Sensible Solutions
for family, school, and social concerns...
for family, school, and social concerns...
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The
most concerning threat to children’s health and well being today are
the many harmful environmental influences they are unknowingly exposed to.
While most people, being uninformed of the health consequences involved, fail to recognize the
seriousness that these threats as a whole present in order to properly
protect the children, and themselves, from these harmful influences...
WHAT IS IN YOUR SCHOOL'S ENVIRONMENT?
Chemical and Heavy Metal Contaminations
Unnatural Odors
Lighting /energy
Microorganisms
The following information clearly demonstrates how people, especially children, are being negatively effected by the different types of chemicals and heavy metals contaminations, odors, lighting, and microbes that are present in each school's environment... all of which having been found to effect a persons behaviors, learning abilities, hormones balances, and immune system functions.
Throughout this site there are IMPORTANT LINKS that will take you to a variety of informative news releases and health warnings based upon scientific and medical research. These articles, interviews, videos, and web sites support the information that is being presented here and provide a more in depth understanding of the concerning issue at hand.
Whether a building is an older or newer one - each presents to its daily inhabitants its own unique type of contaminations:
Chemical and Heavy Metal Contamination
While there remains many known and unresolved health concerns related to older buildings such as lead leaching from its pipes into water sources, or the lead and mercury that may still be present in older paints covering the walls. Added to this are the modern day contamination's that result from a wide variety of influences.
A new building itself will often result in many people suffering with Sick Building Syndrome .
If the knowledgeable staff at the Environmental Protection Agency themselves are not protected from harmful environmental influences imagine what people ignorant to the health consequences are facing each day. Read what happen to the EPA staff HERE.
Then there are the considerations as to how the building is maintained. Where there are the concerning health issues associated to pesticides that are commonly being used inside buildings. Here you can read some of the health consequences that are resulting from Pesticides contaminations.
Even when pesticides are not being used inside a building then there are the primary concerns of the potential contamination that result from pest and microbial infestations themselves and also the waste substances they produce and leave behind that can become ingested in hand to mouth contact and inhalation of particles.
Odors
While many of the odors of a newer building come from the materials used during its construction and in finishing work as they release chemicals which can linger throughout the building for several years, there are more contaminating odors that will soon cover these as the building begins being used by a large number of people.
Odors released from the cleaning products that are used on a continual basis... carrying with them the many questionable chemicals used to make the cleaning, floor waxes, carpets, and glues products that are later found in dust particles of a room as well as in peoples bodies when tested. Read more information here .
Additionally, there are the chemicals in the odors that people carry into the building on their own bodies....
CONSIDER HOW FRAGRANCES ARE USED IN MOST CONSUMER PRODUCTS -
As is explained in the IMMUNE & HORMONE SYSTEM section of this site... odors can engage a persons autonomic nervous system responses and hormone production which has a direct effect to their behaviors and body functions. Unpleasant, unnatural, and/or harmful odors are known to trigger a persons stressful sympathetic (defense) response, which while in this state effects the brain functions of a person as their body becomes more engaged for physical action (fight or flight) also inhibiting their immune system functions.
The body's automatic defense system prepares the body, a response that should be alerting the conscious mind, so that a person knows and has the physical ability to move away from unknown dangers. The autonomic nervous system is how primitive man was able to instinctively respond to their environment in order to survive and evolve. Today this system remains a key factor to a persons physical responses and well being but for many people this system is being over stimulated while they are in unnatural or unrealized harmful environments.
Many consumer products today have fragrances added that can be made by using up to 4,000 synthesized chemicals (many petroleum derived) to create the nice smells that are often used to masks the products unpleasant and toxic chemical odors. Dangerous substances covered up with desirable smells is like baiting a mouse trap with cheese with the everyday consumer being the mouse in this scenario...
Fragrance formulas are considered trade secrets. This means companies do not have to tell anyone, including the FDA, what is in their fragrant formulas. Symptoms of fragrance contaminations commonly reported to the FDA have included headaches, dizziness, rashes, skin discoloration, violent coughing, vomiting, and allergic skin irritations. Exposure to fragrances has proven to affect the central nervous system, causing depression, hyperactivity, irritability, inability to cope, and other behavioral changes.
Fragrances are a known trigger to asthma and contribute to other respiratory concerns. Many of the chemicals used in fragrances are suspected, or proven, to be carcinogenic. Phthalates found in perfumes are known hormone disruptors. In 1989 the US National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health evaluated 2,983 fragrance chemicals for health effects. They identified 884 of them as being toxic substances to the body. READ how they have been fatal to some people.
