
"I heard some gunshots around 9:30. I was with my friends. Something hit me. I ran away and fell on the road. Then somebody picked me up. I have injuries below my shoulder," Mishra said from a hospital bed he was sharing with three other people.
Another Reuters reporter saw a hospital ward full of injured people with bullet and shrapnel wounds. Many people were crying as the injured were brought in on trolleys.
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We are watching the various news channels for reports. The terrorist drama is still being played out several hours after the initial attacks.
'Holiday Season Flu' or 'I Ate Too Much Acidic S!!! Disease!'
Here are four non-contagious Holiday Season lifestyle
and dietary conditions (called diseases by allopathic
medicine) for which I have given new names:
1) "Traveler's Acidic Consequence" is a result of the
sum total consumption and behaviors of a traveler
during their more unusual or somewhat different
from normal lifestyle than when they were not traveling.
A typical traveler's day will upset one's normal
metabolism and digestive habits. They eat and
drink different foods at different times and different
volumes than usual, which creates an over-acidic state
and a need for more alkaline buffers (bicarbonates like
pHour salts) leading to indigestion, nausea, acid reflux,
heartburn, belching, flatulence, vomiting, constipation,
dehydration and further problems of acidity,
depending on the degree of irregularity.
"Traveler's Acidic Consequence" is commonly blamed by
allopathic medical science on a particular site on
the traveler's path as if he/she caught something.
This current medical ideology is based on
Pasteur's germ theory and is a scientific myth/illusion.
The true cause of this condition is the result of the
traveler's acidic dietary choices and the lack of
alkaline hydration, nutrition and hygiene that can
result in this over-acidic condition. All the above
symptoms is the body in preservation mode trying its
best to reestablish the alkaline pH of the internal
environment at 7.365 to 7.4.
2) Holiday Season - "I Ate and Drank Too Much "S!!!"
Dis-Ease" is a result of the sum total consumption
and behaviors of a person during the Holiday season
eating and drinking everything in site from "swine to
wine." This over indulgence may cause belching and
flatulence and eventual heart burn, acid reflux,
nausea, constipation and even brain, breast, lung,
liver and bowel parasites for which medical science
will often prescribe the purple pill. This Holiday
Season condition may then lead to the third Holiday
Season consequence -
3) "Holiday Season Food Drunk" is a result of over-eating
and over-drinking acidic foods and liquids and then falling
into a drunken state on the sofa or bed for several hours or
even days to sleep off all the acidity. Falling asleep
after a heavy Holiday meal is a common occurrence for
acid over-eaters and acid drinkers.
4) "Holiday Season Influenza" (The Flu) is a result of the
sum total consumption and behaviors of a person during
a so-called Holiday acidic feasting. A person will consume
acidic foods and drinks that they may not know or know
that are not healthy or alkalizing, i.e., more sugar or
sugar substitutes than normal, alcohol, meats (especially
the tape and flukd worm favorites such as pork, beef,
turkey, chicken and fish (especially raw fish) and much
of this at greater volumes than normal. This person becomes
detrimentally influenced physically and emotionally
by Holiday acidic foods and drinks.
According to medical savants, "Holiday Season Influenza"
is commonly blamed on a particular virus contracted from
another person(s) and not from acidic lifestyle and
dietary choices of that person. Like the acidic traveler,
a person chooses to consume on their own as many acidic
foods and drinks during the Holiday Season and as a result
are suffering from the consequences of their poor dietary
acidic choices -- not from some phantom (does not exist)
flu virus! The flu is nothing more than the body
increasing body temperature to improve circulation to
remove excess acidity through perspiration, respiration, defecation and urination.
Also, please keep in mind it doesn't take either
traveling or Holidays for someone to express the
symptoms of "Traveler's Acidic Consequence,"
and/or "I Ate and Drank Too Much S!!! Disease,"
and/or "Holiday Season Food Drunk," and/or "Holiday
Season Influenza." All you need to do is consume
excessive amounts of acidic meats (especially pork,
turkey and chicken), chocolate, ice cream, cake,
alcohol or other acidic mind boggling thrillers.
Any of these four non-contagious lifestyle and
dietary conditions can happen anytime during the
year. But,the Holiday Season seems to be the
time when most people over-indulge in highly acidic
lifestyles and diets!
This coming Holiday Season may you resolve not to
succumb to the acidic choices that lead to "Traveler's
Acidic Consequence," or "I Ate and Drank Too Much
S!!! Dis-ease," "Holiday Season Food Drunk" and/or
"Holiday Season Influenza."
In love and healing alkaline light,
Dr. Robert O. Young
PS This year before sitting down to a highly
acidic Holiday Season meal, watch the following
youtube video. You cannot kill parasites with
heat. All you can do is put them to sleep and risk
them waking up inside your body. Also, watching
this video might change your mind about eating that
Thanksgiving ham or even urine laced turkey. It is
by no coincidence that turkey and chicken are
referred to as "foul." Birds like turkey and
chicken have no urinary tract system and are
therefore more likely to adsorb their own urine.
