3/31/17
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WATER POLLUTION
Lawrenceville, NJ (Dr Simone) – Power Point presentation seminar given by me at the SILAMP (Society of Ibero Latin American Medical Professionals) Conference Saturday March 25, 2017 at the Philadelphia Medical Society
WATER POLLUTION
Synthetic Organic Chemicals
700 in our drinking water
40 are carcinogens – 3 are human carcinogens – benzene,
chloromethyl ether, vinyl chloride
Chlorination – trihalomethanes – 2X risk for GI and GU cancers
More chlorine is added to water during summer months to hold down microorganisms
The EPA’s safety limit of chlorine and its associated carcinogens is based on drinking 2 liters/d, and this does not take into account increased consumption in summer, or the fact that these compounds can be absorbed during bathing
WATER POLLUTION
Inorganic chemicals like arsenic, chromium (certain chemical form), nickel, and lead are toxic. Lead impairs children’s IQ and attention span. One in six people in the United States drinks water with higher than acceptable levels of lead.
Soft water, water containing lesser amounts of calcium and particularly magnesium, is correlated with a higher incidence of all cardiovascular diseases, osteoporosis, hypertension, and breast and colon cancer.
Radioactive materials in water varies with geography, geology, industrial wastes, pharmaceutical use, and nuclear power generation.
Living organisms – bacteria, viruses, and protozoa –can resist water
purification, and these are responsible for 33 percent of all
gastrointestinal infections in the United States.
Solid particulates include clays, asbestos particles, and organic particulates
WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE SHAMBLES OF THE WATER SUPPLY?
• Most states do not comply with existing standards. For example, a loophole permits water suppliers to flush lead-filled water out of plumbing before testing tap water. The EPA has been lax.
• Eighty percent of the top 1,000 superfund sites, that is, those designated as containing toxic waste and chemical contaminants, are leaching these toxic substances into the ground water.
• Well water has been contaminated.
• 10% of all underground tanks, which store gasoline or other hazardous chemicals, leak.
• Pesticides and fertilizers used by farmers and homeowners.
• Industries dump chemicals and pollutants into our water supply.
• Homeowners dump chemicals into household drains.
ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM
Unrealistic requirement set by government
If the requirement had been to reduce the contaminants from 2,000
parts per billion to, say, 10 parts, it would be possible to reduce the
health hazard by 99.5 % and leave limited funds available for twenty
or thirty more of the same type of clean-up projects. It is better to
clean up all the toxic sites by a significant factor like 99.5 % than only a few sites by a factor of 99.99 % and thereby propagate endless litigation.
Some cities refuse to build costly processing plants and instead
choose to pay less expensive fines. The EPA observes that small
utilities tend to violate regulations the most, falsify documents, and
even wash away evidence because of a thirty-day window given them by the state.
SIMONE KIDSTART PREVENTION PROGRAM
It was first started in 1983 by Charles B Simone, M.D.
The key to prevention – teach our children early in life about a
healthy lifestyle. Prevention with simple changes in lifestyle is the
key to America’s soaring health care costs and soaring rates of
cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, etc. One of two
people develop cancer. The National Academy of Sciences indicates that 60% of women’s cancers and 40% of men’s cancers and 80% of cardiovascular diseases are related to nutritional factors alone.
Simone KidStart Prevention ProgramTM consists of planned lunches, newsletters sent home, assemblies to instruct about the “good” and “bad” foods as well as other lifestyle factors.
Simone KidStart Prevention Program
Either with individual seminars or during a three-month period, I help to instruct young children about each aspect of the Ten Fascinating Stops on the Way to Good Health:
1) Nutrition 6) Air and Water
2) Overweight 7) Exercise and Relaxation
3) Smoking 8) Safety
4) Alcohol 9) Work
5) Drugs 10) Check-Ups
We intend that a healthy lifestyle will become permanent for the children involved in the Simone KidStart Prevention ProgramTM and their parents.
We should see a decrease in the risk and incidence of cancer, cardiovascular disease and other chronic illnesses for those who adhere to this Ten Point Plan.
BENZENE IN YOUR BEVERAGES
