The Additional Red Flags Attached to Febreze

There are additional red flags attached to the Febreze product line, along
with the fact that it has triggered brutal asthma attacks and other adverse
reactions.   In fact, the severe reaction scenario was the sole purpose for
having embarked on an extensive research project involving Febreze.

The logic was that something incredibly violent had to have been attached
to Febreze, for it to have triggered asthma no less tortuous than an anaconda
wrapped around your chest.  The respiratory radar turned out 100% correct.
It turned out that there were a number of things deadly wrong with Febreze.

Next came a supervised Quebecois scholastic project that allegedly resulted
in Febreze killing 100% of the test plants, in two different tests.  News of
the project's outcome necessitated even more research on Febreze.

The logic was that any fragrance product that kills tested plant life as quick-
ly as Febreze did, while triggering violent asthma attacks, has got to have
something attached to it which must be banned from civilization.  It turned
out that the product line should instead be called Febreze Air Defects.

In addition, there is a nexus between the infamous Monsanto corporation
and Procter &Gamble.  Firstly, P&G's Chief Financial Officer ever so co-
incidentally is on Monsanto's board of directors; Jon Moeller.  Secondly,
as is shown at the end of this relatively long article, six of Monsanto's top
ten institutional stockholders are six of P&G's top ten.

http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130131-914679.html

Incidentally, Procter & Gamble was recently sued in California, for its vio-
lation of Proposition 65; specifically due to the level of 1,4 dioxane in its
Tide Detergent product.   Incidentally, according to the Environmental
Working Group, Febreze has a Propostion 65 chemical in its formula,
namely acetaldehyde which is outlined below.  Thus, it is not a lie to
state that Procter & Gamble has become another Monsanto.

http://ens-newswire.com/2013/01/25/procter-gamble-must-scrub-carcinogen-dioxane-from-tide/
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'Air Freshener' ingredients turn testosterone into estrogen via aromatase

Why do 20-something year old males want their cars smelling like a sicken-
ly sweet child-molester-mobile, as in "Hey there little boy.  Do you want 
some candy?"  

Those "air fresheners" are very much a trigger of asthma to those passer-byers 

with chemical allergies.  That alone makes today's American millennial male 

look distinctively out of touch with nature and human decency, as well as 

being completely out of touch with reality.  Your air fresheners are turning 

you into women; or at the least, the Tooth Fairy & every other kind of fairy.

You call yourselves Metrosexual, as if you are the most suave and alluring
of men.  But, your cars smell like sissified Fairyville.   Hello?   

Is there anyone among you with brain cells and who can read anything further 

than 140 character tweets?   I ask this, because you're all killing us who have
allergic asthma.  Thus, you ARE the sphincter muscles of the universe.
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We live in the era of the Great American Glutton ... of the supersizer who
consumes things as if he/she were a bottomless pit.   A number of Ameri-
cans are seen with gluttonous outlays of tattoos speckled  on them to the
point where the natural contour of the human physique is distorted.

In sequence, America is the 2nd most obese nation on Earth, where the
obesity also distorts the natural contour of the human physique, amidst
the inordinate consumption of sugar.    Plus, Americans  emit gluttonous
amounts of asthma triggering fragrance products which serve the function
of endocrine disruptors, thereby disrupting the natural flow of the human
body.

Concerning this, take note of the occasional "Johnny Cool" car owner who
has four, six, eight, and even ten "air fresheners" in his car.  One type is call-
ed Da Bomb, indicating that it emits a high level of fragrance chemicals that
trigger asthma attacks in susceptible persons, such as those who suffer from
Irritant-induced Asthma, Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome, and sim-
ilar respiratory injuries.  Well, the Johnny Cools need to be informed of some-
thing which deletes, step by step, their testosterone machismo.

Air Fresheners are known as XENOESTROGENS which "activate" the enzyme
AROMATASE and turn a man's testosterone into estrogen.  This means that, if
the Johnny Cool Macho Car Guy with his half dozen auto air fresheners thinks
that the air fresheners are making him the epitome of manhood, then he is fool-
ing himself.   He is turning himself into the opposite of a man, via the action of
xenoestrogen-induced endocrine disruption.  So, their greatest accomplishments
in life has thus far been committing assault by menace upon asthmatics whose
airspace are violated by their air fresheners and by causing havoc on their own
endocrine system.

And the ladies who glut-up their cars with air fresheners are emasculating
their men.  Also, Estrogen is well known to be cancer fuel.

Great play, Shakespeares.     Nice shot, Arnold Palmers.    Cool move,
Bobby Fishers.     Smooth landing, Neil Armstrongs.  Nice discovery,
Columbuses.  

For those of you who are sensible, please spread the word . . . concerning
the subject matter appearing in the articles linked below.  Please help save
America from its own idiocy and self-centered inconsiderateness, as well
its corporate greed.  Fragrance products are the chemical industry's ever-
so-convenient way to dump their toxic wastes and get paid while doing
so.  The fragrance gluttons of today have made their cars & homes toxic
dump sites without even realizing it.

You cannot deny that Americans are embarrassingly gullible on a mass
scale.  The 2003 Weapons of Mass Destruction Scam is an example on
how the American People live in a Barnum & Bailey Circus Scenario,
in "Suckers. There's one born every minute."

Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals:
Associated Disorders and Mechanisms of Action

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3443608/

Plus:

http://www.virginiahopkinshealthwatch.com/2011/06/5-ways-men-can-reduce-estrogen-levels/

http://acaai.org/news/unplug-indoor-pollutants-breath-fresh-air

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3018511/

 http://www.lifestylebypoliquin.com/Lifestyle/StayHealthy/393/Is_Estrogen_Dominance_Making_You_Fat.aspx?_.aspx

The Real Health Hazards : Petro & synthetic chemicals : the sensitizers : bioaccumulative ones : the PAH's : PB residue ... and all the Hysteria.

Geometric marvels can be found in the smallest places.

Let's review:  CO2 is the big bad wolf of a con artist's design.  In reality, it is the unlocking key to photosynthesis which enables life to flourish throughout Planet Earth.  It's radiative forcing is a mild 3.7 watts per meter squared.  It's presence in the atmosphere no greater than 0.042%.  In contrast, Nitrogen is 78%, Oxygen is 21%, and Argon is .93%.  Those three elements, alone, take-up 99.93% of the Troposphere's space.

In addition, CO2 exists in three individual types of vibration modes.  In one of those modes of vibration, CO2 is incapable of retaining infrared heat.  And in the vastest regions of the oceans (9,000 ft downward for the Atlantic, Pacific, & Indian Ocean --- and 7,000 ft downward for Southern Ocean) CO2 is incapable of heating the ocean's water, which, at those depths, is a constant 39F.   

Plus, tremendous storms and long droughts have occurred throughout the past, when CO2 levels were much lower than today's 421 ppm.  These weather catastrophes occurred when CO2 was 280, 300, and 320 ppm.  

In fact, Al Gore predicted that hurricanes would get much worse in the years to come.  Well, here's a newsflash:  Ever since record-keeping on cyclone wind speed began, the number of Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the United States was a grand total of . . .  4.  Four.  No more than four.  Al Gore was significantly wrong.  They were the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, Hurricane Camille (1969), Andrew in 1992, and Michael, in 2018.  Therefore, only ONE Category 5 hurricane made landfall in the United States, since Al Gore's 2006 movie which predicted many more higher-windspeed hurricanes.  Gore was once again wrong.