It's important to keep in mind that while people, in a short amount of time, can become desensitized to an odor in their area it does not mean the chemical molecules that are carried with the odors are not still present in the air, being inhaled and absorbed into the lungs and blood system and effecting a persons physical and mental reactions. These contaminants can be especially harmful to a small child during their stages of growth and development.
Consider the people who are more sensitive and effected by unnatural odors...
What this research demonstrates is that...
A young child who is in the 1/3 of the population of having a heightened sense of smell (or having heightened sense due to their youth/size and rapid development of their senses) could have an older female teacher who has a below average sense of smell. Because of this she uses an increased amounts of synthetic perfumes containing numerous chemicals that prove to affect and disturb sensitive children’s learning abilities and behaviors (sympathetic nervous system response that also effects the immune system functions).
Read how odors affect behaviors and learning abilities.
Considering how the sense of smell is known to directly effect a persons emotional and physical reactions, a child inhaling different types of unnatural chemicals could have hormonal responses that make it challenging for them to sit still, behave properly, and also effecting their learning abilities.
When the body is producing stress hormones which generate increased amounts of energy, these are meant to be eliminated by physical reactions, a way of burning them off, otherwise they continue to stress the body and mind until they are broken down by other means. A stressed child sitting behind a desk or in a closed up room, with increased amounts of stress hormones can contribute to deeper negative emotional responses, attitudes, and in formed false beliefs of themselves when they fail to understand why they are behaving or feeling the way they do while continually being judged and disciplined for their actions.
At some point the child may be recommended by the school system, or considered by the parent, to be tested for ADD. Being there is no actual test for diagnosing ADD, instead being solely subjective to a doctors opinion (most asking very few, if any, questions about the child's diet or environment) who most often will place the child on heavy psychotic drugs. The same drugs that are now showing how some children, having taken them for many years, now as young adults are experiencing serious cardiovascular health challenges and more psychiatric problems.
Here is an article where long term research has confirmed how badly behaved schoolchildren ' are more likely to suffer health problems in adulthood' This 40-year long study found and reported how " badly behaved schoolchildren" are twice as likely to suffer from anxiety, depression, teen pregnancy or to experience divorce, as their classmates. This fact can be said in a much more accurate way... children who grow up having hormonal imbalances and remained ignorant to them because adults could not identify the problem for them will face a life of dysfunction and continual health consequences.
Also note how the UK was one of the first countries to ban artificial dyes from being added to their foods after decades of research showed how the food dyes themselves (no sugar involved) effected children's behaviors. More stressing and concerning is how children, and adults, are being subjected to even more contamination from their own homes and families consumer product choices (more on this subject later).
Here is another influence that has been proven to have an effect on peoples hormone levels and behaviors...
Fluorescent Lighting
In 1980 Germany banned the use of cool white fluorescent lights throughout their country following the results of Dr. Fritz Hollowhich medical research which showed that people, while being under these types of lights, had significant increases in the amounts of adrenal stressing hormones(ACTH and Cortisol) being released. It was found in further research that full spectrum lighting, having as close to suns balance of colored rays as possible, had no negative effects on people while being under them read more here
When the body is producing these types of hormones the immune system and healing process becomes inhibited while also negatively effecting the brains ability to function in the learning process.
Here in the U.S. a school in Florida tested the effects of lighting and found when placing the same age children in 4 different windowless classrooms and using two different type lights (cool white fluorescent and full spectrum lighting) a significant difference could be seen in the amount of children showing ADD symptoms while under the cool white fluorescent lights. They also found when putting these same children under the full spectrum lights that their ADD symptoms eventually disappeared. After 4 weeks the most effected child was sitting relaxed and able to concentrate and learn. Since this time other schools comparisons have confirmed these same findings.
Here is a report that describes the effects lights and other influences can have in learning abilities .
Here is another report describing how teachers themselves are being effected by lighting.
Influences such as these can obviously contribute to these kind of cause and effect issues...
Teaching is one of the most stressful occupations with one in three teachers experiencing mental health problems according to the National Union of Teachers (Mental Health Foundation/ Press Association, 2007).
Lighting Influences To The Eyes:
The retina of the eye contains two types of specialized photoreceptors called rods and cones.
