D. Lindsey Berkson
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 The Right to Know
How do you know what chemicals are present in your workplace and in your children's schools? What's drifting in your windows and coming through your front door from your surrounding community?
You have the right to know which hazardous chemicals may be present in your home, workplace, and community from nearby factories or transport through your neighborhood. Tens of millions of American workers are routinely exposed in the workplace to toxic chemicals about which they have little or no information. |
Alex Steffen
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 As in the other projects, Guantang Chuangye neighborhoods will be structured around parks, with every workplace and residence within a five-minute walk of the transportation network and a school. Guantang Chuangye will also show how the sustainable-city model can be made to fit with local landscapes and environmental conditions: the city plan will preserve existing streams and wetlands, and maintain the predevelopment water cycle for the local ecosystem.
Building an entirely new model is never easy, of course. These communities aren't meant to be showcases for a handful of wealthy citizens. |
| Bring together a team of employees to promote sustainability in the workplace. Team members can head up the effort to purchase recycled products, educate coworkers on environmental issues, and track environmental accounting for their departments. Consider creating incentives such as rewards and recognition for employees who drive your company's environmental efforts. Name a periodic "green champion" in order to single out employees' environmental contributions. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 The sexual tevolution of the 1960s and 70s turned into a reappraisal of the role of gender at work, and the 1990s have seen the advent of congruent, co-operative, consensual feminine virtues in the workplace. Aggressive male characteristics have no longer much of a role in reaching decisions, even in sales or marketing. There is little of the wily one-time deference to males. Why should there be? Educated males with intelligence are able to cope, but for the less able with only physical merirs their few out-of-date skills offer poor employment prospects. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are some interesting issues here as far as workplace health, and what employers could do to help their employees receive some healing natural sunlight. There are also some widespread health implications in this. Imagine if people went outside in increasing numbers... think of what we could do as an entire nation in terms of preventing disease and reducing health care costs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Milan Brahmbhatt, World Bank chief economist for the Asia-Pacific region
"[Bird flu] will ultimately threaten all critical infrastructures by removing essential personnel from the workplace for weeks or months."
-White House document, National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza (NSPI)
"Once human-to-human transmission has been established, we will have only a few weeks to lock down the spread before it spins out of control."
-Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General
"These viruses are always around … always bubbling under the surface. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 For instance, many people develop adrenal exhaustion after a physical trauma, such as a car accident, after an acute exposure to toxins in the workplace, or after an extended course of corticosteroid treatment.
Alarm Phase (Acute Stress)
The alarm phase of the GAS occurs when a stress is first encountered and an alarm is sounded in the body. This alarm, sometimes called the fight or flight response, is associated with an activation of the sympathetic nervous system.
Hormonally, we see an increase in the release of Cortisol from the adrenal cortex and epinephrine from the adrenal medulla. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In studying the history of product commercialization by medical groups, what we consistently find is a series of cons perpetrated against consumers, masterminded by profit-seeing medical groups that conspire with corporations to maximize profits at the expense of public health. Nothing has changed today, either. The AMA isn't pushing cigarettes anymore, but it's still pushing deadly pharmaceuticals that will one day be regarded as just as senseless as smoking. Let's face it: pharmaceutical medicine is hopelessly outdated, ineffective and dangerous. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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| If no improvements are seen in 2 months, be sure that all issues have been addressed, including chronic stress, physical exercise, restorative sleep, elimination of food sensitivities, lingering or undiagnosed chronic infections, accumulated body toxins, such as heavy metals, repeated and ongoing workplace or home environmental exposures, and intestinal dysbiosis.
Cautions: The use of adrenal hormones, such as Cortisol, can potentially cause anxiety and tachycardia in patients. High doses of DHEA can increase testosterone levels. Botanicals, such as ginseng, can sometimes cause insomnia. |
| These conspiracies have resulted in an escalation in the incidence and mortality of cancer and chronic disease, among workers and the general public unknowingly exposed to toxics and carcinogens in the workplace, air, water and consumer products— food, household products, and cosmetics, and toiletries. This misconduct involves negligence, manipulation, suppression, distortion and destruction of health and environmental data by mainstream industries, their consultants and trade associations, notably the Chemical Manufacturers Association (CMA). |
Jacky Law
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 This was a story that embraced new brain science and profound issues of personal responsibility; competitive business practices in contracting markets and endemic workplace stress; the American mania for civil-liability suits and high-stakes contingency litigation. Crucially, it involved the gulf between authentic public health needs and the commercial goals of the pharmaceutical industry; the public's right to know the unadorned truth about medication and the pharmaceutical industry's tendency to withhold secretive information in the interest of corporate aims. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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| Others members of the population, such as Vietnam War veterans and some chemical plant workers, have accumulated additional dioxins because of their exposure to Agent Orange or other dioxin-contaminated chemicals in the workplace.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has studied the effect of abnormal levels of dioxin on the endocrine system, noting several serious disorders in animal and human studies.