==>    "If you are an environmentally conscientious person, and if you are radically set on diagnosing the Earth's health, based on CO2 levels, then you are a dog chasing its tail.  So, if you want to end the production of all gasoline and diesel fuel, on account of CO2, then you have been hideously deceived, by very unconscionable people who want to use the youth's absence of experience, to make a lot of money." 

===> "However, if you want to end the common use of the gasoline and diesel engines, on account of their proliferation of petrochemicals and similar antagonists to health, then you are in the correct lane.  In fact, you're at least half right to two-thirds right.   You need to understand the concept of filtration.  Secondly, you need to understand that any transition must be done in phases, and NOT all at once.  Plus, the corporations being phased-out must be given accommodations to also change into the replacement technology."

You exhale about 2.3 lbs of carbon dioxide per day.  Now, I don't see your classrooms catching on fire.  I don't see your home burning down.  In fact, you exhale CO2 at least 6 million times a year.  So, what are you going to do about leaving behind a carbon footprint every time you exhale?  Are you going to stop breathing?  Or are you going to realize that you're being punked by scientists looking for lucrative taxpayer dollar funding?

Now remember, if you are overjoyed over the $370 BILLION "climate assistance" that the Congress appropriated to the Michael Mann People, Al Gore People, etc, know that your generation is the one who is going to have to pay for the $370 billion.  When, you get older, you're realize how much of a con game this was ... just like the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction alarm.  Everyone but a handful believed every false thing the media was telling us about post-millennia Iraq.

The New Form of Energy & Transportation.  This will be followed by the rainbow colored unicorn.

Oh, and even at that, there is one big question which first needs to be answered:  Q:  What is going to be the replacement energy?  

~Wind, so that birds can get axed by windmill blades, by the million?  Wind dies down very often.  

~Would the replacement energy be Sunlight?  Well, clouds and night time are an impediment to solar energy.  

~How about nuclear?  Uhhhm, are you aware of the half-life issue?  And even if you go nuclear, there is preparation time which needs to be done by complete professionals, and NOT by well-meaning laymen volunteers.

So, you want electric cars everywhere?  Well, do you know how much electricity today comes from the burning of coal, and how much more coal must be burnt to have a highway full of electric cars?  And, are you aware of the amount of mercury released when coal is burnt?  This would mean necessary filtration technology.   That takes time.  In fact, if you want nothing but electric, then the new infrastructure to support it will be beyond expensive.

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BTW, natural gas is the way to go. ✅✅✅ Methane only exists at 1.9 parts per million.

Only a congress full of imbeciles would resist the fuller implementation of this technology.

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The other form of excellent energy is Tidal Energy.  This is literally high-tide water power.  It would require a new infrastructure which would be moderately expensive, and and and it can only serve coastline populations where hurricane season isn't too busy.   So, this matter of replacement energy is something that takes time and mature individuals; NOT fanatical activists or anti-activists.

If you're not informed about basic tide science, click here:  A Tutorial on Ocean Tides

Now, CO2 is NOT going to cause the world to end in 12 years .... or in twelve hundred years.  You are being duped by some of the lowest intelligence con artists yet to come on to the American scene.  BTW, the American scene included the United Nations, being that it's headquartered in NYC.  The trick is for these con artists to create a sense of urgency amongst their potential customers.  It's all a matter of hysterics.  Today's climate con artists think that you are stupid and easy to dupe.

At this point, you need to understand that CO2 is NOT the grand enemy.  It's your friend.  Your danger is the glut of synthetic chemicals in today's society.  That's the sick joke of society.  Let us go to the original starting point of this post:

Years ago, there were  assumptions, and then insinuations, that people presenting the counterpoint on the climate issue were payed-off by Big Oil.  The accusers were first-generation-thoroughly-obsessed.  

These accusers were the ones who used to call their monster-in-the-closet Global Warming.  Then, in the middle of the SIXTEEN YEAR warming pause (1999-2016), they were told to call their closet monster the vague title, "Climate Change."

None the less, the Thoroughly Obsessed became emboldened without evidence to be so.  As an example, a less-than-stellar guy walked up to a debate table where sat the Princeton-associated inventor of the Sodium Star.  The phantom activist acted absolutely assured that the Princeton scholar was in the deep pockets of Big Oil.  He had ZERO evidence, being that none existed.  But, he was utterly assured of himself.  Arrogant buffoon.

Well, here's another clue for you all, aside of the fact that the Walrus was Paul (Beatle's Magical Mystery Tour reference, as a satirical joke):

Big Oil was more than willing to concede to the extremely asinine assertion that CO2 was destroying the planet.  This is because Big Oil wanted to protect its lucrative petrochemicals which don't grow on trees.  So, Big Oil was willing to use CO2 as a diversionary tactic ... as a smokescreen ... so done with the hope that the Public would forget about the petrochemicals that really can hurt you.  As a result, the thoroughly obsessed "climate activists" who believed themselves to be the most enlightened beings on Earth got easily duped.

The Necessary Thesis Statement

The true problem with the present environment is the plurality of petrochemicals & synthetic chemicals which flood society and which are associated with ~asthma, ~endocrine disruption, ~urticaria, ~digestive problems, ~chemical allergy sensitization and chemical allergy reactions, ~irritant-induced reactions, ~nervous system inflammation, ~kidney problems, and . . . . . .  ~~~cancer.  CO2 does NOT cause cancer.  In fact . . .

. . . There are several types of asthmatic conditions.  One is known as Small Airways Disease, where the asthmatic actually "traps air" within himself.  One sign is that a stethoscope will detect wheezing at his sides (bi-lateral wheezing), but not on the front of his chest.  Plus, such patients have "prolonged expiratory phases." They exhale exceedingly.  Well, these Small Airways Disease patients do wonderfully in air-spaces that have elevated levels of CO2 ... as long as there are no airborne allergens present, to trigger their asthma.

All in all, CO2 is your friend.  It is the key to Photosynthesis, and therefore greenery.  So, if you really do want to go green, then increase the CO2 levels ... without simultaneously increasing harmful gases such as sulfur dioxide ...  polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons ...  black mold mycotoxins  ... volatile organic compounds which very effectively trigger asthma ... and anything that appears in the Toxic Release Inventory.  

Workplace chemicals are of importance, because of the repeated exposure to them, followed by the process of sensitization which has occurred in a percentage of workers.  Example:

Perchloroethylene:  It's used in the dry cleaning business.  It can be an eventual nightmare for the employees of that industry.  But, what about the customers?  ANS: Nowhere nearly as much, if at all.  In workplace cases, it's a matter of sensitization, as opposed to toxicity.  For the record, there is a difference between being poisoned and being allergic.

None the less, the really dangerous chemical compounds are known as biopersistent. 

                                    See:  Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic Chemicals 

Another Example:

One of the major ingredients of combustible fuel production is none other than ===>  Benzene.  Ambient benzene levels have been linked to the rise of certain cancers, as far as goes correlation.  This was affirmed statistically in Western India, for starters. 

Plus, certain types of cancer have high rates amongst those Canadians who live in the wind direction of the Alberta Tar Sand Fields.  Yet, who amongst the "Woke, Going-Green People" mentions this? ... or cares about this? ... or even knows about this?  And then comes the other chemicals to which the "woke" people seem absolutely clueless.

