Baby Skin,Essential Fats and Phthalates

Babies and mothers who eat the correct essential fat rich diet don’t need most baby lotions and creams.

Picture: Mother and baby, beautiful skin by design.

Since the mother and father both grow up with their knowledge or rather lack of knowledge caused by being treated as consumers by schools and product marketers, it is “natural” that they will apply, pun intended, the same chemicals to their babies and children as they use themselves or have seen their parents use.
Yet there is no valid scientific health reason for applying most of the baby lotions and ointments to babies.

This has been reported as the results of an initial study reported in a Associated Press news article released Monday February 04 ,2008.

The study was published in the journal Pediatrics, Vol. 121 No. 2 February 2008, pages. e260-e268.You can read a review of the study here.

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/121/2/e260

Verbatim from the conclusions of the study abstract:

“CONCLUSIONS. Phthalate exposure is widespread and variable in infants. Infant exposure to lotion, powder, and shampoo were significantly associated with increased urinary concentrations of monoethyl phthalate, monomethyl phthalate, and monoisobutyl phthalate, and associations increased with the number of products used. This association was strongest in young infants, who may be more vulnerable to developmental and reproductive toxicity of phthalates given their immature metabolic system capability and increased dosage per unit body surface area.”

The word phthalates appears in the study. This is a chemical that makes plastics flexible and gives shelf life to fragrances, perfumes and other body care products. At what price are we willing to pay for the vain convenience of having sweet smelling babies?

Phthalates in studies involving both animals and humans has been associated with the following:

• reproductive birth defects
• premature breast development in young girls
• decreased semen quality in men
• deformed genitals in boys

If you don’t require your own injured child for proof for these concerns, of slathering chemicals all over our bodies, then read the labels on what body care products you presently use. If they don’t say; phthalate, DEP and DEHP free, the author of the study,a Pediatrician M.D. recommends that you don’t use them. Keep in mind that no company is legally required , at the present time, to inform you on its product labels whether it contains Phthalates.

Also consider this:

• Your baby does not require the all the lotions and creams, regardless of their chemical content
• Think of the money you will save by not buying the lotions and creams.

If you don’t know what to think, or the study is incorrect , why risk you and your baby’s health and future by applying chemicals to the body?

How can saturating your skin with chemicals be good, when the proper diet and lifestyle will give you skin that is smooth as silk, nails that are strong and hair that is healthy?

Again,what price are you willing to pay for, so called, convenience.
Having any one of the results from chemical poisoning may cost you more than you can pay,maybe even you or your baby’s life.

2 +2 = 4

Why you may Smell Good at Your Funeral, but you’ll still be Dead

The Magazine article excerpt that follows is from an article in New Scientist Magazine, December 17, 2007 edition. It illustrates the Danger of using un-natural chemical substances to wash our hair, mouth and other parts of our bodies.

My favorite proof of the dangers of chemical combination is vinegar and Baking soda,

As long as they are separate not much happens.

Mix both together and the combination produces a violent reaction.

Visit this website to learn more about a basic science experiment that demonstrates it.

With that thought in mind let’s go to the average person’s bath room in the USA.

Then let us read the labels on the Shampoos, Conditioners, perfumes, etc., etc.,

Each substance by its self, applied to the human body at the normal dose that it is used, is rated harmless by the government agencies that regulate them.

But when brewed together in the container and then applied to the most incredible complex chemical and biological factory in the known universe; the human body, THAT IS WHERE THE DANGER BEGINS.

Food for Thought: Why do you use:

• Shampoos
• Colognes’
• Body Rinses
• Moisturizers
• Make up Removers
• Nail Polish
• Mouth Washes
• Hair Sprays
• Conditioners
• Facial Creams
• Hair Dyes
• perfumes

Magazine article excerpt: begin-

Water may hide harmful chemical cocktail

* 17 December 2007

* NewScientist.com news service

Next time you're washing your hair, spare a thought for your neighbors' health. A report by the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) says chemicals from consumer products and drugs could be breaking down and recombining into a harmful brew in water supplies.

The report, released on Monday, says synthetic chemicals in shampoos, perfumes, medicines and other health care products that are washed down the drain are sneaking through the filters at water purification plants. The list includes phthalates, a family of some 120 chemicals linked to reproductive problems in men and wildlife, and parabens, a preservative with a suspected link to breast cancer.

Though concentrations of such chemicals in water are probably too low to be harmful, the effects of their breakdown products are poorly understood, says Jeff Hardy of the RSC. "We do not know if the breakdown products affect the health of people." The cocktail effect may also make these chemicals more harmful, he adds.

From issue 2634 of New Scientist magazine, 17 December 2007, page 4-5

Magazine article excerpt: end.

If this is what is happening in the water supply taken from rivers, what is happening in the water of your body, after applying all those, so called, “Health and Beauty Products”??????????

If you live an Alkaline Lifestyle and eat the plant based Essential fats that heal and maintain your body, you will require little in the way of topical treatments for your skin, nails or hair.This applies to men as well as women and children

As for wafting a pleasant fragrance as you go by, try using natural Essential Oils as your perfume or Cologne. Natural Essential Oils can be applied directly to the skin (always test for sensitivity first) or, for the women, in a locket worn:

· on a necklace,

· earrings’ and /or a

· wrist chain.

