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