Qualifying Statement of one type of pollution:

Diesel Particulates (micrometer-sized grains):  Aside of coming from the soot and ash of incompletely burnt fuel, diesel particulates are also the result of engine part ABRASION.  If they are larger than 10 micrometers, then they easily find their ways to the ground, due to their weight.  If they are as small as 2.5 micrometers, they find their way to your lungs, sometimes for six consecutive months.  

This is one example which shows that the Al-Gore-induced obsession with CO2 is an utter waste of time that takes away the time needed for addressing true pollution.  Without CO2 ... and without chlorophyll ... and without bees ... life of Earth eventually ceases.   CO2 is NOT pollution. 

You have to "get with it," in life.  The CO2 obsession is a money-grabbing con game.  The synthetic chemical issue is what needs to be addressed ... and what needs your help.  Quit being Michael Mann's dupe.  He NEVER won any Nobel Prize, and Al Gore did NOT win the Nobel Science Prize.

In fact, you need to talk to guys/gals who worked outdoors for the past 30 years ... even if it were on-and-off employment.  You have to quit relying on "doctored" graphs that "hide the decline."  (That is done by "smoothing out" a data set, in order to remove the jagged edges of a graph.)

Concerning the infamous (and intelligence-insulting) hockey stick graph that portrayed the Years 1000 to 1999, the decline was hidden in the background - - - in the "bar of uncertainty" --- in the "error margin" or "error bar."  The background of the original 1999 climate hockey stick graph is super jagged.  Anyone with an open mind instantly perceives it.  The Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age are in that "Error Bar."  Let us resume with the topic at hand:

Are you aware of the thousands of chemicals used in modern society?  I would set forth the approximate number, but I don't even believe it . . . without first doing hours of fact checking.  Well, whatever be the true number, it's irresponsibly high, and it's the reason for the:

Frank  R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, as well as the 2016 laws thereof.

   See:  Key provisions of the Lautenberg Safe Chemicals Act of 2021.

   There is : OSHA guidance for hazard determination of chemicals

The other significant danger to human and mammalian health is PM2..5.  That's Particulate Matter smaller than 2.5 microns.  Anything bigger succumbs quickly to gravity and falls to the ground/floor.

   Also take a look at:   Chemical respiratory allergens

200+ chemicals found in umbilical cord blood samples ... 80,000 on U.S. market without being proven safe

... was the reason for the introduction of the Safe Chemicals Act.  If the

    Republicans truly cared about curtailing medical costs, they would have

    championed the original Safe Chemicals Act.  In that way, a multitude

    of people would have been spared of the ill effects of untested synthetic

    chemicals, ranging from asthma attacks to endocrine disruption to head-

    aches to dermatitis to sinusitis to inflamed nerve endings to cancer.

The 2015-2016 (114th Congress) version of the proposed bill is found at:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/697/text

    Chemical Anarchy and Modern Society

Estrogenized chemicals have been allowed to be dispersed throughout water,

air, land without the rule of law protecting life on earth.  We can begin with

the effect of the hormone disrupting herbicide atrazine upon hermaphrodite

frogs and proceed to the phenomenon of the feminizing of the younger males

of America.  We can then review how estrogenized chemicals are a fuel for

cancer and a catalyst for widespread obesity in the United States & Mexico,

accompanied by 80,000 chemicals on the U.S. market.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/01/AR2010080103469.html

http://www.pnas.org/content/99/8/5476.abstract

http://blogs.discovery.com/animal_news/2010/03/common-ag-chemical-feminizes-male-frogs-.html

The Chemical Age in General is discussed at the following link:

 http://www.nrdc.org/health/toxics.asp

Hormone Disruptor chemical pollution even European coastal waters

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24458306

Update:  It appears that the 2013 version of the proposed Safe Chemicals Act

is a compromised product, an very ineffective watered-down version thereof.

This is the assessment of the Physicians for Social Responsibility, an affiliate

of the Nobel Prize winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nu-

clear War.

http://www.psr.org/environment-and-health/environmental-health-policy-institute/federal-chemical-policy-reform.html

http://www.psr.org/environment-and-health/confronting-toxics/cancer-and-toxic-chemicals.html

Plus, in sweatshop China, cancer rates among children have been on the rise.

A child is defined as anyone under the age of 14.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-01/14/content_11850124.htm 

Irresponsibility Squared and Cubed:  

Getting wealthy while harming others.

To start, what point is there being the richest of the rich, if your home is on an

earth which has been flooded with noxious chemicals which even disrupt the

natural equilibrium of hormones?  What point is there being wealthy in a world

of chromosome breakers, liver cell killers, neurotoxins, etc?  What point is there

in being rich in a chemically induced freak show caused by the greed of a few?

Hundreds of chemicals found in umbilical cord blood samples

The Safe Chemicals Act was first introduced in the US Senate in 2011, by the

late Frank Lautenberg.  The 2013 revised edition thus for has 29 co-sponsors.

The motive for the bill was the quantitative fact that laboratory testing detect-

ed hundred of chemicals in umbilical cord blood samples.

In case you are unfamiliar with United States Law, chemicals in household pro-

ducts do not have to be proven harmless, in order to appear in the products that

Americans take home from the store.  This includes previously the mentioned

hormone disruptors, sensitizers, and irritants, as well as those chemicals listed

amongst the Genotoxic/Mutagenic class, the Hepatotoxic Class (liver cell kill-

ers,) the Cell-mediated allergens, Reproductive Toxins, Bronchoconstrictors,

Neurotoxins, Respiratory Irritants, and those oxidative chemicals which pro-

duce allergenic compounds whenever exposed to air.

Out of 80,000+ chemicals listed in the United States EPA's Toxic Substance

Control Act list, a grand total of FIVE chemicals were banned.  Yet, asthma

and cancer rates have been rising as a matter of course,  and hermaphrodite

aquatic life has been discovered.  Keep in mind that household chemicals

end up in land fills, eventually to leak into ground water via cracks in the

landfills and even via rain water.

The endocrine disruptors also end up in drinking water supplies.  In as much,

no water treatment plant extracts the estrogen from the eight primary sources

of it, the "pill" being one of the eight.

http://www.ewg.org/enviroblog/2013/04/gearing-tsca-reform

http://www.ewg.org/research/pollution-5-extraordinary-women

Concerning the Trade Secret law by which fragrance product ingredients

do not have to be made known to the public:

1] It was an abuse of power, on behalf of those who arranged the law.

2] It's a pointless law, being that scientists can analyze fragrance pro-

    ducts and discern their ingredients. 

Hormone disruptors permitted in American water supplies and

the ever so coincidental discovery of hermaphrodite aquatic life

Enter April 10, 2013.  This was the date when the 2013 Safe Chemicals Act

was introduced into the U.S. Congress by the late senator, Frank Lautenberg

and New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand.  The bill has 27 other co-sponsors.

The bill's number is S.696.