Dioxin is not the only chemical that disrupts endocrine function. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has established guidelines for workplace noise levels. For any eight-hour day, the noise level should not be above 90 decibels (dBA). Protective headphones should be provided if noise levels exceed 85 dBA for any period of time.
Q The average rock concert or stereo headset set at full blast (about 100 decibels) can damage your hearing in as little as half an hour. Similar damage can occur after about two hours spent in a video game arcade. |
Michele Simon
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 Workplace: host lunchtime discussions with your colleagues about the effects of the present food system on diet and health. Discuss alternatives.
• Houses of worship, community centers: host talks at your local church or social group about community-based challenges to healthy eating.
• Look for any opportunity to broaden the discussion about food and nutrition to include an open debate about the underlying causes.
• See Appendix 6 for a list of groups and resources to help you get involved.
The current food system is broken and cannot be fixed without a major overhaul. |
KC Craichy
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 Phobias
¦ Over-reactions
« Anxiety attacks (panic)
In addition, stress can lead to antisocial behaviors and signs, including argumentativeness, social isolation, conflicts with coworkers, road rage, domestic or workplace violence, and frequent job changes.
The Negative Effects of Stress
The National Institute of Mental Health reports that 19 million Americans between the ages of 18 and 54 are afflicted by anxiety- and stress-related illnesses per year.4 The effects of this stress are profound. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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 Often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish schoolwork, chores or duties in the workplace.
5. Often has difficulty organizing tasks and activities.
None of the above "symptoms" of the alleged psychiatric mental disorder ADHD can be identified through medical tests such as blood work, X-rays, PET or CAT scans. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Also, use full-spectrum fluorescent lights in your home and workplace.
• Exercise is a proven mood-booster, and exercise in the sunlight does double duty for SAD sufferers. Take frequent walks outside, or participate in outdoor winter sports like ice-skating or cross-country skiing.
• Human beings weren't meant to spend their days in windowless offices. If changing jobs is not an option—and for most of us, it isn't—take your breaks outdoors. When the weather is good, pack a salad or another healthful lunch and dine al fresco. |
Mike Adams
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 SOURCE: Neurotoxins: At Home and the workplace (Report by the Committee on Science and Technology. US House of Representatives, Sept. 16, 1986) [Report 99-827]
To learn more about the toxic chemicals found in perfumes, cosmetics and personal care products, see www.NotTooPretty.org
When you put all this together, the average American is exposed to perhaps two or three hundred toxic chemicals every morning before they even leave the house, and most of those are self-imposed. That's part of what's causing so much liver damage to people. |
Carol Simontacchi
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 Yet many of us spend an hour or more in the car or train every morning, commuting to our workplace. We sit in front of a computer screen for eight or more hours, getting up only to go to lunch or attend to personal needs. We return to the car for the commute home, sit during dinner, sit in front of the TV screen, and walk only a few steps to go to bed. That type of activity pattern can wreak havoc on posture, throwing the spine—and subsequently, the rest of the body—out of its normal position. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 Don't bring your workplace chemicals home with you. If you work with chemicals,you should shower and change your clothes, before you leave work if necessary.
>• If you work with chemicals, don't wash your work clothes with the family wash. Although you may think that the amount of chemical contaminant you bring home on your clothes (or skin) is small, over time this can add up to a significant exposure that could lead to a serious illness. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 If coffee, soft drinks, and candy were replaced with whole foods and beverages in the workplace, stress-free jobs would cause less anxiety, less job dissatisfaction, and betterjob performance.
