are our foods & personal care products making us sick

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Are our foods & personal care products making us sick?

Dr. Debbie Karas, APN-BC, RN www.naturalhealthycare.com

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Objectives

1.Think outside the box w/ histories2.Less is sometimes more3.Back to the basics & redefine your health4.Healthcare begins at home5.Be proactive, not just reactive

Is this you?

Tired but can’t sleepDepressed & mood swingsWeight gain in the middleAnxiety / depressedPMS Hot flashesJoint painAching musclesSlow elimination & bloatedSlow digestion

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Is your food & personal care product making you sick?

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Do you feel like this?

What is going on with your health?

• 1/3 of adults & children overweight

• Obesity = increase risk of death

• Hormone imbalances

• High blood pressure

• High cholesterol

• Auto-immune diseases

• Depression

• Cancer

• Diabetes

• Neurological diseases

• Insominia

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Game

Management

Waterways

Herbicides

Pesticides

SALT

SUGAR

Artifical Flavors

SUGAR

Color Additives

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Mass Agriculture ProductionGMOs

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What’s on my food?

Apples – 47 pesticides were found in apples – 16 are suspected hormone disrupters.

Strawberries – 45 different pesticides residues were detected. 16 suspected are hormone disrupters

Peaches – tested for 20 bee toxins Atrazine (herbicide) found in 94% of US

drinking water – banned in Europe.

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Hormones & Antibiotics

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BPA – (Bisphenol A)

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Our Water?

• Water Softener – drinking the salt filtered water and increasing B/P ?

• Great Lakes – Metformin contamination of Lake Michigan may endanger fish. (Endocrinology 1/2/2015)

• Bottles with BPA? Bisphenol A in water bottles, lining of cans, Sippy cups, vitamin and personal care product bottles…everywhere…..

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60% of what you put on your skin is absorbed within 26 seconds

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B 12 Deficiency

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Vitamin (Hormone) D3

Vitamin D & Cancers?

www.naturalhealthycare.comWellness Report UC Berkley Public Health

2010

• A hormone in every cell• Immune system• Gastrointestinal• Urinary• Female and Male • Lung and melanoma• Research not in, but 67%

of Americans are deficient.

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Your choice! This?

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Or this?

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Do you & your patients want to be in balance?

Are you ready for change?

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Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

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Herb garden

Brussels in Barrington

Fresh healthy & balanced

Every time you eat or drink youare feeding disease or fighting it!

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What will 2015 bring?

Still in the dark on labeling. H.R. 4432 (Dark Act) – right to know act

Agroecological farming – organic farmers A Generation in Jeopardy – report – how

pesticides are harming childrens health Pesticide drift (www.panna.org)

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Life is a balance - Thank you!

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Redefining your health &

getting back to the basics

Dr. Debbie Karas, APN-Bc, RNwww.naturalhealthycare.com

Thank you!

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References• Recognition & Management of Pesticide poisonings EPA- 6th edition, 2013• Pesticide Action Network, North America, www.panna.org• Whatsonmyfood.org• www.foodbabe.org• Exposure to phthalates and breast cancer risk in northern Mexico. Environ Health

Perspect. 2010 Apr;118(4):539-44. doi: 10.1289/ehp.0901091• Metformin: A Great Lakes Disaster? Medpage Today, Endocrinology 01.02.2015• http://www.webmd.com/children/environmental-exposure-head2toe/personal-care-

products Retrieved 2015• http://www.webmd.com/children/environmental-exposure-head2toe/bpa Retrieved 2015• Nutrition and Healthy Eating.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/sodium/faq-20058469 Retrieved 2015

• The Wellness Report UC Berkley Scool of PH, The Benefits of Vitamin D 2012• http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-16860/the-top-6-inflammatory-foods-how-to-detox-

from-them.html