Between the Years 2011 and 2013, due to the obstructionist nature of the Re-

publican Party, and their glut of filibusters, a grand total of 2% of the laws in-

troduced in the Senate were enacted.  The Safe Chemicals Act was assessed

at having an  8% chance of becoming law.  Yet, S.696 has an 84% chance of

getting past committee.  In this instance, it's the Committee on Environment

and Public Works.  Incidentally, between 2011 and 2013, only 12% of the bills

introduced  in the Senate made their ways past any committee.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s696

1] We live in an era where it has been 100% proven that chemical allergies exist,

as does Occupational Asthma due to Low-weight Molecular Agents and irritant-

induced diseases such as Irritant-associated Vocal Cord Dysfunction, Reactive

Airways Dysfunction Syndrome, and Irritant-induced Asthma.  Such patients

have the right to avoid the chemicals which trigger their fight to breath.  Such

chemicals go unchecked, unregulated, and unbridled.

2] Present U.S. law on chemicals is so unjust that, in the past 37 years, only

five chemicals have been banned.  Yet, numerous ones were proven to trigger

asthma, kill liver cells, break chromosome chains, disrupt hormonal balance,

have a neurotoxin effect, and qualify as threats to health.  There exists 84,000

chemicals in the EPA inventory.

3] The Center for Disease Control and Prevention found 212 chemicals in the

modern human body.  The Republican Party, in its pathological greed, and the

chemical industry, in its predatory greed, turned the human body into a toxic

waste dump.

http://www.lautenberg.senate.gov/assets/SafeChemicals2013-Summary.pdf

4] The Safe Chemicals Act would:

• Allow the EPA to have a health and safety information data base that can be applied to the assessment of new chemicals, thereby bypassing redundant testing.

• Screen chemicals for safety by means of a priority scale, gauged according to risk, so that EPA can focus allotted dollars on evaluating chemicals most likely to cause harm,  while simultaneously attending to a backlog of untested chemicals.

• Automatically assigns risk management requirements for any chemical which cannot be proven safe.  This can include restricting the use of the chemical, placing a warning label on the chemical, mandating disposal protocol upon the chemical, and even banning the chemical.  

• To provide a public catalog of chemicals, comprising the health and safety information submitted by chemical manufacturers and the findings of the EPA, while protecting trade secrets.

• Provide incentives and means for the invention of safe chemical alternatives.

Since 1976, numerous chemicals have been identified as sensitizers. A sensitiz-

er is that which becomes an allergen, after a period of repeated exposure to it.

Thus, it was not fair for the government to let society be exposed to sensitizing

agents.

In like fashion, we were also shown the statistical nexus between chemical ex-

posure and the rise of the rate of autism.  Simultaneously, hermaphrodite aquat-

ic life, apparently due to the heavily estrogenated water supplies, was located.

This shows that the Toxic Substance Control Act 1976 has near zero effective-

ness.

In a 2012 poll ...  done by a Republican firm ... showed that American voters

"overwhelmingly support reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act, with 

half saying that they would strongly support reform for the regulation of 

chemicals produced and used in the United States." ... "Support for reform-

ing the law is widespread and broad-based."

http://pos.org/documents/12368_national_key_findings_final.pdf

Three-quarters of small business owners polled by the American Sustainable

Business Council believe that there should be stricter regulation on chemicals

used in everyday life.  Furthermore, 87% of the small business owners polled

support government regulation of chemicals used in growing food.  In similar

fashion,  73% of those polled support government regulation to ensure that the

products which companies buy and sell are non-toxic.

http://asbcouncil.org/sites/default/files/files/tscaslides.pdf

In as much, all indication is that the American people are behind this bill.  The

only antagonists to it are the Republicans in the House of Representatives who

kowtow to any corporation or industry which funds the politicians' re-election

campaigns.

The late New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg introduced the original

bill in 2011.  It was re-introduced shortly before his death.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/25/us/politics/lautenbergs-chemical-safety-bill-gains-momentum.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.saferchemicals.org/safe-chemicals-act/

Drawing people's attention to the millions of respiratory patients who are sen-

sitive to modern chemicals would be a start.  Pointing out the liver cell killing

capacity of other ones, as well as the neurotoxic effect of yet more, along with

the endocrine disrupting capacity of yet other ones would be a good follow-up.

Add to this those chemicals which break chromosome chains.

The Safe Chemicals Act (S.696) is found here: 

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/s696/text

(Note:  The number 113 refers to the 113th Congress.)

The American Academy of Pediatrics speaks of the necessity

to enact a Safe Chemicals Act, whatever be it's name.

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/127/5/983.full

A review of State laws which banned chemicals is here: 

http://www.saferstates.com/2011/08/2011-state-victories-for-environmental-health.html

Football Concussions: The point of impact from personal experience

       Now that the NFL & NCAA football seasons are well underway, let's talk concussions.

Yours truly, during his fourth football camp.  For the record, yours truly had four concussions, a broken foot, a separated shoulder, a sprained back and whatever else as a result of football.  In fact, he once started and ended a football game with a 102.4 degree temperature, and  even intercepted a pass at the end of that game.  So, you can play full speed in that condition and stay in rhythm.  We did push ourselves to the breaking point, between phases of dogging it and pacing ourselves.  In fact, some of us went past that point and cracked like glass in the end which usually happened during a special teams play.

The following article is a result of the press dedicating time and space to the topic of football head injuries.  The ultimate purpose of this article is to share with you the actual experience of incurring that type of injury.

The danger factor in football head injuries is that, at least half the time, they're extremely pernicious things.  One concussion might result in you seeing flashing lights, while being accompanied by zero pain and no impairment.  Another might involve pain, but is rapidly following by a feeling a instant recuperation.  Things look a little foggy, as if you are looking through a vignette filter.  Yet, you felt functional enough to go back out on the field.  The one exception for me was my first concussion.
It was followed by a chronic headache, day after day.  However, the splitting headaches might have been my sensitivity to the nearby pines.  The following year, our football camp was not held near the rows of pines, and I had no headaches.  Only two concussions that year.

When you get a back sprain, a torn ligament, or a broken arm, you feel it and you know that you won't be playing football the following day and even for the rest of the month.  You feel the pain
as you try to move the injured area.  With head injuries, most of the time you feel that you can go back out on the field at that very moment.    You're a little groggy, but you're not in pain.  So, you have to employ your own sense of rationale to know that you should give yourself a bit of recuperation time and cease full speed contact for at least a short while, lest you cause lingering damage to yourself.

Concussions were not uncommon occurrences

I wasn't the only one to go the concussion route during that time span.  In fact, one of the guys on the team had to be taken out via stretcher, with a neck brace firmly attached to him, during a special teams play.  He was the leading scorer in the entire county, returning a kick-off.  So, perhaps he had a bull's eye on him.  None the less, my worse concussion was during a special teams play.  This is probably because there is a lot more running room on a kick-off and punt play, allowing guys to reach higher speeds than during regular scrimmage line plays.

Another one of the teammates was carried to the sidelines via stretcher, the night when we beat the champs on a rain-soaked field.  He shortly came back to consciousness, leaped out of the stretcher, and went into a high-kick sprint down the sidelines, upon which everyone in the stands was cheering at him and not at the players on the field.  He ended up going to the Air Force Academy, to play football.

There was another player who went the route of multiple concussions.  He was one of the two starting half backs.  He was forbidden by doctor's orders to ever return to a football field, on account of his  concussions.  Ironically, after he left football, he returned as an adviser, took me to the side and showed me the trick in going full speed into any defensive player with an added punch.  From that point on, I never had a head injury again, except for that fateful punt play on the last game of the season.  All in all, when it came to football concussions, I wasn't alone. 