There are 6 to 7 million cones that are responsible for color vision, they do not detect light. There are about 137 million rods that are light sensitive and respond to low levels of illumination, a function that is important for night vision, that do not detect color. The body responds to a circadian cycle where hormonal reactions and cycles occur according to the amount of sun light, the eyes receive throughout the day. When the sun goes down the body begins to produce different hormones.
The Cause...
It is known that fluorescent lights flicker on and off at a rate of 120 times per second as well as emitting an imbalanced ray of colors that people are unable to consciously see. These influences effect the eyes inner rods and cones where the imbalances generated from these lights then effect the natural hormonal balance the body has. For people who have more rods and/or cones than the average person, by their having a heightened sense, they can be more sensitive and effected by this type of lighting than others are. A person that has a compromised body balance from other influences or lacking proper nutrition can also be more physically and mentally stressed by fluorescent lights.
The Effect...
The biggest challenge in the recognition of the large scale harmful health effects that fluorescent lighting are having on people is the fact that not everyone experiences the exact same symptoms. Each persons health effects can vary according to many other contributing factors such as their DNA, diet, present hormonal balances, mental stress , as well as what kind of chemicals and heavy metals their body is being , or has been, contaminated by. It can however be summarized that these lights, without a doubt, are stressing the body and weakening the immune system, regardless of what the symptoms are, of the many people throughout this country and world experiencing them today.
Keep in mind people often do not associate health symptoms with the type lighting they are under so most remain ignorant to the true cause of them.
Today a small portion of modern medicine has begun to recognize and classify the increasing number of people suffering a wide variety of, often unexplainable, symptoms as their having...
Scotopic Sensitivity, a perceptual processing disorder, affects 12-14% of the population (creating symptoms similar to ADD) that is effected by different types of lighting.
Fluorescent Light Sensitivities are a serious issue for about 25% of the population. While these people prove to be more sensitive to artificial lighting, it does not mean that non sensitive people are not being effected as well.
Then there are symptoms that just can't be felt until its to late, consider How Fluorescent Lighting Puts You at Risk for Skin Cancer .
Yet with all that has been proven since the 1970's of the health effects that fluorescent lights alone can have...
Since the early 1990's children as young as 3 years old have been placed on strong psychotropic ( body and mind altering) drugs, with older children taking multiple prescriptions, without medical professionals first looking at their diet or environmental influences, a neglectful practice that continues yet today.
Not only do these drugs themselves stress the body and mind in unpredictable ways but they can have a concerning effect to a persons auto immune system, especially in a younger child's development of one. Many of the drugs children, and adults, are placed on can further stress and weaken their body and mental functions more.
Read the FDA warning to: "Drug Manufacturers to Notify Patients about Cardiovascular and Psychiatric Adverse Events."
Here is a VIDEO showing the consequences that children, and their parents, suffer while taking these drugs Gary Null's " The Drugging of Our Children "
Here is another 3 minute news video that shows the extreme of these drugs... “Virginia Tech Massacre. Why? Antidepressants... again?” .
The varied cause and effects that contaminating odors, fluorescent lights, sounds, etc. can have to a persons body and mind have influenced how millions of children(who are most sensitive) and adults have, for many years, potentially been mis-diagnosed and treated for ADD/ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, and many other misunderstood health challenges using drugs that may harm the body and its immune system even more, rather than correcting the environmental problems at hand.
This has contributed to a gross over and misuse of prescription drugs, many leading to dependency, which at best only cover up the symptoms resulting from people suffering from being in an unnatural or harsh environment. With their body and mind being stressed not only by the ongoing environmental challenges which are causing their symptoms then even more by the side effects that synthesized drugs can cause. Together these influences can leave a person, especially children, even more vulnerable to mental dysfunction, aggressions, depression while inhibiting their immune system which then can lead to infection, and diseases...
This is a major concern for all people, because the more people in your community are taking unnecessary drugs the more it will effect the quality of your own drinking water.
Read how in 2001 it was discovered by a 17 year old student during a science project how the Ohio River and her communities, including her schools water sources were polluted not only by antibiotic drugs but also by drug resistant bacterias as well. (LINK TO BE ADDED)
Several decades ago modern medicine learned of the consequences of mis and over prescribing antibiotics when they found that, when used improperly, it lead to rebound infections that were more resistant to the antibiotics being used. If the people in large communities are drinking water that contains uncontrollable amounts of these drugs in it, this alone could have a huge negative effect upon many peoples immune system.
With these being only a few of the major influences people are exposed to each and every day, with all other contributing factors compiling on to this, which as a whole are now challenging the physical health and mental well being of MILLIONS of children, and effecting their immune systems.