ACID/ALKALINE BALANCE
Most living matter operates best around neutral parts of free positive Hydrogen ions (pH) of 6.8 pH in the tissues (tissue acids are excreted into the blood at 2-3 a.m.), except in the cell nucleus and digestive tract. Saliva is 6.2 to 6.8 pH; with acid stomach, highly alkaline small intestine (if acid risks flu, take V8 j uice), and acid colon. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 M&H, Professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, is an internationally recognized authority on the mechanisms of carcinogenesis, the causes and prevention of cancer, and the toxic and carcinogenic effects of environmental pollutants in air, water, soil and the workplace, and of ingredients and contaminants in consumer products—food, cosmetics and toiletries, household products—and related public policy concerns. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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| Cadmium is so hazardous the government has determined that for long-term workplace exposure to cadmium-contaminated dust and fumes, the level should be kept below 0.025 milligrams per cubic meter of air.
The human body can tolerate low levels of cadmium, but long-term chronic exposure can lead to serious health problems. Elevated levels of cadmium may result in hypertension (high blood pressure), a dulled sense of smell, anemia, yellow discoloration of the teeth, inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nose (rhinitis), joint soreness, hair loss, dry, scaly skin, and loss of appetite. |
| External factors include unhealthy workplace environments and exposure to air and water pollution, chemicals, pesticides, and herbicides. Internal factors include both genetics (heredity) and infections.
Lifestyle factors are those we personally can most readily control. These are also the factors scientists believe account for the largest proportion of cancers. They include diet, smoking, drinking, and sun exposure. For example, persons who do not smoke but are exposed to cigarette smoke have significantly higher rates of lung cancer than nonsmokers who are not. |
| Keep your workplace warm and dry. Cool and/or damp conditions tend to aggravate CTS.
Q Avoid taking supplements that contain iron. They are suspected of aggravating pain and swelling in joints.
Considerations
Q If CTS develops as a result of the edema of pregnancy, it usually clears up of its own accord once the baby arrives and the excess fluid of pregnancy disappears.
Q Physicians treat CTS in a variety of ways, most often with a combination of anti-inflammatory medications, splints, and the recommendation that you avoid any aggravating activity. |
| Have your home and workplace tested for radon. Radon is a radioactive gas that occurs naturally and seeps from the ground. It is believed to be the second leading cause of lung cancer. Simple test kits are available at most hardware stores. If radon is found, measures such as sealing cracks and increasing ventilation in basement areas can often correct the problem.
Q If you have any fuel-burning appliances, such as furnaces, hot water heaters, kerosene heaters, or gas space heaters, be on the alert for carbon monoxide exposure. |
| It is wise to have the heating and cooling systems in both your home and workplace cleaned and inspected regularly, and to change the filters often.
LEUKODYSTROPHIES
See under rare disorders.
LEUKORRHEA
See vaginitis in Part Two.
LIVER DISEASE
See cirrhosis of the liver and hepatitis in Part Two.
LUMBAGO
See under backache. LUPUS
Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that can affect many of the body's organs. It is an autoimmune disease— that is, it occurs when the immune mechanism forms antibodies that attack the body's own tissues. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 Cleaning agents left on floors and other surfaces dry and can eventually circulate on dust particles throughout the house or workplace and be inhaled with each breath. Fire retardants and other chemicals used in fabrics and foams in furniture, mattresses, and electrical insulation can be irritating to the airway. Mold can flourish wherever there is humidity—in basements, crawl spaces, bathrooms, air conditioners, and automobile air ducts.
It is crazy to treat the symptoms of allergies if you don't examine your environment and try to eliminate what's causing the problem in the first place. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 It has been estimated that more than nine million people come into regular contact with known neurotoxins in the workplace, and tens of millions of us must live with these chemicals in our own homes. Most are not even aware that these commonly used chemicals can
Pesticides and Other Chemicals in Our World damage the nervous system. We assume that if they were really dangerous, the FDA or EPA, or some other alphabet organization would have told us so. We put our trust in those who should not be trusted. |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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 In parallel, the incidence of work-related disorders such as low back pain and carpal tunnel syndrome has risen in epidemic proportions, despite the fact that workers are subjecting themselves to less repetitive motion and strain in the workplace. This paradox is explained, in part, by understanding that the workers' compensation system itself is a psychogenic trigger for developing a pain disorder.
Finally, the health care industry plays a big role in validating and perpetuating psychosomatic disorders. |
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