"Babies are born pre-polluted..." Once again, are you kidding me?

According to the Environmental Working Group, babies can enter the world with as many as 300 chemicals in their bodies. WHAT?! This must be a joke, I thought. A very bad joke. But, in reading and listening to what they had to say, things started adding up. While before the placenta was thought to act as a kind of Super-Guard against toxins getting into the baby's system, that is now known to be only partially true. Yes, the placenta is a great barrier, but certain things get past it, and into the baby's system. Which means the baby is exposed to whatever we, as the mom, is exposed to.

This video is about 22 minutes long. They explain their study and how and why they did it. And their results are very interesting. Please watch this when you get a chance. It's VERY worth watching. It will open your eyes to a LOT.

@ Yahoo! Video

A condensed version of their results from their website:

"The nation’s toxic chemical regulatory law, the Toxic Substances Control Act, is in drastic need of reform. Passed in 1976 and never amended since, TSCA is widely regarded as the weakest of all major environmental laws on the books today.

When passed, the Act declared safe some 62,000 chemicals already on the market, even though there were little or no data to support this policy. Since that time another 20,000 chemicals have been put into commerce in the United States, also with little or no data to support their safety.

Testing by Environmental Working Group has identified 455 chemicals in people, and again, no one has any idea if these exposures are safe.

We are at a tipping point, where the pollution in people is increasingly associated with a range of serious diseases and conditions from childhood cancer, to autism, ADHD, learning deficits, infertility, and birth defects. Yet even as our knowledge about the link between chemical exposure and human disease grows, the government has almost no authority to protect people from even the most hazardous chemicals on the market."

For the whole article, go HERE.

So what can we do? If this inspires you to change your lifestyle at all - I'm with you. We can start with cleaning products, food, water, take a look at your cosmetics... contact me if you have questions. Once again, I HIGHLY recommend taking a look HERE, and see what you find.