While at the same time people having bodies with challenged hormone and immune systems caused by chemicals and heavy metals contaminations from consumer products, poor diets, artificial lighting, and compiling industrial pollutions these influences are also having negative effects to the environment, especially to the ecosystems balance of microbial life which can lead to the spreading of...
Dangerous Drug Resistant Microorganisms
Outbreaks of plague, historically were reflective of times when people lived closely with their livestock animals, had poor hygiene practices, and/ or lacked proper balance of healthy foods, where harmful bacterial imbalances occurred and contaminations quickly spread from person to person and entering other areas and countries by travelers and through traded goods that had become contaminated. The lack of scientific knowledge regarding the world of microorganisms as well as the medical mis-understandings in prevention(need for cleanliness) and of proper treatments greatly contributed the widespread number of people dying throughout the world.
Today many of the imbalances that now exist in the ecosystem are being created by modernized man made and chemical influences, ones that have created "superbug" bacterial strains that never before existed. These same stresses and imbalances to the body and environment, once again, leave mankind with the increased potential outbreak of numerous types of plagues or worse yet- possibly leading to a pandemic. As the amount of environmental pollutions continues... so does the increasing number of threats towards humanity.
Drug-resistant Staph Infections on the Rise, Study Finds: A dangerous bacterial infection that's resistant to standard antibiotics now kills more Americans each year than HIV/AIDS, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read this report here
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterial infection that has become highly resistant to many antibiotics. Read report here.
FDA: "The Rise of Antibiotic- Resistant Infections". Read this report here
" Superbug MRSA deaths up 1400% in a decade." Read this report here .
Study: " Deadly stomach bug more common than thought" Read this report here
" The curse of antibiotics" Read report here
READ: UNDERSTANDING MORE OF THE MICROBIAL THREATS THAT PEOPLE NOW FACE.
READ "A Hospital Germ on the Warpath" Here
"Certain type of colitis now more common, severe among hospitalized patients" Read this report here
"Anti-Bacterial Personal Hygiene Products Triclosan And Triclocarban May Not Be Worth Potential Risks"
You can read this report here .
While all these harmful influences can easily be eliminated...
By learning how the body and mind are also effected by the physical senses, a person can better understand the many different influences that contribute to toddlers, children, teens, and adults physical and mental development, behaviors, and health challenges. LEARN HOW THE SENSES EFFECTS THE HORMONE & IMMUNE SYSTEM HERE
And understanding how the body and mind functions are primarily influenced by a persons DIET AND HOW IT EFFECTS BEHAVIORS AND LEARNING
AND HOW YOU CAN EFFECTIVELY ELIMINATE THESE THREATS WITHOUT HARMING LIFE OR THE ENVIRONMENT...
While many branches of science and medicine today are receiving huge amounts of grant money in a race to create more of their "miracle drugs", ones that tend to prove within twenty years, if not sooner, to be more harmful in other undisclosed or unrealized ways...
It can easily be seen how throughout history mankind won their microbial battles by turning to nature for their answers in their surviving threatening microbial contaminations, just as they had in their finding physical health and mental balance. Hippocrates, known as the father of medicine, successfully ended the plague in Athens by the burning of the herb Rosemary, which from today’s perspective would have been a crude way of diffusing the plants oils into the air as it burned and fumigated the environment. Where the people in the area would also have breathed in and absorb the plants chemical substances into their lungs and body.
Many people in science and medicine today have confirmed why they were successful in doing so...
Learn how you can naturally and effectively protect yourself, children, and employees from the threats of deadly bacteria and viral contaminations as well as from toxic chemical contaminations while providing an environment that is stimulating to brain functions and relaxing to the body...
PROTECT YOURSELF, FAMILY, FRIENDS, STUDENTS, EMPLOYEES, AND THE ENVIRONMENT HERE
You can also learn how you can easily and naturally reduce and eliminate contaminations in your personal environments and life by visiting: www.EndTheContaminations.com
And find information about natural balance in health and healing at www.CompleteHealings.com
WHAT IS IN YOUR SCHOOL'S ENVIRONMENT?
Chemical and Heavy Metal Contaminations
Unnatural Odors
Lighting /energy
Microorganisms
The following information clearly demonstrates how people, especially children, are being negatively effected by the different types of chemicals and heavy metals contaminations, odors, lighting, and microbes that are present in each school's environment... all of which having been found to effect a persons behaviors, learning abilities, hormones balances, and immune system functions.