But, that's what makes them so juicy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYvxbhIOuEo
PSS I hope we can all learn to take responsibility for
our own lifestyle and dietary choices and the
consequences we may experience rather then blaming it or
transferring personal responsibility to a phantom or
harmless virus - like the Flu virus, Ebola virus,
HIV virus, HPV virus, West Nile virus, Bird flu virus,
and the list goes on and on and on! So-called Viruses DO
NOT cause sickness or disease - our lifestyle and diet
choices do! You do health by making healthy choices or
you do sickness and disease by making unhealthy lifestyle
and dietary choices. Making acidic lifestyle and dietary
choices the last 3 months of the year will take 10 years
off your life at age 40 and 20 years off your life at
age 80. You can live a healthy and fit life to 100 if
you will make better alkaline lifestyle and dietary
choices NOW!
PSSS To learn how to prevent (without an acidic dis-ease
causing vaccine) "Holiday Season Influenza,"
may I suggest watching the following DVD's or listening
to the following CD's:
The pH Miracle - Full version
Shopping with Shelley 1 & 2
Back to the House of Health 2
The pH Miracle for Healthy Weight Loss
The pH Miracle for Men and Women
The pH Miracle for Cancer
The Harvard Lecture
http://www.phmiracleliving.com/c-25-books-dvds-audios.aspx
PSSSS Check out our healthy Holiday Gift Packs at: phmiracleliving.com
and dietary conditions (called diseases by allopathic
medicine) for which I have given new names:
1) "Traveler's Acidic Consequence" is a result of the
sum total consumption and behaviors of a traveler
during their more unusual or somewhat different
from normal lifestyle than when they were not traveling.
A typical traveler's day will upset one's normal
metabolism and digestive habits. They eat and
drink different foods at different times and different
volumes than usual, which creates an over-acidic state
and a need for more alkaline buffers (bicarbonates like
pHour salts) leading to indigestion, nausea, acid reflux,
heartburn, belching, flatulence, vomiting, constipation,
dehydration and further problems of acidity,
depending on the degree of irregularity.
"Traveler's Acidic Consequence" is commonly blamed by
allopathic medical science on a particular site on
the traveler's path as if he/she caught something.
This current medical ideology is based on
Pasteur's germ theory and is a scientific myth/illusion.
The true cause of this condition is the result of the
traveler's acidic dietary choices and the lack of
alkaline hydration, nutrition and hygiene that can
result in this over-acidic condition. All the above
symptoms is the body in preservation mode trying its
best to reestablish the alkaline pH of the internal
environment at 7.365 to 7.4.
2) Holiday Season - "I Ate and Drank Too Much "S!!!"
Dis-Ease" is a result of the sum total consumption
and behaviors of a person during the Holiday season
eating and drinking everything in site from "swine to
wine." This over indulgence may cause belching and
flatulence and eventual heart burn, acid reflux,
nausea, constipation and even brain, breast, lung,
liver and bowel parasites for which medical science
will often prescribe the purple pill. This Holiday
Season condition may then lead to the third Holiday
Season consequence -
3) "Holiday Season Food Drunk" is a result of over-eating
and over-drinking acidic foods and liquids and then falling
into a drunken state on the sofa or bed for several hours or
even days to sleep off all the acidity. Falling asleep
after a heavy Holiday meal is a common occurrence for
acid over-eaters and acid drinkers.
4) "Holiday Season Influenza" (The Flu) is a result of the
sum total consumption and behaviors of a person during
a so-called Holiday acidic feasting. A person will consume
acidic foods and drinks that they may not know or know
that are not healthy or alkalizing, i.e., more sugar or
sugar substitutes than normal, alcohol, meats (especially
the tape and flukd worm favorites such as pork, beef,
turkey, chicken and fish (especially raw fish) and much
of this at greater volumes than normal. This person becomes
detrimentally influenced physically and emotionally
by Holiday acidic foods and drinks.
According to medical savants, "Holiday Season Influenza"
is commonly blamed on a particular virus contracted from
another person(s) and not from acidic lifestyle and
dietary choices of that person. Like the acidic traveler,
a person chooses to consume on their own as many acidic
foods and drinks during the Holiday Season and as a result
are suffering from the consequences of their poor dietary
acidic choices -- not from some phantom (does not exist)
flu virus! The flu is nothing more than the body
increasing body temperature to improve circulation to
remove excess acidity through perspiration, respiration, defecation and urination.
Also, please keep in mind it doesn't take either
traveling or Holidays for someone to express the
symptoms of "Traveler's Acidic Consequence,"
and/or "I Ate and Drank Too Much S!!! Disease,"
and/or "Holiday Season Food Drunk," and/or "Holiday
Season Influenza." All you need to do is consume
excessive amounts of acidic meats (especially pork,
turkey and chicken), chocolate, ice cream, cake,
alcohol or other acidic mind boggling thrillers.
Any of these four non-contagious lifestyle and
dietary conditions can happen anytime during the
year. But,the Holiday Season seems to be the
time when most people over-indulge in highly acidic
lifestyles and diets!
This coming Holiday Season may you resolve not to
succumb to the acidic choices that lead to "Traveler's
Acidic Consequence," or "I Ate and Drank Too Much
S!!! Dis-ease," "Holiday Season Food Drunk" and/or
"Holiday Season Influenza."
