New to this community and I just thought I'd drop some tips! Some of them you may already use or they're no-brainers, but these are some things that work for me.
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- I once decoupaged the outside of a shoe box and put it in my drawer and put all my underwear in it, folded neatly. This made sure that it would be floating around while I dug for my
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(http://www.ewg.org/minoritycordblood/home)
(http://www.examiner.com/natural-health-in-san-francisco/how-toxic-is-breast-milk)
As the consumer, we have the power to show that we respect ourselves enough and value ourselves enough not to knowingly poison our bodies and invite cancer. Our dollar is our vote and it tells the corporations that we aren't the idiots they take us for.
This issue has everything to do with the members of this community, hip_domestics, because I don't know anyone who thinks that it's hip to be ignorant.
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I'm going to assume you just did not mean to call me ignorant because your opinions differ with mine, correct?
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The factuality of the material is undebatable so it's not an issue of opinion.
It's not my place to judge your values.
You're not ignorant of the situation, all of the information is available to you above. Now it's your choice whether or not you wish to make changes in your life based upon your perceived self worth. How many comforts are more important than your health is completely up to you.
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That's the second jab you've taken. Let me assure you as the senior maintainer of this community that you are treading the line.
Your opinion is valued, however, you can express it without diminishing others.
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Um...that's not really true. One study with an n of 10 and no positive or negative controls does not suddenly make a result an undebatable fact.
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I do strongly believe that when we consume something toxic that it effects our body and, by extension, our reproductive system. It is logical. My uterus does not hover externally from my body, it is part of it.
There are tons of books, scientific journals, radio programs, and more information accessible about these topics. I'm not going to sit here further and defend the most basic idea that processed petroleum products are bad for us.
http://www.safecosmetics.org/
This is the simplest little video ever, it doesn't cover everything but it is a small start. Doubt it, look into it, whatever but at least be open to the idea that in an unregulated system (and even in a supposed regulated system like with the FDA) that not everything marketed as good, extravagant, or even healthful is being done so in honesty.
My objective here wasn't to present an entire case for why using known toxins on your skin and in your body is a bad thing, it seems self evident.
It was meant as discouragement that in a community supposedly about hip domestication we are perpetuating and encouraging the use of damaging products peddled by advertising agencies at the exploitation of women.
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You're always free to buy whatever product you want for whatever reason. You're welcome to your beliefs. However, don't expect everyone else to take the same position as a matter of fact. Some of us have done our own extensive research on the subject and have come to a very different conclusion.
My own conclusion is that anything has the potential to be toxic - even distilled water. I have an understanding that anything I buy, make or use can be toxic so I learn what I can about it and make up my own mind. Even the essential oils I make at my own house, with herbs from my own garden, can be toxic (wikipedia has an entry that discusses it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_oil) in sufficient concentration. I choose to not be afraid. And to sufficiently dilute them.
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Your first article even had this in it, "While the sample is too small to project national trends..." In actuality the sample size is too small to extrapolate to anything. And the results were just measurements with no functionality studies. Whenever analyzing a scientific finding your response should always be "so what?" The study never answered that, it just presented a finding from a very small, localized sample.
Your second article is a blog post. The author would also like you to join her at a UFO expo and advises her readers to go to an herbalist instead of a dentist. Her blog in the examiner is a way to promote her vibrational healing and health coach practices. Here's her bio, for those that are curious: http://originalwave.com/about/. She makes money when people distrust conventional medicine and are afraid of everything around them.
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Lurk moar.
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