Throughout this site there are IMPORTANT LINKS that will take you to a variety of informative news releases and health warnings based upon scientific and medical research. These articles, interviews, videos, and web sites support the information that is being presented here and provide a more in depth understanding of the concerning issue at hand.
Whether a building is an older or newer one - each presents to its daily inhabitants its own unique type of contaminations:
Chemical and Heavy Metal Contamination
While there remains many known and unresolved health concerns related to older buildings such as lead leaching from its pipes into water sources, or the lead and mercury that may still be present in older paints covering the walls. Added to this are the modern day contamination's that result from a wide variety of influences.
A new building itself will often result in many people suffering with Sick Building Syndrome .
If the knowledgeable staff at the Environmental Protection Agency themselves are not protected from harmful environmental influences imagine what people ignorant to the health consequences are facing each day. Read what happen to the EPA staff HERE.
Then there are the considerations as to how the building is maintained. Where there are the concerning health issues associated to pesticides that are commonly being used inside buildings. Here you can read some of the health consequences that are resulting from Pesticides contaminations.
Even when pesticides are not being used inside a building then there are the primary concerns of the potential contamination that result from pest and microbial infestations themselves and also the waste substances they produce and leave behind that can become ingested in hand to mouth contact and inhalation of particles.
Odors
While many of the odors of a newer building come from the materials used during its construction and in finishing work as they release chemicals which can linger throughout the building for several years, there are more contaminating odors that will soon cover these as the building begins being used by a large number of people.
Odors released from the cleaning products that are used on a continual basis... carrying with them the many questionable chemicals used to make the cleaning, floor waxes, carpets, and glues products that are later found in dust particles of a room as well as in peoples bodies when tested. Read more information here .
Additionally, there are the chemicals in the odors that people carry into the building on their own bodies....
CONSIDER HOW FRAGRANCES ARE USED IN MOST CONSUMER PRODUCTS -
As is explained in the IMMUNE & HORMONE SYSTEM section of this site... odors can engage a persons autonomic nervous system responses and hormone production which has a direct effect to their behaviors and body functions. Unpleasant, unnatural, and/or harmful odors are known to trigger a persons stressful sympathetic (defense) response, which while in this state effects the brain functions of a person as their body becomes more engaged for physical action (fight or flight) also inhibiting their immune system functions.
The body's automatic defense system prepares the body, a response that should be alerting the conscious mind, so that a person knows and has the physical ability to move away from unknown dangers. The autonomic nervous system is how primitive man was able to instinctively respond to their environment in order to survive and evolve. Today this system remains a key factor to a persons physical responses and well being but for many people this system is being over stimulated while they are in unnatural or unrealized harmful environments.
Many consumer products today have fragrances added that can be made by using up to 4,000 synthesized chemicals (many petroleum derived) to create the nice smells that are often used to masks the products unpleasant and toxic chemical odors. Dangerous substances covered up with desirable smells is like baiting a mouse trap with cheese with the everyday consumer being the mouse in this scenario...
Fragrance formulas are considered trade secrets. This means companies do not have to tell anyone, including the FDA, what is in their fragrant formulas. Symptoms of fragrance contaminations commonly reported to the FDA have included headaches, dizziness, rashes, skin discoloration, violent coughing, vomiting, and allergic skin irritations. Exposure to fragrances has proven to affect the central nervous system, causing depression, hyperactivity, irritability, inability to cope, and other behavioral changes.
Fragrances are a known trigger to asthma and contribute to other respiratory concerns. Many of the chemicals used in fragrances are suspected, or proven, to be carcinogenic. Phthalates found in perfumes are known hormone disruptors. In 1989 the US National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health evaluated 2,983 fragrance chemicals for health effects. They identified 884 of them as being toxic substances to the body. READ how they have been fatal to some people.
It's important to keep in mind that while people, in a short amount of time, can become desensitized to an odor in their area it does not mean the chemical molecules that are carried with the odors are not still present in the air, being inhaled and absorbed into the lungs and blood system and effecting a persons physical and mental reactions. These contaminants can be especially harmful to a small child during their stages of growth and development.
Consider the people who are more sensitive and effected by unnatural odors...
Research conducted indicated there are 3 different type of smelling abilities that exist. People tested were found and classified as having either a below average, average, or above average olfactory acuity. From this it was also determined that 1/3 of our population each falls into one of these categories. This means 1/3 of our population has a heightened sense of smell compared to the other 2/3 population.