Football head injuries and the media exposure they have been getting

A number of journalists, writers, and web hosts have maturely reported, conjectured, and commented on the phenomenon of football head injuries.  After all, there is an instantaneous concern to it, as it applies to energetic youth who had the discipline to train well enough to be able to take all sort of hits, from all sorts of directions.  However, none of these reporters were able to tell you what it was like to get concussion after concusion after concussion.  All in all, no matter how disciplined and in shape you are, your head remains very vulnerable and you remain completely mortal.  The tragic endings of a few NFL football stars remind us of this.

The Immediately Needed Partial Remedy for the NFL

The NFL needs to bring back its 300 pound weight limit.  Some players today are entirely too big for safety purposes.  The NFL managers of decades prior realized that behemoth players were not conducive to the good of a league that provided role models to many an American youth. 

During those rare plays when my helmet would come off

I can only speak from my experience on the following matter:  On those plays when the hitting was such that my helmet would come off, I felt zero pain.  I didn't even feel my helmet come off.  I simply suddenly noticed that it was off.  Sometimes, I actually saw it rolling.  After the play, I would go and get my helmet, while thinking to myself, "How did that come off?"  That is to say, I never felt the exact hit which dislodged it.  And remember, when you're carrying the ball, you are getting hit by three to six guys in a single play.  Some of those guys are your own players crashing into you and getting pushed into you.  So, I never knew what hit dislodged my helmet from my head.

Also for the record, at no time during my four concussions did I ever see stars.  A concussion is a matter of lights out ... not stars out tonight.

Concussion #1:
When a coach allows a football drill to turn into assault and battery upon a Freshman

During summer camp of my freshman year, the head coach was present while the senior backs were taking turns, giving me violent shots, during a summer camp drill which went awry.  If that type of thing would happen today, it would be on YouTube and that coach's career would have been terminated.  He happened to have been the brother in law of Steeler quarterback, Terry Bradshaw.
The coach's form of football was basically blood thirsty animal thuggery.  Very little technique was taught by him.  Yet, he would obsessively have us redo a play or two during practice, to get it right.
Well, if he taught us more technique, he wouldn't needed to have us practice those plays over and over again.

Incidentally, for those unaware, such as my readers in Turkey, Western Europe, and the Ukraine, Terry Bradshaw possessed four Super Bowl rings.  He was the American football champ four times in his career.  None the less ...

During that summer camp drill, the seniors went out of their lines and proceeded to give me shot after shot after shot, in the same one drill, giving the phrase "football drill," new meaning.  They were absolutely drilling my head ... fracking me and practically fragging me ... and no other freshman had to go through this.

It was that I had a brother who graduated the year prior, and those seniors didn't like him at all.  My brother was the second string fullback the year prior.  This meant that the third string fullback was now the starter and he was ruthless to me.  My brother, incidentally, became a military officer, up to the rank of colonel.  Anway . . .

My course of action at the time was to literally do the Christian turn-the-other-cheek thing.  I conscientiously employed the turn-the-other-cheek policy, as a moral obligation.  So, why was I playing a sport as violent as American football?  Oh ... because there were cheerleaders on the sidelines and fans in the stands.  You would be surprised how many girls would magnetize to you, simply because you were a football player.  None the less, in my freshman year, the seniors took their hatred of my brother out on me.

During that one solitary drill, I would take a shot, and go down to the ground.  Yet the coach, Terry Bradshaw's brother-in-law, wouldn't blow the whistle.  So, I would get back up, only to take yet another hit when I wasn't even 3/4 of the way up.   In fact, I would keep getting up and have to fend off another series of hits.  Never was I given the opportunity to stand up and get set.  I was lunging forward and meeting the hits, because I would get hit immediately upon trying to stand up.  Bam! Over and over again did this happen.  Moreover, this was only the second or third day of camp.

The coach let it go on for an amount of time that was entirely too long.   I even remember seeing the sneering face of one of the seniors, as he made a perfectly aligned helmet-to-helmet hit on me, followed by others taking turns in hitting me at full speed, time after time.  A few days later, I was diagnosed with my first concussion.   Nice guy ... my head coach.   Just what I needed.

I was still playing full contact football during the time between the drill which went awry and the day before my diagnosis. That wasn't a smart thing to do.   I was playing full contact football with a concussion not being given the opportunity to heal.

Incidentally, I went to the doctor because of a chronic headache that wouldn't subside.  Needless to say, I missed the first scrimmage of the season.  But, during the second scrimmage, the following week, I wasn't gun-shy on the field, at all.  For some reason, I was revved-up.  I was so in-tune that I would place one hand on the front-center shoulder pads of the ball carrier, and the other hand on the back-center should pads and literally throw the guy down to the ground.  Something clicked, because of having of been so severely attacked and refusing to quit the team, despite the full-blown physical harassment of seniors.

None the less, during my freshman year, there would be times when, without warning or cause, a senior would hit me full force in the head, during scrimmages.  There was even a time during a scrimmage when the whistle had blown, and everyone stopped, except for the senior wingback, who clipped me at full speed rom behind, resulting in me getting a separated shoulder.  Ironically, the following year, I became the starting wingback  . . .  and right side cornerback.

As was previously mentioned, if those things happened today, I would have gotten a hefty settlement, the coach would have been fired, and the school would have been placed on some type of probation.I took a beating that year.  What made things even more difficult was that my mother was dying and she would be gone during the following calendar year.

Incidentally, whenever a player on the other team would get injured and be unable to take himself off the field, those same seniors would clap and cheer.  Today, that would have incurred a 15 yard penalty and disciplinary action.  That anti-sportsman mindset prevailed throughout that graduating class.  In the years to follow, however, the seniors would be much more civilized.  In fact, one of those abusive seniors (during my freshman year) was recently indicted for a major, high priced fraud. That was a vicious graduating class, to say the least.

Concussion #2:
This one was fascinating.

Concussion #2 happened in the same year, during a Freshman game.  It was played against the one school locally known for its gymnastic talent.  Anyway, I went to the sidelines, only to see in my peripheral vision, two flashing lights that looked like neon signs.  One of them almost looked exactly like an arrow sign that you see when passing a stretch of road under construction.  That is to say, the design of the flashing light was organized and continuous, not morphing into any other design.  None the less, there wasn't any hit that I remember which was hard enough to trigger the flashing lights.   In fact, I wasn't in pain.  I simply saw the flashing neon light phenomenon and knew that it was time to stay on the sidelines for a while.

Concussion #3:
The one which occurred when I was carrying the ball.

This occurred in the middle of my second year.  There was no pain attached to this one, either.  It occurred at practice.  It was a standard, off-tackle run.   The line of scrimmage was a traffic jam.
So, I put my head down and plowed through.  My problem was not using my forearm to absorb some of the contact.

If my memory is correct, I made it past a linebacker and a safety who were were playing the role of welcoming committee upon my person.  However, neither one could make a center-mass hit on me.  So, I went to then end zone.  Then suddenly, it felt as if I were waking up and suddenly materializing on the field.  I turned around a looked at the line of scrimmage which looked like a photo taken in a vignette filter.  It was one of those things when you find yourself thinking in total silence, "Oh no.  Not again.  Another concussion."

Concussion #4:
Walking unconscious

This was the last game of the second season.  It was during a punt play on a Saturday afternoon, when a defensive end collided into the side of my head, in an attempt to block the punt.  I went entirely unconscious, yet I was walking ... instinctively walking toward the sideline, with my right hand on the right side of my helmet.

While coming back into  full consciousness, I heard the sound of a buzzer that sounded like the type you hear in a game show when a contestant gets a question wrong.  In fact, when I came to consciousness, I thought that I was waking up, to go to the game.  Next, I faintly heard cheering.  Then, I loudly heard cheering.  Suddenly, I saw the punt returner headed directly toward me.  About four guys made the tackle fifteen yards away from me.

When I did come back into consciousness, I momentarily experienced the worst pain in my life ... even when compared to the day I was caught between two 2,430 lb steel beams at the heal ... even in comparison to a number of vicious asthma attacks, my separated shoulder, my broken foot, the -30 degree wind chills I endured, the 106 degree Oklahoma weather I once endured, etc.  The pain disappeared when the elongated buzzer sound vanished.  I would then attend two more football camps, in the years to follow ... free of any further concussion.

Now, as far as would go any lingering effect, I had none that affected any mental functionality.  But,  safety improvements are still needed in organized football,  to remedy an eminent danger in a sport that's violent in nature .. unless if the authorities decide to cancel the sport, altogether.  None the less, despite four concussions, I managed: 1} to get published at the age of twenty, along side a handful of laureates, 2} to later get published along side a multiplicity of laureates, 3} to play impressionist poly rhythms in studio piano class, 4} to score a 100% on a national standardized collegiate accounting exam issued by an Ivy League school, 5} to get inducted into what used to be called the National Languages Honors Society, 6} to make the dean's list more than once, 7} to get inducted into the International High IQ Society.

Keep in mind that I had all of my mental faculties almost immediately after incurring each head injury.  The fatal error in a head injury scenario is going back out on the field, instead of heading to the locker room ... or to the team doctor.  In the words of any successful poker player, you gotta know when to fold 'em.  I did, three out of four different concussions. 

The rare summer football camp death in the general area was a matter of course.

During every summer camp season, I expected, as matter of course, to hear news broadcasters report one or two local football-related deaths.  Usually, it was a blood clot in the brain which was the cause.  At least that's how it was registered in my memory.

When the news of the first death of the season would be reported, there would be an impromptu team meeting, headed by the team captains.  Coaches made sure that we wouldn't be deprived of water on the field.  So, we evaded the ultimate football tragedies.  None the less,  I would end up getting four concussions before I would sew my first football letter on to my school jacket. 

A quick note about the team photo above, being
that there was one historic element to our team.

Concerning the photo at the top of the page, the guy to my left was the fastest guy on the team and a bit track-and-field champ.  The gentleman to my right was the starting quarterback.  The taller team mate behind my left shoulder wasn't a lineman.  He was the second or third string quarterback and one of the most personable guys on the team.  The one ace up his sleeve was the distance he could throw a football.  He was also a golden gloves boxer.  But, he just didn't have the speed to be a starter.  The guy behind my left shoulder played defensive and offensive end.  Perhaps you know that phrase:  "A defensive end is someone who can tear a refrigerator apart, while an offensive lineman can tell you how to put it back together, piece-by-piece."  In fact, the worst beating I ever took in my life was at the hands of a defensive end, in a game we won 63-6.  He was revenging the lopsided score on my rib cage.  He beat me ruthlessly on that field.  The more we would score, the more violent he would get.

I already mentioned that our head coach was Terry Bradshaw's brother in law.  He's the one seen celebrating on the field with Terry, at Three Rivers Stadium, in the famous Immaculate Reception film clip that made Franco Harris an icon.  At last count, he was an assistant college coach, to former NY Jet head coach Joe Walton, on the college level.

Pittsburgh Football was, once upon a time, in the image and likeness of its steel mills

Keep in mind that I was raised in the Pittsburgh vicinity ... in the specific borough that once had the largest push button railroad in the world.  Pittsburgh was the King of Steel,  as was evidenced by a 21 mile stretch of the Ohio River whose east and west banks housed some of the steel mills that were arrayed throughout the general region.  In fact, the 21 mile steel line only ended at the property line of the largest push button railroad on Planet Earth (at the time.)  Pittsburgh, at present, is the king of bridges, even more than Venice.  The other thing about Pittsburgh is that it was known as one of the three quintessential football venues in America ... at the time, with Ohio and Texas football being as iconic.

The Pittsburgh vicinity was the home of Dallas star Mike Ditka, Heisman trophy winner Tony Dorsett, New York Jet Super Bowl quarterback Joe Namath, record-setting Miami Dolphin quarterback Dan Marino, Miami Dolphin star Mercury Morris, NFL Hall of Fame running back Curtis Martin, all-pro Chicago Bear lineman Jimbo Covert, all-pro Buffalo Bill lineman Bill Fralic, Cotton Bowl quarterback Kevin Scanlon, Steeler head coach Bill Cowher, Washington Redskin Rich Milot, Notre Dame star Terry Hanratty, four-time Super Bowl quarterback Joe Montana, Oakland Raider legend George Blanda, and others.  In sports, you only become as good as your competition.  These stars had the competition to fine tune their skills and fortify their wills.  Even at that, it was my understanding that Ohio football was tougher, in the contact department. 

Pittsburgh football didn't make you arrogant.  It humbled you.

If you were a multiple letterman in Pittsburgh, as well as someone who played in the formal venues of summer league baseball, one thing was guaranteed.  You would have a number of team mates who would eventually make a national mark in football.  For example, my former team mates included an all-pro lineman who earned a Super Bowl ring, as well as someone who started as quarterback in a Cotton Bowl game, and someone else whose name I heard on ABC television, during an Orange Bowl game.  One team mate would go to such and such university to play football, while another one would go to another American university, to do the same.

Even an occasional guy you would compete-against in track would end up on this WFL team here, while one you faced in summer league baseball would end up on another football team there.  In as much, you would think that coming from an environment such as Pittsburgh would make you arrogant.  The truth is that it made you very humble.   Yet, it wasn't the hits which made you humble.  You could take the hits after your first year of apprenticeship.  The humility factor was in you not being as conditioned as the stars-to-be ... or not as fast ... or not as able to turn the corner without sliding down to the ground ... or not alert enough to avoid from running into your blockers, from time to time.  Do not be deceived.  I was built like an Adonis and was very acrobatic, even to the point of winning an organized summer league batting championship and base-stealing championship on a team of men who became champs of their football division.  Despite this, there were a number of guys against whom I competed who put me to shame.  Pittsburgh was that athletic of a place.  So, I learned a great deal about humility in a place once called the City of Champions.

It Wasn't Always Head Hunting, though

When a defensive back goes head hunting on you and he misses, you are on your way to the goal line.  So, during one particular game, in hometown of Mike Ditka, a linebacker wanted to do little more than make sure that I wasn't going anywhere after catching a short pass, not wanting his coach to lambast him for missing me in an attempted head-hunting play.  So, he would wrap his arms around me so tightly that breathing became a difficulty until the ref blew the whistle.

I spent the entire game as a wing back, going five yards and out, catching five to ten passes in the process.  The same linebacker tackled me every time.  He was a human vice grip as he wrestled me down.  He was just doing his job and played by the rules.  But, I dreaded his grip.  I would have preferred that he take full speed shots at my head, in the attempt to dislodge the ball from me.  But no.  He had to be the human vice grip.   So, he played prevent-defense throughout the entire game and it worked. 