Health and Beauty is a rather simple issue. for both women and men.As your body purifies itself from living an Alkaline Lifestyle, you will smell good ala natural, your skin will look and feel great, your nails will be strong and flexible and you will have an energy that exudes the message:

I am Healthy! And when you are Healthy, you are generally, very Happy.

Brain Growth Stunted in Children with AHDH

The dumbing down of America’s children.

Keep in mind that the brain is built with essential fats, while you consider the meaning of this report, as it relates to the health of children.

A study released on Monday November 12, 2007 shows that children with ADHD have delayed development of critical parts of the brain.

The research team from the National Institute of Mental Health, used MRI scans to measure the cortex thickness at 40,000 points in the brains of 223 children with ADHD and 223 children without ADHD. The MRI scans were repeated at three-year intervals over a period of years on both groups of children, as they grew up.

The development of the higher-order functions and areas which coordinate those with the motor areas in the brain were delayed in the ADHD children!

In the ADHD children, there was one area of the brain that developed faster than normal, the motor cortex.

The researchers said this faster than normal development in the area responsible for motor control, might account for the restlessness and fidgety symptoms common among children with ADHD.

Consider this:

1. Drinking Fluoride contaminated water will affect brain development. Most public water supplies in America are poisoned with Fluoride.
2. The low fat craze of mothers has robbed many babies of the essential fats necessary for proper brain development.
3. Lack of enzymes from fresh raw foods robs the bodies of mothers and children of the essential nutrients for proper brain development.
4. The use of foods grown with pesticides introduces chemicals into the human body that were designed to affect the nerve system of insects that attack plants.
5. The chemicals used as preservatives in processed foods affects the nervous system and brain.(For example: research what MSG does to people)

I would like to see the same researchers go back and gather food logs and lifestyle information on all the children in the study, both ADHD and non ADHD.

There is a saying that is a favorite of mine: “There are lies, dam lies and then there are statistics.”

Yet I believe that further research into the food and lifestyle habits, of not only the children in the study, but their parents and even their grand parents, would show that the children with the ADHD were plagued by all if not most of the 5 items on the list above.

If the purpose of the study released this Monday was to justify the development of another drug to “treat” the parts of the brain that are abnormal, then it was not science but part of a criminal act.

Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to knowing how to raise healthy children.

If you have watched the movie Lorenzo’s Oil, you know that prevention is always preferred to finding a cure.

If, you love your children, then make the time to learn what makes a healthy child, before, you have your children.

Why breast-feeding makes kids smarter

Does Breastfeeding make children smarter?

“As you begin, so you end” is being proven as it applies to essential fats.

A new study published Monday November 05, 2007 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looked at 3,200 children in Britain and New Zealand and compared how they scored on IQ tests.

The researches tested the children the following way:

1. They took cells from all the children and then analyzed their DNA for the presence of of a Gene variant called FADS2

2. They then compared how the children scored on IQ tests and looked up

if they were breast-fed as babies

The Results:

• In both countries the breast-fed children had a higher IQ by about 6 to 7 points as compared to formula feed babies
• BUT, the intelligence was only higher if they had a Gene variant called FADS2 that enabled the children to more efficiently process fatty acids.
• FADS2 is found in about 90 percent of people
• The increase in intelligence was the same no matter the mother's social class or IQ.
• The effect of FADS2 gene variant applied equally to babies with normal and low birth weight
• Breast-feeding made no difference when the children had a less common variant of the FADS2 gene.

The FADS2 gene is involved in processing omega 3 fatty acids found in foods such as:

· Wild Salmon

· Nuts

· Seeds

· Avocados

and turning them into nutrients for the brain.

Wild Salmon, nuts, seeds and Avocados are all dietary components of an Alkaline Lifestyle. Plant based Essential fats are being scientifically proven to be Essential to an optimally healthy lifestyle.

If you have fallen prey to the deception that you should not eat any fats in order to prevent obesity and cancer, please understand this applies only to Animal fats, and processed fats no matter what their origin. Raw fats and oils are your friends, when taken in the right amounts, and with the right plant based raw foods.

What can you do if you were not breastfeed and have not consumed plant based essential fats in the past?

1. Start consuming a blend of fats found in products such as Udo’s 3-6-9 Oil Blend, use the liquid, not the Gel capsules

2. Take a living Greens Food supplement daily as a powder in your drinking water or as capsules with water.

3. Increase your overall consummation of foods such as Wild Salmon, raw nuts, raw seeds, vegetables, tomatoes and Avocados along with other plant based enzyme rich foods. Raw uncooked plant based enzymes are necessary for your body to process the essential fats.

Here is an open secret:

Your body can restore certain functions that have been turned off due to lack of use. It takes time, but it has and can be accomplished, if, you diligently apply the principles of an Alkaline Lifestyle.

http://alkalinelifestyle.blogspot.com/

For information on pH Testing

http://phtestus.blogspot.com/

For more information see the Essential Fats Blog Post of:

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Eat the Right Fats and Have Brilliant Kids!