What this research demonstrates is that...
A young child who is in the 1/3 of the population of having a heightened sense of smell (or having heightened sense due to their youth/size and rapid development of their senses) could have an older female teacher who has a below average sense of smell. Because of this she uses an increased amounts of synthetic perfumes containing numerous chemicals that prove to affect and disturb sensitive children’s learning abilities and behaviors (sympathetic nervous system response that also effects the immune system functions).
Read how odors affect behaviors and learning abilities.
Considering how the sense of smell is known to directly effect a persons emotional and physical reactions, a child inhaling different types of unnatural chemicals could have hormonal responses that make it challenging for them to sit still, behave properly, and also effecting their learning abilities.
When the body is producing stress hormones which generate increased amounts of energy, these are meant to be eliminated by physical reactions, a way of burning them off, otherwise they continue to stress the body and mind until they are broken down by other means. A stressed child sitting behind a desk or in a closed up room, with increased amounts of stress hormones can contribute to deeper negative emotional responses, attitudes, and in formed false beliefs of themselves when they fail to understand why they are behaving or feeling the way they do while continually being judged and disciplined for their actions.
At some point the child may be recommended by the school system, or considered by the parent, to be tested for ADD. Being there is no actual test for diagnosing ADD, instead being solely subjective to a doctors opinion (most asking very few, if any, questions about the child's diet or environment) who most often will place the child on heavy psychotic drugs. The same drugs that are now showing how some children, having taken them for many years, now as young adults are experiencing serious cardiovascular health challenges and more psychiatric problems.
Here is an article where long term research has confirmed how badly behaved schoolchildren ' are more likely to suffer health problems in adulthood' This 40-year long study found and reported how " badly behaved schoolchildren" are twice as likely to suffer from anxiety, depression, teen pregnancy or to experience divorce, as their classmates. This fact can be said in a much more accurate way... children who grow up having hormonal imbalances and remained ignorant to them because adults could not identify the problem for them will face a life of dysfunction and continual health consequences.
Also note how the UK was one of the first countries to ban artificial dyes from being added to their foods after decades of research showed how the food dyes themselves (no sugar involved) effected children's behaviors. More stressing and concerning is how children, and adults, are being subjected to even more contamination from their own homes and families consumer product choices (more on this subject later).
Here is another influence that has been proven to have an effect on peoples hormone levels and behaviors...
Fluorescent Lighting
In 1980 Germany banned the use of cool white fluorescent lights throughout their country following the results of Dr. Fritz Hollowhich medical research which showed that people, while being under these types of lights, had significant increases in the amounts of adrenal stressing hormones(ACTH and Cortisol) being released. It was found in further research that full spectrum lighting, having as close to suns balance of colored rays as possible, had no negative effects on people while being under them read more here
When the body is producing these types of hormones the immune system and healing process becomes inhibited while also negatively effecting the brains ability to function in the learning process.
Here in the U.S. a school in Florida tested the effects of lighting and found when placing the same age children in 4 different windowless classrooms and using two different type lights (cool white fluorescent and full spectrum lighting) a significant difference could be seen in the amount of children showing ADD symptoms while under the cool white fluorescent lights. They also found when putting these same children under the full spectrum lights that their ADD symptoms eventually disappeared. After 4 weeks the most effected child was sitting relaxed and able to concentrate and learn. Since this time other schools comparisons have confirmed these same findings.
Here is a report that describes the effects lights and other influences can have in learning abilities .
Here is another report describing how teachers themselves are being effected by lighting.
Influences such as these can obviously contribute to these kind of cause and effect issues...
Teaching is one of the most stressful occupations with one in three teachers experiencing mental health problems according to the National Union of Teachers (Mental Health Foundation/ Press Association, 2007).
Lighting Influences To The Eyes:
The retina of the eye contains two types of specialized photoreceptors called rods and cones.
There are 6 to 7 million cones that are responsible for color vision, they do not detect light. There are about 137 million rods that are light sensitive and respond to low levels of illumination, a function that is important for night vision, that do not detect color. The body responds to a circadian cycle where hormonal reactions and cycles occur according to the amount of sun light, the eyes receive throughout the day. When the sun goes down the body begins to produce different hormones.
The Cause...