Some opposing players do take revenge during a game.

We played a team in West Virginia during my freshman year and beat them 63-6.  I played right end for the entire second half.  The opposing defensive end beat me to near death.  He kept targeting my rib cage, and even when I cross body blocked him to the ground, his knees would drive into my ribs.  So, I spent an entire half holding my right arm to my right-side rib cage.  The lesson is, just because you win a game in a whitewash, it doesn't mean that it will be a painless experience.  I never took a beating on a football field that badly.

The Coach's On-Field Disciplinary Tactic

When you're a running back and the play doesn't involve you carrying the ball, you have a way of acting as if you're not in the play, meaning that you occasionally miss your blocking assignment.  Well, one day in practice, after having missed my blocking assignment, the coaches decided to do the Pittsburgh version of an intervention.  They called the exact same play, but I was going to be the ball carrier.  They then told the offensive players to not block for me.  They next told the defensive players what the play was and that the offense wasn't going to block for me.

For some reason, I thought to myself, "Oh well. Who cares?  Let's get this over and done with." 
The quarterback called the signals.  The ball was hiked.  It was handed-off to me, and the entire offense went on vacation for the play.  So, who made first contact on me?  A defensive end, of course; ... the one who later went to play for the Air Force Academy.  Next came a few others, and then came everyone else.  I went down facing the sky ... and it didn't hurt at all, because all the other defensive players were absorbing the impact, and because the first defensive end simply wrapped his arms around me and started pushing me backwards, upon which I eventually went down like George Washington's cherry tree.

Of course, I wasn't going to tell anybody that it didn't hurt, lest the coaches call the same play and send the offensive players on another hiatus, in order to "teach me."   This was during my freshman year. 

The injury process on the football field sometimes 
backfired on the player attempting to inflict pain on you

The injury process on a football field can work in reverse.  For example, during my Senior, while I was running an end-around play as a half back, yet another defensive end spiked me as hard as he could in the kidneys, while I was being stood-up by a few defensive players.  He was the one who had to go to the sidelines in pain.  I went back into the huddle, only to be informed by a guard what happened.  I didn't feel it, at all, even though he came at me full speed from behind.  After all, there was more than one guy hitting me, and when that happens, all of the different feelings of impact cancel out each other one.  None the less, in trying to drive me to the ground as hard as he could, the defensive end ended up hurting himself.

American Football was basically legalized venting, unless if you were a pass receiver in the path of a linebacker.  Well, it was venting for the linebacker.  When you went up for a pass, you were completely defenseless, as the hits made upon you were designed to dislodge the ball from your hands.  When you keep taking those kinds of hits repeatedly, something eventually gets dislodged.

       

Junior Year:  My first track meet as a hurdler.  Football players commonly
went out for track or played summer league baseball.  Hurdlers were
the coordinated guys who didn't have the flash speed of a sprinter, 
but who were faster than everyone else.

The Diversionary Tactic

The fight to breathe, the metallic taste in the mouth, and the stinging

tongue.   Numbness in the upper-respiratory tract,  the dry heaving

episode, and the headache that leaves cheekbones and temples feel-

ing bruised.  It involves a world that has also included hepatic injury,

(liver cell death/necrosis), dermatitis, urticaria, hematotoxicity (the

killing or damaging or red blood cells), and anaphylaxis.  Technical-

ly this condition is regarded as Chemical & Irritant Sensitivities.

The Razor Blades of  Defamation

Mainstream medical science has already established that chemicals,

at nontoxic levels, aren't universally harmless.  Numerous chemicals

have been identified as sensitizers, while other ones were already cat-

egorized as irritants.  Chemical Sensitivity has already been defined in

case-specific and body-system-specific form.  Irritant-induced Asthma

and its subset condition, Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome, is

one form, while Airborne Irritant Contact Dermatitis is another form.

Chemical sensitivity is already a well-established component in main-

stream medical science, and so too is the irritant-induced reaction.

However ...

Throughout the past fifteen years, literature has been posted online that

can easily deceive a novice into assuming that no chemical of any kind,

whenever encountered at a nontoxic level, could ever trigger an adverse

reaction in anyone.  The literature accentuated the Multiple Chemical

Sensitivity debate, while simultaneously declining to acknowledge the

existence of the several case-specific forms of chemical sensitivity, such

as Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome, Irritant-induced Asthma,

and Occupational Asthma due to Low Weight Molecular Agents which

had already been identified and defined.

Each piece of  propaganda asserted that Multiple Chemical sensitivity is

merely a matter of mental illness.  As a result, persons not familiarized

with Occupational and Environmental Medicine were clueless that suf-

ficient medical findings in a number of chemically sensitive patients were

identified, along with the numerous chemicals that triggered the adverse

reactions.

The Corporate Claim of  Universal Harmlessness

  Contradicted by the Findings of  Medical Science

It had even gotten to the point where insecticide providers boldly pro-

claimed that their product lines were entirely harmless, provided that

they were used according to regulatory guidelines.  This proclamation

was accompanied by the claim that all persons suffering from Multiple

Chemical Sensitivity were merely mentally ill.  However, mainstream

medical science had already established that nontoxic exposure to the

carbamate/organophosphate class of pesticide can cause a build-up of

acetylcholine in one's lungs and cause asthma to develop.

Perfumes Have Been Identified as Triggers of Asthma

The propaganda against the chemically sensitive was relentless.  In

fact, the non-chemically sensitive got caught in the crossfire in 1996,

when the perfume intolerant were called "fragrance phobic fruitcakes."

Now, perfumes contain potent non-chemical ingredients as much as

they contain sensitizing chemicals.  Therefore, Fragrance Intolerance

includes hyperreactivity to non-chemical ingredients as much as it in-

volves hypersensitivity to chemical-bearing agents.  This means that,

in 1996, even persons who were not chemically sensitive were placed

under attack.

Never mentioned in the 1996 character assassination was the 1995

publication detailing a research undertaking which confirmed that

perfume strips found in magazines are asthma triggers.   [Ann Aller-

gy Asthma Immunol., 1995 Nov;75 (5):429-33 ].

In the years to follow, perfumes would come to be acknowledged as

asthma triggers by the American Medical Association, the American

Academy of  Allergy Asthma & Immunology, the American Lung As-

sociation, and the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Then, in 2001, a published medical report placed perfume among the

triggers of  anaphylaxis.  Yet, no apologies were ever made to the per-

fume intolerant by the propagandist who defamed them. 

            Cleaning Supplies and Household Chemicals

http://www.lungusa.org/healthy-air/home/resources/cleaning-supplies.html

            Understanding Asthma - American Lung Association
http://www.lungusa.org/lung-disease/asthma/about-asthma/understanding-asthma.html 

            Chemical Asthma Triggers and Irritants
http://asthma.about.com/od/asthmatriggers/qt/chemictriggers.htm 

            Asthma Triggers: Gain Control (EPA site)

http://www.epa.gov/asthma/chemical_irritants.html 

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Sensitization Is Not Limited To Chemical Exposures

The phenomenon of  sensitization is not new.  Neither is it unproven.

Nor is it limited to matters involving Chemical Sensitivity.  The recog-

nition of the medical condition known as sensitization includes:

1] metal dust exposure; Berylliosis (beryllium), etc.

2] mold exposure; Mushroom Worker's Lung, etc.