In love and healing alkaline light,
Dr. Robert O. Young
PS This year before sitting down to a highly
acidic Holiday Season meal, watch the following
youtube video. You cannot kill parasites with
heat. All you can do is put them to sleep and risk
them waking up inside your body. Also, watching
this video might change your mind about eating that
Thanksgiving ham or even urine laced turkey. It is
by no coincidence that turkey and chicken are
referred to as "foul." Birds like turkey and
chicken have no urinary tract system and are
therefore more likely to adsorb their own urine.
But, that's what makes them so juicy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYvxbhIOuEo
PSS I hope we can all learn to take responsibility for
our own lifestyle and dietary choices and the
consequences we may experience rather then blaming it or
transferring personal responsibility to a phantom or
harmless virus - like the Flu virus, Ebola virus,
HIV virus, HPV virus, West Nile virus, Bird flu virus,
and the list goes on and on and on! So-called Viruses DO
NOT cause sickness or disease - our lifestyle and diet
choices do! You do health by making healthy choices or
you do sickness and disease by making unhealthy lifestyle
and dietary choices. Making acidic lifestyle and dietary
choices the last 3 months of the year will take 10 years
off your life at age 40 and 20 years off your life at
age 80. You can live a healthy and fit life to 100 if
you will make better alkaline lifestyle and dietary
choices NOW!
PSSS To learn how to prevent (without an acidic dis-ease
causing vaccine) "Holiday Season Influenza,"
may I suggest watching the following DVD's or listening
to the following CD's:
The pH Miracle - Full version
Shopping with Shelley 1 & 2
Back to the House of Health 2
The pH Miracle for Healthy Weight Loss
The pH Miracle for Men and Women
The pH Miracle for Cancer
The Harvard Lecture
http://www.phmiracleliving.com/c-25-books-dvds-audios.aspx
PSSSS Check out our healthy Holiday Gift Packs at: phmiracleliving.com
CMO (Chief Marketing Officer): Time Place
Hari ini nonton CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) Hermawan Kartajaya. Hari ini tamu nya adalah CEO dari Time International yang memiliki brand Time Place. Ternyata pasar Luxury watch di Indonesia itu hanya 20% dari Singapore, sedangkan buyer di singapore 70% are from Indonesia. Untuk customer service dan customer approach; Time place menggunakan pendekatan living the dream. Salah satu contoh kasusnya adalah hadiah ulang tahun berupa chef ternama bagi customer yang menyukai dining, bahkan hingga lunch bareng Uma Thurman. Semua customer service ini didukung oleh Principal Brand nya tentu saja untuk memiliki channel bagi service semacam ini. Bahkan bermain golf bersama Tiger Woods.
Milestone nya sendiri, Time Place dibentuk pada tahun 1997; dimana ketika banyak store yang tutup, Time Place melakukan pendekatan dengan mal-mal untuk membuka store mereka yang pertama. Hingga sekarang mereka telah melakukan segmentasi bagi kelas young and dynamic dan kelas diatasnya, Not to formal Not to Casual, which is in ‘In Watch’ Store.
Sejak 2004, Time Place menggandeng brand Rolex. Pelebaran sayap pun terjadi dalam menggandeng brand Channel; yang memiliki produk aksesoris dan sebagainya.
Salam,
Ferdy D.Savio
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Red Tuesday
I was invited to the christening and birthday dinner of Sarah who turned one year today.I took my camera along hoping to get some red color for today 's theme..JPG)
Sarah
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Sarah, her Dad and birthday cake
She had a big birthday cake.
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Sarah, her Dad and birthday cakeShe had a big birthday cake.
Cakes like these are usually ordered from a confectionary.
They are only meant for special celebrations that 's why they are so big
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Clowns - I did not like the masks. The clowns belong to a Halloween Party
or Ghoul Club.
Maybe the kids are so used to watching ugly cartoons on the various
cartoon channels they were not scared of them.
Many cartoon characters are frightful and hideous.
I often advise parents to monitor their kids cartoon watching.
One mother told me that when her daughter started displaying the distasteful actions of a particular cartoon character and she banned that show.
Keep Promise or Else
Pagi ini saya membaca alkitab dari Judges2:1-5 yakni tentang seorang malaikat yang berbicara di Bokim (bokhim). Beberapa ayat yang mengena bagi saya adalah:
1: ... ’I will never break my convenant with you,
2: ...‘Yet you have disobeyed me....
3: Now therefore I tell you that I will not drive them out before you; they will be thorns in your sides and their gods will be a snare to you.”
Ini hanya opini pribadi, karena menurut saya kita tidak bisa mengambil kesimpulan hanya dari satu ayat saja. Begini opini saya:
Tuhan tetap setia pada janji-janji-Nya, dan walaupun manusia mengingkari janjinya tetap saja Tuhan memenuhi janji-Nya. Tetapi sebagai akibat dari pengingkaran janji manusia, Tuhan mengijinkan cobaan terjadi.
Hmm... Ini hanya sebuah ide...
Salam,
Ferdy D.Savio
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