It is known that fluorescent lights flicker on and off at a rate of 120 times per second as well as emitting an imbalanced ray of colors that people are unable to consciously see. These influences effect the eyes inner rods and cones where the imbalances generated from these lights then effect the natural hormonal balance the body has. For people who have more rods and/or cones than the average person, by their having a heightened sense, they can be more sensitive and effected by this type of lighting than others are. A person that has a compromised body balance from other influences or lacking proper nutrition can also be more physically and mentally stressed by fluorescent lights.
The Effect...
The biggest challenge in the recognition of the large scale harmful health effects that fluorescent lighting are having on people is the fact that not everyone experiences the exact same symptoms. Each persons health effects can vary according to many other contributing factors such as their DNA, diet, present hormonal balances, mental stress , as well as what kind of chemicals and heavy metals their body is being , or has been, contaminated by. It can however be summarized that these lights, without a doubt, are stressing the body and weakening the immune system, regardless of what the symptoms are, of the many people throughout this country and world experiencing them today.
Keep in mind people often do not associate health symptoms with the type lighting they are under so most remain ignorant to the true cause of them.
Today a small portion of modern medicine has begun to recognize and classify the increasing number of people suffering a wide variety of, often unexplainable, symptoms as their having...
Scotopic Sensitivity, a perceptual processing disorder, affects 12-14% of the population (creating symptoms similar to ADD) that is effected by different types of lighting.
Fluorescent Light Sensitivities are a serious issue for about 25% of the population. While these people prove to be more sensitive to artificial lighting, it does not mean that non sensitive people are not being effected as well.
Then there are symptoms that just can't be felt until its to late, consider How Fluorescent Lighting Puts You at Risk for Skin Cancer .
Yet with all that has been proven since the 1970's of the health effects that fluorescent lights alone can have...
Since the early 1990's children as young as 3 years old have been placed on strong psychotropic ( body and mind altering) drugs, with older children taking multiple prescriptions, without medical professionals first looking at their diet or environmental influences, a neglectful practice that continues yet today.
Not only do these drugs themselves stress the body and mind in unpredictable ways but they can have a concerning effect to a persons auto immune system, especially in a younger child's development of one. Many of the drugs children, and adults, are placed on can further stress and weaken their body and mental functions more.
Read the FDA warning to: "Drug Manufacturers to Notify Patients about Cardiovascular and Psychiatric Adverse Events."
Here is a VIDEO showing the consequences that children, and their parents, suffer while taking these drugs Gary Null's " The Drugging of Our Children "
Here is another 3 minute news video that shows the extreme of these drugs... “Virginia Tech Massacre. Why? Antidepressants... again?” .
The varied cause and effects that contaminating odors, fluorescent lights, sounds, etc. can have to a persons body and mind have influenced how millions of children(who are most sensitive) and adults have, for many years, potentially been mis-diagnosed and treated for ADD/ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, and many other misunderstood health challenges using drugs that may harm the body and its immune system even more, rather than correcting the environmental problems at hand.
This has contributed to a gross over and misuse of prescription drugs, many leading to dependency, which at best only cover up the symptoms resulting from people suffering from being in an unnatural or harsh environment. With their body and mind being stressed not only by the ongoing environmental challenges which are causing their symptoms then even more by the side effects that synthesized drugs can cause. Together these influences can leave a person, especially children, even more vulnerable to mental dysfunction, aggressions, depression while inhibiting their immune system which then can lead to infection, and diseases...
This is a major concern for all people, because the more people in your community are taking unnecessary drugs the more it will effect the quality of your own drinking water.
Read how in 2001 it was discovered by a 17 year old student during a science project how the Ohio River and her communities, including her schools water sources were polluted not only by antibiotic drugs but also by drug resistant bacterias as well. (LINK TO BE ADDED)
Several decades ago modern medicine learned of the consequences of mis and over prescribing antibiotics when they found that, when used improperly, it lead to rebound infections that were more resistant to the antibiotics being used. If the people in large communities are drinking water that contains uncontrollable amounts of these drugs in it, this alone could have a huge negative effect upon many peoples immune system.
With these being only a few of the major influences people are exposed to each and every day, with all other contributing factors compiling on to this, which as a whole are now challenging the physical health and mental well being of MILLIONS of children, and effecting their immune systems.
While at the same time people having bodies with challenged hormone and immune systems caused by chemicals and heavy metals contaminations from consumer products, poor diets, artificial lighting, and compiling industrial pollutions these influences are also having negative effects to the environment, especially to the ecosystems balance of microbial life which can lead to the spreading of...
