I stumbled onto an organization website that I was unfamiliar with and it was a nice surprise. Healthy Child Healthy World. Here is a charity that focuses on protecting people and particularly children from harmful chemicals. They refer officially to the chemicals as “harmful environmental exposures”. With that in mind they give advice on how to shop healthy and how to eat healthy avoiding problematic products.
Here is a good video they made about waking up to the fact that consumers can avoid eating dangerous pesticides which are present in many store bought foods.
A good friend of our families just told me how his daughter had a series of mini-strokes before she was 30 and one of the alarming things her doctors found out was that she had very high levels of mercury in her body. She had eated a lot of canned tuna for her entire life and that was the only thing they could all think of that had potentially elevated her levels of this dangerous chemical.
For me, I was concerned that our entire environment was over the top with dangerous chemicals (my “Wake Up”) when the bee colonies in the US started disappearing at an alarming rate. One of the things researchers found was that the average bee colony had an average of 127 different pesticides present in their hives and in fact on each bee in some cases. I know chemical testing with a few chemicals mixed together is done sometimes but with a staggering amount of chemicals mixed in our environment who knows what can happen.
We need organizations like this one to keep an eye on dangerous chemicals entering our bodies. I always say “follow the money trail” and unfortunately it leads to greedy people out there just to make money at the expense of everyone else in the world. This organization has a very high rating from Charity Navigator and with their 11 million dollar budget based solely on donations, they do a good job helping educate us on this important issue.