3] enzyme exposure; Detergent Worker's Lung, etc.

4] organic dust exposure; Byssinosis (cotton dust), etc.

5] chemicals & irritant gases; Irritant-induced Asthma, etc.

The Medical Doctrine of  Concomitant Sensitivity

Concomitant Sensitivity is also known as Cross-sensitization, and it

means that, if you're hypersensitive to one chemical compound, then

you are hypersensitive to all other chemical compounds with similar

characteristics.  An example of  Concomitant Sensitivity exists within

the family of  the acetylated salicylates.  To be adversely reactive to

one of  them is to be adversely reactive to all of  them.

The Undeniable Proof of Mainstream Medicine's Recognition

of Chemical Allergies ... The RAST Test Order Form

You can be tested for IgE-mediated chemical allergies via the RAST

TEST.  The specific chemicals for which a person can be tested are lo-

cated in the Occupational Panel, when filling out the allergy test order

forms.   Case closed.   Mainstream medicine has recognized chemical

allergies for decades.  It's simply that deceptive propaganda, including

that of the unconscionable John Stossel, made society unaware of this.

High Production Volume Chemicals

  and their Ubiquitous Presence in Modern Life

There have been medical professionals who declined to support the re-

cognition of  MCS, but who simultaneously acknowledged that a per-

son can be severely hypersensitive to "one or a few" chemicals.  Such

an acknowledgment needs to be accompanied by a qualifying state-

ment.  That qualifying statement goes as follows:

            Persons who are hypersensitive to a few High

            Production Volume Chemicals are actually

            hypersensitive to the dozens of  commonly

            encountered products that contain those

            HPV chemicals.  Concomitant Sensitivity,

            combined with hypersensitivity to merely

            a few HPV chemicals, easily explains how

            a person can seem to be hypersensitive to

            almost everything.

The Demarcating Factor in MCS

If you're adversely reactive to dozens of chemical-bearing agents, but

have symptoms that affect only one reoccurring symptom, then you

are outside of  the MCS controversy.  This is because the demarcation

factor in MCS is not hypersensitivity to multiple chemicals.  Rather,

the demarcating factor is reactivity that adversely affects multiple

body systems.

As an example, if  bronchial hyper-responsiveness is your only chemi-

cal sensitivity reaction, then only one body system is involved, mean-

ing that there is no presence of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity to assess

in you.  The anti-MCS propagandists will have to find another way in

which to call you mentally ill.  That is to say, your case involves local-

ized chemical sensitivity.  It involves either Reactive Airways Dysfunc-

tion Syndrome or Irritant-induced Asthma; two similar conditions not

in controversy.

Nor does MCS have anything to do with multiple symptoms, per se.

You can have a repertoire of  reoccurring symptoms and be outside

of  the MCS controversy, if those multiple symptoms are limited to

the reactions of only one body system.  In such a case, the anti-MCS

people will have to find another way by which call  you mentally ill,

while simultaneously claiming chemicals to be virtuous and blame-

less at nontoxic levels.

The respiratory system is a body system that can host multiple symp-

toms.  Firstly, asthma can coexist with upper-respiratory ills, and the

upper-respiratory tract can be the host of  a number of  symptoms.  In

fact, within the world of  Occupational and Environmental Medicine,

it's a regular phenomenon to find asthma coexisting with Rhintis or

Rhino-sinusitis in the same one worker (or subset of  workers.)

In summary, it's neither the number of  symptoms nor the number of

chemicals that define Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.  It is the number

of body systems that engage in the hypersensitivity reactions that de-

fines it.  In the world of  Occupational and Environmental Medicine,

chemical sensitivity reactions have been documented as having had

adversely affected two body systems in the same one worker or sub-

set of  workers.  Such coexistence hints of the authentic existence of

MCS.

Formaldehyde:  A Specific Example

Formaldehyde is a suitable example to employ, in showing that hyper-

sensitivity to merely one HPV chemical constitutes hypersensitivity to

dozens of chemical-bearing agents.  Formaldehyde is a known trigger

of  asthma, rhinitis, dermatitis, and anaphylaxis.  It is released from a

number common products.  This includes those liquid soap and sham-

poo products that contain quarternium-15, diazolidinyl urea, DMDM

hydantoin, and imidazolidinyl urea.  In fact, go through the shampoo

and liquid soap section of  any store and see if you can find one pro-

duct free of  the ingredients listed above.

A detailed list of  formaldehyde-releasing agents includes:

[] urea-formaldehyde foam insulation, [] oriented strand board,

[] medium density fiberboard, [] melamine resin, [] plywood,

[] surface coatings, [] joint cement, [] paints, [] wall coverings,

[] durable press drapery, [] permanent press clothing, [] floor

wax, [] kerosene heater emissions,[] burning wood, [] cosmetics,

[] nail hardeners, [] sun screen lotion, [] tanning lotions, [] liquid

soaps, [] moisturizing lotions, [] carpet cleansers, [] liquid scouring

cleansers, [] shampoos, [] medical venues, etc.

Formaldehyde shares common characteristics with benzaldehyde and

the sterilization agent, glutaraldehyde.  Therefore, the products which

bear glutaraldehyde and benzaldehyde are to be included in the list of

formaldehyde-releasing agents.  This includes cinnamon oil, and this

means that the phenomenon of  Concomitant Sensitivity, in combina-

tion with hypersensitivity to a few High Production Volume Chemicals,

can account for the reason why some individuals seem to be hypersen-

sitive to almost everything.

Persistent Vulnerabilities,

aka Pre-existing Conditions

Then there is the matter of  chronically existent vulnerabilities, also

known as atopy.  One example is the upper-respiratory inflammation

known as boney turbinate hypertrophy.  It is a condition not known to

be able to resolve itself,as surgery has been the only treatment offered

for it, by mainstream medicine.

Cases of  chronically existent vulnerabilities can make a person hyper-

sensitive to both chemical and non-chemical odors.  Therefore, such a

person can be adversely reactive to the smell of  cleaning agents and

new vinyl products, as well as cooking odors, and musty cardboard.

Such a person might appear to be allergic to almost everything.

Immunological in Some Cases.

Nonimmunological in Other ones.

An individual can have either an immunological allergic reaction or

a non-immunological irritant reaction to chemical-bearing agents.

It depends on the person, the person's exposure history, the person's

pre-existing vulnerabilities, the chemicals themselves, and the way in

which the chemicals are encountered (by inhaling, ingestion, touch,

or ocular absorption.)

The bottom line is that chemical sensitivity has been proven to exist,

and to state otherwise is to defame the Occupational & Environment-

al Health programs who diagnose such conditions.  To do so is to de-

fame the private practitioners who treat chemical sensitivty, as well

as the patients who develop this type of condition.  Be it Reactive Air-

ways Dysfunction Syndrome, Airborne Irritant Contact Dermatitis,

Limonene Sensitivity, Aspirin Sensitivity, Methyltetrahydrophthalic

Anhydride Allergy, or Oil of  Turpentine Allergy, it is all a matter of

chemical sensitivity.

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is not the only type of chemical sensitiv-

ity proposed to exist.  It was simply one of  the two forms used in a pro-

longed and unconscionable diversionary tactic.  Other variations of the

disease have already been validated.  Therefore, any discussion about

MCS that doesn't admit to the existence of chemical sensitivity (in its

case-specific and body-system-specific forms) invalidates itself.

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