Dangerous Drug Resistant Microorganisms
Outbreaks of plague, historically were reflective of times when people lived closely with their livestock animals, had poor hygiene practices, and/ or lacked proper balance of healthy foods, where harmful bacterial imbalances occurred and contaminations quickly spread from person to person and entering other areas and countries by travelers and through traded goods that had become contaminated. The lack of scientific knowledge regarding the world of microorganisms as well as the medical mis-understandings in prevention(need for cleanliness) and of proper treatments greatly contributed the widespread number of people dying throughout the world.
Today many of the imbalances that now exist in the ecosystem are being created by modernized man made and chemical influences, ones that have created "superbug" bacterial strains that never before existed. These same stresses and imbalances to the body and environment, once again, leave mankind with the increased potential outbreak of numerous types of plagues or worse yet- possibly leading to a pandemic. As the amount of environmental pollutions continues... so does the increasing number of threats towards humanity.
Drug-resistant Staph Infections on the Rise, Study Finds: A dangerous bacterial infection that's resistant to standard antibiotics now kills more Americans each year than HIV/AIDS, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read this report here
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterial infection that has become highly resistant to many antibiotics. Read report here.
FDA: "The Rise of Antibiotic- Resistant Infections". Read this report here
" Superbug MRSA deaths up 1400% in a decade." Read this report here .
Study: " Deadly stomach bug more common than thought" Read this report here
" The curse of antibiotics" Read report here
READ: UNDERSTANDING MORE OF THE MICROBIAL THREATS THAT PEOPLE NOW FACE.
READ "A Hospital Germ on the Warpath" Here
"Certain type of colitis now more common, severe among hospitalized patients" Read this report here
"Anti-Bacterial Personal Hygiene Products Triclosan And Triclocarban May Not Be Worth Potential Risks"
You can read this report here .
While all these harmful influences can easily be eliminated...
By learning how the body and mind are also effected by the physical senses, a person can better understand the many different influences that contribute to toddlers, children, teens, and adults physical and mental development, behaviors, and health challenges. LEARN HOW THE SENSES EFFECTS THE HORMONE & IMMUNE SYSTEM HERE
And understanding how the body and mind functions are primarily influenced by a persons DIET AND HOW IT EFFECTS BEHAVIORS AND LEARNING
AND HOW YOU CAN EFFECTIVELY ELIMINATE THESE THREATS WITHOUT HARMING LIFE OR THE ENVIRONMENT...
While many branches of science and medicine today are receiving huge amounts of grant money in a race to create more of their "miracle drugs", ones that tend to prove within twenty years, if not sooner, to be more harmful in other undisclosed or unrealized ways...
It can easily be seen how throughout history mankind won their microbial battles by turning to nature for their answers in their surviving threatening microbial contaminations, just as they had in their finding physical health and mental balance. Hippocrates, known as the father of medicine, successfully ended the plague in Athens by the burning of the herb Rosemary, which from today’s perspective would have been a crude way of diffusing the plants oils into the air as it burned and fumigated the environment. Where the people in the area would also have breathed in and absorb the plants chemical substances into their lungs and body.
Many people in science and medicine today have confirmed why they were successful in doing so...
* The University of Manchester reports: "Essential oils usually used in aromatherapy have been found to kill the deadly MRSA bacteria according to research" Read their report here
* Dr. Jean Valnet, MD, a well-known French medical researcher and essential oil expert, reported "The essence of lemon is second to none in its antiseptic and bactericidal properties. The vapors of lemon essence alone will neutralize the meningococcus in 15 minutes, the typhus bacillus in less than an hour, pneumococcus in one to three hours, staphylococcus aureus in two hours and hemolytic streptococcus in three to twelve hours. Applied directly, the essential oil itself neutralizes the typhus bacillus and staphylococcus in only five minutes and the diphtheric bacillus in just 20 minutes." Dr. Valnet also points out that pathogenic microorganisms such as viruses and bacteria do not become resistant to essential oils as they do to modern-day synthetic antibiotic drugs.."
* Read here of a study conducted in Dallas Texas (Reuters Health) was reported to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons that "Essential Oils Found to Fight Bacteria"
Learn how you can naturally and effectively protect yourself, children, and employees from the threats of deadly bacteria and viral contaminations as well as from toxic chemical contaminations while providing an environment that is stimulating to brain functions and relaxing to the body...
PROTECT YOURSELF, FAMILY, FRIENDS, STUDENTS, EMPLOYEES, AND THE ENVIRONMENT HERE
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