This video will surely move you. Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor talks about her experience of having a stroke on the left side of her brain, thus temporarily removing her from normal consciousness when the right brain dominates her consciousness. Her journey was extraordinary and insightful – see for yourself.
This is from CNN Money:
Los Angeles-based Fiji Water runs magazine ads for its bottled water with the headline “The Label Says Fiji Because It’s Not Bottled in Cleveland.”
Cleveland officials retaliate by running tests revealing that Fiji bottled water contains 6.3 micrograms of arsenic per liter, while the city’s tap water has none.
Fiji counters by saying its own tests found less than 2 micrograms per liter.
What scares me is that there is any arsenic in the water. Arsenic, known is the poison of kings, is responsible for organ failure and skin and bladder cancer. I thought Fiji’s motto was about being fresh and pure? And man are they on a serious green-washing campaign. Will there ever be truth in advertising? Don’t answer that, just boycott Fiji Water.
About Arsenic from Wikipedia:
Arsenic contamination of groundwater has led to a massive epidemic of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh and neighbouring countries. It is estimated that approximately 57 million people are drinking groundwater with arsenic concentrations elevated above the World Health Organization’s standard of 10 parts per billion. The arsenic in the groundwater is of natural origin, and is released from the sediment into the groundwater due to the anoxic conditions of the subsurface. This groundwater began to be used after western NGOs instigated a massive tube well drinking-water program in the late twentieth century. This program was designed to prevent drinking of bacterially contaminated surface waters, but failed to test for arsenic in the groundwater. Many other countries and districts in South East Asia, such as Vietnam, Cambodia, and Tibet, China, are thought to have geological environments similarly conducive to generation of high-arsenic groundwaters. Arsenicosis was reported in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand in 1987, and the dissolved arsenic in the Chao Phraya River is suspected of containing high levels of naturally occurring arsenic, but has not been a public health problem due to the use of bottled water.
The northern United States, including parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Dakotas are known to have significant concentrations of arsenic in ground water. Increased levels of skin cancer has been associated with arsenic exposure in Wisconsin, even at levels below the 10 part per billion drinking water standard.
Epidemiological evidence from Chile shows a dose dependent connection between chronic arsenic exposure and various forms of cancer, particularly when other risk factors, such as cigarette smoking, are present. These effects have been demonstrated to persist below 50 parts per billion. Continue reading Avoid Fiji Water – unless you like Arsenic!
A must-see documentary called Vaccine Nation by Gary Null, Ph.D. Here is the trailer:
